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Joseph Morgan Schofield        

these teeming forms, 2021

Available online throughout August as part of PSX, ]performance space[’s 10th anniversary programme.

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these teeming forms 

screening, within ‘The Last Breath Society’, ICA (London)
24th July to 1st August 2021


these teeming forms

online screening, ]performance s p a c e[
30th July to 27th August 2021


10 hours

durational performance, ]performance s p a c e[
21st August 2021


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QUEER
RITUAL
ACTION


I understand my works as acts of mythopoesis, as process driven embodiments of different ways of being in other possible worlds. I think of art-making as technology of divination, a way to vision, prophecy or fiction [other] [queer] futurities.



artist statement  // cv
Joseph Morgan Schofield (b. 1993, Rochdale, UK) is an artist working with performance, moving image and expanded forms of writing. Articulating their practice as ‘queer ritual action’, their work is broadly concerned with desire, particularly in relation to ecology and queer futurity. This queer ritual action foregrounds the immediacy of the sweating, wanting, sensate non-binary body. Understanding art-making as a technology of divination, they consider their work to be a tool for the creation of contemporary myth; a site for the work of mourning, yearning, processing and communing.

Understanding acts of gathering and communing as central to their practice, Joseph’s work incorporates curating, producing, facilitating, mentoring and teaching. Joseph organises FUTURERITUAL, a performance and research project considering ritual and queer futurity, and co-produces move close, with Es Morgan and Sara Sassanelli. They are a co-founder and facilitator of The Sunday Skool for Misfits, Exprimenters and Dissenters, with Martin O’Brien and Shabnam Shabazi, and Live Art Club [London], with Phoebe Patey-Ferguson, Nicol Parkinson, Rachel Gammon and An* Neely.  

With Benjamin Sebastian, Joseph is the co-founder and co-director of VSSL studio (London, UK) and the assistant director of ]performance s p a c e[ (Folkestone, UK). Joseph is a member of Chisenhale Dance Space (London, UK) and of the Anam Cara collective (International), and they are a frequent collaborator of Venice International Performance Art Week (Italy).  Joseph manages Artist Development for the Live Art Development Agency.

Joseph has performed throughout the UK – including at Tempting Failure, Arnolfini, Camden People’s Theatre and ]performance s p a c e[ - and Europe. As a collaborator and performer, Joseph has worked with and for Es Morgan, Sara Sassanelli, Fenia Kotsopoulou, John King, Kate Stonestreet, VestAndPage, Benjamin Sebastian, Martin O’Brien, Nat Norland, hancock and kelly live, David Hoyle, Neil Bartlett, and Zack McGuinness.







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