Overview
A gorgeous book object engaging New Orleans’ multilayered histories of race, art and politics, from the acclaimed Turner Prize winner Convening polyphonous voices from past and present, I Will Keep My Soul is an orchestral layering of photography, historical documents, poetry and interviews, rooted in the history, geography and community of New Orleans. In this tactile artist's book, UK-based artist Helen Cammock (born 1970) traverses the city, rendering her observations and encounters into texts and images that reveal its invisible histories. These sequences are woven with correspondence and photographs from the Amistad Research Center that evince artist Elizabeth Catlett's struggle for agency and support during her 1976 commission to create a bronze monument to Louis Armstrong in Congo Square—a place laden with histories of both oppression and celebration. Cammock interlaces more archival materials—newspaper clippings, instructions for activists, a 19th-century book on Creole slave songs—to articulate the long struggle for civil rights. I Will Keep My Soul is a uniquely American story of art and activism, culture and capital, being and belonging.
Full Product Details
Author: Helen Cammock ,
Jordan Amirkhani ,
Andrea Andersson ,
Roshanak Kheshti
Publisher: Siglio Press
Imprint: Siglio Press
Dimensions:
Width: 27.30cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 19.70cm
Weight: 0.771kg
ISBN: 9781938221330
ISBN 10: 1938221338
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 01 June 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"I Will Keep My Soul gives representation to the rich cultural silt history has deposited in the Mississippi Delta, evoking the push-pull of natural and unnatural forces. The flowing musicality of its composition reminds the viewer of a truth as central as anyone can be about a kaleidoscope-like New Orleans: It has always kept moving, and always to its own tune.--Melissa Holbrook Pierson ""Hyperallergic"""
"This multifaceted book brings together poems, historical documents, photographs, and archival documents to reclaim the archive as a space for creative reflection.--Briana Ellis-Gibbs ""Brooklyn Rail"" I Will Keep My Soul gives representation to the rich cultural silt history has deposited in the Mississippi Delta, evoking the push-pull of natural and unnatural forces. The flowing musicality of its composition reminds the viewer of a truth as central as anyone can be about a kaleidoscope-like New Orleans: It has always kept moving, and always to its own tune.--Melissa Holbrook Pierson ""Hyperallergic"""
