Geumhyung Jeong: Rehab Training

On Thursday 12, Friday 13, Saturday 14 November at 7 pm Xing/Live Arts Week present the Italian premiere of Rehab Training, a durational performance by South Korean artist and performer Geumhyung Jeong in Bologna at P420 art gallery.

With a background that moves between visual arts, choreography and animation cinema, her work questions the relationship between the body and technology, a universal theme that the artist deals with a delicate obsession and an uncanny sensuality.

Geumhyung Jeong is among the guests of Live Arts Week IX, an edition that was supposed to take place from March 26 to April 4, 2020, and which is now reconfiguring itself to fulfill its promise of meeting in a reformulation of single events during autumn 2020 and winter 2021. South Korean choreographer and performance artist Geumhyung Jeong always falls in love with the objects she handles and collects. In Rehab Training she invites the audience to witness her programme of physical training for a humanoid dummy, clinically rehabilitating ‘him’ by means of concrete tasks. A duet evolves from common gestures, gazes and manipulations. She moves oscillating between a service professional’s distance and a personal touch, between human flesh and the objectual presence of plastic and metal, between herself and the technically mediated world around her.