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Geumhyung Jeong, Portrait by Davide Meneghello 2021
Geumhyung Jeong: Under Construction
In this special presentation, artist Geumhyung Jeong brings her performance practice to the format of an artist talk. Via lecture, images, video clips, and movement demonstrations, Jeong will address her most recent work Under Construction (2024) currently on view in her solo exhibition at the ICA. Self-taught in robotics, the artist has created for this new commission five animatronic bodies incorporating medical model skeletons and her signature DIY hardware and electronics; a video installation space which documents the artist’s thoughtful construction, care, and maintenance of the mechanical bodies; and a live performance programme which culminates in this unique presentation.
This lecture format offers an opportunity to understand Jeong’s extraordinary approach to the automaton—a preoccupation of artists for centuries—and a window into the relationship between humans and our non-human interlocutors. Each facet of Jeong’s nimble practice reveals a tender dialogue of movement between the artist and her machines. In her studio in Seoul, she works with the machines to refine their capabilities, test their mechanics, and practice their choreographies. In performances and documentation videos, we can witness the machines—more nuts-and-bolts than AI—haltingly fumble and progress in their actions. They can mimic human motion, do what we cannot, and fail at our most basic gestures.
In this special presentation, artist Geumhyung Jeong brings her performance practice to the format of an artist talk. Via lecture, images, video clips, and movement demonstrations, Jeong will address her most recent work Under Construction (2024) currently on view in her solo exhibition at the ICA. Self-taught in robotics, the artist has created for this new commission five animatronic bodies incorporating medical model skeletons and her signature DIY hardware and electronics; a video installation space which documents the artist’s thoughtful construction, care, and maintenance of the mechanical bodies; and a live performance programme which culminates in this unique presentation.
This lecture format offers an opportunity to understand Jeong’s extraordinary approach to the automaton—a preoccupation of artists for centuries—and a window into the relationship between humans and our non-human interlocutors. Each facet of Jeong’s nimble practice reveals a tender dialogue of movement between the artist and her machines. In her studio in Seoul, she works with the machines to refine their capabilities, test their mechanics, and practice their choreographies. In performances and documentation videos, we can witness the machines—more nuts-and-bolts than AI—haltingly fumble and progress in their actions. They can mimic human motion, do what we cannot, and fail at our most basic gestures.
Geumhyung Jeong (b. 1980 in Seoul, South Korea) lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. Jeong has participated in performing arts festivals internationally and her solo exhibitions in international contemporary art institutions include: Upgrade in Progress, FMAV Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Modena (2020); Homemade RC Toy, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2019); Private Collection: Unperformed Objects, Delfina Foundation, London (2017); Tate Live: Geumhyung Jeong, Tate Modern, London (2017); Private Collection, Atelier Hermès, Seoul (2016).
07:00 pm
Fri, 15 Nov 2024
Cinema 1
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Cinema 1
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- All seats are hard back, have a crushed velvet feel and they do not recline
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- Arm rest either side of the seat dimensions: L 27 x W 7 x H 20
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Cinema 1
No photography, video, or sound recordings will be allowed during the performance
No photography, video, or sound recordings will be allowed during the performance
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