Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My SoulAn exhibition of film, poetry, performance, archival documents and books

October 14 – December 17, 2023

events, 09/18/23

Film still – Helen Cammock, I Will Keep My Soul, Siglio/Rivers/CAAM, 2023.

British artist Helen Cammock arrived in New Orleans for the first time in January 2022 as part of a residency with the Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought and the Amistad Research Center. This exhibition of film, poetry, performance, archival documents, and books gathers encounters and observations, figured in text and image, of her experiences in the city—it is a gathering on gathering, on the indissociable relationship between art, politics, and the power of assembly.

Through a polyphony of contemporary and historical voices—from archivists, artists, writers, and musicians to the protagonists of the civil rights movement, both seen and unseen—Cammock invites both rhyme and dissonance. To these voices she adds her own poetry—and the sound of her trumpet—an instrument she began practicing in New Orleans.

I Will Keep My Soul is is accompanied by the eponymous artist’s book co-imprinted by Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought, the California African American Museum, and siglio (March 2023). A previous and different iteration of the exhibition took place at Art + Practice in collaboration with the the California African American Museum in Los Angeles earlier in 2023.

Curated by Andrea Andersson and Jordan Amirkhani of the Rivers Institute of Contemporary Art & Thought and presented by the University of New Orleans’s St. Claude Gallery.

The University of New Orleans’s St. Claude Gallery is located at 2429 St. Claude Ave., New Orleans, LA 70117. Hours: 12pm – 5pm Saturday and Sunday.

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“In my opinion, genre is a way of speaking about conventions of reading and looking, where you sit or stand and whether you’re allowed to talk to other people or move around while you’re communing with an object or text.”  —Lucy Ives, from her interview with Karla Kelsey in Feminist Poetics of the Archive at Tupelo Quarterly

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