UPDATED: Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier: Mapping the Present Just Went By
Posted on | July 23, 2010 | No Comments
UPDATED: Check out this review: http://www.morgancountycitizen.com/?q=node/14594
Noted Atlanta artist Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier opens a new body of work in historic Madison, GA:
July 16 – September 24, 2010
Opening Reception July 16
5 – 8 pm
A partnership between Madison-Morgan Cultural Center and the Morgan County African American Museum
“MAPPING THE PRESENT JUST WENT BY is about being in long ago Madison and Madison today and capturing memories that linger with elders. It is about the African continuum, which is simultaneously located in the present, past, and future, and re-imagining place as it transforms. People live, people die, land is transferred from one generation to the next, or sold to strangers. Frederick Douglass said, ‘We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.’ My work makes new memories from the voices, dreams, and imaginings of the community.”
This exhibit is a unique collaborative project combining stories, archival documents, photographs, and sculpture.
During this community residency, Marshall-Linnemeier unearthed archival resources believed to have been lost including over 200 names and details of enslaved African Americans from this region. An ancestral (”Egungun”) ceremony on July 24th at 4pm will celebrate these findings and individuals will be encouraged to remember the names of their ancestors.
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