Christine Sun Kim — Terp Interrupted

Record launch + conversation
January 29, 2025
6–8pm


Please join us for a launch event with Christine Sun Kim, on occasion of the release of the artist’s new vinyl Terp Interrupted, published by nbk (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein) and Ediciones Inauditas. Kim will be joined by project co-curator Joseph del Pesco to consider the record’s genesis, and the event will feature an on-site listening station to experience the audio. ASL interpretation will be provided during the event.

Terp Interrupted’s audio recording is a new experiment, and simultaneously recalls a line of inquiry from the early practice of Christine Sun Kim. By inviting her to make a record, the curators proposed a return to her work with audio—to a series of artworks that were characterized by the sensorial vibrations and bodily experience of sound, for which she often employed voice. “I can feel [my voice] inside of my body, and in this way it is accessible to me.” Alongside an embodied connection to Deaf culture, this aspect of her practice also reaches into the deepest registers of conceptual art, in that much of its production and presentation exist as a set of ideas and transmissions.

Terp Interrupted was curated by Joseph del Pesco, International Director of KADIST, and Sergio Edelsztein, publisher of the independent Berlin-Based record label Editiones Inauditas,

The program precedes Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night, the artist’s first major museum survey, opening to the public on February 8 at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Christine Sun Kim is an US-American artist based in Berlin. Kim’s practice considers how sound operates in society, deconstructing the politics of sound and exploring how oral languages operate as social currency. Musical notation, written language, infographics, American Sign Language (ASL), the use of the body, and strategically deployed humor are all recurring elements in her practice. Working across drawing, performance, video and large-scale murals, Kim explores her relationship to spoken languages, to her built and social environments, and to the world at large.

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