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Geoffrey Mak
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Contributor, Artforum
New York, Berlin
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By Geoffrey Mak Verified, Jake Nevins Verified| Interview Magazine Verified The title of Christine Sun Kim’s lecture, “Deaf Death,” which I saw recently at The Whitney Museum, is sort of a joke. When you type “deaf” in iMessages, the iPhone auto-corrects it to “dead.” Yet Deaf culture, rooted in sign languages like ASL (American Sign Language), might actually be dying.
By Geoffrey Mak Verified| Frieze Verified As someone who only speaks English, encountering the intricacies of American Sign Language (ASL) is like discovering quantum mechanics. Many works in ‘All Day All Night’, Christine Sun Kim’s mid-career survey at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, feature the artist’s native ASL, either manually signed with the body or graphically rendered in a notation of her invention (often accompanied by English captions).
By Geoffrey Mak Verified, Jake Nevins Verified| Interview Magazine Verified The title of Christine Sun Kim’s lecture, “Deaf Death,” which I saw recently at The Whitney Museum, is sort of a joke. When you type “deaf” in iMessages, the iPhone auto-corrects it to “dead.” Yet Deaf culture, rooted in sign languages like ASL (American Sign Language), might actually be dying.
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