{"id":43467,"date":"2017-01-03T11:39:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T10:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=43467"},"modified":"2017-01-03T11:39:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T10:39:35","slug":"christine-sun-kim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/christine-sun-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine Sun Kim Is the Artist Challenging &#039;Hearing Etiquette&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=size--small><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Kim_4.jpg\" alt=\"Christine Sun Kim by Clara Bahlsen\" width=\"671\" height=\"1000\" \/> Christine Sun Kim by Clara Bahlsen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI can see sound now through people, interpreters. It\u2019s not as see-through anymore.\u201d &#8211; Christine Sun Kim<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAlthough Christine Sun Kim moved to Berlin a couple of years ago, she\u2019s rarely ever in the city. Constantly travelling between exhibitions, lectures and conferences, the Californian multidisciplinary artist\u2019s life is a whirlwind of planes, trains and automobiles, as her Instagram attests. In September she was in Seoul picking up a Se-MA-HANA Media Art Award, and today she\u2019s speaking from London as she prepares to perform \u201cNap Disturbance\u201d at Frieze before hosting a workshop titled \u201cFace Value\u201d at the Tate Modern. Yet despite the constant jetlag, her enthusiasm for her work is undiminished. \u201cI\u2019m obsessed with other people\u2019s voices giving me a voice,\u201d she says via an American Sign Language (ASL) mediator. \u201cI need to have a sonic identity to navigate the world, an interpreter who can take in the sound of the environment with their ears and mediate it.\u201d Although Kim was born deaf, this hasn\u2019t prevented her experimenting with noise in works such as \u201cA Choir of Glances\u201d (2014), in which hearing people experienced what it\u2019s like to be deaf through sound-proof headphones, and \u201cSubjective Loudness\u201d (2013), where a list of noises were turned into a musical score. \u201c[Sound] has become more tangible to me,\u201d she says, reflecting on her early experiences of working with the medium. \u201cI can see sound now through people, interpreters. It\u2019s not as see-through anymore.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=size--small><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Kim_1.jpg\" alt=\"Nap Disturbance, 2016, Frieze, London, 2016, courtesy the artist and Carroll\/Fletcher Gallery\" width=\"1300\" height=\"727\" \/> Nap Disturbance, 2016, Frieze, London, 2016, courtesy the artist and Carroll\/Fletcher Gallery<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m fasting in language instead of food, and my perspective shifts a lot,&#8221; &#8211; Christine Sun Kim<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThrough this stance Kim is challenging ableist attitudes toward audio impairment, or \u201chearing etiquette\u201d as the artist calls it. \u201cNap Disturbance\u201d, for instance, negotiates the behavioural standards that go with sound. The first performance Kim has ever choreographed, it features a group of deaf and hearing actors who explore the sonic range produced by the movement of household objects such as chairs, stationery and food packaging. Along the way, Kim directed the group to make noises \u201cfrom [the] polite to [the] not-so-polite\u201d, in order to highlight the reactions that deaf people encounter. \u201cEverywhere I go, I might not know the sonic limitations,\u201d Kim explains, \u201cbut when I start working with sound then I get the [measure] of what I can and can\u2019t do. A space has sonic limitations when people are around and I\u2019m there.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWorking in the international art world has turned Christine Sun Kim into an activist, a transformation that she publically acknowledged at this year\u2019s Berlin Biennale, where she gave a deaf power salute, placing one hand on her ear and the other in the air as a fist. At first she was afraid doing so might distract from her practice, but having begun this path she\u2019s no longer concerned, driven by the desire to help other deaf people receive the support she did. While studying at Bard College, the American Disability Act ensured that she received the assistance of ASL interpreters, and the experience of living in Europe has reminded her of what it\u2019s like to be unable to communicate. \u201cI\u2019m fasting in language instead of food, and my perspective shifts a lot,\u201d she says.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=size--small><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Kim_2.jpg\" alt=\"Nap Disturbance, 2016, Frieze, London, 2016, courtesy the artist and Carroll\/Fletcher Gallery\" width=\"1300\" height=\"729\" \/> Nap Disturbance, 2016, Frieze, London, 2016, courtesy the artist and Carroll\/Fletcher Gallery<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy work [exists] on so many levels, I\u2019m analysing my place in different aspects of life, as a woman and as a person who uses sign language&#8221; &#8211; Sun Kim<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nASL linguistics are part of Kim\u2019s artistic practice, too. At the Tate Modern in October, her workshop was accompanied by \u201cTables and Windows\u201d, a film made with her partner, Thomas Mader. In it they develop a new set of visual tools for mapping space by combining facial expressions and hand gestures. Kim\u2019s drawings are also inspired by American sign language (\u201cIt\u2019s important to keep up the physical activity of your hands,\u201d she acknowledges\u201d), and often seem similar to musical scores, creating continuity with her performances and sound work.<br \/>\nKim\u2019s practice therefore operates at the interstices of sound, vision and movement. Although commonly referred to as a sound artist, she doesn\u2019t identify as one, or indeed as any other per se, saying that she prefers to experiment with different media since she gets bored easily. Right now she\u2019s preparing to make films with the choreographer Karole Armitage, who she met when they were both director\u2019s fellows at MIT Media Lab. She\u2019s even flirting with the idea of turning her hand at pottery.<br \/>\n\u201cMy work [exists] on so many levels,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m analysing my place in different aspects of life, as a woman and as a person who uses sign language. I work with what my current interests are and I move forward from that.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=size--small><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Kim_3.jpg\" alt=\"Nap Disturbance, 2016, Frieze, London, 2016, courtesy the artist and Carroll\/Fletcher Gallery\" width=\"1300\" height=\"729\" \/> Nap Disturbance, 2016, Frieze, London, 2016, courtesy the artist and Carroll\/Fletcher Gallery<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.sleek-mag.com\/products-page\/issues\/52-winter-16\/\">SLEEK 52<\/a><\/strong> \n<strong>Upcoming exhibitions<\/strong> \nThe 11th Shanghai Bienniale runs until 12 March 2017<br \/>\n&#8220;Looking\u00a0at one thing and thinking of something else. A Group Show in Four Parts&#8221; at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrollfletcher.com\/exhibitions\/60\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Carroll\/Fletcher<\/a>, London, until 25 February 2017<strong><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Sun Kim&#8217;s performances, drawings and noise-based installations are tackling social perceptions of deafness<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[7301,7302,3413,7303,7304,34,4606,5892,7305,7039,7306,482,5847,7307,1045,7308,7309,7310,191],"class_list":["post-43467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-a-choir-of-glances","tag-ableism","tag-activism","tag-american-sign-language","tag-asl-linguistics","tag-berlin","tag-berlin-biennale","tag-christine-sun-kim","tag-clara-bahlsen","tag-drawings","tag-face-value","tag-frieze","tag-installations","tag-nap-disturbance","tag-performance","tag-se-ma-hana-media-art-award","tag-shanghai-bienniale","tag-subjective-loudness","tag-tate-modern"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christine Sun Kim Is the Artist Challenging &#039;Hearing Etiquette&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Christine Sun Kim&#039;s performances, drawings and noise-based installations are tackling social perceptions of deafness\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/christine-sun-kim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christine Sun Kim Is the Artist Challenging &#039;Hearing Etiquette&#039;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Christine Sun Kim&#039;s performances, drawings and noise-based installations are tackling social perceptions of deafness\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/christine-sun-kim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-01-03T10:39:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4\u00a0Minuten\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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