Joseph Young : Artist

Sound and the Urban Environment (2)

For those of you in Brighton and planning to visit the exhibition in the next week – a) It’s been extended by 2 days, so is now on until June 5th b) If you specifically want to hear my work then visit the gallery at the following times: 12.47 and 15.47 Mon-Fri 10.47 and 13.47 Sat &…

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…

Review of Revolution #10 at House of Commons

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…

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…

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”…

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…

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…

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…

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…