Joseph Morgan Schofield makes queer ritual action, typically expressed through performance art, moving image and text. The sweating sensate body is at the heart of this practice and their 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.
Ash McNaughton is an action-based artist currently situated in Folkestone, UK. Their practice is a process-led exploration of materials, gesture, movement, and sound. Site-responsive, durational, and ritualistic in nature; Ash implements methods of endurance, repetition, and resistance to access altered states of being while reaching out into the spaces in-between. Their actions encourage a synergetic exchange between their physical, psychological, and spiritual body and the environments they inhabit. This practice is an attempt to articulate that which escapes us.
A poetics of a fluid presence in a fixed world.
Marcel Sparmann is an action-based artist, working in performance art, theatre, dance, public art and installation. His artistic interest focuses on the creation of intense collective situations, compressed and formed in emotional and spiritual landscapes, in resistance. Interested in the exploration of a more profound understanding for compassion, kindness and bravery in the light of an unfolding vulnerability, Marcel believes in space as an emotional and ritualistic environment. A fertile way of manifesting the future. A constant search for simplicity and actions which carry a pure aesthetic and oscillating temperature, maybe comparable with recent natural phenomenons.
