Carnival is a Verb: Sounding
March 14 - April 9, 2023
Reception
Wednesday, March 29th
6-7:30 PM
Gidwitz Lobby
Virtual Artist Talk
Monday, April 3rd
6PM
Seed Lynn, Sounding.
The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts is proud to present Carnival is a Verb: Sounding with works by Seed Lynn on view in the Café Logan, 915 E 60th, from March 14th - April 9th, 2023.
Carnival is a Verb follows the path an unsuspecting traveler takes through Notting Hill, recognizing a simple rule: Follow the the sound -the sound of Black people.
This sonic odyssey crosses boarded storefronts, day drums, and major flag wavin’. Unfolds the moving shadow and invites night pirates. Gives in and over to steel pan madness, basement babes, and sweat. Until sleeplessness wanes with sunrise and births another Act in the lucid state of sound and color that is Jouvay mornin’.
While the series at large frames Panorama, Jouvay, and Children’s Mas, photo artist, Seed Lynn, has selected these images of intimacy, play, revelry & revelation to introduce the work, chronicling what happens when preparation meets Carnival (and good knees gone bad).
ABOUT SEED LYNN
Writer, imagist, and artist, Seed Lynn, submits deep listening as a liberatory practice. Whether sensually, technically, or artfully applied, Lynn meets the lens as a travelin’ state where listening and witnessing make voice sacred. And true. This light invades his work, finds and frames subjects honestly, and creates brave space where stories find students. Lynn’s own studies concern how we remember ourselves, how that memory is imaged, and how remembrance itself, in the face of oppression, is a healing and radical act of protest.
“I am a culture worker, imagist, student of Black life & ritual, and a listener, concerned deeply with the health of our narratives. More story doula than teller, I surface the necessary narratives threatened most by oppressive views and myths.
I come from storytellers and stewards, grandmas and griots who handled our histories with caution and care, tellin’ stories, yes, and even a few lies. Not knowing what I didn’t know, I developed an ear for the untold, an eye for the unseen, and a feel for the embodied tale. My early readings included ‘the family secret’, ‘grown folk business’, ‘that thing we don’t talk about but acknowledge in our eyes’ and ‘other stories we cannot hear’. If there’s a question here, it’s “How do we remember ourselves?”, and my work is a space for release and reply.”
Exhibition Hours
Monday through Friday, 8am–9pm
Saturday and Sunday, noon–8pm.