// CEREMONY Festival
Mal Parry with SL Grange, KA Harper, Fritha Jenkins and Orrow Bell

+ Eoin McCaul
with Dilan Kumar


Two performances which foreground the physical and sonic impact of touch, and the contact between bodies and histories.


KEY INFO
> Thursday 26 November 2026
> Doors 7pm, ends 9.30pm
> Copeland Gallery, SE15 3SN
ACCESSIBILITY
> Wheelchair Accessible

TICKETS
> £15 / £18 / £20
> UC / PC: £10

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Every Law a Tattoo // Mal Parry

Mal Parry, needlings. Image courtesy of the artist.

In this new performance work, Mal Parry responds to the climate of hostility and legislative violence towards queer and trans people via a collision of contemporary materials with traditional craft practices. Hand-embroidering into mass-produced silicone prosthetics, they meet the fragmentation, objectification and exploitation of the body through practices of DIY resistance and repair.

The work is inspired by the uncanny fact that since medieval times, UK laws have been inscribed on vellum (calf skin). 


>  Artist Bio: Mal Parry


 Lead Artist: Mal Parry

Co-creators: SL Grange, KA Harper, Fritha Jenkins and Orrow Bell.

Producer: Joseph Morgan Schofield for Future Ritual

Access Support: Gabrielle Sheppard

Press: Abstrakt 

Commissioned by John Hansard Gallery and Future Ritual. Developed through the Barbican Theatre Open Lab programme, and supported by Platform (Finland) and with public funds by Arts Council England. 

TAIBHSE [Ghost] // Eoin McCaul

Eoin McCaul, Creative Rift, ICA (London), 2026. Photo by George Brown.

 TAIBHSE [Ghost] is an ongoing movement and sound work which studies ghosts, particularly those ghosts of touch which haunt the body through life — whether familial, erotic, or otherwise. It emerges out of a fascination with the various forms of touch we encounter in life, as well as a fascination with the relationship between touch and sound.

The score is created live and is composed entirely of sounds of contact made during performance, looped and mixed live by Dilan Kumar. 

> Artist Bio: Eoin McCaul
> Artist Bio: Dilan Kumar


 Created by Eoin McCaul in collaboration Dilan Kumar

CEREMONY is supported with public funds by Arts Council England.