Cues on Point, 2022
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Cues on Point draws from Kim’s experience signing “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “America the Beautiful” at the 2020 Super Bowl LIV alongside singers Demi Lovato and Yolanda Adams. Beth Staehle—one of the artist’s longtime American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters—was also on the field signing phrases that scrolled vertically like a teleprompter, including Kim’s personal prompts and specific shorthand cues for pacing with the live vocalizations. Throughout the performance, cameras for the ASL-dedicated live feed repeatedly pivoted away from Kim toward the athletes, making it impossible for Deaf viewers to follow the songs. In response to the broadcast failure, Kim decided to make Cues on Point as an homage to the work of ASL interpreters.
Christine Sun Kim, Cues on Point, 2022
Installation view of Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 8-July 6, 2025). From left to right: Shit Hearing People Say to Me, 2019; Cues on Point, 2022; How to Measure Quietness, 2014; How to Measure Loudness, 2014; Ghost(ed) Notes, 2024 (re-created 2025); Future Base, 2016. Photograph by Ron Amstutz