“Cutting into the past the future leaks out”

The processes that Susan Hiller and Renee Green describe could be thought of as a way to circumvent rational though to gain access to memories that may be resident, but not accessible, using other means. These various indeterminate processes can reveal a knowledge which was previously more felt than known. If there is a gap, absence, or conscious omission in the archive it could be a technique to unearth a previously unknown history.

It also may be way to re-interpret the archive that places it as a living entity as opposed to an unchanging repository of “facts” that are laid out in an pre-ordained way
and possibly circumventing underlying assumptions having to do with the order of the archive that may prevent certain parts of a collective knowledge from being discovered.