On opening day of Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My Soul—the North American debut of the UK-based, Turner Award-winning artist—experience a live musical performance by Cammock and Roshanak Kheshti, UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. The exhibition’s two-channel film, performance piece, poetry, and print series draw from Cammock’s research in the archives of the Amistad Research Center (New Orleans) about artist Elizabeth Catlett’s struggle for agency, creative autonomy, and support throughout her 1976 commission for the Louis Armstrong sculpture in New Orleans’s Armstrong Park.
