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 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 Visual Arts from Universidad Nacional de las Artes in Argentina. Throughout the past decade, Cao has spent his time living nomadically, splitting his life between Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. With regard to his art practice, Santiago Cao enacts performances that largely explore the topics of Bodies in public spaces, the social rules that govern them, and the cultural significance bestowed upon and evoked by the body. As Santiago lives a nomadic lifestyle, his performance also takes place across a multitude of different cities throughout Latin America.
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.
- electric hum G slightly sharp by survivalbag (https://freesound.org/people/survivalbag/sounds/156088/) licensed under CCBYNC 3.0.
- Pencil, Writing, Close, A by InspectorJ (https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/398271/) licensed under CCBYNC 3.0.
- Museo Nacional-Toma Combinada-Entrada-Todos-10_03_2020 by proyectosonidosias (https://freesound.org/people/proyectosonidosias/sounds/511477/) licensed under CCBYNC 3.0.
- Heavy, wet impact by puppetmaster685719 (https://freesound.org/people/puppetmaster685719/sounds/626405/) licensed under CCBYNC 3.0.
- hanging by jameswroles (https://freesound.org/people/jameswrowles/sounds/274138/) licensed under CCBYNC 3.0.
- Snack Bar Ambience in São Paolo, Brazil by missionariojose (https://freesound.org/people/missionariojose/sounds/268635/) licensed under CCBYNC 3.0.
- Cutting through rope by simonjeffrey13 (https://freesound.org/people/simonjeffery13/sounds/349847/) licensed under CCBYNC 3.0.
- City2 by marcaronni (https
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.
