reckoning & repair
the art that's touched Philadelphia
this experimental oral history podcast was primarily recorded and created on the homeland of Lenape peoples, stolen by Western imperialists and renamed Philadelphia
How do artists and organizers in Philadelphia confront the troubling histories of Empire in their midst? 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?
In this experimental oral history podcast, contemporary artists, curators, and community organizations tell stories of the need for reckoning and the im/possibilities of repair in Philly. This Center for Experimental Ethnography production is engaged with the Spring 2023 exhibit "Rising Sun-Artists in an Uncertain America", an African American Museum of Philadelphia (AAMP) and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) production. The series was recorded, written, and produced as part of the "Contemporary Artists in Conversation: Reckoning and Repair" course taught by Dr. Alissa Jordan at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Center for Experimental EthnographyThe Center for Experimental Ethnography was founded in 2018 to promote multi-modal research practices as both method and theory, integral dimensions of scholarly research. Directed by Deborah A. Thomas (John L. Jackson, Jr., Co-Director), we are a group of faculty across eight of Penn’s twelve schools who facilitate and support multi-modal research practices among undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and our partners within the City of Philadelphia and beyond. We coordinate scholarship, research, and public partnerships related to multi-modal work practices; consolidate those activities in which we (and our students) are already engaged; and grow these generative connections by hosting Visiting Scholars, coordinating workshops and conferences, supporting multi-modal project based courses, facilitating visual, sonic, and performative undergraduate and graduate research projects, producing rigorous criteria for assessing those projects, engaging with arts and community-based institutions throughout Philadelphia, and forging connections with other like-minded institutions worldwide. We see creative practice as intellectual work that necessarily historicizes the inequalities that pervade our society, and that develops solutions for their present iterations through collaborative and participatory practice. We believe that multi-modal research practices transform how we conduct research, how we generate and disseminate knowledge, how we train students, and how we remain accountable to the communities in which we interact and through which our research circulates.
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Photo Credits:
PAFA. César Sánchez, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
PAFA. César Sánchez, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons