sun Lynn Hunter (photo by Audrey Gatewood)
Carissa Lee (photo by Vikas )
Noise Shrine
“Survival is not the end goal for liberation. We must thrive. We must rest.”
― Tricia Hersey, Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
The 2025 Dark Matter Series season kicks off with “Resist and Rest”: a powerful offering from 2024 Dark Matter alum sun Lynn Hunter.
The times ahead will require much of us—but we’ll need to take periods of respite in order to move forward. Resistance and Rest are not opposites—they work in tandem, and they are both essential to survive.
In the spirit of both, this event will be a casual gathering for a radical film screening followed by a sound healing session.
We’ll be kicking off the evening with a performance by 2023 Dark Matter alum Carissa Lee and soundscapes by returning Dark Matter Series artist Noise Shrine.
Come replenish yourself and enjoy!
Doors at 7:30PM, program begins at 8
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
sun Lynn Hunter is a captivating multimedia artist and researcher based out of Baltimore & Chicago. Through endurance-based performances, sound art, and interactive installations, sun delves into the profound realms of vulnerability and empathy. Threading the nuances of grief, joy, isolation and love within communal experience. Connecting Black ancestral source and ritual to Afrofuturist imaginings. A 2024 Dark Matter Resident, sun Lynn is also a founding member of Suspended Culture Collective.
Carissa Lee is a Chicago based artist that works with performance, sound, public intervention, workshops, video, and theater. She uses recordings, writing, Black southern culture (that includes medical histories, stories, music etc.) and voice to materialize emotions of grief, and isolation. Her work synthesizes her desires for an empathetic tomorrow that holds compassion for all people. She is an alum of the 2023 Dark Matter Residency and the 2024 High Concept Labs Residency, and she is a founding member of the Suspended Culture art collective.
Noise Shrine — A cascade of soundscapes, aural experiments cuts, curls and rhythms. Some chaotic mediums to accompany a never ending commute through textured loops that grow in on themselves, ambient meltdowns, irregular time signatures and sonic trickery. The present now moments flashing gone before they even make sense it’s a permanent inquisition.The project noise shrine is best described as a commuter’s song. With roots in New York City Asia Ledesma (Noise Shrine) continues drawing inspiration from all the different facets of culture and genres that they grew up around reinterpreting them through an experimental lens. Utilizing sound as a sensory apparatus and constantly invoking the feeling of flipping through channels.
The Dark Matter Residency is supported by generous funding from The Joyce Foundation, the Reva and David Logan Foundation, and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.
A HEPA filter will also be onsite to make this event COVID-safer, thanks to Clean Air Club