In this episode, Hakimah Abdul Fattah  speaks with the founder and director of Twelve Gates Art, Aisha Khan. Aisha tells stories of her early dreams of space and community in Philadelphia, explores the meaning of art and discomfort in social spaces, and the need for care and community.  For episode extras, and to learn more about the artists, hosts, and organizations involved, check out the Reckoning and Repair website: rnrphilly.com This podcast was created at the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania, a multimodal research hub that views creative pr ..read more

In this episode, Jeanne Lieberman speaks with Christina Vassallo and Katie Parry of The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Together, they explore how the museum unsettles a canon that reifies finished products and opens up the black box of artistic experimentation to Philadelphia publics in new ways. And they reflect on the ongoing work of transforming the forms of connection, collaboration, and conflict ​that emerge in museum workspaces. For episode extras, and to learn more about the artists, hosts, and organizations involved, check out the Reckoning and Repair website: rnrphilly.com This pod ..read more

In this episode, Hakimah Abdul Fattah speaks with Dejay Duckett, curator of "Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America" and the Vice President of Curatorial Services at the African American Museum in Philadelphia. In a conversation on home, memory, and the power of art, Dejay reflects on the history of AAMP and the way art creates belonging.  For episode extras, and to learn more about the artists, hosts, and organizations involved, check out the Reckoning and Repair website: rnrphilly.com This podcast was created at the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylv ..read more

Adrianna Brusie speaks with core organizers involved in the upcoming exhibition Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America opening March 2023. Juan Omar Rodriguez and Ellie Clark at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts discuss their reflections on labor in art institutions and how they are turning inward to reckon with their curatorial and exhibition development practices.  For episode extras, and to learn more about the artists, hosts, and organizations involved, check out the Reckoning and Repair website: rnrphilly.com This podcast was created at the Center for Experimental Ethnograp ..read more

Join us on  an eclectic jaunt with artist Emily Carris-Duncan and host Katleho Kano Shoro. Emily Carris-Duncan is an artist, a budding agriculturalist, and co-founder of the Art Dept in Philadelphia who is now based in Vermont. In this conversation, Emily describes how she transforms rocks into color, how she uses histories of black crafting to transform absence into ancestry, and her plans as a space-maker to someday build a ship out of here.  For episode extras, and to learn more about the artists, hosts, and organizations involved, check out the Reckoning and Repair website: rnrph ..read more

On Creation ● ​On Beauty & Violence ● On Connection  Shwarga Bhattacharjee is an artist based in North Philadelphia. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Shwarga moved to the U.S. in 2014. He received an MFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University and a BFA in drawing and painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Dhaka University. Shwarga’s work draws from the duality of experiences as an immigrant. His work references social historical and political events in the Americas and South Asia. Hakimah Abdul-Fattah interviewed Shwarga in late February 2022 as his first sol ..read more

In this episode, Tausif remembers the sonic environments of monsoon season, the urban resonance between Philadelphia and Dhaka, Bangladesh, and the complications and frustrations in national identities.  For episode extras, and to learn more about the artists, hosts, and organizations involved, check out the Reckoning and Repair website: rnrphilly.com This podcast was created at the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania, a multimodal research hub that views creative practice as intellectual work that necessarily historicizes the inequalities that perva ..read more

Life like Fragile Clay breaks down materiality and color as vivid depictions of what it means to be alive in a human body as an object that retains memory. For episode extras, and to learn more about the artists, hosts, and organizations involved, check out the Reckoning and Repair website: rnrphilly.com This podcast was created at the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania, a multimodal research hub that views creative practice as intellectual work that necessarily historicizes the inequalities that pervade our society, and that develops solutions for their pr ..read more

Bodies in Flux: Self-Portraiture Outside the Canvas ​is an experimental storytelling episode with visual artist Saya Woolfalk in conversation with Wang-Yao. Saya describes her self-portraiture project that unravels the history of stolen stories and identity. She guides us in a process of unlearning and re-imagination through her use of unexpected materials incorporating Hudson river school paintings, medicinal plants, and what we don't know about Sojourners Truths' infamous "ain't I a woman speech." For episode extras, and to learn more about the artists, hosts, and organizations involved, ch ..read more

What is the role of the artist, the power of silence, and the necessity of activism in fraught social worlds? In this episode Ghanaian artist, curator, and organizer Va Bene Elikem-Fiatsi and Anya Miller speak about life and death, sound and silence, action and stillness. It is designed for the listener to feel the urgency with which Va Bene performs and lives, and it forces the listener to understand how performance art and life become inseperable.  For episode extras, and to learn more about the artists, hosts, and organizations involved, check out the Reckoning and Repair website: rnrp ..read more