Future Ritual is a practice of gathering, curating and organising. We collaborate with artists to create contemporary expressions of performance and ritual, working to support the emergence of new and more attuned cultures. 

We are based in London (UK).



get in touch

producing@futureritual.co.uk or join our mailing list






News

DISCHARGE @ IKLECTIK
Friday 1 May

A sanctuary of sickness: short sharp shocks curated by Martin O’Brien.

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STUDIO Residents wanted, deadline 31 May

Join our community of practice at STUDIO: Future Ritual, a new space for gathering, performance and embodied practice in Peckham.

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Watch Our Work
 
Some of the performances, projects and events we have worked on are available to watch online
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Future Ritual is a practice of gathering, curating and organising. We collaborate with artists to create contemporary expressions of performance and ritual, working to support the emergence of new and more attuned cultures. 

We understand performance art and experiential practices as potent ways of connecting with ourselves, each other, and the places we inhabit. Against the alienation and fragmentation of contemporary life, Future Ritual fosters spaces to think and feel through place, desire, belief, loss and mystery.






our work

We centre live practices, particularly those rooted in action and body art, durational and material led processes. We are committed to complexity and sensitivity. We welcome risk and difficulty.  We collaborate and curate across duration and geography. We value long term collaboration. We work with artists at all stages of their careers. 

Our projects span residencies, performances, workshops and festivals. We work locally, nationally and internationally from our home in Peckham (London, UK).

We are drawn to those who foreground sensitivity and attunement to time, space, mystery, body and site, and whose practices call us towards the raw edges of experience.

- We work in a lively constellation of collaborators.

- We are curators of performance art and other embodied practices.

- We produce unique projects in unexpected places in collaboration with artists.

- We facilitate artist development and artistic research through provision of studio space and a busy workshop programme.

- You can watch documentation of some of the performances and projects we have co-created, online.



Marilyn Arsem, Voices, CEREMONY [I], 2024. Photo by zack mennell.







contact & connect

general
We welcome those who feel a resonance with our work to be in touch by email: producing@futureritual.co.uk

You can join our mailing list to stay updated about our projects.

If you have wider artistic questions or want to workshop ideas for project, you might want to make use of our consultancy service

We are a small team (currently working a total of 16 hours a week) so please do be patient if replies are slow.
presenting your work
Our curatorial programmes are usually programmed through invitation, though some performance platforms, like ALMANAC and DISCHARGE are programmed through open call. 

We welcome proposals to our email address, but generally will want to get to know artists and their work before deciding to collaborate. 


STUDIO: Future Ritual
Based in Peckham, STUDIO is a place for gathering and practicing. Alongside occasional events and space hires, we run a resident programme providing affordable creation and rehearsal space to artists.


how we get to know artists
There are lots of ways we get to know artists - including by attending performances and events, and having studio visits (in-person or online, and we can also host in Peckham, London). 

If you’d like to invite us to your things, or if you have a project or idea you’d like to explore presenting or producing with Future Ritual, please reach out by email.

Our artist development activities are generally open call and this is also a good way for us to meet artists and establish new relationships. We also produce work and offer project management services. 








our team

Future Ritual is currently organised by Joseph Morgan Schofield (founder & director) and Regina Agard Brathwaite (programme coordinator).

We frequently collaborate with an expanded constellation of freelancers including ABSTRAKT, James Dolan, Ewan Hindes, Ash McNaughton, zack mennell, Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi.

Previous key collaborators were Thomas Yeomans and Mele Couvreur.


Ash McNaughton, Dredge, DISCHARGE, 2024. Photo by Manuel Vason.




Anne Bean, All Communication is Translation, CEREMONY [II], Venice International Performance Art Week, 2024. Photo by Lorenza Cini.



Devika Bilimoria, Offerings, Future Ritual, 2024. Photos by Fenia Kotsopoulou.




Liz Rosenfeld, TREMBLE, CEREMONY: a festival of performance, Copeland Gallery, 2025. Photo by Fenia Kotsopoulou.