emilyn claid & Heidi Rustgaard, SKINNED, 2024. Image by Cam Harle.
Thursday 12th - Sunday 15th December 2024
Palazzo Mora, Strada Nuova 3659, Venezia, 30121
Full programme information is online now.
Future Ritual is delighted to deepen our collaboration with Venice International Performance Art Week as co-curators of the forthcoming edition, Portals and Constellations.
Thinking of Peggy Phelan’s words, that Live Art is a space wherein loss and death are revealed as the ground from which creativity and love may grow, we have curated CEREMONY [II]. Amidst the participation of performance artists from many contexts and worlds, we hope that this convergence of artistic forces cultivates a space for the (re)awakening and pursuit of authentic desires, the sensing of liberation, and emergence of a temporary artistic community.
Future Ritual is grateful to Arts Council England for supporting our participation in this gathering, and to Venice International Performance Art Week for their many years of collaboration, mentoring and friendship.
CEREMONY [II] is curated by Joseph Morgan Schofield and Regina Agard-Brathwaite.
Participating Artists
Anne Bean, collage, 1982, Photo by Gordon Currie.
Anne Bean
In 1982 Anne Bean made a performance All Communication is Translation in which she thrust her constantly transforming painted face into paper whilst she shouted each syllable of the sentence: 'all com mun i ca ti on is trans la ti on'. She built up an exhibition of 12 'self portraits', during the work, each saying one of the syllables. In the performance of the same name in Venice, the artist will push the notion of transformation and translation further. She will attempt, at certain times, to ambush her own nascent thoughts before the trillions of connections, synapses, translate them into words. A translator will simultaneously attempt to translate all that she articulates into Italian.The 1982 work ‘All Communication is Translation' plus a 2022 version will be on display.
In a monograph on her work, Self Etc., 2018, the writer Dominic Johnson wrote: Anne Bean is a noted international figure who has been working actively since the 1960s. The art of Anne Bean makes strange our sense of time, memory, language, the body, and identity, particularly through soloand collaborative performances along a vital continuum between art and life.
> Future Ritual: Anne Bean
> Anne Bean Archive
emilyn claid & Heidi Rustgaard, SKINNED, 2024. Image by Cam Harle.
emilyn claid
SKINNED (2022) is choreographed in collaboration with Heidi Rustgaard (H2Dance) and performed by emilyn claid. The piece has a commissioned score by queer electro-pop composer Planningtorock. The starting points for emilyn and Heidi's collaboration include queering, as a movement of transformation, unfixing identity, in/visibility, becoming, not being. In the performance emilyn works from a score and intensely relates to an immense piece of fur and latex skin, which acts as camouflage, a cloak, an animal hide. She embodies notions of hunting and being hunted, cruising and crumbling. Set in a night club or gallery, emilyn moves close to spectators who watch from within the space, interacting with them, while maintaining a performing presence. SKINNED also forms part of emilyn's full length work UNTITLED.> Future Ritual: emilyn claid
> @emilynclaid
Future Ritual, ‘A Felling’, 2023. Photos by Fenia Kotsopoulou.
Ash McNaughton, Joseph Morgan Schofield & Marcel Sparmann
A collective performance initiated by Future Ritual, A Felling explores ideas of death, remembrance, transformation, rebirth and the transferrance of energy between bodies and between the body and the environment.
Artists Ash McNaughton, Joseph Morgan Schofield and Marcel Sparmann co-create an immersive work, inviting audiences to step into a space of contemporary ritual, activated through intense embodied practices and characterised by expressions of compassion, vulnerability, strength and ethical exchange. Through this future ritual we may temporarily inhabit time in a different way, engaging in individual and collective experiences of processing and communion.
> Future Ritual: A Felling
> Ash McNaughton
> Joseph Morgan Schofield
> Marcel Sparmann
'I've been looking for things that last' Performance Salon curated by SERAFINE1369 and commissioned by Home Live Art. Image by Katarzyna Perlak.
SERAFINE1369
The Ways, the Fortune, the Fall (solo fragment) is a work made in Winter feeling for the Spring, listening in the darkness to the subterranean murmurs of things about to emerge that can't yet be seen or touched. A reflection on the reckonings and returns that cycles can bring. They say that it's always darkest before the dawn.This performance is a fragment of a longer, looping choreography usually danced by SERAFINE1369 and two of their long term collaborators - Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome and Steph McMann.
Choreography & Performance: SERAFINE1369
Sound: Josh Anio Grigg
Text: SERAFINE1369
> Basic Tension
> @SERAFINE1369
Funders and support
Future Ritual: Ceremony is supported with public funds by Arts Council England. Further support towards the programme has been given by Mayor of London and VSSL Studio.
The performance are offered as part of CEREMONY, a year long programming cycle curated by Future Ritual, exploring how performance and art making can function as modes of gathering, communion and ceremony amidst the fragmentation of contemporary life.
> about Future Ritual: Ceremony