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

Episodes

25 episodes

S.3 E.7 // Black Girls in Color

S.3 E.5 // Reconstructing the Culture of Birth Through the Lens of Nurse-Midwifery, a conversation with midwife Sarah Logan and Catherine Ellis

S.3 E.4 // Anandabai Joshee's Thesis: The First Feminist Medical Ethnography?

S.3 E.3 // The gift of family, an oral history with Joel Austin, hosted by Maryam Jamal

S.3 E.2 // Vote for Black Girls: Black Joy is Reproductive Justice an oral history with Daniela Brissett by Hazel Ekeke

S.3 E.6// A Conversation with Doula Jasha Buckery: Birth and Body Empowerment with Mae Nagel

S.3 E.1 // Seeking Reproductive Justice in Philly School Spaces with Dr. Tawanna Jones and Avalon Hinchman

S.2 E.6// Las Paredes Tienen Ojos: Una Historia Oral con Cabaio Spirito

S2.E5 // El Arte de Recordar: Una Historia Oral con el Artista Marcelo Brodsky

S.2 Episode 4 // The Walls Have Eyes: A Muralist’s Vision of Hope with Cabaio Spirito - Voiced by Ian Zang

S.2 episode 3 // Body Politics: The Provocative Power of Performance with Santiago Cao - voiced by Gregorio F.

S.2 Episode 2 // Seeing Color: An Endeavor to Make the Art World Black with Mar Diaz Pacheco - Voiced by Julieth Montenegro

S.2 Episode 1 // The Art of Remembering: Healing a Nation’s Wounds through Art with Marcelo Brodsky - voiced by Emilio T.

S.1 Behind the scenes of ​ ​Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America with Juan Omar Rodriguez and Ellie Clark + Adrianna Brusie

S.1 We Are Here: Dejay Duckett + Hakimah Abdul Fattah

S.1 Connection, Collaboration, and Conflict: Towards Radical Transparency with Christina Vassallo, Katie Parry + Jeanne Liebermen

S.1 To Call a City Home: Aisha Khan + Hakimah Abdul Fattah

S.1 Episode 8 // Life Like Fragile Clay: Arlene Shechet + Rachael Borthwick

S.1 Episode 7 // The Question of Home is Complicated: Tausif Noor + Angel Gutierrez

S.1 Episode 6 // Some Histories Are Not Beautiful: ​Shwarga Bhattacharjee + Hakimah Abdul-Fattah

S.1 Episode 5 // Crafting Black Survival and Joy Through Time and Space: Emily Carris-Duncan + Katleho Kano Shoro

S.1 Episode 4 // And I Listen to the Robin Sing: Sheida Soleimani + Angel Gutierrez

S.1 Episode 3 // The Urgency of Art and Life: Va Bene Elikem Fiatsi + Anya Miller

S.1 Episode 2 // Bodies in Flux: Self-portraiture Outside the Canvas with Saya Woolfalk + Wang-Yao

S.1 Episode 1 // Telling Our Own Stories: Louis Massiah + Chrislyn Laurie Laurore

S.1 Behind the scenes of Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America with Juan Omar Rodriguez and Ellie Clark + Adrianna Brusie

S.1 Episode 6 // Some Histories Are Not Beautiful: Shwarga Bhattacharjee + Hakimah Abdul-Fattah