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STUDIO Residents wanted, deadline 31 May
Join our community of practice at STUDIO: Future Ritual, a new space for gathering, performance and embodied practice in Peckham.
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DISCHARGE
Saturday 18 July
A sanctuary of sickness with short sharp performances, hosted by IKLECTIK (Peckham).
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Original image: Martin O’Brien, Fading Out of Dead Air (Transmissions for the Necropolis), Ugly Duck: a collective archive, 2025. Photo by Oduenyi Nwike.
next: Saturday 18 July at IKLECTIK, Peckham
then: Saturday 28 November
DISCHARGE is three nights of performance, which turn into parties. DISCHARGE revels in the messy, the gross, the sticky and the distasteful. DISCHARGE is a sanctuary of sickness, curated by artist Martin O’Brien.
> tickets: £15/£18; UC/PC: £8
Saturday 18 July
Hosted by IKLECTIK, Peckham Levels, 95a Rye Lane, London SE15 4ST
> tickets: £15/£18; UC/PC: £8
> venue info
Step-free access is available via the ground-floor lifts and Peckham Levels’ helpful security will be on hand to assist should you experience any issues. There are accessible toilets on the same floor as the performance space.
> Future Ritual access
> Peckham Levels access
If you have questions about content please contact us. We reserve the right to remove audience members who disrupt the space, or put others at risk from the event.
Over 18s only.
Doors at 7, performances from 8, DJ from 10.30
There will be limtied seating - most audience will stand or sit on the floor. There are a limited number of chairs with backs. Seats will be prioritised for those with access needs.
Drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) will be sold by the IKLECTIK team.
Please direct any queries to producing [at] futureritual.co.uk
Nathan Walker, Queer is the Opposite of Police, 2026. Future Ritual: DISCHARGE, hosted by IKLECTIK (London). Photo by Henri T.
Friday 1 May
Hosted by IKLECTIK as part of our 2026 event series DISCHARGE, this evening featured performances by:Curated by Martin O’Brien and Future Ritual. Organised in partnership with IKLECTIK. Supported with public funds by Arts Council England.
Production Team: Regina Agard-Brathwaite, James Dolan, zack mennell, Joseph Morgan Schofield, Alana Young. Documented by Henri T and Marco Berardi and Baiba Sprance.
Bevis Wu, Re-Travel / Soul Retrieval, 2026. Future Ritual: DISCHARGE, hosted by IKLECTIK. Photo by Henri T.
about DISCHARGE
These events follow a short-run but notorious DIY performance art event dedicated to presenting difficult, uncompromising and marginalised performance work which took placed in the kink and fetish club The Flying Dutchman, in London 2012-2014. DISCHARGE embraces the endless possibilities of the performance space for aesthetic, physical, and political art and experimentation.
DISCHARGE was reprised for a special one off event in 2024 at Ugly Duck.
open call
> open call now closed
DISCHARGE will be programmed through a mix of open call and invitation.
The events will be mixed bills, featuring a number of short, sharp shocks each night. These don’t need to be club style performances - we welcome work that is difficult and asks for the audiences’ attention and focus.
The open call is for performance work that is informed by experimental and non-normative bodily practices, including, but not limited to: action; kink and fetish; sexual cultures; experimental movement; strange embodiments; body art; channelings; happenings. DISCHARGE is a space for work that struggles to fit in elsewhere.
The events will be mixed bills, featuring a number of short performances (under 20mins) each night. As this is the case, the works must have quick and minimal set up. This is not a call for cabaret or club style performances - we are interested in work that is difficult and asks for the audiences’ attention and focus.
IKLECTIK’s programme brings together experimental sound, non-normative embodiment, performance rituals, and visual practices, with a focus on accessible technologies. For IKLECTIK, sound is a central point of enquiry, possibility, and exploration.
While the works presented at DISCHARGE will foreground the body, we encourage you to think about the role of sound (including silence) in your proposed work. IKLECTIK is situated in Peckham Levels. There is step free access to the space.
> IKLECTIK
We can offer performers a fee of £500, rehearsal space, technical assistance (focussed on sound), photo and video documentation.
what you need to do
To apply please complete this google form. The deadline is end of day, Sunday 1 March.
If you have any questions, please contact Future Ritual:
producing@futureritual.co.uk
event dates
> Friday 1 May
> Saturday 18 July
> Saturday 28 November
> open call now closed