Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night

In American Sign Language (ASL), a common method of attracting another person’s attention is by waving your palm downward within their field of vision. While waving a hand attracts attention to yourself, pointing draws attention to someone or something else. Kim and Mader’s kinetic sculpture ATTENTION materializes the signs using fan-powered, bright red appendages that approximate long arms: one waves, while the other points and taps. A large rock at the center of the room inertly receives these ongoing communications. The stone’s shape suggests erosion by the fingers’ touch and alludes to a process Kim describes as “trying to get one’s attention or bring attention to something forever.”