Christine Sun Kim

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.

### 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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Oh Me Oh My

Tanya Lukin Linklater

The practice of Tanya Lukin Linklater is at once an exploration and articulation of insistence. Across works encompassing performance, video, installation, and writing, Lukin Linklater traces the expansive ways Indigenous knowledges, histories and structures have been embodied and sustained amidst colonialisms’ systemic dispossessions. Centering her focus in and through the body, her works map continuance as an iterative practice, often most powerfully enacted through relational gestures such as conversation, movement, listening and touch.

At the Contemporary Art Gallery, Lukin Linklater presents *An amplification through many minds* (2019), a work that extends from her close engagement with a collection of Alutiiq/Sugpiaq and Unagan belongings originating from her homelands in southern Alaska and the Aleutian Chain, now held by the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley. This video follows Lukin Linklater and a trio of dancers through the process of developing a choreographic score for these displaced belongings that is subsequently performed in the museum’s storage vaults. A gesture towards both restoration and repatriation, this piece is accompanied by a series of new works on paper that index the artist’s presence through land and movement alike.

From November 9 to 11, Lukin Linklater will hold open rehearsals for a choreography she is developing in relation to these new works. Further details can be found [here](https://cagvancouver.org/event/open-rehearsals-with-tanya-lukin-linklater).

*Tanya Lukin Linklater: My mind is with the weather* is co-organized by the Contemporary Art Gallery, Oakville Galleries and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.

### Biography
Tanya Lukin Linkater (Alutiiq, b. 1976, Kodiak Island, USA) works across dance, performance, video, photography, installation, and writing. Her recent exhibitions include the Aichi Trienniale; New Museum Triennial, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Remai Modern, Saskatoon; Heard Museum, Phoenix; Chicago Architecture Biennial; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and La Biennale de Montréal. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Queen's University, holding a Master's of Education from the University of Alberta (2003), and a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University (1998). *Slow Scrape*, her first book of poetry, was published by The Centre for Expanded Poetics and Anteism (2020). She lives and works in Nbisiing Anishinaabeg territory in North Bay, Ontario.

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My mind is with the weather

Join CAG’s Acting Associate Curator Julia Lamare for a walkthrough of the current exhibitions, including *Christine Sun Kim: Oh Me Oh My*. No advance registration required for this event.

 

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Kim, Small Echo, 2022 (CSK 22.021) .jpg

with Julia Lamare

Curatorial Tour

Edzi'u

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Open Studio is a monthly program for young visitors and families inspired by contemporary art practices and CAG’s current exhibitions. In October, we invite you to join us for a sound-making workshop led by artist Edzi'u. 

Inspired by CAG’s current exhibitions *Christine Sun Kim: Oh Me Oh My* and *Tanya Lukin Linklater: My mind is with the weather*, Edzi’u will guide participants through a sound walk. Using their environment and voices, participants will explore accessible recording techniques, such as how to listen and gauge a sound for recording, how to capture what you hear, and visual techniques for how close to record a sound. Attendees are asked to bring a cell phone with the capability to record sound to the workshop. Refreshments will be provided.

A note on access: a portion of the workshop will take place outside and requires participants to make their way around city sidewalks and parks. If you have any accessibility needs, please do not hesitate to contact us at  [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org).

### RSVP
Registration for this event is free, but limited. RSVP to secure your place [here](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/open-studio-sound-walk-with-edziu-tickets-419834294677).

### Biography
Step into the lush and heart-wrenching sounds of Edzi'u, an innovative sound and performance artist who paints stories of the past, present and future with textures, community voices and words, and her ethereal voice. Being rich in culture, full of passion and spirit, the power behind their use of sound goes deep within the listener, inspiring them to be bold and genuine, while living fully within their hearts. Edzi'u has a style and sound like no other, a quiet icon in the landscape of Indigenous music on Turtle Island.

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Sound Walk with Edzi'u

Open Studio

Alanna Ho

One Saturday each month, CAG invites a guest host to lead walkthroughs of our current exhibitions, offering their insights and response to the works on view. In October, we welcome Alanna Ho to speak on the work of Christine Sun Kim. No advance registration required for this event.

### Biography
With a passion for cultivating play and imagination, Alanna programs interdisciplinary workshops and designs digital educational resources for kids, families and educators. Her sound exploration and new media workshops are rooted in mindfulness, creativity, adventure, activism and community. Alanna has a background in contemporary art, classical music and new music composition. Her work presents pedagogy and play as interconnected experiences; combining the use of new media and the Reggio Emilia approach. Alanna uses a multi-modal approach in S.T.E.A.M education which has been facilitated through galleries and schools. Her vision to make the world a better place frequently aligns with organizations who invest in art and technology programs for young age groups; children must be inspired and empowered to create a better future.

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Alanna Ho on Christine Sun Kim

Saturday Session

CAG Executive Director Matthew Hyland will lead a tour of the fall 2022 exhibitions, including *Tanya Lukin Linklater: My mind is with the weather*. 

No advance registration required for this event.

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with Matthew Hyland

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From November 9 to 11, Tanya Lukin Linklater invites visitors to witness a series of open rehearsals with dancer Ivanie Aubin-Malo at Q7 Studios. These rehearsals extend from Lukin Linklater’s work *Hair Prints* (2022), on view at CAG this fall.

### RSVP
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Open Rehearsals

Curator Godfre Leung will offer a guided tour of Christine Sun Kim and Tanya Lukin Linklater's current exhibitions.

No advance registration required for this event.

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