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FACE OF THE EARTH research activities and projects

Face of the Earth is a series of long-term interconnected research projects, involving environmental mapping and curated landscapes, geographical ecosystems and cultural tourism, artist expeditions and experimental fieldwork.

Choules is interested in fragility, the mobility of material and an environmental shift in human nature. Using a trans-media approach, they investigate earth systems and structures, in particular the movement and behaviour of animate and inanimate objects. Through experiential and embodied fieldwork methods they monitor geographic and geomorphic shifts, whilst considering geology an ongoing event. Their surveys have taken place in mountain ranges, forests and deserts, rivers and lakes, natural parks and remote islands, post-industrial landscapes and urban centres. Against a pervasive anthropocentric view their work probes a collapsing of environments, contributing to a wider discussion on instability and change. They explore how slow capture in an age of acceleration influences image/object making as a form of material transformation and transportation.

As an independent scholar, Choules has presented academic and performance papers on the subject/object of fieldwork in artistic practice in addition to a prolific series of public live events and artist talks on a new environmental (re)turn. Their research considers the dynamic form of landscape, and their work engages with the challenge in recording and broadcasting time-based practice. Choules is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society since 2007, and previously coordinated workshops for artist-led expeditions and fieldwork planning activities as part of the annual Explore event for over a decade. They participate in collaborative and multi-authored fieldwork and share research through publications and other public platforms.

Through various commissions, residencies, collaborations and projects, Choules explores a range of metaphysical, sensorial and poetic thematics: ideas on geoecologies and human behaviour; the viewpoints and monuments of collapsing environments; and the slippage of perception, distance and materiality in digital technologies.