This creative-critical essay is a refracted meditation on the spirit of sound and shadow-work through SA Smythe’s original sound composition and performance activation {spirit forged} (2023), with accompanying visual documentation. The work was in part a response to Amartey Golding’s Spring 2023 installation, In the comfort of embers, commissioned by the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Tkaronto. Smythe reflects on the ecology of thought that laid the foundation for their own transmedia theories and practices, including moments of ancestral whispers, the interplay of light and darkness, sonic alchemy, and abiding reverence for the problematic of Black belonging. Delving into sound and its intimate vessels in a meditation on cultural memory, “Resounding Shadows” revels in liminal fusion of form, inviting the reader to join the traversal of spirit work where personal and collective journeys intertwine.
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