Christine Sun Kim uses sound in her performances, painting, and drawings to investigate spoken languages, American Sign Language, aural environments, and her experience as a deaf artist. In this work, she combines captions from movies and TV shows with printed images and objects, creating stories about the interiority/exteriority of sound.
In the lead up to their first major museum survey, co-organized by the Walker Art Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art, Christine Sun Kim sat down with the exhibition curators to discuss how musical notation, infographics, and language—both in her native American Sign Language (ASL) and written English– impact her wide-ranging approach to art-making.
