ArtCouple
ArtCouple is a newly-formed multimodal partnership between Simon Bradley and Ursula Troche. Combining text, sound art, imagery and performance, their work explores (post)subjectivities and displacement. Through risk-taking and post-Fluxus practices ArtCouple have pioneered a form of ‘micro-psychogeography’ arising out of their collaborative walking art. Their emergent works include installations, performance interventions and assemblages of found objects informed by ecological concerns and site-specific findings.
Simon Bradley is a sound artist who writes and walks. He is fascinated by shifting connections between memory, voice, power and place. In 2016 he completed a practice-led PhD “Archaeology of the Voice’ in which he explored oral history and locative narrative in Holbeck, Leeds. Bradley has worked nationally and internationally on many sound/music projects and interventions including TATE Britain and Tokyo Dome, also an ongoing series of ‘Displacement Activities’ including Leeds, Montreal and Florence.
Ursula Troche is an artist and writer documenting her second migration— the first centring on the transition from country to country (across the North Sea), the second from city to sea (across England). Trained some way towards psychoanalysis, she became a psychogeographer instead, as a result of experiences of place and movement. Performed, amongst many others, at the Walthamstow Garden Party, exhibited at the ‘Palimpsest’ group show (2016), writings include ‘Looking for Irish Street’.
ArtCouple live on the Cumbrian coast next to the Irish Sea—they perform everywhere they go.
Interventions, provocations and presentations include: 2018 Royal Geographical Society, Cardiff; Wavescape, Split; Auntie Freeze Festival (The Cave); Tracing the Pathway, Milton Keynes; 4th World Congress of Psychogeography, Huddersfield; 2019: Terminalia, Leeds; West Cumbria Arts Trail; Falling Walls, Stroud; Walking’s New Movements Plymouth. Merzbarn; Cumbria
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