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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, The Last Breath Society (Coughing Coffin), ICA (London), 2021. Photo by zack mennell.
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
DISCHARGE is a space for performance work some consider difficult, explicit, transgressive or taboo. It may feature nudity, explict acts, the exhibition of bodily functions, temporary bodily mortification, slow work, difficult work, sick work, or work which speaks to the intensity of living and dying. It is not for the easily offended.
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.
Please direct any queries to producing [at] futureritual.co.uk
Over 18s only.
> tickets: £15/£18; UC/PC: £8
> venue info
Doors at 7, performances from 8, DJ from 10.30
There will be limtied seating - some 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.
accessibility
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.
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Gillian Dyson
Tocsin develops from recent physical exploration of re-purposed materials and detritus and vocalised, wordless ‘song’. The performer oscillates between an untrained musicality and guttural and bodily
sounds in a space shared with found, ordinary and throw away materials. The performance is messy yet controlled, leaking at the edges, wavering between familiar and unfamiliar: the feminine, the aging ‘crone’. Perhaps something emerges around possession and the dispossessed, the (un)homely. And maybe ‘alarm bells ring’ as we recognise a process of de-construction.Tallulah Frendo. Image courtesy of the artist.
Tallulah Frendo
Tallulah Frendo is a disabled performance artist from East London. Her work delves deep into the human experience, pushing boundaries and challenging perceptions. Her aim is to physically demonstrate the lasting effects of life with cerebral palsy and understand the variety of challenges that arise from being cared for. Tallulah aims to make the live art industry more accessible as whole. She is passionate about equality and inclusion of all people, but particularly the disabled community. Fritha Jenkins, Aggregate, 2018. Image courtesy of the artist.
Fritha Jenkins
Grounded in queer and autistic modes of attention, Fritha’s work unfolds through non-linear, sensory and relational processes of embodied listening and watery thinking across land and waterscapes. Working with clay, water, field recording and archival encounters, Fritha explores permeability, pressure and resonance. Their practice emerges through conversation with environments, bodies, and situations - washing up bowls, quarries, frozen bathwater, dripping wastewater, rocks, ovens and tabletops.
James Jordan Johnson
Largely Developed through Kevin Quashie’s writing, The Trouble With Publicness: Toward a Theory of Black Quiet, Something is Trying to Disappear Me is a durational performance concerned with thinking about a way to make known a method of Black interiority, or in other words a sense of self-determined stillness within a performance based context and how slowness as a modality can be viewed within Blackness. It is from this viewpoint that Blackness and its social relationship to bodily display has determined Black physical aliveness and gesture. Taking this historical and racialised wage and framework that demands Black performance to sustain an unwavering level of physical and athletic mastery, is rendered as a methodological void within the performance. Kainulainen & Latva
Kainulainen & Latva´s performances are visceral scenes from the raw end of lived experience. Not relying on text or speech, the works are accessible to any audience regardless of language.There’s the tension between two wounded animals, dragging their bodies through shame and grief, with no words to describe what broke them. Despite their non-standard wiring of neurology and gender, they crawl toward one another, seeking connection and tenderness.
Digging their bare hands into the dirt of the human soul, Kainulainen & Latva find beauty in darkness. With childlike, wide-eyed wonder, witnessing the miracle of a shared will to live in the writhing worms, those messengers of hope from the underground.
Tomasz Szrama
My work lasts only as long as its creative process and is inextricably linked to me as a person. The defining features of my performances are audience engagement and improvisation. This approach places my work within the tradition of performance art understood as process-oriented practice, in which the very moment of creation and the risks associated with it are essential. Elements such as timing, the artist’s presence, and the audience’s reaction cannot be captured in a proposal. That is why there is no script, but rather loose ideas or simply a state of mind that takes its final shape during the action within a given space and context. My aim is to juxtapose emergent situations that may stimulate the audience’s expectations with the ephemeral action of an artist who can promise nothing but the ever-present potential for personal failure.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.
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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