Notions of Utopia have been a recurring theme of my work Revolution #10 and its spin-off A Peoples Manifesto. From its original genesis as a participatory public art project in partnership with the residents of Kensington & Chelsea on the Portobello Rd, to its presentation at the Houses of Parliament back in March, the work has consistently wrestled…
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Project profile: A People’s Manifesto
Originally posted on A Manifesto for Digital Messiness:
This article looks at the ‘People’s Manifesto’ project – a radical sound installation and performance that aimed to express the democratic hopes and fears of a nation during the 2015 UK General Election. A People’s Manifesto started life at InTRANSIT festival 2014 as part of a commission called…
Q&A with Joseph Young a.k.a. Giuseppe Marinetti
Joseph Young a.k.a Giuseppe Marinetti returns to InTRANSIT Festival this year with An Other World at the V&A. Previous appearances include The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing (2013) and Revolution #10 (2014). In this exclusive interview, he speaks with us about the art of politics and the politics of art. Thank you for agreeing to speak with me…
An Other World INTRANSIT 2015
image by Mike Massaro I am delighted to announce this year’s commission for InTRANSIT festival in Kensington & Chelsea, who supported and premiered both The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing and Revolution #10 in previous years. An Other World is a performance symposium at the V&A exploring the idea of Utopias – what do they…
Sound and the Urban Environment
My sound works series Six Families of Noise is being exhibited in a group show at Onca Gallery, starting next week. The pieces were recorded binaurally in and around Portslade as part of my residency with Blast Theory back in 2010, and respond to the 6 families of noises that Luigi Russolo identified in his Art…
“What is the sound of protest?”
Another announcement – this autumn, I will be spending a couple of months in Berlin researching and recording the sound of protest and how to represent it… Errant Bodies Sound Art Gallery and Project Space will be hosting my informal residency and I will be looking for collaborators to take part in some recording and…
Art:Language:Location
I’m excited to announce that a revolutionary poster edition of Revolution #10 will be exhibiting at Art Language Location in Cambridge this October. More details to follow…
We Like Artists
I was the Featured Artist and most looked at page on WeLikeArtists for the month of March 2015, helped by an active Twitter campaign that kept me on the top spot.
a-n news on Revolution #10
An interview with a-n news about the challenges of being a ‘revolutionary artist’. Read the article here.
Revolution #10 (Houses of Parliament)
“A People’s Manifesto” will be performed to MPs and guests at the House of Commons, 11th March 2015 @ 14.30 Revolutionary artist and crooner, Joseph Young, AKA Giuseppe Marinetti of Neo Futurist Collective, shares his public art project Revolution #10 to MPs and their guests next month at the House of Commons. The project produced “A People’s Manifesto”…
Revolution #10 at Brighton Digital Festival
The revolutionary roadshow rolls into town for the Brighton Digital Festival, where Revolution #10 has been awarded one of the prestigious Arts and Tech commissions. From September 1st there will be a new website that will invite the public to answer some simple questions and to submit their sound recordings and revolutionary images. On…
Whither the Avant Garde?
From a performance at “Whatever happened to the Avant Garde?” (Introduction) Whatever happened to the avant garde? As an artist and an activist that’s a big question. One that I wrestle with almost every day. In fact, it’s so big a question that it’s impossible to try and answer it in 5 minutes. So instead I’m going…
Future Cities Symposium
Great session:Whatever happened to the avant-garde? http://t.co/qocAp9sZOx with @artofnoises @cat_rossi @kimquazi #Artwatch @MTHSummerSchool — Austin Williams (@Future_Cities) September 14, 2014 I was delighted to be invited by architect, provocateur and writer Austin Williams of mantownhuman, to be a panellist in a debate on “Whatever happened to the avant garde?”. I first came across Austin being interviewed on Newsnight, back…
Revolution #10 launches at Trellick Tower
I’m in residency at the Goldfinger Factory underneath Trellick Tower in West London as part of InTRANSIT festival for the rest of July, making A People’s Manifesto with the local residents. Come along and visit! At its’ heart are 3 questions: 1) If you were elected as Prime Minister in May 2015, what would be the…
Acquired by the Estorick Collection
I am pleased to announce that The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing has been acquired for the archive at the Estorick Collection in London. After the successful performances there, it was an honour to have an edition of the work accepted for their permanent collection. I created a special iPod edition of the sound pieces accompanied by documentation…
Last chance to see in the UK this year
The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing pays homage to the legacy of futurist artists Luigi Russolo and FT Marinetti, so it is appropriate that the last leg of our current UK tour is at the Estorick in London – home to the UK’s finest collection of Italian Futurist art.The audience will be led on a sonic…
Archive: The Voice & Everything Else with Mikhail Karikis. Tate Modern (2009)
In 2009, I co-led a series of vocal workshops at Tate Modern with artist Mikhail Karikis, my friend and long-term collaborator in the Neo Futurist Collective. The project was part of the Futurist retrospective exhibition in 2009. We worked with a diverse group of performers over two weekends using the futurist manifestos as our starting point and took…
Lament / Live / Revive @ Aldeburgh Festival in June
I’ve been commissioned by Silent Opera to create a series of soundscapes for their latest opera production Live / Revive / Lament, based on the music of Monteverdi and the Ariadne legend from Greek mythology. The work will premiere this summer on June 16th at the prestigious Aldeburgh festival at Snape Maltings, former home to Benjamin…
A busy start to 2014
Well, after a well-earned Christmas break, it’s back to work with a vengeance… I’m currently working in my studio on a new set of songs for “The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing” and we will be mounting a special one-off performance when they are ready, sometime around April/May. I’ll post details as soon…
Art Party 2013
A commission for a-n and AIR Council to produce an intervention at the Art Party conference organised by artist Bob & Roberta Smith. Myself and Susan Jones (director of a-n) made two interventions for the main hall – one factual and the other a performative artwork; both of them highlighted issues around our Paying Artists campaign. My piece “Articulate to…
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