Writer Ashon Crawley and artist Crystal Z Campbell will examine the various ways that ideas, stories, and narratives are collected and ask what happens when the things collected are ephemeral? They will imagine ways that knowledge about Black geographic translation—in its variance and shade, in its color and texture, in its weight and lightness, in its vibration and sound—moves, how it spreads. The sound of glances and glimpses, the sight of whispers and hushed words, is where their research resides. They ask if the sonic component in film is the augmentation of the relationship between remembering and forgetting, or is the sonic a way to get at the archive and what exceeds its capture? Campbell’s sonic-centered documentary work honors the untranslatable, strategies of opacity, and rumor. They will posit together if fragments and gaps in archives can act as historical conductors, offering new translations or urgent questions, around Black geography, land and body, and the public secrets embedded in landscapes.
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 Cervenak
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