Defying Entropy Attempt #2

Trying to Hit the Video Camera with a Ping Pong Ball

Fine Dining

Defying Entropy Attempt #1

With Taneesha Ahmed
2011
TV installation

This piece is currently on display at Hive Gallery, Barnsley, as part of an exhibition we co-curated called 'Iglooism'. For the first three weeks of Iglooism the art making process was exposed; the work evolved on the site and viewers were invited to interact with us during this stage. Defying Entropy Attempt #1, uses materials recovered locally, and aims to produce the illusion of effortlessly creating order.




Here is the last part of the video that appears on the screen:

Untitled (The Economic Downturn)

2010
Series of 3 photographs as installed in ‘Customer Circus’, an exhibition at The Triangle, Manchester, curated by Taneesha Ahmed.

Unitled (The Econimic Downturn) consists of three photographs depicting the same wall of the gallery in which they are placed, only in the photographs there is a pile of money piled up in the corner. Those viewers familiar with the tradition of ‘giving’ to the art goer, championed by artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, will wonder if they have arrived too late and missed out on some much needed free money.

The Lost Generation

2010
Ongoing series of photographs

Book Portraits

2010
Book Intervention

In July 2010 I curated a book art exhibition at Leamington Spa’s Oxfam Bookshop, The Art Book Book Shop. The exhibition consisted of artists’ books, video, installation, photography and performance, all of which took the form of an intervention into the existing shop display. At the opening I invited viewers to have their portrait taken with a book of their choice. The portraits were then inserted into the book of choice and put back on the shelf for an unsuspecting book-buyer to discover later.

Trying to Throw Water Balloons at Staff Members' Heads (Best of 36 Tries)

2009
Series of 36 Photographs

Kind Participants: Roger Palmer, Chris Taylor, Simon Lewandowski, Richard Bell, Claire Harbottle, Will Docherty, John Hornsby, Robert Smith, Peter Morton

Trying to Throw.. was my main piece for the Leeds University Fine Art Degree Show of 2009. By using staff members, the piece references its situation and becomes completely site-specific. Like much of my work, the title is an integral part of the piece; it is the attempt by the anonymous ‘thrower’ that forms the basis of the piece. The title also makes clear the piece’s relatively ocscure art historical reference - to Jodn Baldessari, namely Trying to Throw Four Balls in the Air to get a Square (Best of 36 Tries). Trying to Throw Water Balloons at Staff Members’ Heads (Best of 36 Tries) can currently be seen on the cover of the Leeds University’s School of Fine Art prospectus.

Baby With the Sound of its Own Making

2009
Photograph with Accompanying Audio

Please follow link for full audio and image.
http://www.anniecarpenter.co.uk/page11.htm


Below is a transcribed conversation about the piece with lecturer Richard Bell:

AC Let me set it up for you. OK, so that’s umm. So it would be playing, but I haven’t got..
RB -Playing what?
AC Well, hang on, I’ll show you.
RB Gurgling sounds..
AC -I’ve got sound I’ve just gotta turn it on. Oh oops, it’s locked. It’s not playing yet. Now. Is it too loud? It goes on for twenty minutes.
RB Twenty minutes?!
AC So you might not wanna listen to all of it.
RB Does it develop?
AC No. It technically develops.
RB It’s noise. It doesn’t develop.
AC But it develops. Get it?
RB Yeah, yeah. I get it. It develops.
AC [giggles]
RB Oh, this is the sound of you developing the picture.
AC Yeah.
RB Oh right. Does that –does that become any clearer?
AC No.
RB It could be you washing the dishes.
AC Something kinda exciting happens at one point.
RB Does it?
AC You have to stick it out.
RB You have to stick it out? Oh right. Do you –I’ll wait then. All right. OK. And who is this child.
AC My nephew.
RB Your nephew.
AC And that –I’m gonna umm –I’m gonna like attach it with Velcro and have this kinda stick down there and have it playing.
RB Mmm.
AC But so I can get to it to change the batteries. I’m hoping to put it in the umm artist book room of the degree show.
RB What’s the artist’s book room?
AC There’s umm literally just a room kind of separate from the rest of the degree show where people are putting little books and stuff.
RB Right. What this, the kinda uh G. 03?
AC No it’s not. It’s separate to that as well.
RB Mmm.
AC Is that –by G. 03 you mean the like..
RB The project room.
AC The hub yeah.
RB Yeah.
AC Yeah, or whatever it’s called.
RB Yeah.
AC No, it’s another one.
RB Another one. Oh right.
AC Which Francesco decided would be nice just cause uh quite a few of –of us do little things like books.

Earthworks

2009
Earthwork

Earthworks explores the ambiguity of language. It is a work made out of earth, and therefore an 'earthwork' according to the paradigm of art history. It is also the word 'work' written twice out of earth, becoming 'earth works'. This playful duality is taken even further when the location of the piece is taken into consideration. Earthworks sits directly below the offices of academic staff, whose dreamy glances out of the window become a cheeky reminder to work.

White Cubed

2009
Installation

White Cubed is essentially a simple pun. It comments on the concept of the white cube gallery space - a concept that epitomises the assumptions and rituals that go along with displaying and viewing art. White Cubed was first displayed in the exhibition 'White' at Hope House Gallery in Leeds, and has since appeared in 'A Room of Words' curated by Deborah Britton at South Square Gallery, Bradford.