Discommunicativeness  (불소통)

Leon Lim MS
www.2studio.com


이 작품에는 소리나 음악이 없습니다. 각각의 테이블 위에 놓인 마우스를 움직여서 청각장애인의 경험에서 나온 여러 대화들을 옆 사람과 글로 주고 받아보세요. 소리 세계에서 듣지 못하는 또 다른 소리의 경험을 느낄 수 있을 것입니다. 제한된 혹은 문법적으로 틀린 질문과 답변들 사이에서 관람객은 작가 본인이 겪어오고 있는 불완전한 소통을 간접적으로 체험하게 됩니다.  


작가의 개인적 경험을 통해 돌아봤을 때, 아시아 문화에서 청각장애란 당연히 받아들여야 할 신으로부터의 특별한 선물이 아니라 일종의 형벌이었습니다. <Discommunicativeness>는 관객들에게 청각장애인들이 일반적으로 우리 사회에서 겪는 불소통을 전자예술의 형태로 표현하고 관객들에게 유사한 체험의 기회를 제공합니다. 소리가 들리는 문화에서부터 들리지 않는 문화까지, 현대 도시문명 사이에서, 이 작품은 소외감과 중압감, 위배와 완벽함을 포함한 여러 개의 대화들로 특징지어집니다.


Abstract:
Without a word, icon or number to describe something, the world where people live in would be confusing or misled. As a person who is profoundly deaf since birth, Leon Lim, the artist didn’t see any word to understand or to scare when he was young. But he was misled and confused through his childhood years. In Asian sociological cultures, deaf or deafness is a form of punishment made by God, while it is believed to be a special gift made by God that every parent should accept.

Deafness or a person who is deaf in the sound world brings various interpretative perspectives of sound culture or hearing sound. “Hearing” is a person who can hear. Deaf culture and Hearing culture have been an unhealthy affiliation.

For the show, Discommunicativeness, the artist’s experience to the real world is as important as the uniqueness of the communication and artwork. Together the past, the present and the future of deaf people’s experiences present a point of view from which to search for a possible position in the art world as well as the sound world.

Ranging from sound/hearing cultures to deaf cultures to modern metropolises, the show has been characterized by a mix of dialogues that include alienation, oppression, contravention, and perfection.


Short project description:
The show has no sound or music. When viewers stand in the show and play a mouse to see various dialogues from deaf people’s experiences, viewers will feel the experience like a viewer is deaf in the sound world. Viewers receive unhealthy responses and impacts. Deaf people have no chance to do what viewers do.


Artist Bio:
Leon Lim is an artist and photographer based in New York City. Lim’s deafness has developed his ability to have a strong visual sense. As a child, Lim discovered colorful prints covered on music cassettes which brought him into the art world. Lim’s works ranging from painting and sculpture to interior architecture, and graphic design to multimedia and art installations and photography. As the solo voyager, who has traveled to more than 35 countries worldwide, he often explores themes of heritage preservation, social segregation, mortality, interactive communication, and the politics of identity and culture. His works merge realism with the beauty of abstract form, resulting in art that is both ancient and contemporary. Lim was born and raised in Kedah, Malaysia and schooled in Penang, Malaysia. He is a 2005 graduate of from RIT’s College of Imaging Arts and Science and will study Master of Interactive Telecommunication at New York University next year.