Black Bell

Sweeping from the eighteenth century to futurist fabulations, Black Bell harmonizes poetry with performance art practices in an investigation of fugitivity.

Inspired by the nineteenth century image of an enslaved woman wearing iron horns and bells, Alison C. Rollins's Black Bell remixed with Wu-Tang Clan's 36 Chambersbetween the eighteenth century and futuristic fabulations, vibrating with fugitive frequencies, sounds of survival, and nerve-wracking notes tuned toward love and liberation. Black BellIntegrating performance art practices, metalwork, and sonic, Black Bellfurthering the possibilities of both the page and the canvas of the poet's body.