The artist has selected three examples of her past work for this special screening: Munbangu, RECORD STOP PLAY and Delivery Service 2020.

Munbangu (Stationery)  
5'57" / HD  / 2011  
Geumhyung Jeong  

Geumhyung Jeong engages everyday objects in a deliberate, tender, often disconcerting way in her work across media. The line between human and machine, or object and animate being, slides between each pole. This is true of the work in her current ICA solo exhibition Under Construction and can be seen in this early short Munbangu (Stationery) which engages a desire to become one of the objects in the video, a pencil, a brush, or a piece of paper. The practice of drawing and the drawing represented are personified with humour and eroticism in equal measure. 

RECORD STOP PLAY  
8'04" / HD / 2011 
Geumhyung Jeong  

Part instructional video, part artist’s studio game, part performance documentation, Geumhyung Jeong’s RECORD STOP PLAY doubles back on itself as animator and animated toggle between roles in this game of video capture. The lines blur between who is recording, who is replaying, and who has the power to manipulate the other. The video centres on a filmed stop-motion animated object and the pictures produced by that object. The artist fits a camera lens in the eye socket of a rubber mannequin head, which is then sat atop a tripod body. The triangle between the artist interacting with the object and the recording device interchange throughout against the soundtrack of a whirring camera. 

Delivery Service 
23’22 / HD / 2020 

This film follows a delivery service team staffed by Geumhyung Jeong and her collaborators around Seoul. The team, outfitted in bright blue high visibility service vests, travels by train, car, and foot. They arrive without packages or parcels and the contents of their delivery remains unknown, the events distilled into the interaction of the event which is recorded by a photographer and videographer within the delivery team. The tension of observation and exposure in this commonplace transaction becomes the focus rather than the imagined product that instigated the exchange. 

Originating from a concept Jeong began in 2017, in 2020 the artist launched Delivery Service as a customised service that delivered a performance experience to customers who made their request via an online interface. On the online form, customers were asked a series of questions, the answers to which determined the nature of the performance they were delivered. Questions offered various service scenarios based on a customer’s level of comfort with variables such as physical distancing (it was the height of Covid) and participation level. The ‘delivery service team’ would arrive at the customer’s home address where the customer would then perform their partially scripted role as ‘service recipient’.  

With Geumhyung Jeong, Soonwoo Kwon, Junghyun Kim, Kanghyuk Lee, Gim Ikhyun; commissioned by Seoul Museum of Art; co-produced by Seoul Museum of Art and Tastehouse, 2020.