MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL
Artist project (annual live event). 2016 – ongoing
Studio de Laroche

Mountain Festival – a fieldwork event

Mountain Festival is a project developed by the artist as a counter-cultural annual event that takes place in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc in the French Alps. For most of the year, the mountain is a backdrop to human activity, littered with the infrastructures and mechanisms of tourism. This work considers the mountain’s activity – a two-day observance of vast geological time set against humanity’s brief entity. The field of work for Mountain Festival is to attend to the mountain environment itself.

Images show Mountain Festival souvenir posters 2016-2022

Summary:
Cummulative studio project

Artist:
Laroche (aka Luce Choules)

Project partners:
Isabelle Santoire (UIAGM), Chamonix, France | Vallée de Chamonix Mont-Blanc, Haute-Savoie, France.

Keywords:
Environmental Art, Curated Landscapes, Cultural Tourism, Physical/Human Geography, Ecology and Geology, Survey, Fieldwork.