my work but having done the two-week Lab.[1] Adelina: It was really interesting to me how we got to follow your thinking around your practice and how to approach different material and objects. It was always about your thinking around the objects and my experience with you during those two weeks was to marvel at how many different ways, how many limitations, layers and rules you apply to the practice. Geumhyung: I was also improvising with you guys. We were having fun and, in fact, though we were using objects, it was more about rules. More rules can be made without objects. We were doing many things without objects, and were were busy following the rules, but that is also why the objects ended up having many different ways of being used. Adelina: So, you felt like you were improvising? Do you make work like that? Geumhyung: I had plans for the workshops, but when I tried it with people I also tried to forget about my plan - because there was always something new that came from the people. It went somewhere else sometimes. Adelina: When you make your own work, do you use the rules and games? Geumhyung: I think in a way - yes. I wasn’t like “ok, now I need to have this rule.” I try to make rules about the technical difficulty in order to make the objects alive. I am more focused on puppetry, but I am collecting the technical possibility and the methods of how I can make the objects alive. Sometimes I try to avoid the conventional ways of puppetry. That is my idea of the technique, and sometimes when I am doing this kind of work...(Geumhyung pauses) Adelina: When do the objects become “performers”. This is what I found new and fun in your workshops...you give us an object and it is just any “insignificant” object, but when they start to become “alive” and a “performer” then that moment is really interesting. Do you see your objects like performers? Geumhyung: I think I already had an idea that hopefully I could make the object become a performer. So, I started preparing something, and began to find objects. You know, in our workshop we just found any objects and suddenly they became something else. But when I started making work it wasn’t like that. I was very clear with what specific object I wanted and so, when I thought I had everything prepared,
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