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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Jasper Llewellyn, untitled performance between the Deptford Foreshore and VSSL studio. Photo by zack mennell.



Gathering in a Time of Plague


Curated by Benjamin Sebastian and Joseph Morgan Schofield and produced by VSSL studio. Funded by Arts Council England.

curationVSSL studio2021

“VSSL was established  in a time of plague. In response to the conditions of pandemic, we intend that the studio remains a place where performance practices may continue to unfold, unmediated by the screen. Our work continues to foreground the power and immediacy of live performance.”

Studio Residencies with Kelvin Atmadibrata and Adriana Disman

Performance programme featuring live performance works by Chinasa Vivian Ezugha, Jasper Llewellyn, EM Parry, Niya B, Shaun Caton, Kimvi and Jade Blackstock.




> VSSL Studio: Gathering in a Time of Plague














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