The Korean choreographer, dancer and performer Geumhyung Jeong brings seven quirky duets to Berlin: interactions with everyday items like a vacuum cleaner or a trolley bag, but also window dummies or masks. Exposed in a cold white light, the objects become partners in an eerie game of mutual manipulation. They take on a bizarre, unsettling life of their own, frighteningly on the boundary between animate and inanimate, human and non-human, hallucination and reality. The show’s deliberate simplicity, its literal character and mechanical accuracy brutally reveal the emptiness and isolation within people. But poetry and humour also occur, while “7ways” revolves around the question of where the boundary between body and machine lies.

Geumhyung Jeong is a choreographer, dancer and performer. She studied acting (BA) at Hoseo University in Cheonan, dance and performance (MA) at the Korean National sUniversity of Arts in Seoul, and Animation Film at the Korean Academy of Film Arts in Seoul. Her works have been presented among others by The New Museum Triennial 2015 in New York, Spring Utrecht, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, ImPulsTanz Festival Vienna, In Transit Festival Berlin, SPIEL ART Festival Munich, iDans Festival in Istanbul, PACT Zollverein in Essen. In 2013, she was a Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.

Geumhyung Jeong constantly renegotiates the relationship between the human body and the objects which surround it. She uses plain everyday objects upon which she bestows a bizarre, disconcerting life through an intense and risky interaction with her own body. Her projects combine dance and puppetry, as well as bringing attention to technical aspects of theatre.