Screening & Discussion, 16 Jun 2025, 18:00 – 21:00
The practice of séances — attempts to make contact with voices and worlds on different scales beyond the living, through the agency of a medium — flourished during the social transformations of the early modernist period. Along these lines, biennale artistic directors Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis will discuss their ongoing research for The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Elena Vogman will introduce the media experiments practiced by the reform and resistance movement of institutional psychotherapy. Angela Melitopoulos will present a cine-somatic excursus with excerpts from her Cine(so)matrix exhibition related to animism.
Screening Programme:
Jane Jin Kaisen Wreckage (2024, 12 min)
Yin-Ju Chen ‘Somewhere Beyond Right and Wrong, there is a Garden. I Will Meet You There’ (2023, 16 min)
Shana Moulton Whispering Pines 9 (2009, 10 min)
Organized by The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale of the Seoul Museum of Art in cooperation with ICI Berlin
Book Presentation & Discussion, 19 Jun 2025, 19:00
Ghosts are first and foremost figurations of power. By giving intersubjective communication a form that can challenge anthropocentrism and Western conceptualizations of Nature, ghosts have the ability to generate alternative histories. This renegotiation of past events is particularly important in the context of colonialism.
With Sladja Blažan, Edna Bonhomme, and Alison Sperling
Organized by ICI Berlin in cooperation with Bard College Berlin
The concept of ‘intersectionality’ has completely transformed a wide range of disciplines over the last few decades. From literary study to sociology, intersectional approaches—approaches that demand that scholars and activists look at the interplay of multiple social identities and locations in order to understand social life.
Sylvia Wynter has produced a rich body of work synthesizing Black studies, anthropology, cybernetics, literary studies, Caribbean studies, feminist theory, and more. One pivotal concept within her theoretical apparatus is that of the human.
With Kirill Chepurin, Lama El Khatib, Jacqueline Frost, Tobi Haslett, Henrike Kohpeiss, Yaniya Lee, Matthew Milbourne, and Ben Woodard
Organised by Kirill Chepurin, Tobi Haslett, and Ben Woodard
This event will engage with the debates surrounding Slow cinema as both an aesthetic movement and a political intervention. Based on Rosa Barotsi's new book Time and the Everyday in Contemporary Slow Cinema, the discussion will focus on how extended duration and dead time in film have been seen as challenging capitalist temporalities while simultaneously risking recuperation by the very systems they purportedly resist.
Practically anything can be a model of or for something else. What characterizes models is rather their specific reductive relationality, which often promotes understanding but is always generative rather than merely representational. The essays in Breaking and Making Models engage with the normative and performative qualities of models, their aesthetic and political dimensions, and their world-making potentials. Bringing such perspectives into a broad interdisciplinary dialogue, this book explores ways to work creatively with models.
The pioneers of what has been labelled New Queer Cinema laid the foundation for a Queer Post-Cinema — a movement in which artists experiment with technology in innovative ways. Through original readings of Todd Haynes’s early films, Sharon Hayes and Yael Bartana’s videos and installations, Su Friedrich’s digital video Seeing Red, Charlie Prodgers’s iPhone film Bridgit, and Claire Denis’s science-fiction film Highlife, this monograph shows how artists are creating a new form of resistance in the time of the digital image and generative AI.
