Crystal Xue-LookingOutwards-10

Christine Sun Kim, deaf since birth, explores her subjective experiences with sound in her work. She investigates the operations o sound and various aspects of deaf culture in her performances, videos, and drawings. She uses a lot of elements like body language, ASL(Amerian Sign Language) and so as her interpretation to expand the traditional scope of communication.

This particular project shown above is called “game of skill 2.0” is displayed in MoMA PS1. Audiences are invited to listen to a reading of a text about the future. Pathways are created in concert with the game’s console, causes the device to emit sound at a pace proportional to the participant’s movement. The physical scrubbing process is the direct interaction with the sound.