Christine Sun Kim

Please join us to celebrate CAG's fall 2022 exhibitions, *Christine Sun Kim: Oh Me Oh My* and *Tanya Lukin Linklater: My mind is with the weather*. 

All ages welcome. Cash bar.

No advance registration required for this event.

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Kim, Why Most of My Hearing Friends Do Not Sign, 2019 (CSK 19.014) D.jpg

Fall 2022

Opening Reception

For more than ten years now, Christine Sun Kim has been engaged expansively with the ways sound is understood, experienced and valued. Upending the notion of the sonic as a solely auditory occurrence, the California-born, Berlin-based artist foregrounds sound’s visual, spatial and political properties across a variety of mediums including drawing, video, performance, and installation. Exploring and employing elements of American Sign Language (ASL) — the artist’s first language — alongside other visual communication systems such as musical notation, infographics and memes, the formal vocabulary of Kim’s work is a singular one, engaging with critical precision and deadpan humour the politics of language, listening and voice. 

In *Oh Me Oh My*, Kim brings together a broad selection of recent drawings, along with a new large-scale mural and two public artworks installed on the CAG Façade and at nearby Yaletown-Roundhouse Station. Whether diagramming the structural and cultural underpinnings of seemingly personal decisions, tracing social debts to consider what we owe one another, or mapping the distortions and delays inherent to Deaf/hearing communication, Kim’s works challenge widely held hierarchies that tether voice inextricably to sound, disrupting the implicit authority of the spoken over the signed and the aural over other perceptual planes.

*Christine Sun Kim: Oh Me Oh My* is co-organized by the Contemporary Art Gallery, Remai Modern, the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, and the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College.

*Christine Sun Kim: Debt Debt Debt* is presented in partnership with the Canada Line Public Art Program — InTransit BC.

### Biography
Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, California) has exhibited and performed internationally, including at Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Whitney Museum, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam; the Berlin Biennale; the Shanghai Biennale; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among many others. Kim was awarded an inaugural Disability Futures Fellowship by the Ford Foundation as well as an MIT Media Lab Fellowship and a TED Senior Fellowship. She lives and works in Berlin.

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A large pencil drawing depicting a venn diagram with three overlapping circles. “When Grammar Mood” is written along the top of the diagram in block text.

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Entryway into a gallery with two drawings by Christine Sun Kim visible on an interior wall. Drawings each feature curved black shapes on a white background.

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Four black and white drawings by Christine Sun Kim on a wall with an opening, through which a wall painting featuring the word "point" and three other drawings by Kim are visible.

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Two black and white drawings by Christine Sun Kim on a wall with an opening, through which a wall painting featuring the word "point" and three other drawings by Kim are visible.

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Three line drawings by Christine Sun Kim on a white wall, each featuring curved descending lines. One drawing features the words "owe owe owe."

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Four drawings by Christine Sun Kim depicting pie charts arranged around the corner of adjoining white walls.

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Three drawings by Christine Sun Kim depicting pie charts.

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Three drawings by Christine Sun Kim, variously depicting pie charts and venn diagrams. The drawing in the foreground features the words "when grammar mood."

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Seven small drawings by Christine Sun Kim depicting graphic notations arranged in a broken grid on a white wall, with a large drawing of a venn diagram on the adjoining wall to the left.

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A wall drawing by Christine Sun Kim featuring the word "point" and curved black shapes on a white background, with two similar drawings by Kim hung on top of it.

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Three line drawings by Christine Sun Kim arranged across a corner on white walls. One drawing features a venn diagram and the words "pronouns in american sign language."

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Four line drawings by Christine Sun Kim on a white wall bisected by a wall with an opening, which also has a drawing by Kim on it.

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Facade of CAG with with two rows of windows visible in frame. Black and white drawings by Christine Sun Kim featuring the word "echoing" across the windows.

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Facade of CAG with four windows in a 4 by 4 grid visible in frame. Black and white drawings by Christine Sun Kim featuring the word "echo" across the windows.

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Image of CAG behind two trees, with black and white drawings by Christine Sun Kim across the gallery's windows.

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Oh Me Oh My

In this monograph, Christine Sun Kim's work is explored through essays, short texts and reflections, an interview and abundant large-scale images of the artist's work. Kim, whose first language is American Sign Language (ASL), uses elements from various information systems, such as musical notation, infographics and ASL, to develop a dryly humorous visual vocabulary in a variety of mediums, including performance, drawing, video, lectures and more. She aims to draw attention to the power imbalances between the hearing world and the Deaf community, as well as to celebrate the generative possibilities and creative energy that can arise from interactions between people with different positionalities and modes of communication.

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