// CEREMONY Festival
Julia Bardsley,   Dagmara Bilon,
gustaf broms,
Rona Lee,
Lynn Lu,
Katharine Meynell




These durational works unfold across many hours, in Copeland Gallery and Safehouse 1&2. 

With durational work, you are invited to move between the open spaces at your pace. You can arrive at any time, leave and return to the spaces to your own rhythm.


Friday 27 November
Julia Bardsley + Katharine Meynell

Saturday 28 November
Julia Bardsley + Dagmara Bilon

Sunday 29 November
Julia Bardsley, gustaf broms, Rona Lee + Lynn Lu
#2: aNALOGUE Abyss iGNITION // Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley, #1. M[Eye] Abyss i[DEA], Peopling the Palace Festival, 2025. Photo by Claire Nolan.
KEY INFO
> Friday 27 Nov 2026, 2.30pm until 6.30pm
> Saturday 28 Nov 2026, 1pm until 5pm
> Sunday 29 Nov 2026, 1pm until 5pm

@ Safehouse 2, SE15 3SN


TICKETS
> £12/£14/£16 (Fri + Sat)
> £15/£18/£20 (Sun)
> UC/PC: £10 (all days)

Tickets include entry to both this work and the other durational work/s taking place on the same day.

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Enter the house of aNALOGUE iGNITION, an O/S [operative/speculative] system in three rooms.

Here, two aGENTS of iNVOCATION - imperfect duplicates - reinstate complexity, forming circuits of unstable intensities.

Working on the upper level with the horizontal QR [quixotic resistance] code, the two aGENTS [0 + 1] charm, forge, organise + assemble components of entropic fascination.

On the lower level is the BLACK BOX, where the transformed aGENTS attempt acts of spectacular enchantment, with the GiGo [gorgeous in gorgeous out] Choreographies - gifts from | into the dark.

Betwixt + Between is the miniature portal; a feedback loop, a window of stare, an anomalous repetition, a-void-dance, a swerve echo, a recalibrated pH [positive hallucination].

This is not a Data Center.

This is a D.A.T.A. Center [Disrupt All The Algorithms] powered by the two aGENTS of iNVOCATION - irregular/contrary knowledge generators.

4-hours a day over 3-days

Come + Go + Return ⏎ at your Leisure + Pleasure


>  Artist Bio: Julia Bardsley
> Workshop: Black Box Curiosities + Enchantments (October)


ACCESSIBILITY
 > The Safehouses are generally not suitable for those with limited mobility. Please reach out for more information - producing [@] future ritual.co.uk


CREDITS + SUPPORT

conceived by Julia Bardsley

created & performed by Julia Bardsley + Moa Johansson

music by Andrew Poppy

technical management by Eloina Haines

 #2: aNALOGUE Abyss iGNITION is supported with public funds by Arts Council England and supported by Queen Mary University of London.



dead bird & fallen angels // Katharine Meynell

Katharine Meynell, Standing with my beard in the postbox, 2026. 7th Bergen International Performance Festival. Photo by R. Halleraker.


KEY INFO
> Friday 27 Nov 2026, 2pm until 7pm

@ Safehouse 1, SE15 3SN

TICKETS
> £12/£14/£16 
> UC/PC: £10 

Tickets include entry to both this work and Julia Bardsley’s durational work taking place on the same day.
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Working as an artist since the late 1970’s across material media, using moving image, performance, drawings and artists’ books (many collaborations with the Gefn Press). 

My interests concern the personal & the political, humour and the slippery line between document and fiction. I completed a PhD at the RCA on Time Based work in Britain 2000; I was Reader in Fine Art at Middlesex University, retiring 2011.

>  Artist Bio: Katharine Meynell


ACCESSIBILITY
> The Safehouses are generally not suitable for those with limited mobility. Please reach out for more information - producing [@] future ritual.co.uk


CREDITS + SUPPORT

Lead Artist: Katharine Meynell

CEREMONY is supported with public funds by Arts Council England. 
About 7 Rooms - Dismantling Grief // Dagmara Bilon

Dagmara Bilon. Image courtesy of the artist.



KEY INFO
> Saturday 28 Nov 2026, 1pm until 5pm

@ Safehouse 1, SE15 3SN


TICKETS
> £12/£14/£16 
> UC/PC: £10 

Tickets include entry to both this work and Julia Bardsley’s durational work taking place on the same day.
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About 7 Rooms- Dismantling Grief, asks how practices of dismantling, recycling and transformation might generate new rituals for those living with loss. Blurring the boundaries between live art, social practice and ceremony, cultivating temporary communities of care where loss becomes a topic for embodied enquiry. 

Developed in collaboration with a group of co-researchers—the project unfolds as an open performance laboratory. Conceived as a site-responsive, durational work in Safehouse1, the performance invites audiences into a shared space of witnessing and reflection.


>  Artist Bio: Dagmara Bilon

ACCESSIBILITY
> The Safehouses are generally not suitable for those with limited mobility. Please reach out for more information - producing [@] future ritual.co.uk


CREDITS + SUPPORT

Created by Dagmara Bilon with a temporary collective of co-researchers: Teresa Albor, Marta Angelozzi, Gabriela Aviles, Alexandra Baybutt, Giovanna Maria Casetta, Paul Kelly, Christelle Lafille, Rawlene Love, Eliana Ricco Peracchio, Ingrid Peterson, Jake Price, Magda Tuka

About 7 Rooms - Dismantling Grief is commissioned by Future Ritual. The CEREMONY programme is supported with public funds by Arts Council England. 
// gustaf broms

gustaf broms. Image by Trishula Littler.
KEY INFO
> Sunday 29 Nov 2026, 1pm until 5pm

@ Safehouse 1, SE15 3SN

TICKETS
> £15/£18/£20 
> UC/PC: £10

Tickets include entry to this work, to Julia Bardsley’s durational work taking place next door in Safehouse 2, and to Lynn Lu and Rona Lee’s works taking place in Copeland Gallery.
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A practice engaged with the exploration of a language beyond tongue, using a body as anchor in a shifting landscape. To explore the ephemeral fragments of Being, between mind and matter. 

http://www.orgchaosmik.org/


>  Artist Bio: gustaf broms


ACCESSIBILITY
> The Safehouses are generally not suitable for those with limited mobility. Please reach out for more information - producing [@] future ritual.co.uk 


CREDITS + SUPPORT

Created by: gustaf broms

CEREMONY is supported with public funds by Arts Council England.
Spectral Atlas // Rona Lee

Rona Lee, Spectral Atlas, 2026. Image courtesy of the artist.
KEY INFO
> Sunday 29 Nov 2026, 1pm until 5pm

@ Copeland Gallery, SE15 3SN


TICKETS
> £15/£18/£20
> UC/PC: £10

Tickets include entry to this work, to gustaf broms and Julia Bardsley’s durational works taking place in Safehouse 1&2, and to Lynn Lu’s work taking place in Copeland Gallery.
 
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Marking a return to durational live work after more than a decade, the central action of Spectral Atlas is an act of slow unmaking: the taking apart and remixing of The Library of Nations - a 20-volume set of photo-books.

Published by Time-Life in the mid-to-late 1980s - the final years of the Cold War, immediately prior to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and coinciding with NASA scientist James Hansen’s landmark warning about global warming to the U.S. Senate - they offer a glimpse into a world about to be profoundly reshaped by late-stage capitalism, the internet and digital media.

The performance is a systematic undoing of the Western-centric geopolitical order bound into each volume. Stripped from their bindings, the untethered pages oscillate between past and present - evoking the breathless speed of contemporary image circulation, while simultaneously revealing the whole as an archive of extractivism. Within this space, the live process of examining, sorting and shifting becomes an act of witness, reckoning, and revaluing.

>  Artist Bio: Rona Lee


ACCESSIBILITY
> Copeland Gallery is wheelchair accessible, but the Safehouses (included in this ticket) are not. Please reach out to producing [@] future ritual.co.uk to arrange discounted tickets if you would like to attend the Copeland Gallery performances only.


CREDITS + SUPPORT

Created by: Rona Lee

Sound Respondent: Tansy Spinks

CEREMONY is supported with public funds by Arts Council England.
// Lynn Lu

Lynn Lu, the ocean’s refusal to stop kissing the shore, 2019. Photo by Annie Jael Kwan.


KEY INFO
> Sunday 29 Nov 2026, 1pm until 5pm

@ Copeland Gallery, SE15 3SN


TICKETS
> £15/£18/£20 
> UC/PC: £10 

Tickets include entry to this work, to gustaf broms and Julia Bardsley’s durational works taking place in Safehouse 1&2, and to Rona Lee’s work taking place in Copeland Gallery.
  
> Buy Tickets
Lynn Lu is a visual artist whose research-led practice emerges from her interests in context and site specificity, participation and collaboration, and the poetics of absurdity. 

Her current research investigates the figure of the Crone and female ageing to subvert and deepen the ways we collectively understand and experience menopause. She is also learning pole dance to repurpose a craft historically designed for male titillation, for strength-training and acrobatics to combat menopausal ailments like osteoporosis, heart disease, and brain fog, and to explore feminine resilience and sensuality in post-reproductive life.


>  Artist Bio: Lynn LuACCESSIBILITY
> Copeland Gallery is wheelchair accessible, but the Safehouses (included in this ticket) are not. Please reach out to producing [@] future ritual.co.uk to arrange discounted tickets if you would like to attend the Copeland Gallery performances only.


CREDITS + SUPPORT

Created by: Lynn Lu

CEREMONY is supported with public funds by Arts Council England.