Luce Choules
Luce Choules’ work explores complexity and our 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 thinking, their artistic research engages with the structures of tourist mechanisms and emerging habitats of industrial detritus, social geography and the unearthed substance of cultural heritage, and the massive gravity-based movements of mountain systems to reflect on the construction of socio-environmental discourse and its relation to physical matter.
Luce Choules (b. 1968) is an itinerant artist currently based in the French Pyrenees and working extensively from field centres in the European Alps, Barcelona and 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, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London, UK, and director of Alpine School of Art.
Their concept album ‘REGOLITHIC’ – a collaboration with performance artist, music producer and DJ Roisner – 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.
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.
Their work is in collections across the UK, Europe and US, and their practice has been written about and featured in Critical Distance in Documentary Media (Palgrave Macmillan), Topografías de lo Invisible: Estrategias Críticas entre Arte y Geografía (Universitat de Barcelona), and Form, Art and the Environment: Engaging in Sustainability (Routledge), among others.
Situated at the intersection of ecological, archaeological and geologic thinking, their artistic research engages with the structures of tourist mechanisms and emerging habitats of industrial detritus, social geography and the unearthed substance of cultural heritage, and the massive gravity-based movements of mountain systems to reflect on the construction of socio-environmental discourse and its relation to physical matter.
Luce Choules (b. 1968) is an itinerant artist currently based in the French Pyrenees and working extensively from field centres in the European Alps, Barcelona and 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, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London, UK, and director of Alpine School of Art.
Their concept album ‘REGOLITHIC’ – a collaboration with performance artist, music producer and DJ Roisner – 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.
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.
Their work is in collections across the UK, Europe and US, and their practice has been written about and featured in Critical Distance in Documentary Media (Palgrave Macmillan), Topografías de lo Invisible: Estrategias Críticas entre Arte y Geografía (Universitat de Barcelona), and Form, Art and the Environment: Engaging in Sustainability (Routledge), among others.