Anocha Suwichakornpong‘s NARRATIVE, which depicts the artist’s research process and is the prologue to the 2024 Creative Capital-awarded project (FICTION) premieres at the 13th Seoul MediaCity Biennale (August 26-November 23). Commissioned for the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, NARRATIVE stages a rehearsal for a film about a fictional trial of those responsible for the 2010 massacre of pro-democracy protesters and civilians by military forces in Bangkok. Filmed on the fifteenth anniversary of the event, as Thailand’s public prosecutor continues to resist calls for a civic trial that would correct the historical record, the testimony of witnesses is interleaved with footage of the research workshop for the upcoming feature film, FICTION.

Open to the public from August 26 to November 23, 2025 at Seoul Museum of Art and other venues in Seoul, 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.