LADA and The Ampersand Foundation Artist in Residence Announcement

Live Art Development Agency and The Ampersand Foundation are delighted to announce Carle Gent as artist in residence at Wigwell Lodge from August to September.

Carle will use the residency to go deeper into her exploration of the queer and internal lives of nonhuman animals, researching non-reproductive sexual and romantic relations in nature across two months of site based artistic practice.

This will include experimenting across sonic, written and performed processes created in collaboration with the local Derbyshire ecology, taking cues from ecological activism’s incorporation of artistic practice as an essential strategic tool. Carle will explore degrees of human and animal legibility, and devise ways to coauthor with local flora and fauna using divinatory and sculptural techniques.

Carle will walk, cycle and swim the local wetlands, heathlands, bogs and grasslands, developing a process of ‘observing’ traces of queer animal activity through field recordings in ultra and infra-sound, lens and movement-based ‘observations’ and mythopoetic divination. Carle will stagger her sleep-cycle over the two months to include periods of nocturnal and early-morning studio practice and shift her own bio-rhythm to that of her nonhuman collaborators.

As an Associate Collector, Carle Gent will curate a selection of materials to be added to LADA’s Live Art Research Collection. We are currently fundraising to restock the Live Art Research Collection and start collecting new resources. We’re proud to say that we have reached 25% of our goal, but we need your help to raise the remaining £2.25k.

Help us restock!

Carle was selected by LADA and The Ampersand Foundation following nominations from national partners.