The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) proudly announces that Christine Sun Kim, internationally renowned performer and artist, will sign the National Anthem and America the Beautiful as part of Super Bowl LIV pregame festivities at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on Sunday, February 2, 2020.
Born in California and now based in Berlin, Christine Sun Kim has built an acclaimed practice around sound, its visual representation, and it is valued by society. Kim uses performance, video, drawing, writing and technology to reflect on her experiences as part of the Deaf community and to comment on the social and political operations of sound. A keen observer of language, Kim employs American Sign Language, music notation, televisual captioning, and other systems of visual communication in a wide ranging practice that address the complexity of social exchange and the power of representation with humor and honesty.
As part of “We Mean Business” project
For Art Night London, Kings Cross, Coal Drops Yard, London
22 June – Sept 2019
Enlarged to 3.6×73.12 meter
Photo by Matt Rowe
Kim has had solo exhibitions and performances at: Ghebaly, Los Angeles; White Space, Beijing; Carroll/Fletcher, London; De Appel, Amsterdam. She has also had her work shown at: Serralves Museum, Porto; Sound Live Tokyo; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Berlin and Shanghai Biennials; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1, New York.
2018
charcoal and oil pastel on paper, 125×125 cm, framed size 126×126 cm
photo credit: 2018 White Space Beijing and Yang Hao 杨灏 (capital d)
Previous ASL Talents have included Aarron Loggins, Alexandria Wailes, Kriston Pumphrey, Marlee Matlin, Treshelle Edmond, Amber Zion, John Maucere, Rachel Mazique, Candice Villesca, and Kinesha Battles.