Chiristine Sun Kim Film:
An American Sound artist based in Berlin. According to Christine’s Wikipedia page she is keen to predominantly work with drawing, performance and video. Kim’s practice is inspired by the fact how sounds operate in society? Born deaf in Orange Country, California, to a family of hearing parents and deaf sister, she closely observed sound by its impact on hearing people. Her art which spans performance, video and drawings in simple manner, distill sound the way occurs to her interpretation through moods, emotions, social relevance. According to an article written on her latest exhibition by Guardian on 24th March 2022, through her work she is creating the language of her own.
Through breaking the rules she has managed to come up with new ways of communicating and expressing herself. She herself acknowledges that once she started to play with the sounds , she felt ashamed to share it with her fellow deaf friends. Accordingly her work is deeply conceptual , often entails social and cultural role sound plays in our lives. Essentially her work deems to elevate society’s view of dear/ hearing people. It also draws the attention of her contribution to demonstrate her innate ability as a communicator and artist who cements her own visual and conceptual art and paves the way for other artists, in an novel path.
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How I see this is to what extent she has created her own art and managed to communicate with mass audience as a successful artist. To me this is fundamental in demonstrating human characteristic as grit, a trait helping us to achieve our objective with perseverance and passion combined. Us as humans, are fundamentally inclined to give up from time to time, but demonstrating such amazing examples of overcoming the challenges we face and tell our story in such an inspiring way is a true inspiration. I can at least use this resource to demonstrate students to consider their challenges (the perceived ones) as an advantage and think of ways to make a positive change towards themselves and the society on a rightful manner.
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Apart from being an inspirational artist, she could be used as a great example of entrepreneur and activist. A person with disability overcoming the norm challenges and setting new ways of artistic conceptualization. This is a great example not only to observe perseverance, grit and self belif but an accomplished artist who has created her very own niche of art . People who can related to her. She is a great brand ambassador to her own art and her own personal story tells a compelling story in artist and their personal stories in branding them.
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Unfortunately I had never experience of bringing a disabled key note speaker to my class, but this has made me realise the amazing and massive inspirational power of using such powerful and interesting and inspiring people as example of best practice in Business studies. This will for sure inspire me to seek for keynote speakers who have overcome their challenges to the benefit of themselves and the communities they relate to.