Annie Carpenter

para-lab: Artists & Scientists in the Woods 2023 

HD video with sound. 18’ 19

In June 2023 para-lab took a group of artists and scientists on an excursion to a forest near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. The film documents their activities over a 24-hour period. 

Partnered with Be More Outdoors (Alan Scully and Caitlin Warrior). Funded by Leeds School of Arts research seed funding, Leeds Beckett University.

Annie Carpenter is an artist, Lecturer in Fine Art at Leeds Beckett University, PhD researcher at Northumbria University and Co-Director of para-lab. Her work explores the disruption of artistic and scientific labour, drawing on amateur science experiments, hobbyist engineering projects and futile human endeavour, usually in the form of excursions and sculpture-demonstrations. Annie is the founder and co-director of ‘para-lab’, alongside Andrew Wilson, an organisation facilitating experimental methods of collaboration between artists and scientists, running in parallel to academic institutions.