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“I am specifically looking at different registers of time and how this impacts our collective understanding of ephemerality and permanence.”

Laroche’s work explores our complex relationship to dynamic earth processes, highlighting the impermanence of environmental and societal structures. Their spatial praxis, which brings together performance, photography, installation, sound and writing, responds to the pressures of maintaining stability with/in an aggregate of material continuously in motion. Situated at the intersection of ecological, archaeological and geologic discourse, their artistic research engages with the detritus of industry, the unearthed substance of cultural heritage and the massive gravity-based movements of mountain systems to reflect on the construction of socio-environmental thinking and its relation to physical matter.

BIO

Laroche (b. 1968) is an itinerant artist currently based in the French Pyrenees and working extensively from field centres in the European Alps, southern Spain and London UK. Since 2013, they founded and coordinate the international artist network TSOEG.org; co-founded sonic arts collective SEL__NOIR in 2022, and curatorial collective MASS Project in 2023. They are a regular collaborator with AADK performance platform in Spain, and are a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London.

Their concept album ‘REGOLITHIC’ – a collaboration with Roisner, a performance artist, music producer and DJ – has been presented in numerous iterations since its inception, most recently at ALTER- Switzerland public events programme, POLLEN (Political Ecology Network) online exhibition and symposiums, PRAKSIS Oslo PDF sessions; also Raeve Party Chandolin Switzerland, Guru Dance Club and Moss Murcia Spain. Other works include the broadcasting of ‘Radio Silence’ on Arts Catalyst Radio London and Radiophrenia at Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow as part of Nastassja Simensky’s ‘Leaky Transmissions’ project.

Laroche (aka Luce Choules) has been awarded significant grants from Arts Council England, British Council, Arts Council Ireland, Acción Cultural Española, Ministère de la Culture, Canton du Valais / Kanton Wallis, Govern d’Andorra, and National Endowment for the Arts USA. They have been supported through numerous commissions and undertaken many research and process-led residencies including ALTER- Switzerland, Askeaton Contemporary Arts Ireland, Hangar Barcelona, Hablarenarte Madrid, Aqtushetii Georgia, and Rabbit Island USA. Their work has been performed, presented, screened and exhibited internationally with organisations including Arts Catalyst, Heritage Futures, Archaeology-Heritage-Arts (AHA) Research Network UCL, MIMA, Baltic 39, GroundWork Gallery, Royal Geographical Society, Biennal Internacional d’Andorra, AADK Spain, DeVos Art Museum USA, and numerous academic institutions in Europe.

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UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

Keynote Speaker
Walking Art and Relational Geographies keynote speaker – international conference and encounters, Girona / Banyoles, Catalunya, Spain (1-6 July 2024)

Mountain Festival
Guide74 – Chamonix valley and Mont-Blanc massif, Haute-Savoie, France (September 2024)

Live Cinema
Navigating the Erratic film with live soundtrack – Arc’Teryx Alpine Academy, Chamonix, France (tbc June/July 2024)

Concept Album (SEL__NOIR collective)
REGOLITHIC – EP audio-only remixes (x3), label to be announced (2024)
REGOLITHIC – EP video release, Studio de Laroche, France (spring 2024)

Events
Untitled action, as part of MASS Project – venue to be announced (autumn 2024)

Workshops
Mountain Meditation – with Arc’Teryx Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France (autumn 2024)
Mountain Meditation – with Amont Guide, Pyrenees, Andorra (summer 2024)

Knowledge Exchange
Loose Leaves – TSOEG.org curatorial project (begins 2024)
In Process (conversation) – TSOEG.org fieldwork events (begins 2024)

Future Exhibitions
On Moving Mountains cummulative artwork – save the date! (2033)

See full CV for RECENT and PASSED activities

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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Networks / Platforms
Co-founder, MASS Project (curatorial collective) – since March 2023
Guest, Remote Sensing Research Network, CRASSH (University of Cambridge) – since October 2022
Guest, Archaeology-Heritage-Art (AHA) Research Network (University College London & slade School of Art) – since February 2022
Co-founder, SEL__NOIR (sonic arts collective) – since 2021
Collaborator and Affiliate, AADK Spain (Centro Negra) – since July 2019
Researcher (as TSOEG), Hangar Barcelona – since January 2019
Member (as TSOEG), Hablarenarte (Curators’ Network Madrid) – since January 2019
Associate Member, Land² – since 2018
Alumni and Affiliate, Rabbit Island Foundation – since 2016
Affiliate Member, Centre for the GeoHumanities at RHUL – since 2016
Founder/coordinator, TSOEG (Temporal School of Experimental Geography) – since 2013
Fellow, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) – since 2007
LinkedIn – since 2005

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“Embracing change
precarity becomes
terrain
and matter
of consequence
to work with
a field
where we are
held together
not as one
but fluid
loose material
forming encounter
in uncertain movement
with resistance and agility.”

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