On view June 25th – August 1st, 2021

Artists: Sadie Woods, Seed Lynn

Ghoema, or drum, is a long term media project exploring the migration, history, and culture of the Malay people in South Africa’s Western Cape. The ghoema is associated with colorful rhythms and euphoric/altered states conjured through its hypnotic sound. It is the centerpiece of carnival performances created by slaves to mock their masters with encoded songs and later as a celebration of slavery abolition. For Seed Lynn and Sadie Woods, Gheoma stretches beyond representations of embodied memory and journeys through Diasporic traditions of ritual resistance, exploring memory itself as a radical and defiant act in the face of colonial occupation and oppression.

Seed Lynn has always heard the vulnerable story as the courageous one, without shame or stigma, without argument or doubt. Using custom, context, theory, and labor, Lynn promotes a healing practice that situates not just…