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Christine Sun Kim and the Deaf artists claiming sound as their subject – Factory International

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Christine Sun Kim will present a new installation titled Captioning The City in Manchester for MIF21, 1–18 July. Here, art writer Emily Watlington explores how Kim and other Deaf artists use captions in poetic and political ways in their work. Christine Sun Kim’s captions have been getting bigger and bigger over the years. The California-born, Berlin-based Deaf artist has been turning the little text at the bottom of the screen – the captions describing sounds and transcribing speech – into monuments, be they murals in opera houses or billboards visible from highways. Captions are most often found when watching film or TV and are intended to provide access for Deaf and Hard of Hearing audience members; they are called “closed captions” when they can be turned on and off. But Kim’s approach to sound description is much more expansive and creative. For her upcoming project at Manchester International Festival, Captioning The City, she will wrap captions around buildings, inviting a diffe

Published: 7 May 2021 Christine Sun Kim Lexi Sun Christine Sun Kim will present a new installation titled Captioning The City in Manchester for MIF21, 1–18 July. Here, art writer Emily Watlington explores how Kim and other Deaf artists use captions in poetic and political ways in their work. Christine Sun Kim’s captions have been getting bigger and bigger over the years. The California-born, Berlin-based Deaf artist has been turning the little text at the bottom of the screen – the captions describing sounds and transcribing speech – into monuments, be they murals in opera houses or billboards

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