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 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
12 episodes
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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14:32
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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14:37
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 ar...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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20:09
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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16:55
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.
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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12:23
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. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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17:05
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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16:13
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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15:56
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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16:17
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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15:12
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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10:42
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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15:50