Christine Sun Kim: FOMO Scores, 2024 / White Space at Art Basel 2024 Unlimited. Basel (Switzerland), June 13, 2024.
Official description: For Christine Sun Kim and other deaf or disabled artists, navigating the art system’s accessibility gaps can pose significant challenges. By overlooking or not considering specific needs like sign language interpretation or captions, institutions, galleries, and event organizers create FOMO, ‘fear of missing out.’ Kim’s project FOMO Scores reflects on this sensation. The installation features 15 canvases shaped like the outer contours of the American Sign Language for ‘score,’ each with a written request such as ‘Please keep me in the loop.’ The canvases are painted black making them visibly prominent yet resembling a void where communication falls short. The installation contemplates the ambiguous line between requesting and demanding and the difficulties of advocating for one’s own inclusion.
Christine Sun Kim (born 1980 in Orange County, California) deconstructs the politics of sound in her investigations of how oral languages operate as social currency. Working across drawing, performance, video, and large scale murals, she explores her relationship to spoken and signed languages, and to the world at large. Kim lives and works in Berlin.
Official description: For Christine Sun Kim and other deaf or disabled artists, navigating the art system’s accessibility gaps can pose significant challenges. By overlooking or not considering specific needs like sign language interpretation or captions, institutions, galleries, and event organizers create FOMO, ‘fear of missing out.’ Kim’s project FOMO Scores reflects on this sensation. The installation features 15 canvases shaped like the outer contours of the American Sign Language for ‘score,’ each with a written request such as ‘Please keep me in the loop.’ The canvases are painted black making them visibly prominent yet resembling a void where communication falls short. The installation contemplates the ambiguous line between requesting and demanding and the difficulties of advocating for one’s own inclusion.
Christine Sun Kim (born 1980 in Orange County, California) deconstructs the politics of sound in her investigations of how oral languages operate as social currency. Working across drawing, performance, video, and large scale murals, she explores her relationship to spoken and signed languages, and to the world at large. Kim lives and works in Berlin.
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