EDR #36: The Singular Life of Véronique Chance as Artist-Runner

Hello and welcome to Episode 36 of EDR. This episode features an interview with Véronique Chance a London-based artist who works with running. For Chance, running is a tool with which to ask questions about geography, the environment, space and our social, cultural and political context (my framing). 

I enjoyed this conversation a lot for it reminded me of how close running can be to being a game and artistic practice, rather than simply being a competitive sport with clear and fixed boundaries, mega-competitions with each competitor only fixated on getting a PB or winning. 

Chance speaks of her very interesting run, The Great Orbital Run, in which she ran around London roughly following the orbital road. We speak about her upcoming run from London to Cambridge and her project of running from London to Venice. And to think we didn't even mention the term 'ultra' once during the conversation :) 

So yeah, that's all from me. I hope you enjoy the conversation. 

Doi doi. 

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From Chance's website: 

Véronique Chance is an artist and academic with a long-term interest in the representation of the body and its relationship to performance, documentation, technology and the embodied dynamics of spectatorship. This is closely linked to her practice-led PhD research, completed in 2013 at Goldsmith’s College, University of London, during which she developed an endurance running-based art practice as part of a larger enquiry into the performative nature of human physical activity.

Véronique currently teaches on and leads the MA Fine Art and MA Printmaking courses at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU). She is based in London and her work has been shown across the UK and Internationally, in China, Canada, Korea, Spain, Italy, Belgium and France.

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