Future Ritual presents



A year-long programme of performances, exhibitions, artist labs and workshops exploring the function of performance as a modality for gathering, ritual and ceremony amidst the fragmentation of contemporary life.

Future Ritual is delighted to announce our first annual programme CEREMONY, which will take place in London and Venice across 2024 and 2025.

The cycle will culminate in a new festival of choreographic work, performance art, ritual offerings and sonic activations in April 2025.

CEREMONY began at midsummer with CONSIDERING TIME an intensive workshop for artists led by Marilyn Arsem, and CEREMONY [I], a day of durational actions, memory activations and offerings performed by Arsem, Devika Bilimoria, Helena Goldwater and Sandra Johnston in a pair of dilapidated terraced houses in Peckham (London).

Programme Cycle

Upcoming
> WHISTLING AS THE NIGHT CALLS: collaborative photographs by Martin O’Brien & zack mennell ~ 31st October to 1st December
> CEREMONY [II]: Venice International Performance Art Week, 12th to 15th December
> ARCANE PORTALS: an intensive co-creation workshop with VestAndPage - 20th to 26th April 2025
> Future Ritual ~ festival, 23rd to 27th April 2025

Recent
> CEREMONY [I] ~ performances by Marilyn Arsem, Devika Bilimoria, Helena Goldwater & Sandra Johnston. 
> CONSIDERING TIME ~ an intensive workshop with Marilyn Arsem
> DIG ME A GRAVE ~ an artist lab with Claye Bowler
> AUTOBITUARIES ~ an artist lab with Anne Bean
> CONSTRUCTING PHENOMENA ~ an artist lab with Ron Athey and Michele Occelli

Enquiries: producing@futureritual.co.uk.
Press: abstrakt@abstraktpublicity.co.uk

Helena Goldwater, safe keeping. CEREMONY [I], Future Ritual. Photos by Fenia Kotsopoulou.

The programme cycle continues in the Autumn with artist labs led by Ron Athey and Michele Occelli, Anne Bean, and Claye Bowler, exhibition of collaborative photographs by Martin O’Brien and zack mennell, and a series of performances presented at Venice International Performance Art Week.

Following the Easter weekend, CEREMONY will culminate with a weeklong festival (23rd to 27th April 2025), including performances, conversations, ritual offerings, sonic activations and ARCANE PORTALS, an intensive co-creation workshop by renowned performance art pedagogues VestAndPage. 

Credits and Support

Joseph Morgan Schofield - Curator
Regina Agard-Brathwaite - Programme Coordinator
Anna Goodman / Abstrakt Publicity - PR

Future Ritual: Ceremony is supported with public funds by Arts Council England. Further support towards the programme has been given by Mayor of London.

Enquiries: producing@futureritual.co.uk.

Sandra Johnston, Agape / Ajar, 2024. CEREMONY [I], Future Ritual. Photos by Fenia Kotsopoulou.