Since 2012, Seoul Museum of Art has been holding SeMA tricolor exhibitions (Blue, Gold, and Green) every other year to support creative activities of Korean artists. SeMA BLUE exhibition focuses on the artists of aged 30-40s. This year, SeMA BLUE exhibition Malfunction Library pays attention to the highly developed ‘knowledge information society’ in which an access to all sorts of information and knowledge has become easy but choosing the one has become difficult. 

9 people/teams of the artists in this exhibition express their critical viewpoints towards the knowledge information society. Although they cannot be called knowledge producers in a traditional sense, they also produce alternative or secondary information/knowledge which may not be included as a mainstream but has potential possibilities through the means of information collecting and processing, and rearranging based on persistent research. Their creative activities are expressed through what seems strange information, the various forms of information surrounding the contemporary, and create ‘Malfunction Library’ which is the total space of the accumulated odd knowledge and information. 

The exhibition will be more interesting if you freely walk around the works of ‘Malfunction Library’ which are connected with the infinite ‘links’ and find the operation errors and correct what you used to know, rather than following directions and certain statements. By independently rearranging and re-contextualizing information, you can create new information as an ‘independent thinker’ or ‘alternative knowledge producer’, like the artists of this exhibition. 

Through the creative activities of the artists who are living ‘here, now’, SeMA BLUE 2014 Malfunction Library will give you an opportunity to reflect present knowledge/information environment and to think independently. We look forward to seeing your unhindered intervention as an alternative knowledge producer who are not afraid of malfunction but are full of curiosity.

*image (left)
Jukhee Kwon 
fromthebooktothespace, 2013
books, lightings, variable dimensions 
courtesy of the artist