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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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Some of the performances, projects and events we have worked on are available to watch online
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a performance art gathering, next: sunday 17 may
ALMANAC is a recurring performance art gathering in London, organised by Future Ritual.
The series is intended as a way of providing a social space for London’s performance art community to meet (and expand!) and as a regular platform for performance artists to make work.
> tickets - £14//£10//£6
Following three evocative events at Asylum Chapel in 2025, we are reframing ALMANAC as a space for experimentation - by showing work here, artists are asking questions and seeking insight. In this, we acknowledge the process driven nature of performance art and welcome performances which risk it all, mutating and misbheaving. We hope ALMANAC can be a useful space for artists and audiences, especially in these lean times.
Our events this year take place in STUDIO: Future Ritual, a light-filled former industrial space. Each event will feature performances from three artists, programmed through invitation and open call.
> Sunday 17 May, 3-6pm
> further dates to follow
The performances will take place at Studio: Future Ritual, Bussey Building (yellow stairs), Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 4ST
Peckham Rye station (served by the Windrush line and National Rail) is a 5 minute walk away.
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contact
Please direct any queries to producing [at] futureritual.co.uk
The studio is located on the second floor of the Bussey Building, a former industrial warehouse. Regrettably, there is currently no lift access to this studio.
There are 44 steps, across 5 flights with between 5 and 10 steps each. There is a handrail along the stairs. There are bathrooms on the same floor as the studio.
If there are other ways we can facilitate your access to the event, please let us know.
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sunday 17 may
featuring Vridhhi Chaudhry, Joseph Morgan Schofield and Claudia Palazzo> tickets - £14//£10//£6
Vridhhi Chaudhry, Silent Echoes of Salient Sores at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts. Photo credit: Ashok Mathur.
Vridhhi Chaudhry
Vridhhi Chaudhry lives and works between Delhi and Toronto. Working across performance, painting, and mask-making, their practice uses the body as witness, participant, and medium. The work moves through ritual and mark-making. Memory, inherited trauma, and unseen labor are not represented but processed. Physically. Slowly. Through repetition, material, and the logic of dreams. Performance is a threshold. A space of constant becoming. Guided by material, memory, making, and the curiosity of the inner child, the work invites audiences into acts of empathy, care, and shared reflection. Current research explores cellular and epigenetic memory, how trauma and tenderness move through bodies across generations, and how ritual can become a practice of fostering empathy rather than enforcing inheritance.Joseph Morgan Schofield, with bare feet touching the sky I yearn, Future Ritual, ICA (London), 2022. Photo by zack mennell.
Joseph Morgan Schofield
JMS is a curator, artist and creative producer. At the heart of these entangled practices is an understanding of performance art as a potent, contemporary modality of ritual. He / they draws on queer, ecological and esoteric thought to engage with the lost, the unseen, the forgotten. He understands his performances and films as thin places, as ceremony, as a way of practicing sensitivity, of reorienting attention and touching the more raw edges of experience.
As a curator, Joseph activates spaces for collective encounter through Future Ritual, cultivating intergenerational exchange and artist-led research, experimentation and creation.
Joseph lives in London (UK) but most often works in dialogue with the wet, windy Pennine moors and Cumbrian fells of the English North West.
As a curator, Joseph activates spaces for collective encounter through Future Ritual, cultivating intergenerational exchange and artist-led research, experimentation and creation.
Joseph lives in London (UK) but most often works in dialogue with the wet, windy Pennine moors and Cumbrian fells of the English North West.
Claudia Palazzo, The Last Breath Society workshop. Photo by Marco Berardi.
Claudia Palazzo
Claudia Palazzo is a London born and based artist and dancer working across the intersections and contradictions of dance, performance art, installation, alternative cabaret and film using her body as a responsive site to her environment and territory. The work exists somewhere between the nightclub, gallery and street, and focuses on the live experience and a place to be able to shift through, let go and sit/deal with. It is often poetic, feral, meditative and violent in its structure, influenced by roots in nightclub culture, inner-city concrete dwellings and psychophysical training. She seeks to establish charged connections and subliminal feedback loops of understanding with an audience in order to process and harness our collective and individual sense of joy, sadness, resistance, power and endurance. Current research is around absorbing impact, damaged support structures, what can represent us in our absence and repair and rebuild.
Surreal urgency.
On the edge of feral.
With a bassline.
what to expect
There will be three performances (15-30 minutes) with a break between each one.
Seating is a mix of cushions and wooden benches. There are a limited number of chairs with backs. Seats will be prioritised for those with access needs.
Drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) will be available on a donation basis. We can take donation by card payment at the venue.
The maximum capacity is 50.
about Pay What You Can
Tickets are available on a Pay What You Can basis. There are a limited number of £6 tickets available for each event.
We hope most of our audience are able to pay £10 or £14, supporting the lower price tickets and helping us meet the costs of putting the event on.
There’s also a £20 option for those feeling flush! If you are able to pay this, you’re helping us to keep ALMANAC going into the future.
> tickets - £14//£10//£6
> Future Ritual: Industrial Echoes