Looking Outwards 04: Sound Art

Christine Sun Kim’s Elevator Pitch is an interactive art installation that
celebrates the Deaf community of New Orleans and their vitality to a city
that’s world-renowned as the birthplace of jazz music. Kim, who is Deaf,
created the piece to reference her childhood memories of shouting with her
Deaf friends in elevators in order to feel the vibrations and echoes of
their voices in the confined space.

Participants can press buttons in the elevator that feature the voices
of thirteen different people from New Orleans’ Deaf community. The
elevator is a thoughtful structure that challenges the idea of “awkward
silence” in elevators and highlights how ableism can permeate in even the
most innocuous spaces.

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