CV | Laroche (aka Luce Choules)

RECENT ACTIVITIES

Residencies / Commissions / Awards
Radio Silence collaboration – Arts Catalyst UK, as part of Nastassja Simensky’s ‘Leaky Transmissions’ with Emma Bolland, Gesa Helms, Laroche and Roisner (October-December 2022)
Regarding Wilds (review) – British Council with Aqtushetii residency, Tusheti region, Georgia (15 June 2022)
Wilderness as Archive – Aqtushetii residency and Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, Tusheti region, Georgia (23 May-5 June 2022)

Knowledge Exchange
PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) Session 37 – online peer-discussion group with Alessandro Marchi, PRAKSIS Oslo, Norway (9 November 2022)
Interdisciplinary Methodologies – AHA Network (Archaeology-Heritage-Art), Centre for Critical Heritage Studies UCL and Slade School of Art, London (4 March 2022)
Despite Extractivism (Feminist Political Ecology exhibition and webinar series) – POLLEN & University of Brighton, UK (January 2022)

Broadcast
Radio Silence – Arts Catalyst UK, as part of Nastassja Simensky’s ‘Leaky Transmissions’ with Emma Bolland, Gesa Helms, Laroche and Roisner (31 January 2023)

Concept Album (SEL__NOIR collective)
REGOLITHIC – EP audio-only releases (x3), ‘sound Of ruins’ label, Blanca, Spain (February 2023)
REGOLITHIC – audio-only album release, ‘Aldarrax’ label, Spain (30 August 2022)
REGOLITHIC – social media and video campaign, France/Spain (launched 1 May 2022)

Mountain Festival
Guide74 – Chamonix valley and Mont-Blanc massif, Haute-Savoie, France (September 2022)

Events – performance lectures and readings
REGOLITHIC – album and EPs ‘live session + documents’ as part of AADK Open Studios, Blanca, Spain (26 March 2023)
A Field of Possible Finds: interconnected sites in (re)performing – AHA Network (Archaeology-Heritage-Art), Centre for Critical Heritage Studies UCL and Slade School of Fine Art, London (6 April 2022)
Remembering and forgetting the air, as part of the Despite Extractivism events, scalar theme: Embodiment – POLLEN & University of Brighton, UK (27 January 2022)

Exhibitions
REGOLITHIC – documentary installation (digital TV), as part of AADK Open Studios, Blanca, Spain (26 March 2023)
Data Points – multiple-format installation (experimental visual/sonic), ‘sound Of ruins’ studio, Blanca, Spain (21 March 2023)
Despite Extractivism group exhibition and conversation on the feminist political ecologies of extractivism – ONCA Gallery, Brighton, UK (launched 20 January 2022)

Workshops
Mountain Meditation – Pyrenees, France (14 August 2022)
Immaterial Fields – Pyrenees, France (13 August 2022)
Immaterial Fields – Aqtushetii residency, Tusheti region, Georgia (25, 29 & 30 May 2022)

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PASSED ACTIVITIES

Selection Committee
Points of Return exhibition, A La Luz environmental arts platform, Scotland/USA, 2021
Rabbit Island residency programme, Rabbit Island Foundation, Lake Superior, Michigan, USA, 2021
Rabbit Island residency programme – Rabbit Island Foundation, Lake Superior, Michigan, USA, 2018

Residencies / Commissions / Awards
Performing live space in a digital environment – Arts Council England DYCP, UK, 2021
Welcome to the Neighbourhood – Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Co. Limerick, Ireland, 2020
Fieldworking: Artist Camp – organised by artist Laura Harrington (Newcastle), North Pennines, UK, 2019
Encura 3 – Hangar, Barcelona, & Hablarenarte (Curator’s Network) Madrid / ARCO Madrid, Spain, 2019
In Land, an Island, Rabbit Island Foundation / DeVos Art Museum, Michigan, USA, 2016-17
Landranger, Cambridge Artworks, Cambridge, UK, 2017
Seam, ‘Bideford Black’ commissioned by Flow Projects / Burton Art Gallery, Devon, UK, 2014-15
Strandlines (extended) Writing Residency (with poet Ruth O’Callaghan), Lisbon, Portugal, 2015
Strandlines – commissioned by King’s College London, UK, 2011-14
Sistemas Efímeros, ‘Joya: arte + ecología’, Cortijada Los Gázquez, Almería, Spain, 2013
Stream, Arts Council England funded residency with Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust, Shropshire, UK, 2012-13
Sistemas Efímeros, ‘Joya: arte + ecología’, Cortijada Los Gázquez, Almería, Spain, 2012
Research Invitation, Parc de Montnegre-Corredor, Catalunya, Spain, 2012
Ever Present – commissioned by Rednile Projects Newcastle, UK, 2012
An Atlas of Walks (stage 5) – commissioned by The Cultural Baton, Kent, UK, 2012
Artist in Residence, ‘Joya: arte + ecología’, Cortijada Los Gázquez, Almería, Spain, 2012
Factory Nights (archaeology walk – Eston Hills, Cleveland, UK), Rednile Projects Newcastle, UK, 2012
Space Invaders – commissioned by Art at the Centre, KCC. Project based in Faversham, Kent, UK, 2012
Territoires Emergents – commissioned by Centre Régional de la Photographie, Nord Pas-de-Calais, and PNRSE, France, 2009

Knowledge Exchange
Despite Extractivism (Feminist Political Ecology webinar series), scalar themes: Embodiment, Community and Worlding – POLLEN & University of Brighton, UK, 2022
Despite Extractivism (Feminist Political Ecology exhibition), opening event – POLLEN & University of Brighton, UK, 2022
The PLACE Collective (CNPPA, University of Cumbria) – February 2021 to December 2022
8th International Degrowth Conference: Caring Communities for Radical Change (online edition) – The Hague, Netherlands, 2021
POLLEN20 Political Ecology Network conference panel (online edition) – University of Brighton, UK, 2020
Prácticas Contemporáneas, 5ta edición: La Ecología del Arte – AADK (Centro Negra), Blanca, Murcia, Spain, 2019
Under Her Eye: Women and Climate Change, international summit – Invisible Dust, British Library, London, UK, 2018
Landscapes in Limbo: Creativity and Stewardship – Heritage Futures Transformation Theme Knowledge-Exchange, Cultural Geography University of Exeter, Wheal Martyn Museum, St Austell, Cornwall, UK, 2018
Celebrating Somers Town – ‘Creative Symposium on Neighbourhood Change’, The Camden Centre, London, 2018
Exploring Space and Place – ‘Creative Islington: exploring King’s Cross’, University of the Arts London, Central St Martins, London, UK, 2017
Environments / Encounters / Exchanges workshop – RHUL Centre for the GeoHumanities / Tate Modern, London, 2017
Artists and the Academy Workshop: Appraising Contemporary Arts and Creative Research Practices on the Anthropocene and Global Environmental, Change – The Culture Capital Exchange / RHUL Centre for the GeoHumanities, London, 2017
Practicing GeoHumanities research day – RHUL / AHRC, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, 2016
Wild workshop – Wild Words / The Society of Writers-in-the-Wild, Aude, France, 2015
Creative Intersections – Royal Society of Arts, London, 2012

Mountain Festival
Guide74 – Chamonix valley and Mont-Blanc massif, Haute-Savoie, France, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 (remote edition), 2021 (remote edition)

Events – performance lectures and readings
A Survey of Painting as part of discussion panel for ‘Explore: expeditions and fieldwork planning’ – Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2021
Performing Environments as part of the Fine Art artist talk series – Plymouth University, UK, 2021
Itinerant Actions as part of the POLLEN20 ‘Weaving Connections’ webinar – ONCA gallery, UK, 2020
The Glacier and the Rock – Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2019
Estudio de Campo: a landscape recording activity – AADK (Centro Negra), Blanca, Spain, 2019
Estudio de Campo: a landscape recording activity – Hangar, Barcelona, Spain, 2019
The Glacier and the Rock – GroundWork Gallery (study day event), King’s Lynn, Norfolk, UK, 2018
The Lake and the Island – Saffron Screen (live cinema), Saffron Walden, Essex, UK, 2018
Estudio de Campo: a landscape recording activity – to open exhibition ‘Esparto: new ground’, Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades, Barcelona, Spain, 2018
A Mountain Recording Activity – as part of ‘Lunch at the Summit: on high ground’ (Choules + Harrington, TSOEG.org), ‘Under Her Eye: Women and Climate Change’ international summit, Invisible Dust, British Library, London, UK, 2018
Confluences – ‘Landscapes in Limbo: Creativity and Stewardship’, Heritage Futures Transformation Theme Knowledge-Exchange, Cultural Geography University of Exeter, Wheal Martyn Museum, St Austell, Cornwall, UK, 2018
Wilderness Guide: Rabbit Island – ‘Assembly: Performative Symposium’, Baltic 39 (WOON Studios), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2018
A Journey Through Fieldwork – ‘Assembly: Performative Exhibition’, Baltic 39 (WOON Studios), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2018
A Journey Through Fieldwork – Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Plaça de la Mercè, Barcelona, Spain, 2018
Guide74 – RHUL Centre for the GeoHumanities events programme 2017-2018, Royal Holloway University of London, Bedford Square, London, UK, 2017
Wilderness Guide: Rabbit Island – DeVos Art Museum, Michigan, USA, 2017
Guide74 – University of Lincoln (Performing Arts), Lincoln, UK, 2016
Guide74 – Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, UK, 2016
Guide74 – Aberystwyth University (Fine Art) / Joya: arte + ecología, Cortijada Los Gázquez, Almería, Spain, 2015
Guide74 – The Burton Art Gallery, Devon, UK, 2015
Guide74 – Cambridge University Expeditions Society, Hughes Hall, Cambridge, UK, 2015
Guide74: expeditions and fieldwork documents – ‘Explore 2015’, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2015

Film screenings
After-image – AADK (Centro Negra), Blanca, Spain, 2020
After-image – Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2019
After-image – Hangar, Barcelona, Spain, 2019
Green Cliff – as part of ‘ECOS #11: Isabel Garay’, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain, 2017
Bideford Black Performance Document – as part of ‘The Alternative Document’, Project Space Plus, Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, University of Lincoln, UK, 2016
Green Cliff – as part of ‘Bideford Black: The Next Generation’, Burton Art Gallery, Devon, UK, 2015

Curating (TSOEG.org)
Esparto: new ground – exhibition items loaned for ‘Dia del Esparto’, Museo del Esparto, Cieza, Murcia, Spain, 2019
Esparto: new ground exhibition (also weaving workshop ‘Esparto: roots and revisions’) – Fundación Pedro Cano, Blanca, Murcia, Spain, 2019
Esparto: new ground exhibition (also symposium and workshop ‘Esparto: roots and revisions’) – Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades, Barcelona, Spain, 2018

Group Exhibitions
POLLEN20: Extracting Us Political Ecology Network group exhibition – University of Brighton with ONCA Gallery, UK – online, 2020
Documents, Alternatives 4 (touring) – virtual gallery, launched 2020
Artists in the Field – Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2019
Esparto: new ground (touring) – Fundación Pedro Cano, Blanca, Murcia, Spain, 2019
A Sense of Place: Works from Rabbit Island – Finlandia University Gallery, Hancock, Michigan, USA, 2018
Esparto: new ground (touring) – Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades, Barcelona, Spain, 2018
Assembly (1-day live exhibition) – Baltic 39 (WOON Studios), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2018
Documents, Alternatives 3 (touring) – B-Side Gallery, Bath Spa University, UK, 2018
Documents, Alternatives 2 (touring) – Verge Gallery, University of Sydney, Australia, 2018
Documents, Alternatives 1 (touring) – AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, 2017
Rabbit Island 2016 Residency Exhibition – DeVos Art Museum, North Michigan University (NMU), Michigan, USA, 2017
In the Open, Sheffield – Bank Street Arts and Sheffield Institute of Arts (SIA) Gallery, Sheffield, UK, 2017
The Alternative Document – Project Space Plus, Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, University of Lincoln, UK, 2016
Bideford Black: The Next Generation – Burton Art Gallery, Devon, UK, 2015
Artists’ Book Market – Baltic, Newcastle, UK, 2014
Framing a Thought – Cambridge ArtWorks Gallery, Cambridge, UK, 2014
The Walking Encyclopaedia – AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, 2014
Regards sur l’Adventure – Chamonix Adventure Festival, Majestic Congrès, Chamonix Mont-Blanc, Haute-Savoie, France, 2013
Tide / Colour Mining Blue – Ground Floor Left Gallery, Hackney, London, UK, 2012
Territoires Émergents / Emerging Territories – Centre Régional de la Photographie Nord Pas-de-Calais, Douchy-les-Mines, France, 2009

Solo Exhibitions
Stream – Footprint Gallery, Jackfield Tile Museum, Ironbridge Gorge Museums, Shropshire, UK, 2013
Tide – Creek Creative, Faversham, UK, 2012

Events – artist talks and presentations
Material Field: North Pennines – remote presentation for Laura Harrington’s ‘Artist Camp’ discussion panel, MIMA, UK, 2019
Making Place – ‘Exploring Space and Place’ as part of the project ‘Creative Islington: exploring King’s Cross’, University of the Arts London, Central St Martins, London, UK, 2017
Esparto – Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades, Barcelona, Spain, 2016
Wilderness Guide – Rabbit Island, Lake Superior, Michigan, USA, 2016
Terreno: the land surveys – as part of ‘Encuentro Internacional #1’, Joya: arte + ecología, Cortijada Los Gázquez, Almería, Spain, 2014
Fieldwork, mapping and publishing – Aberystwyth University Fine Art students/staff group residency, Joya: arte + ecología, Cortijada Los Gázquez, Almería, Spain, 2014
Fieldwork, mapping and publishing – Buckinghamshire New University Fine Art students/staff group residency at Joya: arte + ecología, Cortijada Los Gázquez, Almería, Spain, 2014
Communicating Your Discoveries – ‘Explore: expeditions and fieldwork planning’, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2013
Sharing Your Discoveries – ‘Explore: expeditions and fieldwork planning’, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2012
In Search of Flora – ‘Strandlines’, Centre for Life-Writing Research, King’s College, London, UK, 2012
In Search of Flora – ‘Artist Cabinet (collective)’, Centre for Life-Writing Research, King’s College, London, UK, 2012
Explore (RGS-IBG showcase) – The Adventure Travel Show, Olympia, London, UK, 2012
Fieldwork – ‘Explore: expeditions and fieldwork planning’, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2011
Flow – ‘The Culture of Rowing and Swimming’ symposium (Oxford Brookes Cultural Olympiad / Creative Campus Initiative), Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, 2010

TSOEG curated events
Itinerant Actions: data and dialogues (symposium) – Hangar, Barcelona, Spain, 2019
Artists in the Field: ephemeral landscapes and experimental geographies (symposium) – Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, UK, 2016

Workshops
Immaterial Fields – AADK (Centro Negra), Blanca, Spain, 2020
Artists in the Field – panel for ‘Explore: expeditions and fieldwork planning’, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2019
Immaterial Fields – Aiguilles Rouges, Haute-Savoie, France, 2019
Immaterial Fields – Moor House scientific field station, North Pennines, UK, 2019
Immaterial Fields – AADK (Centro Negra), Blanca, Spain, 2019
Itinerant Actions: recording and broadcasting – Hangar, Barcelona, Spain, 2019
Artists in the Field – ‘Explore: expeditions and fieldwork planning’, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2018 (organiser: Andrew Ranville)
Esparto paper-making – Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades, Barcelona, Spain, 2018
Fieldworkings: weathering writing – Royal Holloway University of London, Bedford Square, London, UK, 2017
Artists in the Field – ‘Explore: expeditions and fieldwork planning’, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2017
Artists in the Field: engaging audiences in science and adventure – ‘Explore: expeditions and fieldwork planning’, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2016
Field Mapping – Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London Art Fair 2016 Project Space, Islington Business Design Centre, London, UK, 2016
Artists in the Field: engaging audiences in science and adventure – ‘Explore: expeditions and fieldwork planning’, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2015
Fieldwork Documents – ‘Explore: expeditions and fieldwork planning’, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2014
Communicating Your Discoveries – ‘Explore: expeditions and fieldwork planning’, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2014
Experimental Fieldwork – ‘The Bedlam Transect’ (LiDAR mapping project), Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, UK, 2013
Editorial – ‘Blank Canvas’ intergenerational education project, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 2012
Experimental Mapping – ‘Experimental Ruins’, Arts Catalyst / Museum of London, UK, 2012
Experimental Fieldwork – ‘Experimental Ruins’, Arts Catalyst / Museum of London, UK, 2012
Editorial – ‘Blank Canvas’ intergenerational education project, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 2011
Fieldwork Documents – ‘Explore: expeditions and fieldwork planning’, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2010
Mapping – ‘Blank Canvas’ intergenerational education project, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 2010
Off the Map – ‘Drawing Research Network’ conference, University of Brighton, UK, 2010
Fieldwork Documents – ‘Explore: expeditions and fieldwork planning’, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2009
Fieldwork Documents – ‘Explore: expeditions and fieldwork planning’, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2008
Souvenir – ‘Retracing Heinrich Barth’, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, UK, 2008
Fieldwork – ‘Explore: expeditions and fieldwork planning’, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2007
Editorial Narratives – ‘HEA Portfolio Advice Day’ (photography section), ICA, London, UK, 2006

Walking workshops
Boulder plateau and river (circular walk) – Aiguilles Rouges, Haute-Savoie, France, 2018
Mer de Glace (glacier walk + ladders) – Mont-Blanc massif, Haute-Savoie, France, 2017
The Greens and Meadows (radial walks) – various locations, Cambridge, UK, 2017
Lac Blanc and forest (circular walk) – Aiguilles Rouges, Haute-Savoie, France, 2016
Pattens Rock Quarry and woodlands (circular walk) – Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, UK, 2013
The Strand (virtual walk) – Anatomy Theatre, King’s College London, London, UK, 2012

Academic performance papers
A Mountain Recording Activity – ‘Performing Mountains: International Symposium on Mountain Culture’, University of Leeds, UK, 2018
A Mountain Recording Activity – ‘ASLE UKI and LAND 2 Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Writing, Art and Environment’, University of Leeds and Sheffield University, Leeds, UK, 2017
Guide74: a mountain recording activity – ‘RGS-IBG AC2016’, University of Brighton session ‘Sensory orientations: transversal practices and dissemination within art and geography’, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2016
Fieldwork In Practice: performance, survey, document – ‘The Alternative Document’, College of Arts, University of Lincoln, UK, 2016
Fieldwork In Practice – ‘Of the Earth’, co-hosted by Land/Water and the Visual Arts, Plymouth University and WALK at Sunderland University in conjunction with the exhibition Walk On, Plymouth University, UK, 2014
Fieldwork In Practice: shared geographies ‘RGS-IBG AC2014’, Royal Holloway University of London session ‘Geoaesthetics: Art, Environment and Co-production’, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 2014
Fieldwork In Practice: shared geographies – ‘1 simposio Internacional Topografías de lo Invisible: estrategias crítica entre arte y geographía’, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Barcelona University, Spain, 2013

Academic posters
Guide74: a mountain recording activity: Present Reserve – ‘Nexus Thinking’, RGS-IBG AC2016, London, UK 2016
Guide74: a mountain recording activity: Future Remains – ‘Field Mapping’, London Art Fair, London, UK 2016
Guide74: a mountain recording activity: Future Remains – ‘STRATA: Art and Science Collaborations in the Antropocene’, Aberystwyth University, Wales, 2016

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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Europe
CRP Hautes-de-France, Douchy-les-Mines, France
Hangar, Barcelona, Spain
Joya: arte + ecología, Cortijada Los Gázquez, Almería, Spain
Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades, Barcelona, Spain
Parc naturel régional Scarpe-Escaut, Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, France

UK
Airspace Gallery, Stoke on Trent | Bath Spa University Art Collection, Bath | Burton Art Gallery and Museum, Devon | Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Shropshire | King’s College London Special Collections, London | Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London | University of Lincoln Art Collection, Lincoln

USA and Australia
DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, Michigan
Rabbit Island Foundation, Lake Superior, Michigan
Verge Gallery Special Collection, University of Sydney

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OTHER INFO

Development and training
Cleaning the House, international workshop – Marina Abramović Institute (MAI Europe), Evia, Greece (May 2019)
a-n Mentoring 2018 with curator Lucy Day – supported by a-n The Artists Information Company, 2018-19
Prácticas Contemporáneas: comunidades en torno al sonido – AADK (Centro Negra), Blanca, Murcia, Spain, 2018
Notes on the Index: Photograph, Trace, Subject – Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2017
Curated Decay, book panel discussion – UCL, London, 2017
Study Night – Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK, 2016
Contemporary Cartographies: Drawing Thought – La Caixa Foundation Conference, CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain, 2012
Archivo F.X: De economia cero / Picasso Economía – Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain, 2012
Encounter: People, Place & Space – The Historic Dockyard, Kent, 2011
Networked: Dialogue & Exchange in the Global Art Ecology – Triangle Network Conference: Bloomberg, London, 2011
AIM 11 conference: IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire, 2011
Digital Textwriting workshop – Museums & Galleries: Natural History Museum, London, 2011
The Enlightenment of Travel balloted lecture – Paul Theroux: Royal Geographical Society, London, 2011
Exhibiting Photography international conference: University of Westminster, London, 2011
Desert Exploration showcase – Foyle Reading Room Collections: Royal Geographical Society, London, 2011
Little Big Voice lectures (sustainability talks and camp, later became the Do Lectures): Howies, Wales, pre-2011

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Plus ça change…

Laroche