DÉPLACER DES MONTAGNES / MOVING MOUNTAINS
Co-curation event / funded invitation (presentations, workshops and exhibition). 16 August 2024
ALTER- (Altitude Laboratory Transition Experiments Research) Switzerland

Déplacer des Montagnes / Moving Mountains – a reflection event and future-facing programme

Luce Choules (aka Laroche) presented Altitude and Gravity and delivered two Immaterial Fields workshops, as part of the ALTER- 2024 edition ‘Déplacer des montagnes / Moving Mountains’ public event in Chandolin, Val d’Anniviers, Switzerland. This event also reflected on the experiences of the TSOEG team residency We are the Weathers in 2023 – a counter-mapping project using transdisciplinary fieldwork to explore the weather as a high mountain entity – and introduced a future-facing programme with cultural agents in the Val d’Anniviers, Switzerland.

Summary:
Co-curated events programme staying at ALTER- residence apartment / 1-week stay for 1-day intensive public programme with workshops, sharing events, presentations and exhibition / working with cultural agents, high mountain science centres and cultural spaces

TSOEG representation:
Luce Choules (aka Laroche)

ALTER- Team:
Julie Beauvais and Horace Lundd, Co-founders, ALTER- (Altitude Laboratory Transition Experiments Research), residency program for artists and researchers in Val d’Anniviers, Switzerland | Virginie Poulin, expert in Sustainable Finance and Change Management, and co-facilitator (with French/English translation) in public event programme for ALTER- edition 2024, Grimentz, Val d’Anniviers, Switzerland | Pauline Archambault, teacher, and co-facilitator (with French/English translation) in public event programme for ALTER- edition 2024, Zinal, Val d’Anniviers, Switzerland.

Project partners:
Sarah Huber, owner of Alpage de Cottier, Zinal, Val d’Anniviers, Switzerland | Emmanuel Reynard, director, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research (CIRM) and Institute of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland | Collectif Synergeons, Val d’Anniviers, Switzerland.

Keywords:
Environmental Art, Curated Landscape, Cultural Tourism, Industrial Ruin, Social Geography, Cultural History, Ecology, Geology, Survey and Mapping, Fieldwork.

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Link to ALTER- 2024 programme

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Residency – July and August 2023
Luce Choules (aka Laroche) was team leader of the We are the Weathers ALTER- 2023 edition in Chandolin, Val d’Anniviers, Switzerland [read more].