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Geumhyung Jeong, Under Construction. Photos by Christa Holka, 2024
Geumhyung Jeong: Under Construction
Korean artist and choreographer Geumhyung Jeong performs live at the ICA within her solo exhibition, Under Construction. For this newly commissioned installation, Jeong, who is self-taught in robotics, has created multiple full-body animatronic figures incorporating medical model skeletons for the first time, along with her signature DIY hardware and electronics.
At key points in the run of the exhibition, ICA audiences are invited to witness the intimate choreography between the artist and her mechanical collaborators. Jeong manipulates and responds to the machine bodies through a conversation of movements initiated by remote control, physical touch, and mechanised gestures. Please join us for this series of live events that bridge the divide between object and performer.
Korean artist and choreographer Geumhyung Jeong performs live at the ICA within her solo exhibition, Under Construction. For this newly commissioned installation, Jeong, who is self-taught in robotics, has created multiple full-body animatronic figures incorporating medical model skeletons for the first time, along with her signature DIY hardware and electronics.
At key points in the run of the exhibition, ICA audiences are invited to witness the intimate choreography between the artist and her mechanical collaborators. Jeong manipulates and responds to the machine bodies through a conversation of movements initiated by remote control, physical touch, and mechanised gestures. Please join us for this series of live events that bridge the divide between object and performer.
More Info
Performance is an integral part of Jeong’s practice as a whole and this project in particular, which is the culmination of years of construction, care, and maintenance of the artist’s mechanical bodies. Jeong will demonstrate for audiences the character of these bodies: each unique in their stage of completion, behaviours, and capabilities familiar to and beyond the constraints of the human body.
Through a tender yet uncanny dialogue of movement, we watch the machines—more nuts-and-bolts than AI—haltingly fumble and progress in their actions. Impeccably self-possessed as a performer, Jeong enacts a measured exchange with the machines that is both deliberate and unpredictably responsive. We might recognise in this slow and direct dance, and the affinity and discord between Jeong and the mechanical figures, our relationship to the machines or objects in our own lives.
About the artist
07:00 pm
Tue, 08 Oct 2024
Lower Gallery
07:00 pm
Wed, 09 Oct 2024
Lower Gallery
07:00 pm
Wed, 13 Nov 2024
Lower Gallery
Ticket information
- All tickets that do not require ID (full price, disabled, income support) can be printed at home or stored in email
- For aged-based concession tickets (under 25, student and pensioner) please bring relevant ID to collect at the front desk before the event.
Access information
Lower Gallery
- There is a wheelchair-accessible ramp into the Lower Gallery
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- Free for visitors where ticket prices are a barrier, please email access@ica.art
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Performance dates:
7pm, Tuesday, 8 October 2024
7pm, Wednesday, 9 october 2024
7pm, Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Performances last roughly one hour.
Leading up to the performances, the gallery space will function as Jeong’s workshop as she fixes and maintains her mechanical bodies in preparation for the performances. Audiences are invited to witness this process.
The gallery will close at 6:15 to allow for final set up and reopen at 7pm for the start of the performance.
No late admittance.
● No photography, video, or sound recordings will be allowed during the performance.
● The event has mixed seating including on the floor and seats without backs
● If you require a high-backed chair, please email access@ica.art in advance
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