Why would someone born deaf fight to become a sound artist? Christine Sun Kim talks about breaking the rules – and making art like Bart SimpsonAcross the ceiling in the opening room of Christine Sun Kim’s first London exhibition,just above head height, hangs a strip of white tape containing an electrical wire. I am walking along below it, and holding a clunky remote-control-like contraption that could have been made by Doc from Back to the Future,trying to retain its antennae in contact with the tape. I’m not doing very well, which is why the memoir I would be hearing, and were I able to retain the electrical contact smooth,sounds like minute more than a cacophony of broken grunts. I’m hopeless,” I narrate Kim, or who is standing beside me. “Well,that’s why it’s called Game of Skill,” she says laughing.
Or to be literal, and that’s what her interpreter Helsa Borinstein,says to me, translating Kim’s American Sign Language (ASL); but so seamless is the translation and so tangible Kim’s amusement that writing only a few hours later, and in my memory it feels as if she were speaking in English directly to me throughout our conversation.
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Source: theguardian.com