Photo by Simranpreet Anand
Comedy in America. performance
코미디 인 아메리카. 퍼포먼스
video screening and performance. Dec 2022
The pieces of performance “Comedy in America” shows my minimal,
failing effort to erase and modify the man-made speech in the United States–the
series of comedies where people made racist jokes against “Asian” people. I
perform to intervene in a human’s speech repeatedly, diligently, and
feebly.
Interrupting or hijacking human speech (either spoken or written statement) is an act that invades the politics of an orderly world. This is represented as a performative interruption in my art, which is poetic but disconcerting, feeble but persistent, quiet but assertive.
I intervene in racist comedy by reducing the speed of the videos of comedy radically so that it may sound ridiculous, not normal. I try hard, repeatedly, but all of my attempts fail by missing many of the racist sentences to slow down.
아시아인들의 발음을 놀리는 인종 차별적 미국 코미디 쇼들을 한데 상영하였다. 작가는 상영 화면을 마주보고 해당 농담이 나올 때마다 키보드를 맹렬히 눌러 코미디언의 발음 속도를 늦추었다.
Interrupting or hijacking human speech (either spoken or written statement) is an act that invades the politics of an orderly world. This is represented as a performative interruption in my art, which is poetic but disconcerting, feeble but persistent, quiet but assertive.
I intervene in racist comedy by reducing the speed of the videos of comedy radically so that it may sound ridiculous, not normal. I try hard, repeatedly, but all of my attempts fail by missing many of the racist sentences to slow down.
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아시아인들의 발음을 놀리는 인종 차별적 미국 코미디 쇼들을 한데 상영하였다. 작가는 상영 화면을 마주보고 해당 농담이 나올 때마다 키보드를 맹렬히 눌러 코미디언의 발음 속도를 늦추었다.
Filmed by Ben Zink