Joseph Morgan Schofield


JMS is a curator, artist and creative producer. Underpinning these entangled practices is an understanding of art as an embodied encounter between self and other, place and mystery. Joseph’s work explores performance / art as a contemporary modality of ritual, an / other way of experiencing and inhabiting body / space / time, as a technology of processing / mourning / desiring / communing / dreaming.

Expressions of this belief / research have emerged as performances, films and texts, as curatorial and producing projects, as collaborative contexts, talks and workshops.

Much of their / his independent work is held by Future Ritual, a long term curatorial, research and organising practice initiated in 2017. Since 2024, Joseph has worked as Curator, Public Practice at Tate

Previous roles have included those at Live Art Development Agency, The Place and ]performance s p a c e[. JMS is also co-founder and co-director of VSSL studio.

Across all this work, Joseph remains committed to the live and embodied practices which welcome complexity, senstivity, tension and difficulty, and which call towards the more raw edges of experience.


joseph@futureritual.co.uk
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Specialising in contemporary performance, artist development, modes of gathering and embodied practices (including performance art, Live Art, and contemporary dance), JMS operates across institutional contexts and independent artist-led initiatives. Across these contexts, Joseph works to curate, facilitate and support spaces which foreground complexity, sensitivity, risk and attunement. 

Joseph is currently active at Tate, where they / he works as Curator, Public Practice, and through Future Ritual and VSSL studio. JMS’s curatorial practice is informed by his work as an artist and myriad collaborative relationships.







practices:  curation / film / performance / writing
contexts:  Future Ritual / Tate  /  VSSL studio / ]ps[
years:  2016 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20 / 21  /  22  /  23  /  24  / 25  /