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DISCHARGE @ IKLECTIK
Friday 1 May
A sanctuary of sickness: short sharp shocks curated by Martin O’Brien.
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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: Friday 1 May at IKLECTIK
> tickets - £18//£15//£8
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.
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.
Over 18s only.
dates, venue
This iteration is hosted by IKLECTIK, a grassroots arts organisation embracing a radical, cross-disciplinary approach to culture-making and gathering.> next: Friday 1 May
> Saturday 18 July
> Saturday 28 Nov
IKLECTIK, Peckham Levels,
95a Rye Lane, London SE15 4ST
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Peckham Rye station (served by the Windrush line and National Rail) is a 5 minute walk away.
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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contact
Please direct any queries to producing [at] futureritual.co.ukfriday 1 may
tickets - £18//£15//£8 | featuring Tallulah Haddon, Mahsa Salali, Samm Shackleton and Ian Whitford, Nathan Walker, and Bevis WuTallulah Haddon
This work is based around an ancient male underground cult from the Roman era who carried out a sacrifice which involved slaughtering a bull and baptising themselves in its blood. This ritual occurred in a cave and symbolised new growth and the beginning of the concept of time. I have spent a year nursing the remains of heartbreak, therefore initiation back into the cult feels like a metaphor for returning to one's friends and support system after heartbreak and alienation. In the conjuring of 'I Left My Vibrator In A Cave' the blood baptism represents a metaphoric journey back into the collective.'I Left My Vibrator In A Cave’ is made in collaboration with Mirabelle Haddon, Kit Marshall, Joana Nastari, Claudia Palazzo, Dre Spisto and Alina Maldonado. The work is performed by Mirabelle Haddon, Kit Marshall, Claudia Palazzo, Dre Spisto and Joana Nastari.
Mahsa Salali
Mahsa Salali is a queer Iranian performance artist working with long-durational live art as a strategy of resistance. Through stillness, repetition, and endurance, they interrogate systems that police gender, sexuality, and immigrant identity, insisting on presence where bodies are silenced or erased. Born in Iran and based in the UK, Salali works from a position of in-betweenness, transforming ritual objects and gestures through queer and diasporic lenses.Nathan Walker
Nathan Walker is an artist and writer from West Cumbria, UK. Nathan works across and between performance art and poetry, exploring both the body and the page as sites for vocal exploration and the manipulation of sound and speech. They facilitate a queer vocality, one that is both embodied and untethered.Samm Shackleton and Ian Whitford, Feeder. Image courtesy of the artists.
Samm Shackleton
& Ian Whitford
Whitford and Shackleton have solo and collaborative practices as performance artists/organisers. They are co-founders of OTHER and this collaboration was born out of that experimental practice led crucible. together they make confrontational/confessional performances that explore intimacy, control and somatic memory. They offer compact site aware work that foregrounds the body as a site of inheritance and compulsion.They understand making performance art as something they do to make sense of experiences for themselves and others, to learn, transform, and find meaning.
Whitford has performed as half of duo Weeks & Whitford since 2010 and is co director of Performance Platform.
Bevis Wu
I am Bevis Wu, a Taiwanese performance artist based in London. I am currently pursuing an MA in Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary University of London. My practice exists at the intersection of live art, experimental theatre, and cultural rituals. My work explores the body as a living archive, investigating how personal history, memory, and displacement can be physically translated in contemporary spaces.Through experimental movement and ritualistic actions, I create non-normative bodily happenings that challenge spatial and psychological boundaries, often focusing on the states of longing, identity, and the physical tension between past and present.
what to expect
There will be five performances lasting between 15 and 20 minutes each. There will be breaks between works.
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.
about Pay What You Can
Tickets are available on a Pay What You Can basis. We suggest the price based on yearly earnings brackets.
There are a limited number of £8 tickets available for each event. We hope most of our audience are able to pay £14 or £18, supporting the lower price tickets and helping us meet the costs of putting the event on.
There’s also a £25 option for those feeling flush! If you are able to pay this, you’re helping us to keep Future Ritual's work going on into the future.
> tickets - £18//£15//£8
Electric Adam, DISCHARGE, Ugly Duck, 2024. Photo by Manuel Vason.
Ash McNaughton, Dredge, DISCHARGE, Ugly Duck, 2024. Photo by Manuel Vason.
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