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Space takes on multiple definitions. For me, I understand space as the sum of cultural and social forces that act on me. Through the space, my body feels all changes around me instantly and intimately. When I move from Korea to the United States, my body became a gauge that felt my displacement and recognized not only the conformity inflicted on me in the United States, but it also allowed me to deconstruct the rule from my hometown that I had taken for granted as normal.

In my video piece, I attempt to convey the feeling of displacement and conformity by acting of walking. I perform walking forward and other people seem to be walking backward. However, I was walking backward in the real scene and I made it simply reversed. The space of being neither here following correct rule nor there following incorrect rule is precisely what I try to convey in this video.

Siggraph 2008 Art show, LA

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  • Dustin Vance 5 months ago
    Good idea. Was it hard to avoid the people as you were walking backwards?
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  • Hye Yeon Nam 5 months ago
    I actually hit a lot of people and also almost hit by a car when I cross the street! surely they complained to me. But I editted.. Also I met a policeman. But you knwo there are a lot of crazy New Yorkers, so I was fine. I did this performance more than two hours to get good video footage in time square. so they looked at me and hit by me several times.
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