Born
in France in 1976, Pierre Larauza is a cross-disciplinary
artist involved in individual and collective projects within
and across several fields (architecture, video, photography,
set design, and digital media). In 1999, Larauza co-founded
the association Trajection(s) with Emmanuelle Vincent.
Larauza has degrees from the School of Fine Arts in Bordeaux,
France (DNAP in 1998), the School of Multimedia in Sydney,
Australia (2001), and the School of Architecture at Paris-la-Villette
(2004). He was a research assistant at the Hong Kong Polytechnic
University and worked as an assistant with Map Office on
the Pearl River Delta Project, a project that received the
prestigious Inspiration Award of the International Architecture
Biennale in Rotterdam in May 2003. Ongoing projects include
a visual essay on prostitution spaces for HK lab 2 (Hong
Kong: Map Book Publishers, forthcoming 2004), guest edited
by Laura Ruggeri.
Larauza is presently conducting research on 'space/non-place'
and on the movement of the subjective body (his own as the
"videographer") and has participated in numerous
group exhibitions (Rotterdam Biennale, Sydney Video Festival,
Paris, Bordeaux, etc.)
He was through
t.r.a.n.s.i.t.s.c.a.p.e in art residence
in Hong Kong in autumn 2003 at Videotage. With Emmanuelle
Vincent they directed the video-dance
Over the Game.
He is presently conducting research on "Paysages
rhizomatiques" (Rhizomatic Landscapes), an urban
analysis system. He has been nominated for the competition
Minimaousse organized by the French Institute of Architecture
(IFA).