Joseph Young : Artist

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…

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)

The six movement noise opera The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing, premiered in a basement car park at the iconic Trellick Tower in London as part of InTRANSIT festival in 2013. For this iteration in the Lewis Elton Gallery in Surrey, the audience were given headphones and an iPod and invited to explore…

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…

The Growing Manual

Neo Futurist Collective (the artist group I founded in 2008) is delighted to be included in a new publication entitled The Growing Manual. The Growing Manual works with data from artist-run collectives across the world to create an archive, a limited edition artwork, a temporary growing experiment, a publication. This is a collaborative project involving artist-run collectives /…

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…

Radio Radio

I’ve been interviewed for a special documentary on the centenary of the publication of the Art of Noises manifesto for “Between the Ears” on Radio 3; it’s available now as a downloadable podcast on the iTunes Store. The piece is presented by composer Dan Jones and produced by Sara Jane Hall and takes a look at…

Knitting Time, Touch Art Fair (2013)

The first ever Touch Art Fair in London this week included the audio-descriptive sound installation from Knitting Time by myself and Colin Hambrook. This celebration of haptic art included work by Jake and Dinos Chapman and was held at a former BBC building on Marylebone High St.

Knitting Time (2013)

Colin Hambrook’s Knitting Time exhibition opened this week at Pallant House in Chichester. I created an unusual audio headphone installation to accompany Colin’s exhibition of paintings and drawings. The work features cinematic soundscapes alongside Colin’s voice, reading audio descriptions of the selected paintings, as well as extracts of the poetry that inspired the exhibition. A moving and darkly…

Skinny Vintage Dot Com

The new website for The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing is live… Skinny Vintage Dot Com is the home of The Skinny Vintage Investment Corporation – helping you turn your trust fund into a profitable investment, through the support and development of home-grown artistic enterprise. All the latest news and links to our…

Giuseppe sings the Recession!

The Middle Class Revolutionary Road Show rolls into town in September for the Brighton Digital Festival and World Stage Design in Cardiff. For this second leg of our tour, The Neo-Futurist Collective and Fruit For The Apocalypse transform The White Room at Phoenix Gallery Brighton into a pop up vintage emporium on September 7th, starting at 8pm sharp. The evening…

The Ballad of Skinny Lattes & Vintage Clothing (2013)

Well we did it… The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing finally emerged to kickstart the Middle Class Revolution in West London. But not without a major hiccup…Friday night 11pm saw us without any power and by the time came around to 2pm Saturday (the time of the first performance) we were still without…

The Middle Classes Are Revolting!

Filmed on the streets of Berlin for the Month of Performance Art. Part of The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing…

Skinny Vintage at Trellick Tower

Designed by Ernest Goldfinger in the late 1960’s and built in 1972, Trellick Tower is an iconic feature of the West London skyline. Now Grade Two listed, it is a classic example of the Brutalist architecture movement, love it or loath it… Personally, I LOVE IT!!! So I was delighted when I was invited to…

The Revolution takes shape on the streets of Berlin

Surrealist taxi from Webb-Ellis on Vimeo. The Surrealist Taxi returns to Berlin Month of Perfromance Art, as Giuseppe takes passengers on an alternative investment tour of the city.

++STOP PRESS++ in London this week

I’m performing on the MS Stubnitz this Saturday as part of a special event hosted by Kinetica. There’s a facebook event page here for booking information. I’m running a workshop with the Sonic Baton in the afternoon and performing in the evening… Thursday and Friday evenings also see me previewing some material from “The Ballad…

Kinetica Art Fair

A film of the performance with the Sonic Baton at Kinetica Art Fair 2013 in London. All the sounds used were originally recorded at the Private View and are controlled live in performance by the movement of the baton.

Framework Afield – Art of Noises

On 7th April 2013, the Framework Afield Edition about the Art of Noises manifesto was first broadcast on Resonance FM. You can listen to the podcast here.

The Ballad of Skinny Lattes in Berlin

I’m travelling to Berlin to take part in the 3rd annual edition of Month of Performance Art with my friends and producers Fruit for the Apocalypse. BALLAD OF SKINNY LATTES AND VINTAGE CLOTHING IN THE SURREALIST TAXI Fruit for the Apocalypse & Neo Futurist Collective The Surrealist Taxi returns to MPA-B with a performing passenger! “The…