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소리 채집: 서울의 소리 서울의 소리는 서울이라는 도시의 정체성을 소리로 기록하고 보존하는 프로젝트입니다. 이 프로젝트는 서울의 다양한 장소와 일상에서 발생하는 소리들을 채집하여, 도시의 변화와 역사를 소리라는 매체를 통해 기록하고자 합니다. 채집된 소리들은 단순한 기록을 넘어, 예술적 창작의 소재로 활용되거나 시민들에게 서울의 소리 풍경을 경험하게 하는 전시 콘텐츠로 제공됩니다. Sound Collecting: Sounds of Seoul Sounds of Seoul is a project that records and preserves the identity of the city of Seoul through sound. This project collects sounds occurring in various places and daily life in Seoul, aiming to record the city's changes and history through the medium of sound. Beyond simple recording, the collected sounds are used as materials for artistic creation or provided as exhibition content that allows citizens to experience the soundscape of Seoul.
Poran: Inheriting the Future
The 12th Seoul Mediacity pre-Biennale has been conceived as an occasion to reread, question, and examine the conceptual evolution of Biennale themes and media practices as they have unfolded across the field of contemporary art. Evolving in step with the currents of its time, the Seoul Mediacity Biennale has presented diverse modes of existence since its inception, while also dealing with both major and minor questions centered on what the terms "media" and "Seoul" mean. Through the years, the Biennale has reflected upon human life and embodied artistic convictions concerning transition, expansion, and change. Along the way, its questions have continually varied around the following subject matters below, all of them functioning as distinct themes structured around their own critical concerns in each version of the Biennale:
- How do technology and media reconfigure human perception and experience?
- What conditions give rise to relationships in an interconnected world?
- How does language shape the world while simultaneously revealing the impossibility of communication?
- In what ways do invisible structures and powers operate, and how might resistance be organized within them?
- How are boundaries reconfigured, and in what ways can we think of the world anew?
By asking questions like the ones listed above, Inheriting the Future seeks to go back over the traces of past Biennales while exploring the conditions and topography that will shape the coming iteration. Indeed, those same questions essentially distill the overall history that the Seoul Mediacity Biennale has accrued over time into several key concepts, while simultaneously unfolding before us new horizons that extend from them. In doing so, this creative platform for exploring the unknown takes shape in the dual forms of visual art and literature, as well as exhibition and performance, traversing both the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA)'s 2026 institutional agenda of creation and its exhibition agenda of technology.
The exhibition is composed of 14 works by nine artists, previously presented in past Biennales, as well as works from the museum's collection and newly invited works. Grounded in existing contexts, yet testing the conditions of articulation within a new environment, these works encompass curatorial visions and discourses accumulated over time, unfolding as aesthetic practices that seek to transform unrealized and unrecognized histories from the past into future possibilities. This effort to bring to the surface sensations long submerged beneath the many layers of meaning surrounding the works is further expanded through four literary texts read aloud in the exhibition space: Plato's Symposium, Kim Tae-yong's Kokdu: A Story of Guardian Angels, Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener, and Isaac Asimov's The Last Question cut across time and space to speak of existence and the world while standing in as proxy questioners of the themes brought about by past Biennales.
The reading performance is another key element that, together with the exhibition, constitutes Inheriting the Future. Due to its performative nature, the act of reading aloud generates different sensations each time depending on the person who is reading and the conditions in which this is carried out, revealing complex layers surrounding the action itself that cannot be reduced to a single meaning. Summoning the events of different times condensed within artworks, Inheriting the Future lays claim to, through reading, the endlessly proliferating possibilities of newness. Together with the act of reading aloud, the exhibition operates as a receptive structure where public sensibilities intersect and are generated anew, welcoming the audience.
* "Poran," a term referring to the act of a bird incubating its eggs, serves as a metaphor for a movement toward the future, propelled by an anticipation of new possibilities.
2F 기획전시실 2022.05.20-07.03
미래의 기억 Inheriting the Future
1F 상설전시실 2022.08.31-
권진규의 영원한 집 KWON JIN KYU FOREVER HOME
서울미디어시티비엔날레 SEOUL MEDIACITY BIENNALE
제14회 서울미디어시티비엔날레 사전프로그램 The 14th Seoul Mediacity Pre-Biennale
포란 Inheriting the Future
2026.05.20 - 07.05
참여 작가 Artists
- 미카일 카리키스 Mikhail Karikis
- 우정수 Woo Jeongsu
- 이정우 LEE Jungwoo
- 자오싱 아서 리우 Jawshing Arthur Liou
- 자크라왈 닐탐롱 Jakrawal Nilthamrong
- 전준 Jeon Joon
- 제시 천 Jesse Chun
- 최찬숙 Chan Sook Choi
- 황수연 Sueyon Hwang
- 고영민 Youngmin Ko
- 권주영 Juyoung Kwon
- 김하리 Hari Kim
- 박세인 Sein Park
- 후원 Supported by
- BVLGARI ROMA 1884
- 협찬 Sponsored by
- MOVEMENT LAB, BACKCOUNTRY OUTDOOR DESIGNED BY ADVENTURE
서울시립 남서울미술관 NAM-SEOUL MUSEUM OF ART
| 전시명 | 기간 | 장소 |
|---|---|---|
| KWON JIN KYU 권진규의 영원한 집 FOREVER HOME | 2023.06.01 ~ | 서울시립 남서울미술관 |
| 미래의 유산 Inheriting the Future | 2025.05.20 - 07.05 | 서울시립 남서울미술관 |