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 (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…

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Mapping Space

MAPPING SPACE Section 2 from Joseph Young on Vimeo. I’ve finally got around to digitising a sequence from this Laban educational DVD that I made with Anna Carlisle, Chair of the Laban Guild, back in 2014. The soundtrack follows closely the motion factors of the Laban technique to produce music that is a subtle commentary on…

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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”…

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In A Shetland Landscape research trip

I have just returned from a research trip to the Shetland Isles with ceramist J Kay Aplin. We have a residency booked at Scalloway Booth on the island next August and then an exhibition at Da Gadderie in Shetland Museum in April 2016 and so this was an opportunity for me to get to know…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Live/ Revive/ Lament @ Aldeburgh Festival

Well, here we are at the famous Aldeburgh Festival, getting ready for the premiere of Live/ Revive/ Lament, a new opera commission, for which I am doing the sound design for the middle piece. The weather has been fantastic and rehearsals are starting to talk shape in the run-up to the first performance on Monday. Silent…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Shoreditchification

Journalist Alex Proud appeared to coin the word in an article for the Telegraph dated January 2014, “Why the Shoreditchification of London must stop”. The term however originally comes from a song of the same name, created as part of my six movement noise opera “The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing” launched in July 2013; seen here on YouTube.

The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing, University of Surrey (2014)

Pictures from an Exhibition… A chance to re-imagine the original sound installation of “The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing”. The audience were given headphones and an iPod and invited to explore the related objects and displays to create their own narrative of gentrification, artists and the international money markets. Lewis Elton gallery, University of…

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