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Who We AreFounded by Joseph Young in 2007 – The NeoFuturist Collective consists of a group of highly accomplished artists who have come together to celebrate urban noise in all its’ visual and aural forms. Inspired by the Milan Futurists and the Art of Noises manifesto (Luigi Russolo, 1913), as well the poetics of the Dada movement, the collective are arch-modernists; united in the hope of a positive future where technology, art and humanity will unite to overcome pessimism, despondency and futile utopianism in all its spurious forms. ReAwakening of a CityIn an age of global warming, financial collapse and international terrorism, we ask "How can we respond to a pivotal artistic moment in 1914 - the first performance of the revolutionary noise symphony Awakening of a City. Born out of the build-up to the First World War, this most modern of works was composed for Russolo's intonarumori (or noise makers) ; only the first seven bars of the printed score remain. In a series of ReAwakenings inspired by the original work, beginning with the launch of The Manifesto of NeoFuturism (2008) all the way through to the Concerto for Brutalist Buildings (2011) we attempt to transform the everyday language of urban sounds and visual noise (such as junk emails/the movement of capital) into performances, exhibitions and interventions that question our assumptions about the nature of beauty in a modern world of information overload. Further InformationRead The NeoFuturist Manifesto here. Archive Blog: http://neofuturist.blogspot.com
Joseph Young: http://www.josephyoung.co.uk
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NewsReAwakening of a CityConcerto for Brutalist Buildings Author: Giuseppe Marinetti Myself and Peter Faulkner, in our role as artist/agitators The Neo-Futurist Collective, have been invited to contribute work for an ambitious site-specific performance at the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington High Street entitled Common Sounds : Touching the Void. Our response Concerto for Brutalist Buildings takes its inspiration from the derelict building and the crumbling of Author: Giuseppe Marinetti The End of Listening (ReAwakening of a City #5)by Joseph Young of The Neo-Futurist Collectiveae gallery, Cheltenham Place, BRIGHTON. Jan 7th - 23rd (weekends only)20th April 1914: Immediately before the outbreak of the First World War, the premiere performance of a revolutionary noise symphony Awakening of a City by futurist artist Luigi Russolo.Almost a century later, a group of artists, led by |
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