Usually, Geumhyung Jeong’s works could be called a very finely tuned, occasionally disconcerting puppeteering. In her retrospective at ImPulsTanz 2022, her body again and again formed unpredictable assemblages with the robots, vacuum cleaners and hairbrushes surrounding her, bringing them to life and blurring the lines between motionless object and acting person. This year, she returns to mumok with that same movement material – but no sign of the physical material, the object puppets. Or is there? An echo of what was, a present non-presence that puts our deep entanglement and simultaneous detachment from the material world into even sharper focus.
