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Marilyn Arsem and Anne Bean in conversation. Photo by Fenia Kotsopoulou.
emilyn claid and Martin O’Brien in conversation with Martin Hargreaves. Photo by Fenia Kotsopoulou.
CEREMONY : Talks & Conversations
Project Knowledge Archive2024/2025
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. The project unfolded in London and Venice.
This knowledge archive includes conversations with artists Marilyn Arsem, Anne Bean, emilyn claid, zack mennell, Martin O’Brien and VestAndPage. The events were hosted by Regina Agard-Brathwaite, Martin Hargreaves and Joseph Morgan Schofield and organised in partnership with Copeland Gallery, Live Art Development Agency, Queen Mary University of London and VSSL studio,
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Martin O’Brien & zack mennell
in conversation with Regina Agard-BrathwaiteVSSL Studio, 1st December 2024
WHISTLING AS THE NIGHT CALLS is an exhibition of collaborative photographic works. Shot on 35mm Cinestill 800T, the images document a series of performance actions which haunt the wind-swept skeletal remains of sites of worship and pilgrimage.
WHISTLING AS THE NIGHT CALLS marks a decade of collaboration and shared practice between mennell and O’Brien, wherein mennell has witnessed, documented, facilitated and performed in many of O'Brien's live works. This show is the first exhibition of their collaborative photographs.
Artist Index: Martin O’Brien | Artist Index: zack mennell
Video and editing by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi.
an evening with Marilyn Arsem
in conversation with Joseph Morgan SchofieldLive Art Development Agency, 18th April 2025
Across a 100-day period in 2015-16, Marilyn Arsem created one hundred different six-hour performances which took place daily in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Each of these durational works represented a different inquiry on the nature of time.
For this special event, Marilyn presented an artist talk reflecting on this body of work and sharing her research on performance art and time. The presentation was followed by a conversation with Future Ritual director Joseph Morgan Schofield.
Artist Index: Marilyn Arsem
Video and editing by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi.
STRATA by VestAndPage
in conversation with Joseph Morgan SchofieldQueen Mary University of London, 19th April 2025
In a film of philosophic poetic action, a collective of performance artists root out the liminal, spectral and ritual of art in prehistoric Ice Age caves. The hybrid of performance art and film shows caves as proto-spaces for altered states and sites of knowledge-making and human becoming.
Following the screening, curator Joseph Morgan Schofield chaired a conversation with VestAndPage.
Artist Index: VestAndPage
Video and editing by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi.
Marilyn Arsem & Anne Bean
in
conversation with Joseph Morgan SchofieldCopeland Gallery, 26th April 2025
The artists joined in a conversation on time, space and collaboration, reflecting on the convergences in their artistic interests and the divergences of their approaches.
Artist Index: Marilyn Arsem | Artist Index: Anne Bean
Video and editing by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi.
emilyn claid & Martin O’Brien
in
conversation with Martin HargreavesCopeland Gallery, 26th April 2025
The artists, who had collaborated on The Trembling Forest, which premiered during the festival, joined in a conversation on queerness, legacy and deviance.
Artist Index: emilyn claid | Artist Index: Martin O’Brien
Video and editing by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi.
Credits and support
Joseph Morgan Schofield - Curator
Regina Agard-Brathwaite - Programme Coordinator
Anna Goodman / Abstrakt Publicity - PR
Programme assistance: Robyn Green, Ewan Hindes, Ash McNaughton, zack mennell, Arthur Morris, kane stonestreet and AJ Thwaites.
Future Ritual: Ceremony is supported with public funds by Arts Council England. Further support towards the programme has been given by Mayor of London. The project was produced in partnership with Live Art Development Agency, Queen Mary University of London, Stanley Arts, Venice International Performance Art Week and VSSL studio.
Enquiries: producing@futureritual.co.uk.