Joseph Morgan Schofield

VSSL co-director & exhibited artist

devotion : seduction, Joseph Morgan Schofield, Venice International Performance Art Week 2020. Photo by Fenia Kotsopoulou.

“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 also worked as Curator, Public Practice at Tate. Previous institutional roles have included those Live Art Development Agency and The Place.

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.

With Benjamin Sebastian, Joseph is a co-founder and co-director of VSSL studio (London, UK) and works as programme producer at The Place (London).

www.josephmorganschofield.com
@jmschofield