Joseph Young : Artist

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I have a well-kept secret…I own a Bandcamp page which features two publications created during the life and death of Neo Futurist Collective, the artist group I founded in 2007, and which self-destructed at the Estorick Collection, London in 2018 (a good place to self-destruct, I’m sure you’ll agree). The first is The Gentrification Suite…

Perfection of Understanding (2022)

PERFECTION OF UNDERSTANDING is a limited edition artist book and CD containing commissioned artworks, essays and documentation of Interbeing, an exploration of collaborative ceramic and sound art practice in Britain and China, curated and edited by Joseph Young and Kay Aplin (supported by funding from Arts Council England). Inter-being is a Buddhist concept that comes…

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The future is dead! Long live the future! I founded NeoFuturist Collective in 2007, launched on the streets of Brighton on the 99th anniversary of the publication of the original Founding of Futurism manifesto on Feb 20th 2008. It self-destructed during The Final Noise at the Estorick Collection, London on October 16th 2018. Its legacy…

A Manual for Rematerialisation (2021)

On December 1st in Dublin, A Manual for Rematerialisation will be launched at the Dublin Art Book Fair at Temple Bar Gallery at 4pm. The book is the result of the Time Travel seminar I was selected for earlier in the year and all of the contributing artists, designers and makers have made work in…

Time Travel: Re-materialising the Past in Place (2021)

I have been selected for an immersive research module at NCAD (National College of Art & Design) in partnership with IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art), looking at the “the entangled role that material documents play across different regions and times, both as a way to renegotiate a past and as a blueprint for future…

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…

Interbeing: Emptiness is Form

Interbeing is the latest curatorial collaboration between myself and ceramic artist Kay Aplin. The project has been in development since 2019, and started formally with a research trip to China, funded by Arts Council England and the British Council. The project has changed massively in response to Covid over the past year, but we are…

SLEEPERTOWN on tour

Circa Regna Tonat, the geo-fenced soundwalk I created as part of Richard Carr’s SLEEPERTOWN project, is to be relocated to Tullamore in the Midlands area of Ireland, opening on July 1 as part of curator Brendan Fox’s project, Museum of Everyone. ‘Circa Regna Tonat’ references the metaphor of the storm and its relationship to COVID…

The Joy of Isolation (2020)

Myself and three other sound artists have created improvised musical/sonic performances in response to the theme The Joy of Isolation. The results are now available on cassette and as a digital download on Bandcamp, in partnership with Paul Khimasia Morgan of Aural Detritus Concert Series. Sound artists: Blanca Regina Embla Quickbeam Paul Khimasia Morgan Joseph…

Circa Regna Tonat (2020)

On 18th Sept 2020 on the occasion of Culture Night in Ireland, my new commission Circa Regna Tonat (It thunders throughout the realm) was unveiled in Gorey, Co. Wexford as part of the ‘Sleepertown’ public art project curated by Richard Carr. The six geo-located audio works that are part of the commission (including mine) have…

Interbeing : WFH_1.0 takeover

This week has seen the official launch of the project “Interbeing” which emerged out of a research trip to China and Hong Kong last year with my co-curator at The Ceramic House, Kay Aplin, organised originally in partnership with Zen Arts. Just before the lockdown started we heard that we had been successful in our…

Soundscapes in the Pandemic

Radio Aporee has been running a “soundscapes in the pandemic” project on their website, mapping the various ways that the soundscape has changed around the world in response to Covid-19. I’ve contributed 3 recordings so far, you can listen to them below, or you can go to Radio Aporee and listen to them on the…

Isolation Concert

The current crisis forces us all to be creative. When my concert in The Orangery at Killruddery in Bray, Ireland was postponed we decided instead to film the performance in the garden of The Ceramic House in Brighton where I am currently isolated. All of the sounds you will hear have been recorded in and…

Ground Zero on Radio Staalplaat (2020)

Ground Zero revisits some iconic material I collected on Wall Street during the crash of 2008. We arrived on Wall St as artists-in-residence for the Conflux Festival on Sept 11th, right in the middle of the first Obama presidential election campaign. Conspiracy theorists were out on the streets, spouting stories of Israeli Mossad involvement in…

Killruddery : Listening to the Archive, a public talk

I am delivering a public talk at Killruddery House (just outside of Bray, Ireland) as part of “Listening to the Archive”, my ongoing artist-in-residence research project there. The presentation introduces the main themes of my practice-based PhD at SMARTlab, part of the Inclusive Design Research Centre of Ireland at University College Dublin. Killruddery is a beautiful…

#WLD2019

To mark World Listening Day 2019 I have recorded a performance of Dean Rosenthal’s Stones/Water/Time/Breath by the fountain at Killruddery, Bray in Co. Wicklow, Ireland, where I am currently artist-in-residence, as part of an Irish Research Council funded practice-based PhD with SMARTlab, University College Dublin. Link to the score here. Recorded binaurally with Sound Devices…

Last Art Words for a while this Wednesday

This Wednesday is my last Art Words for a while, although the series itself will continue in my absence. It is part of Wednesdays at Phoenix Brighton and is based on a simple idea. Words by artists curated around a single theme. This month I have chosen a selection of readings drawn from the field of…

The Temple of Anagama

Following on from last summer’s attendance at the Kohila wood firing symposium in Estonia with ceramist Kay Aplin, in which I recorded the sounds of a 3-day anagama kiln firing, I am pleased to announce the second output from that trip. The first was the 4 channel sound installation that accompanied Kay’s “Fire and Water”…

Interbeing: research trip to China (Guangzhou & Foshan)

I am back in the UK recovering from jet lag but wanted to quickly post something from one of the main venues on my recent Chinese research trip, funded by Arts Council England and British Council’s Artist International Development Fund. Over two and half weeks, Kay Aplin and I (my co-curator at The Ceramic House) travelled from…

Fire and Water, a ceramics and sound installation

View this post on Instagram Fire and water, a new work by Kay Aplin & Joseph Young – a unique collaboration in ceramics and sound. Showing next week at Collect Open 2019, Saatchi Gallery London. The water sounds come from Borines in Asturias, Northern Spain from the site where Kay gathered the tiny flora that…