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Joseph Young

Joseph Young

Hauntological sonic artist(United Kingdom)

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SWS24 shortlisted
Joseph is an artist and a specialist in the binaural recording technique. He is interested in what the contemporary soundscape can reveal about the prevailing social climate. He has exhibited and performed at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Jerwood Hastings in the UK, and also Seoul Museum of Art, Wall St NYC, Errant Bodies Berlin. His sound work has been broadcast by BBC Radio, Radio Papesse and Resonance FM and is held in several permanent collections.

In 2023, Joseph completed a practice-based PhD at SMARTlab UCD, funded by the Irish Research Council, at the Killruddery estate in Co. Wicklow on a research project entitled “Listening to the Archive”. Killruddery is the home of the Brabazon family and the seat of the hereditary title, the Earl of Meath – the family and their descendants have lived and worked on the estate since 1618.
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pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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