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{SPEAKER name="Jasmine Fernandez"}
artwork that's up right now. I know that you said that you use comedy in it and you definitely see that in the videos and I really enjoy that um

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{SPEAKER name="Jasmine Fernandez"}
So I was just hoping you could discuss a little bit more using comedy to present social issues.

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{SPEAKER name="Hye Yeon Nam"}
Um OK aah I don't know American culture well but just my experience of comedy, if I talk about something maybe humor in people spontaneously just agree

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{SPEAKER name="Hye Yeon Nam"}
or they like it and a lot of my work present maybe some a little bit negative with superior with difficulty living in America because that's what I felt when I came here the first year second year

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{SPEAKER name="Hye Yeon Nam"}
and then I realized if I just present those kind of feelings then maybe I don't want to give a negative feeling to other people so I just wanted to uhm I want other people to enjoy my work and then I added all the all of the visual

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{SPEAKER name="Hye Yeon Nam"}
all like a stranger too but I don't. Someone actually told me "OK, You are eating ahh um with the strange spoon, it's not a real spoon, why don't you just use your hand"?

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{SPEAKER name="Hye Yeon Nam"}
Or someone told me "OK you are wearing strange shoes outside, why don't you just walk without shoes?" I'm like that and maybe that's a good question thats actually a little bit humor on it.

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{SPEAKER name="Hye Yeon Nam"}
I never try not to use it I tried to use a wrong tool but also I don't really give up so for one hour and two hour performances maybe I look very strange outside but that's the reason people actually uhm sometimes left round me and

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{SPEAKER name="Hye Yeon Nam"}
but I think with this humor uhm I think it's a good way to closer like to my audience and they enjoy my work