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
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 using art to help marginalized populations and to create community. Pacheco is currently a member of a collective of feminist photographers called “Tejiendo miradas y Tertulia de Mujeres Afrolatinoamericanas (TeMA)”. Today, she works across artistic mediums, most prominently using photography as a vehicle to unpack her own identities as an Afrocolombian woman and a daughter of migration; in addition, Pacheco’s art practice aims to build community amongst black women in Latin America as she endeavors to make the art world more Black—to make Black faces and bodies seen and loved despite global efforts to invisibilize Blackness.
An experimental podcast project, 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. You can learn more and listen to extras at rnrphilly.com.
Audio Credits
- Vino Tinto by Serge Quadrado (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/latin-cafe/vino-tinto/) licensed under CCBYNC 3.0.
- BeeOne example test - gamma/theta/delta meditation by ayamahambho (https://freesound.org/people/ayamahambho/sounds/155586/) licensed under CCBYNC 3.0.
- Water wave Beach Peoples ships Field-recording 200815_0037 by szegvari (https://freesound.org/people/szegvari/sounds/530705/) licensed under CCBYNC 3.0.
- FX Ship Bell by PeteBarry (https://freesound.org/people/PeteBarry/sounds/464856/) licensed under CCBYNC 3.0.
- santelmo1 by fernando (https://freesound.org/people/fernando/sounds/7672/) licensed under CCBYNC 3.0.
- samba_batucada1 by rein samba (https://freesound.org/people/reinsamba/sounds/53704/) licensed under CCBYNC 3.0.
- fabric by jsaylee (https://freesound.org/people/jsaylee/sounds/489472/) by licensed under CCBYNC 3.0.
- Autobus by mireia_af (https://freesound.org/people/mireia_af/sounds/152802/) licensed under CCBYNC 3.0.
- 130916 General Paz y Panamericana by kuba2426 (https://freesound.org/people/kuba2426/sounds/354141/
For episode extras, and to learn more about the artists, hosts, and organizations involved, check out the Reckoning and Repair website: rnrphilly.com
Reckoning and Repair is part multimedia counter-archive, part laboratory, for telling stories and listening to stories in cities. Each season traces stories of resistance to (and repair from) the enduring and specific legacies of exclusion/withholding/erasure that haunt our cities. Through immersive oral histories and collaborative storytelling, student scholars, activists, and creatives illuminate the slow, difficult, yet vital work of accountability and healing in haunted worlds. The project is directed by Dr. Alissa Jordan at the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennyslvania.
