BA (Hons) Fine Art, MA Printmaking, PhD Art

Course Leader and Senior Lecturer, MA Fine Art & MA Printmaking


Room: Ruskin 130

Email: veronique.chance@anglia.ac.uk

Personal website: www.veroniquechance.com

Telephone: 0845 196 2875
International: +44 1223 363 271 ext. 2875


Dr Véronique Chance's research activity

Véronique Chance is an artist based in London and has previously worked as an Associate Lecturer at Camberwell and Wimbledon Colleges of Art, and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lincoln. She has studied at Manchester Polytechnic, Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Her work has been shown across the United Kingdom and abroad including China, Canada, Korea, Northern Cyprus, Italy, Spain, Belgium and France.

Véronique's art-practice is mainly photography and video based, but also maintains strong links with print, sculpture and performance practices. Her research interests lie in the relationship between the physical presence of the body and its presence as a screen image, through which she examines the impact of visual media technologies on our perceptions of the body as a physical presence. This is closely related to the subject of her PhD, completed at Goldsmith's College, University of London in October 2012.

In recent work she has used mobile camera technologies to transmit and record her eyeviews, whilst performing long distance runs in the outside environment. This work forms part of a larger inquiry regarding the performative nature of human physical activity, which draws on the contexts and trajectories of performance art practice in pushing the body to the limits of physical endurance and uses the performative nature of technology and of the moving image as a means of mediating that experience.

In 2009 she was selected to take part in Liminal Screen, a Co-Production Residency at the Banff New Media Institute in Canada, where she researched the potentials of live image streaming and transmission in the remote winter landscape. This was supported by a research award from the University of the Arts, London and outputs were subsequently shown as A Winter Landscape, a six-screen projected video installation and discussion event at the Triangle project space, Chelsea College of Art & Design in December 2009. From 2009 to the present she has regularly shown work with 'The Projection Gallery.com', notably Chasing Blue, a split-screen video of a run tracing the blue boundary fence of the London 2012 Olympic Site as part of the BBC Big Screens initiative of showing moving image works in public spaces. In 2011 she undertook a research residency on Orford Ness, a former military base just off the coast of Suffolk, with support from the National Trust. Two large-scale photographs taken during this time were recently shown in the University of the Arts, London Photographic Practices research group exhibition Scope: New Photographic Practices in Beijing, China. More recently she received a Staff Research Award to support the development of The Great Orbital Ultra Run project, a 150 mile run around the inside boundary of the M25 London Orbital, which took place over nine consecutive days in March 2012. This was relayed live through a stream of images and GPS coordinates sent from her mobile phone and projected from a web interface at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London, for the two-person exhibition Evil Sport and Ultra Run.


Areas of supervision

• moving image histories and contemporary practices, especially relating to video installation histories and practices of performance, esp. relating to the relationship between performance, technology and documentation
• the ontological and performative dynamics of spectatorship; subjectivities and representations of the body in contemporary art practice; photographic practices

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