Cristine loves piano. P
is her favorite musical symbol. When
someone playing a musical instrument and notice a p in the score, that’s means
need to play softer. The more p means more softer.
Cristine share the
audiences about the history of american sign language (ASL), plus a bit of her
background. She tells audiences that she was born deaf, deaf person living in a
world of sound without ever questioning them.
Cristine understand sound
by watching how people behave and respond to sound and she also learn that
behave. At the same time she learned how to create sound and how people respond
to her or she term it sound etiquette. For example: don’t slam the door , don’t
make too much noise when you are eating from the potato bag. However, she
always waiting in eager nervous about what’s sound come next. Hence, she
drawing TBD (to be decided), TBC (to be continued), and TBA (to be announced). In
Deaf culture, movement is equivalent to sound.
In the year 2008, she had the opportunity to travel to Berlin,
Germany, for an artist residency there. And work as a painter. When she visited
museum and gallery there was no visual art, everything was auditory. Then she
being struk. But she decided to reclaim ownership of sound and put it into her
art practice.
She realized that
sound is like money,power, control social currency. And sound is so powerful
that it could dis empower her and her art work, but she choose to be empower.
At school, at work
and institution, she work with many different ASL interpreters and their voice
becomes her voice. Ironically, by borrowing out their voices, she able to
maintain a temporary form of currency. Then sound as her new art medium. She
study into the world of music, and there is similarity between ASL and music.
She share with
audiences a piano metaphor, to understand how ASL work. ASL is more
like a chord, If just one of those keys were to change the
chord, it would create a completely different meaning. he same
applies to music in regards to pitch, tone and volume.
In ASL by playing around
with these different grammatical parameters, you can express different ideas.For example: take the sign to look at. This is the sign to look at. I'm looking at you. Staring at you. Oh busted. Uh oh. What are you looking at? Aw stop.
She explain those
example by sign language.
Then, she explain how
to different day and night. Up represent day and down represent night. And
also, she draw the different kinds of days and nights. Such as : day, all day,
last night, over night and all night long with body movement. Also body can
express the change in time. For example : 1H is one hand, 2H is two hand, RH is
right hand, and LH is left hand.
NOTE : Present tense happens closest and in front of the
body, future is in front of the body and the past is to
your back.
After explain all of
them, she ask audiences follow his direction to do some sign language together.
In international sign language. such as : fall in love, colonization.
At the end, cristine
invite audiences to pay more attention for them “ deaf people “ because they
will fall in love if they care of them”deaf”.
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