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?
Episodes
25 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 ...
S.3 E.6// A Conversation with Doula Jasha Buckery: Birth and Body Empowerment with Mae Nagel
This is an experimental oral history of Jasha Buckery, also known as the Saye Birth Doula, who helps anchor women through their self identity and body empowerment during their birth journeys. Jasha's journey as a doula star...
S.3 E.1 // Seeking Reproductive Justice in Philly School Spaces with Dr. Tawanna Jones and Avalon Hinchman
In this conversation and mini-oral history, Dr. Tawanna Jones explores her life as an educator. She speaks on the way schoolspaces can be punitive and discriminatory, and how she's teaching Black girls to advocate for themselves and their commu...
S.2 E.6// Las Paredes Tienen Ojos: Una Historia Oral con Cabaio Spirito
De escapismo a pasión, el viaje de Cabaio Spirito en el arte callejero comenzó en medio de la crisis económica de Argentina. Después de sus turnos en el restaurante, Cabaio y su amigo Nico descubren el estarcido; transforman las calles en lienz...
S2.E5 // El Arte de Recordar: Una Historia Oral con el Artista Marcelo Brodsky
Hablando sobre la desaparición, Marcelo Brodsky comparte cómo su pasión por la fotografía y el arte floreció en medio de las dolorosas realidades de la última dictadura militar de Argentina. Exiliado y llorando la pérdida de su hermano y amigos...
S.2 Episode 4 // The Walls Have Eyes: A Muralist’s Vision of Hope with Cabaio Spirito - Voiced by Ian Zang
Cabaio Spirito is a street artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He began painting in the streets following the Argentine economic crisis of 2001 as part of the stencil collective Vomito Attack, a politically motivated group who used sten...
S.2 episode 3 // Body Politics: The Provocative Power of Performance with Santiago Cao - voiced by Gregorio F.
Santiago Cao is a performance artist, urban planner, educator, and investigator of public spaces, born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina with a Master’s in Urbanism from Universidad Federal de la Bahía in Brazil and a degree in Visua...
S.2 Episode 2 // Seeing Color: An Endeavor to Make the Art World Black with Mar Diaz Pacheco - Voiced by Julieth Montenegro
Maryury (Mar) Diaz Pacheco is a black feminist and visual artist of Afrocolombian descent. Around a decade ago, Pacheco migrated from her home country of Colombia to Buenos Aires, Argentina to study art therapy as she has a passion for u...
S.2 Episode 1 // The Art of Remembering: Healing a Nation’s Wounds through Art with Marcelo Brodsky - voiced by Emilio T.
Marcelo Brodsky is an artist and human rights activist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Brodsky’s art practice began to take off in the late twentieth century following Argentina’s last military dictatorship, a horrifically violent time dur...
S.1 Behind the scenes of Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America with Juan Omar Rodriguez and Ellie Clark + Adrianna Brusie
Adrianna Brusie speaks with core organizers involved in the upcoming exhibition Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America opening March 2023. Juan Omar Rodriguez and Ellie Clark at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts discuss their ...
S.1 We Are Here: Dejay Duckett + Hakimah Abdul Fattah
In this episode, Hakimah Abdul Fattah speaks with Dejay Duckett, curator of "Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America" and the Vice President of Curatorial Services at the African American Museum in Philadelphia. In a conversation on home, m...
S.1 Connection, Collaboration, and Conflict: Towards Radical Transparency with Christina Vassallo, Katie Parry + Jeanne Liebermen
In this episode, Jeanne Lieberman speaks with Christina Vassallo and Katie Parry of The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Together, they explore how the museum unsettles a canon that reifies finished products and opens up the black box of artisti...
S.1 To Call a City Home: Aisha Khan + Hakimah Abdul Fattah
In this episode, Hakimah Abdul Fattah speaks with the founder and director of Twelve Gates Art, Aisha Khan. Aisha tells stories of her early dreams of space and community in Philadelphia, explores the meaning of art and discomfort in ...
S.1 Episode 8 // Life Like Fragile Clay: Arlene Shechet + Rachael Borthwick
Life like Fragile Clay breaks down materiality and color as vivid depictions of what it means to be alive in a human body as an object that retains memory.This season was produced in connection to 2023 exhibit, "Rising Sun: Artists in a...
S.1 Episode 7 // The Question of Home is Complicated: Tausif Noor + Angel Gutierrez
In this episode, Tausif remembers the sonic environments of monsoon season, the urban resonance between Philadelphia and Dhaka, Bangladesh, and the complications and frustrations in national identities. This season was pro...
S.1 Episode 6 // Some Histories Are Not Beautiful: Shwarga Bhattacharjee + Hakimah Abdul-Fattah
On Creation ● On Beauty & Violence ● On Connection Shwarga Bhattacharjee is an artist based in North Philadelphia. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Shwarga moved to the U.S. in 2014...
S.1 Episode 5 // Crafting Black Survival and Joy Through Time and Space: Emily Carris-Duncan + Katleho Kano Shoro
Join us on an eclectic jaunt with artist Emily Carris-Duncan and host Katleho Kano Shoro. Emily Carris-Duncan is an artist, a budding agriculturalist, and co-founder of the Art Dept in Philadelphia who is now based in Vermont. In this con...
S.1 Episode 4 // And I Listen to the Robin Sing: Sheida Soleimani + Angel Gutierrez
Under colonial order, what do mind and body internalize? What colonial desires and banal attitudes have we yet to expel from within us? In this conversation, Sheida Soleimani's practices of care and labor light the path that host Angel Gu...
S.1 Episode 3 // The Urgency of Art and Life: Va Bene Elikem Fiatsi + Anya Miller
What is the role of the artist, the power of silence, and the necessity of activism in fraught social worlds? In this episode Ghanaian artist, curator, and organizer Va Bene Elikem-Fiatsi and Anya Miller speak about life and death, sound and si...
S.1 Episode 2 // Bodies in Flux: Self-portraiture Outside the Canvas with Saya Woolfalk + Wang-Yao
Bodies in Flux: Self-Portraiture Outside the Canvas is an experimental storytelling episode with visual artist Saya Woolfalk in conversation with Wang-Yao. Saya describes her self-portraiture project that unravels the history of stolen stories...
S.1 Episode 1 // Telling Our Own Stories: Louis Massiah + Chrislyn Laurie Laurore
What would it look like to put the tools of media production into the hands of people at the margins of society? Community media activists -- with help from organizations like Scribe Video Center -- have been engaged in this work for decades. I...
