Conversation with Christine Sun Kim "Politics of Sound"

Podcast

Berlin-based American artist Christine Sun Kim, whose first language is American Sign Language (ASL), approaches the concept of sound through drawings, painting and performance. Thirteen smaller drawings and three large-format musical notations are currently on display at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in the exhibition “Magical Soup. Media Art from the Collection of the Nationalgalerie, the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection at the Hamburger Bahnhof and Loans”.

Two of the large-format drawings refer to Kim's interpretations of the US national anthem and the patriotic song ‘America the Beautiful’ in American Sign Language at Super Bowl LIV in 2020. The conversation between Christine Sun Kim and Anna-Catharina Gebbers, curator of the exhibition, explores the artist's ambivalent approach to the two songs and examines the question of how sound creates a political space in the media and in everyday life. 

In American Sign Language with English and German subtitles.