Opening Speech
2025. 1. 10 1pm, 798CUBE
Speakers Ralf Baecker, Navid Navab, Maria Koshenkova, Wang Gongxin,
Saša Spačal, Cod.Act, Wang Yuyang and Yunchul Kim
Moderator Xian Zhang, 798CUBEBrief Summary

When we encounter the unknown, we perceive its symptoms and attempt diagnoses—a process fundamental to how we come to understand and explore the world. Within this framework, art can be seen as a threefold entity: a symptom of the unknown, a diagnostic tool, and a medium of comprehension. Artists often perceive “symptoms” in phenomena that remain unnoticed, translating them into creative forms that offer audiences alternative ways of perceiving reality. Among the works presented, a striking quality is their capacity to move beyond traditional repres entation, becoming guides through our complex, interwoven world where the visible and invisible, the known and the unknown, coexist and resonate.

The roundtable brings together eight artists and members of the curatorial team of SYMPTOMATICA | HORIZON to discuss how science, as a foundation of artistic practice, generates new roles for artistic creation. It further considers how media philosophy can open new possibilities for emergent trajectories in contemporary art.

Performance
2025.01.10, 16:00–16:30
Performed by Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand

SYMPTOMATICA | FLUX marks the performative turn of the exhibition, delving into the entangled relationship between matter, sound, and perception. Here, sound functions as a diagnostic tool for the shifting symptoms of the present: a temporary crystallization of resonance, a flow of energy and particles. Through this flow, music transcends mere artistic expression, transforming into a sensory cartography of our contemporary condition, inscribed within the body itself.

Round Table
2025.01.11, 14:00–15:30

Moderator
Yunchul Kim

Speakers - Artist
Cod.act, Dorotea Dolinšek, Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand, Jinsu Han, Maria Koshenkova, Navid Navab, Ralf Baecker, Saša Spačal, ::vtol::,
Speakers - Curatorial Team
Menger Chu, Jungyeon Park and Xian Zhang)

Brief Summary
SYMPTOMATICA | NODE investigates the topology of knowledge where art, science, technology, and philosophy intersect, forming nodes of entanglement and exchange. As a transdisciplinary forum, the lectures transform discursive spaces into sites of emergence, transformation, and intra-action.

Keywords
Contemporaneity
Emergence
Temporality
Nonlinear
Symbiosis
Transmattering
Extended Perception
Sensory
Viability
Entanglement