Laroche / Luce Choules
"Laroche’s 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 emerging habitats of industrial detritus, 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."
Laroche (b. 1968) is an itinerant artist currently based in the French Pyrenees and working extensively from field centres in the European Alps, 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, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London.
Their concept album ‘REGOLITHIC’ – a collaboration with Roisner, a performance artist, music producer and DJ – 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.
Laroche (aka 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.
Laroche (b. 1968) is an itinerant artist currently based in the French Pyrenees and working extensively from field centres in the European Alps, 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, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London.
Their concept album ‘REGOLITHIC’ – a collaboration with Roisner, a performance artist, music producer and DJ – 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.
Laroche (aka 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.