How did Argentine artists enact resistance and catalyze change during the violent repression of El Proceso dictatorship? 
What role do embodied practices of public art, performance, and protest play in shaping collective memory? ​How do these practices engage with present-day struggles for justice in Latinx spaces and beyond? ​
Reckoning and Repair Season 2 traces these questions through oral histories with groundbreaking art activists in Buenos Aires, originally recorded in Spanish and condensed into English by Anya Miller and interpretive speakers. This season was produced as part of the "Art and Power: In Conversation with Creative Visionaries in Argentina" course directed by Dr. Alissa Jordan at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Art of Remembering: Healing a Nation’s Wounds through Art with Marcelo Brodsky and Anya Miller, and voice work by Emilio T. 
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Body Politics: The Provocative Power of Performance with Santiago Cao and Anya Miller, and voice work by Gregorio F. 
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Seeing Color: An Endeavor to Make the Art World Black with Mar Diaz Pacheco​ and Anya Miller, and voice work by Julieth Montenegro
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The Walls Have Eyes: A Muralist's Vision of Hope with Cabaio Spirito and Anya Miller, and voice work by Ian Zang

Participants

Anya Miller
​Creator, Host

Mar Diaz Pacheco
Guest

Cabaio Spirito
​Guest

Alissa Jordan
​Producer

Santiago Cao
​Guest

Marcelo Brodsky
​Guest

Center for Experimental Ethnography

The 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