All Day All Night: A Conversation with Seth Kim-Cohen, Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield, Park McArthur, and Mara Mills

Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 4–5:30 pm
Hess Theater and Online, via Zoom

This program brings together artists and writers Seth Kim-Cohen, Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield, Park McArthur, and Mara Mills for a conversation on the occasion of Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night. As contributors to the exhibition catalogue, they will share their responses to Christine Sun Kim’s work and engage in a conversation about sign language aesthetics, mediumship, competing temporalities, and Deaf methods.

The conversation will take place on Zoom and is available to livestream.

In New York City? Join us in-person at the Whitney to experience the program in a shared space where refreshments will be served and conversation is encouraged. In-person registration includes museum admission so that participants can view the exhibition Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night before or after the program.

This program is presented in partnership with the Center for Disability Studies at NYU.

ASL interpretation and CART captioning will be provided.

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Speakers:

Seth Kim-Cohen is the author of Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life, Against Ambience, and In the Blink of an Ear. He is Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield is a principal at MASS Design Group, where he works on a portfolio of projects that uplift the lived experience and cultural memory of the Deaf and Disability communities. Jeffrey co-authored The Architecture of Health, co-edited MASS Design Group’s first Monograph, Justice is Beauty, and is currently working on a project that explores how the architecture and landscapes of deafness shape social perceptions of deafness, disability, and community.

Park McArthur is an artist whose exhibition Contact M is presented by Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, Germany, and mumok in Vienna through September 2025.

Mara Mills is Associate Professor and Ph.D. Director in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is cofounder and Director of the NYU Center for Disability Studies and coeditor of Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU Press, 2023) and How to be Disabled in a Pandemic (NYU Press, 2025).