Future Ritual works amongst a constellation of
artists, thinkers & organisers.
collaboration
Image: Soojin Chang, ICA (London) 2022.
Photo by Zack Mennell.
associates
artists, with whom we have been in extended collaboration.> Anne Bean
> emilyn claid
> Martin O’Brien
> VestAndPage
> zack mennell
Future Ritual
~ Joseph Morgan Schofield, Director
joseph@futureritual.co.uk
~ Regina Agard-Brathwaite, Programme Coordinator: regina@futureritual.co.uk
public programmes
artistsMarilyn Arsem
Charlie Ashwell
Ron Athey
Kelvin Atmadibrata
Anne Bean
Devika Bilimoria
Alex Billingham
Ansuman Biswas
selina bonelli
Hellen Burroughs
Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley
Augusto Cascales
Soojin Chang
emilyn claid
Leman Daricioglu
Nwando Ebizie
Electric Adam
Kitty Fedorec
Evie Fehilly
DAS GLAMOUR
Helena Goldwater
Ro Hardaker
Sandra Johnston
Luke Jordan
Eunjung Kim
Iris Madariaga
Rubiane Maia
Ash McNaughton
zack mennell
Joseph Morgan Schofield
Annie Movsisyan
Sean O’Driscolll
Martin O’Brien
Michele Occelli
Pianka Parna
Alicia Radage
Radage & Hardaker
Louisa Robbin
Benjamin Sebastian
SERAFINE1369
Marcel Sparmann
Sandra Stanionyte
VestAndPage
Niko Wearden
Oberon White
Maya Williams
programme
writersCharlie Ashwell
Bean
Es Morgan
Phoebe Patey-Ferguson
Sara Sassanelli
Benjamin Sebastian
Daniella Valz-Gen
documenters
Marco Berardi
Chloe Chapman
Asher Fynn
Fenia Kotsopoulou
zack mennell
Baiba Sprance
Manuel Vason
Jemima Yong
programme
partners]performance s p a c e[
Arnolfini
Centre for Live Art Yorkshire
Hackney Showroom
Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)
Kunstraum
Live Art Development Agency
SPACE Art + Technology
Venice International Performance Art Week
VfD
VSSL studio
Whitechapel Gallery
funders
Arts Council England
East Anglia Art Fund
Mayor of London
Norfolk County Council
programme
Anne Bean & Ansuman Biswas, Candle / Stick, 2024. ‘DISCHARGE’, Future Ritual. Photo by Manuel Vason.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.
In 2022/23 she had work commissioned and shown at Turner Contemporary, Margate, the HattonGallery, Newcastle, Somerset House, the Whitechapel Gallery, Matt’s Gallery, Paris Photo, PhotoLondon, as well as a solo show with England & Co at Frieze Masters. In 2023 she was commissioned to make a major work for the Norfolk and Norwich Festival In Search of the Miraculous, with a resulting exhibition at England & Co in London and Reflect, a lightwork, for Lumiere, Durham. She currently has work showing at Women in Revolt! at Tate.
“Reading Anne Bean’s CV is like following a continuous performance, a continuous response to the world… a ‘magicification’ of the world. The panoply of places she has worked, times of the day ornight, interiors, exteriors, seasons, publics, materials, concepts, tools, is astonishing: all shifting butall attuned to unique situations.”
Guy Brett, Autobituary (2006)
Monograph produced for solo exhibition at Matt’s Gallery
> www.annebeanarchive.com
emilyn claid and Heidi Rustgaard, Skinned, 2024. CEREMONY [II], Future Ritual at Venice International Performance Art Week 2024. Photo by Fenia Kotsopoulou.emilyn claid’s career stretches back to the 1960s when she was a ballet dancer with the National Ballet of Canada and the 1970s when she was co-founder of experimental collective X6 Dance Space in London, a pioneering organisation for New Dance. In the 1980s she was artistic director of Extemporary Dance Theatre and in the 1990s choreographed for companies such as Phoenix and CandoCo.
Working as an independent dance artist emilyn made and performed a series of iconic solo works in which she found an authentic voice as a lesbian-queer artist. emilyn is also an emeritus professor and a Gestalt psychotherapist and has recently published FALLING Through Dance and Life, (Bloomsbury 2021), a book that re- thinks Western culture’s physical, metaphorical, and psychological relationship to gravity.
Working between live art and dance theatre, emilyn returned to performing with her solo show ‘emilyn claid, UNTITLED’. Future Ritual has collaborated with emilyn to realise the following work, ‘The Trembling Forest’
> @emilynclaid
> The Guardian: ‘The audience chucked food at us!’ Emilyn Claid on angry shows, her ballet shame and gardening for Martha Graham
Martin O’Brien is an artist and zombie. He works across performance, writing and video art. His work uses long durational actions, short speculative texts and critical rants, and performance processes in order to explore death and dying, what it means to be born with a life shortening disease, and the philosophical implications of living longer than expected.
He has shown work throughout the UK; Europe; USA; and Canada, and is well known for his solo performances and collaborations with the legendary LA artist and dominatrix Sheree Rose. His most recent works were at Tate Britain in 2020, and the ICA (London) in 2021. He is winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Visual and Performing Arts 2022. He will be writer in residence at Whitechapel Gallery throughout 2023. Martin has cystic fibrosis and all of his work and writing draws upon this experience. In 2018, the book ‘Survival of the Sickest: The Art of Martin O’Brien’ was published by Live Art Development Agency. His work has been featured on BBC radio and Sky Arts television. He is currently senior lecturer in Live Art at Queen Mary University of London.
VestAndPage, Solastalgic Friction, 2023. Venere in Teatro, Venice (IT), photograph by Lorenza Cini.VestAndPage are Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes, who have been working together nomadically since 2006 in collaborative performance art and film. Their works are contextual and situation-responsive and embody ecological, philosophical and queer thought.
Focusing on art's ritual and liminal nature, collective memory, imaginings, and transcorporeal and psychoterratic states, they have produced collaborative performance-based art in Antarctic, subterranean, military and other extreme environments. In a psychogeography of symbiotic realms, they move between embodiment and research, the unseen and the unforeseen, the oppressed and unspoken, the forgotten and the repressed.
To create new myths, narratives and archetypes, they activate memory and uncover layers of information and imagery stored in the human body, psyche, spirit, and environment. Their works have been presented at numerous sites and in theatres, museums, galleries and cinemas worldwide, in differing formats from month-long performance walks over 5-days to 24-hour performances.
They are the founders and directors of the Venice International Performance Art Week, and their research and poetic writings have been extensively published and translated for international readers.
They share their methodology on collaborative performance and filmmaking in master classes and have been visiting artists and lecturers at art academies worldwide.
> https://www.vest-and-page.de/
> https://veniceperformanceart.org/