Reckoning and Repair
An experimental oral history podcast with artists, curators, and organizers speaking on the need for reckoning, and the (im?)possibilities of repair in art worlds and social spaces around the globe.
Season 2 of Reckoning and Repair: The Art of Resistance in Argentina endeavors to explore these stories and the legacy of art activists from Bueno Aires and beyond. Originally captured in Spanish from June to July 2022, these narratives have since been condensed and adapted into the English language to share these incredible artists and their activism more broadly.
Season 1, "The Art That's Touched Philadelphia", was recorded, written, and produced by students in "Conversations with Contemporary Artists" a course by Alissa Jordan at the Center for Experimental Ethnography. This CEE production runs alongside the 2023 exhibit "Rising Sun-Artists in an Uncertain America", an African American Museum of Philadelphia (AAMP) and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) collaboration. How do artists and organizers confront the troubling histories of Empire in their midsts? Is it even possible for colonially-based art institutions to meaningfully reckon with their own exclusionary histories? What models of reckoning and repair already exist in Philadelphia's art worlds?
Reckoning and Repair
Latest Episodes
S.3 E.7 // Black Girls in Color
An experimental audio piece by Latoya Briscoe, based on a visit with the girls of we.REIGN, IncThis piece was hosted, recorded, and produced by Latoya Briscoe as part of Reckoning and Repair Season 3, "Black reproduction & j...
S.3 E.5 // Reconstructing the Culture of Birth Through the Lens of Nurse-Midwifery, a conversation with midwife Sarah Logan and Catherine Ellis
In this episode, Catherine Ellis speaks with Sarah Logan about paternalism and trauma in obstetrics, particularly the labor and delivery process, and how nurse-midwives, birthing people, and their communities can rebuild the current culture of ...
S.3 E.4 // Anandabai Joshee's Thesis: The First Feminist Medical Ethnography?
Anandibai Joshee was the first South Asian woman to receive a degree in Western medicine in 1886 from the Women's College of Medicine of Pennsylvania, now known as the Drexel University School of Medicine. This speculative history and experimen...
S.3 E.3 // The gift of family, an oral history with Joel Austin, hosted by Maryam Jamal
Society considers starting a family a big milestone in life. Often it is treated as an achievement or even a requirement. This oral history interview with Joel Austin looks at family in a unique light. With society's expectations and the respon...
S.3 E.2 // Vote for Black Girls: Black Joy is Reproductive Justice an oral history with Daniela Brissett by Hazel Ekeke
Black youth are often adultified, criminalized, and sexualized in American society. In this episode, we’ll explore what it means for Black girls to have a future---as allowing children to be themselves and thrive is reproductive ...
