corita kent: séance: technology of the spirit

Open to the public from August 26 to November 23, 2025 at Seoul Museum of Art and other venues in Seoul, the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Séance: Technology of the Spirit will present new and existing work from artists around the world, past and present, who have drawn on occult, mystical, and spiritual traditions. Key to the 13th edition is that these alternative “technologies” contest the accelerationist and rationalistic logics of capitalist modernity, and might therefore resist—and reconfigure—the political and intellectual structures that shape our experience. This “exhibition-as-séance” draws on the long history of attempts to contact worlds beyond waking life and seeks to outline how this engagement transformed the languages and methods of artistic production.

Working alongside the artistic directors, the SMB13 key collaborators include Scenographer COLLECTIVE, Graphic Designer nonplace studio, English Editor Ben Eastham, and Sound Room & Performance Curator Sanna Almajedi.