Veronique Chance

Véronique is an Anglo-French multi-disciplinary 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, in which the activity of running plays a key part. The runs she undertakes are performed in specific places along pre-determined routes and are mediated to an audience live through mobile technology that is enabled to track her journey as it is taking place and to relay images of her viewpoint and location.

Running is arguably one of the most sustainable forms of mobility practices, a locative practice, it takes place in and can draw attention to the outside environment on a very basic human and fundamental level. Running is also strongly associated with physical health and mental wellbeing, which Véronique’s artwork also considers through paradoxical tensions of safety, risk, injury and care.

Care is additionally understood in relation to paying attention to the places, spaces, and communities in which the work is taking place. It is also attentive to how different communities will engage with the work. Véronique advocates slow running as a more inclusive non-competitive approach that counters normative ‘productive’ ideologies. and emphasises a more sensory engagement.

Véronique studied at Manchester Polytechnic, Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art, and has a PhD from Goldsmith’s College, University of London. She is Course Director of MA Fine Art at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU),Cambridge and co-founder of the Running Artfully Network (RAN), an international artist-led group, launched in 2021, whose aim is to reframe running as an artistic intervention to unpick our time of multiple global crises, and to create a more equitable and creative future.