Road Rage: Part of The Carrying of Passengers is Forbidden - Invalid Carriages and their Heritage project. Exibition at DaDafest International 2018 - Liverpool

The Carrying of Passengers is Forbidden unfolded the hidden histories of motoring design, social policy and disability, through interdisciplinary research into the ‘invalid tricycle’, a three-wheeled vehicle issued to disabled users. It examined official, and obscured unofficial accounts and silences, to explore approximately 75 years of disability mobility provision by the UK Government and explain how a multitude of ‘sanctioned’ decisions led to a dangerous, yet liberational, dichotomic package of ‘care’.

The results of the research were presented in an exhibition, The Carrying of Passengers is Forbidden, which in stage one was thematically curated around the WW1 period as showcased in Liverpool and was further developed in stage two to include the WW2 period and the NHS for later exhibitions, such as at Beamish Museum. The exhibition took the form of a multimedia installation consisting of photographic research, video interview, period archive film, innovative 3D animation, toy tricycle, tricycle ephemera, art installation and the use of a period invalid tricycle.

In a first for St Georges Hall, Liverpool McKeown worked with the hall and volunteers to present the mobility-related disability exhibition The Carrying of Passengers is Forbidden, as part of DaDaFest International 2018. In addition, McKeown prepared and presented an art installation by McKeown entitled Road Rage as an additional part of the exhibition, consisting of a historical invalid trike, digital media, plaster sculpture and found objects placed in a 'living' room reminiscent of the 1950s, populated by two automatons.