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Essential vocabulary Sensorial realm, Hearing world, Angry, Gradations of fury, Confronts, Connection between hearing and sight
Subject linksVisual art, Language, Psychology, Sociology
Key concepts Perspective, Interpretation, Power, Values
Themes & AOKs The arts, K&K, Language
BQ Perspectives, Spin, Change
Click to read the article below and then answer the questions:
Christine Sun Kim and the sound of Deaf rage
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How essential is our sense of hearing to connecting us to the world? What steps have you ever taken to help those who cannot access it?
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How does Kim tackle the theme of being deaf in a hearing world? What insights does she provide us about the frustrations of not being able to hear? Why does the article argue that “communicating is a rough and approximate business indeed” — and how does Kim’s work help us to understand this?
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How does art help us to “wander beyond the confines” of our “own sensorial realm”?
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Kim’s work challenges conventional understandings of sound, revealing new ways to experience it through visual art. Does learning about alternative modes of communication, such as sign language, diminish the mystery of sound, or does it expand our appreciation for the sensorial realm and human perception?
Michael Dunn, theoryofknowledge.net
