Date: Jul 2019
Commission partner: Manchester International Festival x ANU
Description: Clemency was a performance and installation piece that was a part of bigger city-wide collective performance curated by ANU.
Brief:
On 16 August 1819, 60,000 people flooded into central Manchester, peacefully campaigning for the right to vote – but when armed troops charged into the crowd, 15 people were killed and more than 600 were injured. This was the Peterloo Massacre, and it changed British democracy forever.
Solution:
Keisha worked with assistant artist, Mark Croasdale, to create Clemency – inside an ambulance, a paramedic on a break faces up to the consequences of her choices. What makes someone worthy of care today – and what made them worthy 200 years ago?