All Ages Artmaking: Collective Composition

Floor 3, Artspace

Open for all ages

Artists of all ages are invited to join us for a special day of artmaking with the artist Christine Sun Kim and explore the survey of her work, All Day All Night

Kim’s art asks you to think in new ways about sound and about the ways we communicate with each other. She often makes work that gets creative with her native language, American Sign Language, known as ASL. And no matter whether your own native language involves speaking or signing, she’ll get you thinking about it in new ways! 

In this exhibition, you’ll find some works where Kim plays with written music. She gets creative with the shapes of the staff—the long lines where a composer places musical notes. The higher the notes are on the staff, the higher the notes’ pitches. On their own, the notes don’t mean much; it’s their position on the staff that tells the musician how to play them.

Create your own staff for the music notes. A traditional staff has five straight lines, but you can use as many lines as you want. Experiment with adding staff lines to a collective composition. Make your own magnetic musical notes or move existing notes around as your staff lines wander across the wall. Check out what other visitors create throughout the day and respond to what they have created!