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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Joseph makes queer ritual action in which the sweating sensate body is positioned at the heart of the practice. His work often involves practices of channeling, divination, exhaustion and the crossing of thresholds. Joseph draws upon an expansive material, physical and poetic vocabulary he has developed across the last decade in dialogue with a host of agents and collaborators, human and otherwise. While they live in London (UK), the wet, windy moorland and wild fells of the North West remain key influences and collaborators. Responsive to site, memory and weather, there is brutality and sensitivity to his work, something found between hard millstone and wet peatland. 

Joseph’s art practice is informed by their work as a curator and organiser and by his myriad collaborations, including those with the Anam Cara Collective, Anne Bean, Fenia Kotsopoulou, Ash McNaughton, zack mennell, Martin O’Brien, Marcel Sparmann, Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi, kane stonestreet, and VestAndPage. 




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