Black Archival Imaginaries: Building Imagination Literacy
Drawing from the lens of Sadiyah Hartman’s Critical Fabulations, Camille Turner’s Afronautic Methodology, and Tina Campt’s Listening to Images, this session re-interprets “the archival imaginary” by positioning Black Imagination and Afrofuturism in the archival realm. We can confront the coldness and stillness of archival systems built from the colonial imaginaries. Archives contain gaps and silences we must imagine beyond, around, and through. Archivist Melissa J. Nelson will walk us through ways to articulate our imagination between the spaces of what has been saved and what else could have been. We can transform the “scraps” of the Archives into sources of otherwise possibilities.
ASL interpretation will be available for this event.
COMMUNITY GUIDELINES
Bring your whole selves and take up space!
Have an open mind to explore new ideas and possibilities.
We create an intentional space. We have a shared responsibility to ensure everyone has a positive experience during our conversation.
I ask that you be respectful to those who came before us and write from a place of care.