The Afronautic Research Lab is a social practice project through which visitors encounter suppressed archival documents providing evidence of colonial Canada’s links to and participation in the transatlantic trade in African people, its ongoing legacies of anti-Blackness and Black resistance. In its travels Afronautic Research Lab gathers and shares local histories. The project, which is organised by Outerregion, a performance group founded by Camille in collaboration with her siblings Karen and Lee Turner has taken numerous forms in its various incarnations. Afronautic Research Lab: Newfoundland, pictured below for instance, is part of a body of work that explores the silenced history of 19 slave ships constructed in eighteenth century Newfoundland:

Afronautic Research Lab (2016 - ongoing)

Camille Turner, Afronautic Research Lab, (ongoing since 2016). Social practice / installation. Photo by Garrett Elliott for Agnes Etherington Gallery as documentation of Arts Against Post Racialism, a SSHRC funded knowledge mobilisation project led by Phillip Howard in collaboration with Camille Turner.

Camille Turner, Afronautic Research Lab: Newfoundland (2019), Camille Turner, stills from video installation, 6 mins, 19 sec., filmed and edited by Brian Ricks.