Proposal to write an artist statement.
Proposal to stage interventions to be encountered in the built environment.
Proposal to make work about boundaries and potentials.
Proposal to tease poetry from the mundane and the absurd.
Proposal to invite participants into engaging with soft disruptions.
Proposal to iterate proposals over time and let time do its work.
Proposal to embrace the unpredictability of liveness.
Proposal to set up conditions for unexpected connections and interesting failures.
Proposal to not quite fulfil any of these proposals but fulfil something in between and around them instead.
Josh Philpott (b. 1994, Birmingham) lives and works in London. Recent interventions include HER MESS (Concept and direction by Sandra Zanetti, in collaboration with Josh Philpott), Always Charming! Paris Live Art Tour, Paris, (2025), Temporarily Closed, ANNEX by the Koppel Project, London (2025); A Bit Like A Sign, Conditions, Croydon (2025). He held his first solo exhibition, Site of Ghosts (Fka “Proposal for an opening, proposal for an afterimage”, fka “You Are Here”) in the Project Space at Turf Projects in 2024. He took part in Conditions Studio Programme from 2019 to 2026.
