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Christine Sun Kim

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  • Nationality: USA
  • Birthday: 1980
  • Url: http://whitespace-beijing.com/mobile/artist_works.html?id=24
  • Bornin: California

Description

Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim (b.1980, California), whose first language is American Sign Language (ASL), approaches the concept of sound via deconstructive exercises, experiments, and observations through drawing, painting, and performance. Over the course of developing her own visual language, Kim explores and employs elements from various information systems. By combining aspects of graphic and musical notation, body language, and ASL, she uses these systems as a means to expand what each is able to communicate and to invent a new grammar and structure for her compositions.

Performance is also part of Kim’s practice, often providing the starting point for works on paper that display witty evocations of both sounds and signs. She highlights what is constantly present and yet unnamed by us all through naming and then deconstructing preconceived ideas about sound and communication through their parameters, social values, and linguistics. Moreover, Kim works within and around the nuances of sound: at what point does noise become sound? When is something appropriate, and whose job is it to determine the agreeability of a sound, a noise, and their ensuing respectability or social capital?

Born 1980, Orange County, USA 2013 M.F.A. Bard College, Music/Sound, Annandale on Hudson, New York, USA Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

SOLO EXHIBITIONS/ PERFORMANCES With a Capital D, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China Too Much Future, Public Art Installation, Whitney Museum, New York, USA Lautplan, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA

2017 Busy Days, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, Nederland Lautplan, Wang Center Chapel, Stony Brook University, New York, USA Lautplan, Kammer Klang, Cafe Oto, London, UK

2016 Avant.org, New York, USA Face Value workshop, Tate Modern, London, UK Nap Disturbance, Frieze, London, UK Five Finger Discount History, Akademie der Künste, Berlin Biennale, Germany

2015 Rustle Tustle, Carroll / Fletcher, London, UK Bounce House 2.0, Sound Live Tokyo, Japan Fingertip Quartet, IL Humanities, Chicago, USA v2r2, Norbergfestival, Norberg, Sweden Piano within Piano Like a Lunch Sandwich, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China Almost A Score and Sound as a Dollar, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK Calibration Room and Bounce House, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Fingertap Quartet, Oberlin, OH, USA 4×4, Andquestionmark with Interactive Agents and Iaspis, Stockholm, Sweden

2014 Fingertap Quartet with voice files by Devonté Hynes, LEAP, Berlin, Germany A Choir of Glances, Free Art School, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA Upside Down Noon, Artispere, Arlington, USA Piano Wire Performance, Festival Bo:m, Seoul, South Korea

2013 A Choir of Glances, MoMA Studio: Sound in Space, New York, USA Performances, Art+Body and Send+Receive, Winnipeg, CA Subjective Loudness, Sound Live Tokyo, Japan Lunch Concert, nyMusikk+Ultima+Dans for voksne, Oslo, Norway Pardon me, where’s the kitchen?, Hull-House Museum, Chicago, USA Face Opera II, Calder Foundation, New York, USA Self Notary Public, World Music Hall, Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS/ PERFORMANCES 2018 What We Make, Ross Art Museum, Delaware, OH, USA Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal Serralves Collection: New Lines, Images, Objects, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal

2017 Resonant Spaces, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, NH, USA Soundtracks, SF Museum of Modern Art, CA, USA The World is Sound, Rubin Museum, New York, NY, USA Sounds Like Her, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK Silver Sehnsucht, The Silver Building, London, UK A.I. Artistic Intelligence, Galerie Crone Wien, AUT Rehearsals from the Korean Avant-Garde Performance Archive, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK Das Haus, St. Pantaleon, Cologne, DE, 2017 DIALOGUES, Sleek Magazine x VDA, Berlin, DE Up and Down, KINDL, Berlin, DE, 2017 Hours and Hours of Inactivity, NBK, Berlin, DE

2016 11th Shanghai Biennale-Future Base, Why not Ask Again, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China CTRL+ALT, Smithsonian APA, New York, USA NERIRI KIRURU HARARA, SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul, South Korea The Tale That All But Shapes Itself, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA Point to Line, Jewelvary Art and Boutique, Shanghai, China From Minimalism into Algorithm, The Kitchen, New York, USA Busy Day with Mader, From Minimalism into Algorithm, The Kitchen, New York, USA

2015 Game of Skill 2.0, Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, USA 99 Objects series with Taeyoon Choi, Whitney Museum, New York, USA Silence with Chelsea Knight, Fall to Earth Series, New Museum, New York, USA

2014 Love Songs with Mader, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil RASTER RASTER, Aran Cravey Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Booster: Kunst Sound Maschine, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany A real line ran near an ear with Grabelsky+Schiffeleer, SoEx, CA, USA

2013 Soundings: A Contemporary Score, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Seeing Voice, Recess+Center for Experimental Lectures, New York, USA

2012 Gesture Sign Art, Berlin Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany What Can A Body Do?, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford, USA

2011 Chorus Project, The Terrible Twos: Recess Benefit 2011, New York, USA Signs as Sounds, workshop, Recess with The Public School, New York, USA

DISCOGRAPHY/ SCORING 2015
Fingertap Quartet, gallery@calit2, University of California, San Diego, USA

2014 Fingertip Quartet, LEAP, Berlin, Germany Busy Day with Thomas Mader, webSYNadio, France

2013 Recording Contract with Thomas Benno Mader, BOMB Magazine Audio Score, commissioned by Alison O’Daniel When Not Concentrated with Thomas Benno Mader, MoMA Multimedia
Panning to Fanning with Wolfgang Muller, Squoodge Records Paper Mario with Xiu Xiu, my vocals

2012 Cover Art, Buke and Gase’s Misshaping Introduction, Digital EP

SCREENINGS 2018 Classified Digits with Thomas Mader, Communing with Others, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada Classified Digits with Thomas Mader, Its origins are indeterminate programme, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS/RESIDENCES 2016 SeMA Hana Media Art Award, SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul, South Korea Work Stipend for the Visual Arts, Senate Chancellery, Berlin, Germany

2015
MIT Media Lab Director's Fellows, Cambridge, USA Artist Residency, Arnolfini Centre for Contemporary Arts, Bristol, UK Artist Residency, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin, USA TED Senior Fellowship, TED.com, Vancouver, Canada

2014 WIP Residency, Artisphere, Arlington, USA Artist Residency, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA

2013 TED Fellowship, TED.com, Long Beach, USA

2012 Wollita Award, Berlin, Germany Mellon Tri-College Creative Residency, Haverford College, Haverford, USA Newhouse Award, Wynn Newhouse Foundation, New York, USA

2011 Session Residency, Recess Activities, Inc., New York, USA

2009 Youth Insights Artist in Residence, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, USA Development/Swing Space Grant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA Educational Scholarship, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York, USA

2008 Artist-Teacher Summer Residency Award, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, USA