Carl Gent
Staff details
Carl Gent is an artist working in sculpture, performance, sound and text.
Carl Gent is a Lecturer in Studio Practice on MFA Fine Art.
Much of their recent work has sought to refictionalise the life of Cynethryth, eighth-century Queen of Mercia through a range of amateur dramatics, tabletop gaming, self-publishing cesspits and the parading of decapitated kings in community carnivals.
Together with Kelechi Anucha they investigated the girly and divine links between folk and church song, and their ongoing collaborative practice with Linda Stupart has given birth to a range of live, published and exhibited restagings of the 1990s video game Ecco the Dolphin.
Their latest pamphlet, The Balls of Alban, was published by Monitor Press in 2022 and they have recently exhibited and performed at Deptford X, London; Cafe Oto, London; Badisher Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; Istituto Svizerro, Rome; Flatland Projects, Bexhill-on-sea; Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn; Jupiter Woods, London; and the Museum of English Rural Life, Reading.
Academic qualifications
- MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths Univeristy of London 2015
Featured publications
2022:
The Balls of Alban
Part riotous short story, part historical survey, Gent’s work is a subversive excavation of how we tell stories and the Anglo-Saxon imaginary.
2022:
Felon Herb
Felon Herb is a continuation of an earlier project at KELDER by Carl Gent titled Multiplex with new writing by Carl Gent, Ros Gray, Angus Sinclair, Christian Ferreira and Rebecca Bligh.
2021:
All Us Girls Have Been Dead for So Long
A play in three acts by Linda Stupart and Carl Gent with a foreword by Isabel Waidner
Publications and research outputs
Show/Exhibition
Gent, Carl. 2023. A whistling woman, a crowing hen. In: "A whistling woman, a crowing hen", Deptford X, Lewisham Art House, Deptford, London, United Kingdom, 22 September - 1 October 2023.
Performance
Gent, Carl. 2023. The Balls of Alban. In: "They Take It Seriously I Find It Interesting", Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Gent, Carl. 2023. Fifeldore / Monster-Gate. In: "'Feature'", Cafe Oto, London, United Kingdom, 17 September 2023.
Conference or Workshop Item
Gent, Carl and Stupart, Linda. 2024. 'echo / ecco'. In: London Conference in Critical Thought 2024. University of Greenwich, United Kingdom 28 - 29 June 2024.