Visitors invited to explore acclaimed artist’s works through talks, tours, workshops and more

All events include American Sign Language interpretation

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY (February 16, 2023) — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College is proud to announce a series of public programs in conjunction with the exhibition Christina Sun Kim: Oh Me Oh My.

The exhibition is the artist’s first full-scale solo museum exhibition in North America. Kim, whose first language is American Sign Language (ASL), engages with how we experience and conceptualize sound to challenge the notion that it is a solely auditory experience. Her work explores and employs elements from various information systems, including musical notation, infographics, and ASL, using these systems to develop her own dryly humorous visual vocabulary. The exhibition opens Saturday, February 18, and runs through July 16.

The following events are free and open to the public. All events include American Sign Language interpretation. For more information, contact the Visitors Services Desk at 518-580-8080, tang@skidmore.edu, or visit https://tang.skidmore.edu.

Monday, February 27, 6:30 PM
Community ASL Workshop
A 90-minute workshop that introduces Deaf history and culture, American Sign Language, and basic ASL vocabulary and grammar. This is a beginner workshop, no ASL experience necessary. Content will be similar in each workshop, and participants can attend as many as they like. The program will be taught by Colette Steves, a certified ASL instructor. Free and open to all; registration required via bit.ly/tangASL.

Saturday, March 4, 4 PM
Artist Talk with Christine Sun Kim, reception to follow

Thursday, March 9, Noon Curator’s Tour of Christine Sun Kim: Oh Me Oh My
Rachel Seligman, Malloy Curator and Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs, leads a tour

Monday, March 20, 6:30 PM
Community ASL Workshop
A 90-minute workshop that introduces Deaf history and culture, American Sign Language, and basic ASL vocabulary and grammar. This is a beginner workshop, no ASL experience necessary. Content will be similar in each workshop, and participants can attend as many as they like. The program will be taught by Colette Steves, a certified ASL instructor. Free and open to all; registration required via bit.ly/tangASL.

Saturday, April 15, 3 PM
American Sign Language tour of Christine Sun Kim: Oh Me Oh My
Joyce Hom leads a tour of the exhibition in ASL. Hom is a New York City-based Deaf Museum Educator and the ASL Programs Coordinator at The Jewish Museum.

Monday, April 17, 6:30 PM
Community ASL Workshop
A 90-minute workshop that introduces Deaf history and culture, American Sign Language, and basic ASL vocabulary and grammar. This is a beginner workshop, no ASL experience necessary. Content will be similar in each workshop, and participants can attend as many as they like. The program will be taught by Colette Steves, a certified ASL instructor. Free and open to all; registration required via bit.ly/tangASL.

Wednesday, April 19, 7 PM
ASL Poetry Reading with Noah Buchholz
Noah Buchholz, a performance artist, translator, and scholar, will perform American Sign Language (ASL) poetry. Noah Buchholz is an American Sign Language performing artist, translator, and scholar. He is a Lecturer in the Humanities Council and Program in Linguistics at Princeton University, teaching courses in ASL and Deaf studies.

About Christine Sun Kim

Christine Sun Kim is an American artist based in Berlin who works predominantly in drawing, performance, and video. Kim’s practice considers how sound operates in society, deconstructing the politics of sound, and exploring oral languages as social currency. Kim has exhibited and performed internationally, including at the Queens Museum, New York (2022); the Drawing Center, New York (2022); the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2021); Manchester International Festival, Manchester (2021); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2020); Whitney Biennial, New York (2019); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2019); Art Institute of Chicago (2018); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017); De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam (2017); Berlin Biennale (2016); Shanghai Biennale (2016); MoMA PS1, New York (2015) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013), among numerous others. Kim is an inaugural awardee of the Ford and Mellon Foundations’ Disabilities Future Fellowship, a TED Senior Fellowship, and an MIT Media Lab Fellowship. She is represented by François Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles and White Space Beijing in Beijing.

About the Tang Teaching Museum

The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College is a pioneer of interdisciplinary exploration and learning. A cultural anchor of New York’s Capital Region, the Tang’s approach has become a model for college and university art museums across the country—with exhibition programs that bring together visual and performing arts with interdisciplinary ideas from history, economics, biology, dance, and physics, to name just a few. The Tang has one of the most rigorous faculty-engagement initiatives in the nation, and a robust publication and touring exhibition program that extends the museum’s reach far beyond its walls. The Tang Teaching Museum’s award-winning building, designed by architect Antoine Predock, serves as a visual metaphor for the convergence of art and ideas. The Museum is open to the public on Thursday from noon to 9 pm and Friday through Sunday from noon to 5 pm. https://tang.skidmore.edu