28’ 33'’

HD

2021

THESE TEEMING FORMS

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‘these teeming forms’ was shot on England’s South Pennine Moorland in a breath between lockdowns in 2021. These windswept hills formed Joseph’s adolescent horizon and they have returned there in adulthood, walking out into the land holding grief, seeking connection.

The film has a sensate and mythic quality; performance actions to camera are collaged with cyanotype printing processes of analogue photography, speculative texts and an original score.

The wet, wily moorland contains large peat deposits, produced over thousands of years as normative processes of decomposition are frustrated by the great quantity of water that falls on the hills. The peat is a collage of animal and plant matter, minerals and weather. Like the body, the land is an archive. The film is framed by an interview with the artist’s father, who speaks of his own remembrance of a haunting adolescent encounter many decades previously.

Queer ecologes are imagined here as a process of wilding, of entering the land and being opened by it. Memory and desire, history and loss, future and fantasy become porous, contributing to a textural and sensate meditation on living.

these teeming forms was commissioned by ]performance s p a c e[ and supported using public funds by Arts Council England.

credits

Joseph Morgan Schofield - concept, editing, performance, text Fenia Kotsopoulou - cinemtaography, editing Mitchell Sowden - composition Zack McGuinness - analogue photography Eric Schofield - performance, text daz disley - audio post-production, colour correction With thanks to Benjamin Sebastian, Es Morgan, and MycoLective: Ama Josephine Budge, Angela Chan, Fiona MacDonald, Laurél Hadleigh, Linda Persson, and Sonia E Barrett.

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Joseph Morgan Schofield
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Joseph Morgan Schofield (b. 1993, Rochdale, UK) uses performance, moving image, writing and curation to create future ritual. “My work is formed through live and embodied practices. I organise, facilitate, make performances and films, and write. Underpinning all this work is an understanding of performance as a potent contemporary modality for ritual, by which I mean: it sharpens our attention and asks us to be participant and witness; it facilitates us to inhabit time differently; it is a technology for processing, mourning, desiring and communing". The work is characterised by a deeply felt sense of yearning, both for that which is lost and that which is yet to arrive. I am often engaged in practices of channeling, duration, and exhaustion and divination. Much of this practice is relational, emerging through encounters between my sweating, wanting, sensate non-binary body and a host of other agents - human and otherwise, including memory, geology, weather and myth. I have worked with and across the South Pennine Moors for a number of years, and also responsively to other sites and contexts on different time scales. The performances and films have been presented throughout the UK and Europe, including recently by the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), ]performance s p a c e[, IKLECTIC , and Venice International Performance Art Week. My writing has been commissioned by Chapter Arts Centre, ]ps[, and Undercurrent (USA).

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