February/March 2015

The 2015 New Museum Triennial: “Surround Audience”

Public Opening February 25 2015 

Photo: © Youngkyo Choi

Geumhyung Jeong, Fitness Guide, 2011.

Video, sound, color; 49:13 min.

02/25/15-05/24/15 

Performance 

03/06/15 7PM
03/07/15 7PM
03/08/15 3pm

For Fitness Guide (2011), featured in the Triennial, Geumhyung Jeong modified a series of exercise machines, readjusting key parts and activating them in a durational performance. The performance begins with Jeong using the machines in routine ways; gradually her movements morph into erotic, obsessive, and antagonistic actions. By feeding her own energy back into a cyclical machine, the artist posits the female body as the locus of reproductive responsibility within a gendered, exploitative economy.

Who’s speaking? 

(24.1. – 28.2.2015)

KLEMM'S Berlin 

Munbangu(Stationery) 

2011/ 5'57" / HD/ color

STAFF 

Director Geumhyung Jeong

Producer Hyungkuk Kim

Cinematography Sangho Kim

Light Sangbin Ji

Editing Geumhyung Jeong 

Supported by Korea Academy of Film Arts

Geumhyung Jeong uses everyday objects upon which she bestows a strange, disconcerting life through an intense and risky interaction. Her movie ‘Munbangu’(Stationery)’ produces the desire to become one of these objects, a pencil or a brush or a piece of paper.

“The video work Munbangu (stationary) demonstrates this uncanny valley of erasure in an unveiling, personified drawing space, displacing the subject-object experience. Speaking through physical enactments enables her to perform as characters depicting otherworldly interlocutors. Humor acts as a familiar and digestible control variable through which Jeong pushes the strict forms of perception.” -from exhibition text ‚Who’s speaking‘ by Klemm’s, Berlin