đMy Voice Acts Like ROYGBIV is part of Christine Sun Kimâs Terp Voices series, a group of drawings featuring alternative uses of musical notation to describe the various ways she is voiced by American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters, or âterps,â as they are often called in Deaf slang.
Here, Kim nods to the shape of a rainbow to highlight how her voice shifts with the different personalities of each interpreter to become a âblue voice for fancy talks, a purple voice for social settings, an orange voice for conferences, a red voice for therapy sessions and so on.â The artist playfully but critically considers the labor of communicationâher voice is constantly in negotiation with and being mediated by others.
Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night is now on view through July 6.
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#ChristineSunKim (chrisunkim), My Voice Acts Like ROYGBIV, 2015. Charcoal on paper, 11 13/16 x 15 3/4 in. (30 x 40 cm). Deutsche Bank Collection. © Christine Sun Kim. Courtesy François Ghebaly Gallery and WHIT...