This week sees the release of a new vinyl album on Farpoint Recordings, Sonic Hauntings in a Big House. The work is a limited edition of 250 copies, plus artist proofs. The album emerged out of a practice-based PhD in Ireland, in which I investigated the archives of a historic house in Bray, County Wicklow,…
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Exhibitions : Selected works
The Ancestors (2024)
From May 2019 – March 2023, I was artist-in-residence at Killruddery House & Gardens in Bray, County Wicklow as part of a practice-based PhD at SMARTlab, Inclusive Design Research Centre of Ireland, University College Dublin – funded by Irish Research Council (IRC). The research project Killruddery: Listening to the Archive was successfully completed in June…
listening to the wind (2024)
Wexford Arts Centre 20th February – 21 March (open Tues-Sat) Opening event 17th February, 3pm, with performances by Joseph Young and Suzanne Walsh, everyone welcome! listening to the wind is a four channel sound installation with custom built seating, entitled listening to the wind (below), inspired by the life and work of English artist, writer…
French Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale (2023)
My sound piece The Destruction of Language (after Le Madame), originally created in 2008 and re-edited in 2023, has been selected as part of a programme of international sound works responding to the theme of Radio Utopia, News from the World in the French Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale from August 1-5th. The work…
Listening Hands (2021)
As part of the Interbeing project, which I am co-curating with ceramic artist Kay Aplin, we are producing a film inspired by the Tai Chi form. The film came about after I performed at the Park 19 artist residency centre in Guangzhou showcasing my Sonic Baton instrument which I use to conduct field recordings. After…
A field in England / Prisoners (2018)
A field in England / Prisoners was produced as a result of a site-specific commission in Leicester, supported by De Montfort University and IRCAM. In Situ commissioned 3 artists to make temporary sonic works which animate historic spaces. I presented two interlinked pieces which explore the historic connection between Richard III and the City of…
Make Futurism Great Again! (2018)
#MFGA Today sees the launch of Make Futurism Great Again at the Estorick Collection, London a timely examination of Futurism in the 21st century by groundbreaking artist group Neo Futurist Collective. I founded the collective in 2007, in the guise of conceptual politician and crooner Giuseppe Marinetti. The launch is accompanied by a specially filmed performance of…
The Missing Paintings (2017)
I am delighted to announce my latest commission, a sound diptych entitled “The Missing Paintings” for Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne. The work previews this Friday as part of Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship and then is open to the public from May 27th to 17th Sept. Ravilious painted a number of watercolours…
Singing the Castle to life (2017)
This ambitious project started in mid 2016 and came to fruition in the late summer and early autumn of 2017. It encompassed two separate and interlinking pieces of work. The first was an audio guide, commissioned by Sensing Culture and Sussex Past in partnership with RNIB and created in collaboration with Josh Kopecek (founder of…
In A Shetland Landscape (2016)
Yesterday’s opening at Shetland Museum & Archives was accompanied by the release of an album of binaural soundscapes taken from my joint exhibition with ceramist Kay Aplin, also entitled In A Shetland Landscape. The album is available as a free download from Portuguese net label Green Field Recordings (catalogue number GFR099) and comprises a set…
Revolution #10 (2015)
Revolution #10 started life as a commission in 2014 for the InTRANSIT festival in London. On a campaign stall on the Portobello Road, I interviewed the public about the importance of democracy. The work expresses the divergent views of members of the public in the run-up to a General Election and reflects the messiness and competing noises of democracy…
The Growing Manual (2014)
In 2014, the artist group I founded, Neo Futurist Collective, was invited to take part of a group exhibition at Seoul Museum of Art curated by John Reardon and Hyemin Son. The Growing Manual featured grassroots arts collectives from around the world, working at the intersection of art and activism. Each collective chose a text…
The Gentrification Suite (2014)
“EASY LISTENING AS ART PRACTICE” In the guise of my alter ego Giuseppe Marinetti, I have today released a digital mini album of songs that blends latin and swing music with political lyrics in a radical collage of quotations. Created as part of The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing, the album is entitled The…
Squeezing profit from the moment (2012)
Squeezing profit from the moment from Joseph Young on Vimeo. My new Super 8 film “Squeezing Profit from the Moment” is available now on Vimeo. The film was made as part of the R&D phase of The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing. #skinnyvintage
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