CEREMONY 2026 // DURATIONAL WORKS

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.

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)


 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

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


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 taking place on the same day.
  > Buy Tickets

Lead Artist: Julia Bardsley

Performer: Moa Johansson

Sound Design: Andrew Poppy

CEREMONY is supported with public funds by Arts Council England. #2: aNALOGUE Abyss iGNITION is realised with support from 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.

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

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

@ Safehouse 1, SE15 3SN

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


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.
  > Buy Tickets

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.


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

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

@ Safehouse 1, SE15 3SN

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


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.
 > Buy Tickets

Created by: Dagmara Bilon with a temporary collective of co-researchers

CEREMONY is supported with public funds by Arts Council England.
// gustaf broms

gustaf broms. Image by Trishula Littler.


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

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

@ Safehouse 1, SE15 3SN

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


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.
 > Buy Tickets

Created by: gustaf broms

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

Rona Lee, Avid Metamorphosis 1, 1995. Image courtesy of the artist.

This new commission marks a return after more than twenty years to durational work for Lee. 

Methodically taking apart a set of twenty photo books, ‘The Library of Nations’ and reconfiguring the images contained with them as a means to expose and critically challenge the extractive world order they embody.


>  Artist Bio: Rona Lee

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

@ Copeland Gallery, SE15 3SN


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.


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.
 
> Buy Tickets
Created by: Rona Lee

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

Rona Lee, Avid Metamorphosis 1, 1995. Image courtesy of the artist.




>  Artist Bio: Lynn Lu

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

@ Copeland Gallery, SE15 3SN


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.


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
Created by: Lynn Lu

CEREMONY is supported with public funds by Arts Council England.