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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Anne Bean, All Communication Is Translation, 2024. Venice International Performance Art Week. Photo by Fenia Kotsopoulou.
CEREMONY [II] Venice International Performance Art Week
18.04 - 27.04.2025 at Palazzo Mora (IT)

Future Ritual is delighted to deepen our collaboration with Venice International Performance Art Week as co-curators of the forthcoming edition, Portals and Constellations. 

Thinking of Peggy Phelan’s words, that Live Art is a space wherein loss and death are revealed as the ground from which creativity and love may grow, we have curated CEREMONY [II]. 

Amidst the participation of performance artists from many contexts and worlds, we hope that this convergence of artistic forces cultivates a space for the (re)awakening and pursuit of authentic desires, the sensing of liberation, and emergence of a temporary artistic community.

CEREMONY [II] was offered as part of CEREMONY, 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 grateful to Arts Council England for supporting our participation in this gathering, and to Venice International Performance Art Week for their many years of collaboration, mentoring and friendship.



Anne Bean

All Communication is Translation

In 1982 Anne Bean made a performance All Communication is Translation in which she thrust her constantly transforming painted face into paper whilst she shouted each syllable of the sentence: 'all com mun i ca ti on is trans la ti on'. She built up an exhibition of 12 'self portraits', during the work, each saying one of the syllables.  In the performance of the same name in Venice, the artist will push the notion of transformation and translation further. She will attempt, at certain times, to ambush her own nascent thoughts before the trillions of connections, synapses, translate them into words. A translator will simultaneously attempt to translate all that she articulates into Italian.


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Anne Bean, All Communication is Translation, Future Ritual x Venice International Performance Art Week, 2024. Photos by Lorenza Cini.



emilyn claid

SKINNED, in collaboration with Heidi Rustgaard

SKINNED (2022) is choreographed in collaboration with Heidi Rustgaard (H2Dance) and performed by emilyn claid. The piece has a commissioned score by queer electro-pop composer Planningtorock. The starting points for emilyn and Heidi's collaboration include queering, as a movement of transformation, unfixing identity, in/visibility, becoming, not being. In the performance emilyn works from a score and intensely relates to an immense piece of fur and latex skin, which acts as camouflage, a cloak, an animal hide. She embodies notions of hunting and being hunted, cruising and crumbling. Set in a night club or gallery, emilyn moves close to spectators who watch from within the space, interacting with them, while maintaining a performing presence. SKINNED also forms part of emilyn's full length work UNTITLED.


Artist Index: emilyn claid




emilyn claid and Heidi Rustgaard, SKINNED, Future Ritual x Venice International Performance Art Week, 2024. Photos by Lorenza Cini.






Ash McNaughton, Joseph Morgan Schofield & Marcel Sparmann

A Felling

A collective performance initiated by Future Ritual, A Felling explores ideas of death, remembrance, transformation, rebirth and the transferrance of energy between bodies and between the body and the environment.

Artists Ash McNaughton, Joseph Morgan Schofield and Marcel Sparmann co-create an immersive work, inviting audiences to step into a space of contemporary ritual, activated through intense embodied practices and characterised by expressions of compassion, vulnerability, strength and ethical exchange. Through this future ritual we may temporarily inhabit time in a different way, engaging in individual and collective experiences of processing and communion.

Artist Index: Ash McNaughton
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Future Ritual: A Felling


Future Ritual (Ash McNaughton, Joseph Morgan Schofield, Marcel Sparmann), A Felling, Future Ritual x Venice International Performance Art Week, 2024. Photos by Lorenza Cini.



SERAFINE1369

The Ways, the Fortune, the Fall (solo fragment) is a work made in Winter feeling for the Spring, listening in the darkness to the subterranean murmurs of things about to emerge that can't yet be seen or touched. A reflection on the reckonings and returns that cycles can bring. They say that it's always darkest before the dawn.

This performance is a fragment of a longer, looping choreography usually danced by SERAFINE1369 and two of their long term collaborators - Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome and Steph McMann.

Choreography & Performance: SERAFINE1369
Sound: Josh Anio Grigg
Text: SERAFINE1369


SERAFINE1369, The Ways, the Fortune, the Fall (solo fragment), Future Ritual x Venice International Performance Art Week, 2024. Photos by Lorenza Cini.