A limited edition Cdr on Slightly Off Kilter was released this Monday, documenting last year’s headphone concert series at The Ceramic House. The CD features performances by myself, Paul Khimasia Morgan, Michalis Mavronas, Neil Luck, Jon Aveyard and Marcus Leadley. It is superbly recorded and packaged and sounds exquisite on headphones. Yours for £7.99 via…
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Tate Britain commission
I have been commissioned by Tate Britain to run a series of silent soundwalks around the gallery as part of a participatory day of art events for families on June 9th for BP Saturdays: Tate Together.
Aural Detritus
On Friday May 11th starting at 7.30 pm I will be performing as part of Paul Khimasia Morgan’s Aural Detritus series at the Green Room Cafe at Phoenix Gallery in Brighton. I am going to be performing with a mix of birdsong and junk emails! See you there…
Sea of Voices
I have been working with Sue Gollifer’s MA Digital Media students at Brighton University to create soundscapes as part of Invisible Flock’s mobile app for the Sea of Voices commission, which is part of RELAY. The students came out with me in miserable weather to collect characteristic Brighton sounds or “soundmarks” and then edited these…
Own Art interview
I was recently interviewed for the Own Art newsletter (an Arts Council publication) about my purchase of the late Katy Dove‘s edition of “Score” and how it related to my own practice. You can read the article here.
Cerith Wyn Evans
As part of my role in the Interpretation Team at the De La Warr Pavilion, I recently conducted a series of silent soundwalks with the public around the building which explored the relationship between sound and public space. Cerith Wyn Evans describes the exhibition as a “love letter to the building”, and this is my response…
The Psychogeography of Shoreditch
As part of the research for my new project The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing , I went to Latte Central (aka Shoreditch) yesterday to gauge the temperature of the streets. This is what I found… #skinnyvintage
Bobby Does Bexhill
Now that the secret’s out, I can reveal that I am indeed “Bobby America”… Bobby America is a creation as part of my role in the Interpretation Team at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea. Bobby is a fictional survivor of Andy Warhol’s (late) Factory days – a former model and bit part actor who now…
The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing
My latest project The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing has been awarded a research and development grant by Arts Council England. The new piece is an exploration of globalisation and gentrification… taking in a journey that begins on Wall Street in 2008 during the weekend of the Lehmann Brothers collapse and culminating in the financial crisis…
One minute Berlin rain
Minute of Listening is a creative learning project through which Sound and Music hopes to enable every child in the country to gain access to a huge diversity of music and sound and, for sixty seconds each day, to focus on the richness and enjoyment of the act of listening. I am very happy to be…
This Saturday @ De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea
My first interpretation session as part of Warhol is Here, is this Saturday from 2pm at the DLWP. 29 Oct / 26 Nov / 10 Dec / 4 Feb 2012 Bobby America is a survivor and a former star of the Warhol Factory. Bobby is a talk radio host, and he would like to talk…
MA Digital Media Arts Brighton
The last two days have seen my annual pilgrimage to Grand Parade in Brighton to guest lecture on the MA Digital Media Arts course run by the excellent Sue Gollifer. It’s always a pleasure working with this group and this year is no exception. They came a long way in such a short time; from our initial…
The Colored Museum at the V&A
The Colored Museum is a thought-provoking, satirical show that has delighted and discomforted audiences since it was written by George C. Wolfe in America in 1986. Director: Don Warrington Set/Costume designer: Jonathan Fensom Lighting designer: Jason Taylor Musical director: Dominique Le Gendre Sound designer: Joseph Young Taking place in a cultural museum, the 11 living ‘exhibits’ explore African-American identity in…
Performance photographs :: Common Sounds
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Concerto for Brutalist Buildings
Myself and Peter Faulkner, in our role as artist:agitators The NeoFuturist Collective, were invited to act as hosts for an ambitious site-specific performance at the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington High Street. The result was a suite of works celebrating the history and architecture of this splendid modernist icon, Concerto for Brutalist Buildings. Fruit for the…
Interpretation Team – De La Warr Pavilion
I have been invited to be part of the Interpretation Team at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill. This beautiful modernist icon of a building is one of my favourite galleries, so I am delighted to be part of the team that will be delivering courses and events for the local community in response…
Gold Dust performances announced
Gold Dust – a series of intimate headphone performance at The Ceramic House, exploring sound and domestic space, with invited guest artists. Part of HOUSE festival. May 11th: Joseph Young, Paul Morgan, Michail Mavronas May 18th: Joseph Young, Neil Luck, Paul Morgan, Michail Mavronas May 28th: Joseph Young, Jon Aveyard, Marcus Leadley Tickets available online from Brighton Ticket…
RNIB Culturelink
I’m currently working on a commission for RNIB Culturelink – a pilot collaboration with seven museums in the West Midlands to improve creative access to museum and gallery collections for visually impaired people. I’ve been at Tate Modern all day documenting a number of responses to the existing Tate Collections from the participating museum curators, and it’s been a wonderfully inspiring event. I…
Exquisite Corpse @ Soundfjord
I’m going to Soundfjord tonight for the opening of Exquisite Corpse, as one of the exhibiting artists. It’s a group sound show inspired by the Surrealist practice of Exquisite Corpse, using common rules and starting points (similar to the parlour game of Consequences). In this case an artist makes a piece of work and then passes it onto the…
Artist’s Story @ Fabrica 14th April 6.30pm
As part of the Artist Resource events around Janet Cardiff’s Forty Part Motet, I have been invited to give an Artist Talk at Fabrica in Brighton on 14th April at 6.30pm. I will be discussing my work and methodologies and, in particular, my latest collaboration with Public Art Ceramicist J Kay Aplin for HOUSE, part…
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