“Campbell shifts the epistemic ground, the color and desires for sound, and in such shifting makes us ask questions about where we thought we were, where we might be when thinking through film, where film might take us if we have the courage to join in a practice of uncertainty and hiddenness and relax our anxieties about what it means to make meaning and allow for immersive experience.”—Ashon Crawley

In this volume, writer/scholar Ashon Crawley and artist Crystal Z Campbell explore the ways in which fragments and gaps in the archive can act as historical conductors, offering new approaches to Black geography, land and body, and the public secrets embedded in landscapes. What is the relationship between remembering and forgetting? Is the sonic a way to get at the archive and what exceeds its capture? Contributions consider the place of the untranslatable, of strategies of opacity, and of rumor

Table of Contents

The Sound of Color and Light

Ashon Crawley

Public Secrets, Public Sounds: Listening to the Archive

Erica N. Cardwell

Traces of an Eclipse: On Memory and Amnesia

Allison Noelle Conner

Claiming Inscrutability?

Jheanelle Brown

“Believe in Water”: Reflections on Crystal Z Campbell’s A meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse

Sarah Jane Cervenack

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