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

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Poster design by Thomas Yeomans, 2018.


Arnolfini

13.10.2018
 
Original copy: “F U T U R E R I T U A L is a performance platform for radical queer artists + audiences interested in ritual, myth, magick + mysticism to come together, to resist marginalisation, to challenge decency, to protest, to process, to dream us forward.“

Throughout 2018, Future Ritual presented a touring platform of performance art, visiting Bristol, Folkestone, Leeds and London. The other programmes were:

Das Glamour, In Iridiscent Iteration, Future Ritual, Arnolfini, 2018. Photo by Asher Fynn.

DAS GLAMOUR

In Iridiscent Iteration

In Iridiscent Iteration a lure-dance paired with a work out on chewing gum. In Iridiscent Iteration involves and explores the harmonies and dissonances between alpine rituals, Schuhplatteln, self-optimization and fitness cult, Aerobic, goat figures and processes of artistic production. By appropriating and fragmneting the movement material of Areobic and Schuhplatteln a new independent luredance emerges. Possibly the lure-dance will attract queer-feminist goat creatures. New dances and songs are combined to a ritual of self-empowerment, agency and celebrations of pleasure.

Artist Index: DAS GLAMOUR







Kitty Fedorec, Some Day Dominion, Future Ritual, Arnolfini, 2018. Photo by Asher Fynn.

Kitty Fedorec

Some Day Domionion

Some Day Dominion is inspired by current global politics, historical echoes, my grandparents' experience as refugees, a geopolitical theory from the start of the twentieth century, subculture as refuge and the music of The Sisters of Mercy. It sits between live art, dance, ritual and gig, with music from gender-fucked tribute, The Misters of Circe; an act of phonomancy to create a protective pocket goth world, beyond borders.

Artist Index: Kitty Fedorec

Luke Jordan, yesterday I dreamt of flying, Future Ritual, Arnolfini, 2018. Photo by Asher Fynn.

Luke Jordan

séance

séance: communication between dead and living, past / future and the present.possession: duality of the body as body possessed by an alien materiality and self possessing body, whilst also having the capacity to be possessed through an affective immersive experience leading to a lose of subjectivity in the rhythmic materiality of sensation, a ‘nocturnal anarchy of the senses’.exorcism: cathartic expulsion of unwanted elements from the mind / body.

Artist Index: Luke Jordan


Joseph Morgan Schofield, yesterday I dreamt of flying, Future Ritual, Arnolfini, 2018. Photo by Asher Fynn.

Joseph Morgan Schofield

yesterday I dreamt of flying

thinking about icarus and deleuze and gender and my father. this is a leap of faith. the point is never to fly.

Artist Index: Joseph Morgan Schofield







Sean O’Driscoll, datum, Future Ritual, Arnolfini, 2018. Photo by Asher Fynn.

Sean O’Driscoll

datum

‘first-footing' is a waning scottish new years ritual , wherein the fortune of the year hinges on the first person to be welcomed through the door bearing symbolic gifts . in the wake of GDPR and echoing y2k, datum reduces the first-foot and gifts into information and code , and explores the relationship between distrust in technology and crossing thresholds of time.

Artist Index: Sean O’Driscoll