Against the alienation and fragmentation of contemporary life, Future Ritual creates and holds spaces for curious publics to gather, to think and to feel through place, desire, belief, loss and mystery.
We are based in Peckham (London) and work from STUDIO: Future Ritual.
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Still from video by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi.
Marilyn Arsem & Anne Bean
Field Work / Solstice
an intensive residential workshop, 18 - 25 June 2027The Field Work residential workshop explores collaboration in and with landscape. We will consider the role of site in performance art, exploring multiple approaches for being with place and working with the land as an active collaborator.
We will spend a week immersed in the Eden Valley, a beautiful, rural place situated between England’s North Pennines and Cumbrian fells.
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Contact: producing@futureritual.co.uk
Co-led by Marilyn Arsem and Anne Bean, this unique collaborative workshop has emerged from the artists’ shared interest in site-responsive performance work. While they approach performance art from different geographies and trajectories, their distinct practices share a spirit of openess that informs the way they encounter places and histories.
Long Meg. Still from video by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi.
Field Work represents an occasion to meet the landscape (and each other) as teacher, interlocutor, and collaborator.
This is a residential workshop, meaning we will live together for the week. We will be based on a four acre private campsite amid biodiverse land. From this base we will walk to and spend time with evocative sites in the area, including ancient monuments, forests, fields, rivers and agricultural land. Wherever we are, the landscape will guide and shape our work.
Overview of our base for Field Work. Image courtesy of Into The Woods Cumbria.
The programme will balance collective and solo practice. Our explorations will involve small group sessions, conversational exchange, individual and collaborative tasks, devising performance actions, evening sharings, practices of listening, and periods of silence.
We invite you to arrive without preconceived ideas about how you will relate to these places, and without firm notions of how you will be in this landscape.
We invite you to arrive without preconceived ideas about how you will relate to these places, and without firm notions of how you will be in this landscape.
Rather, we ask that you bring openness, questions, and a willingness to somehow dislodge fixed notions as we encounter both outer and inner terrains.
Field Work / Solstice builds on Field Work (2026), deepening our encounter with the River Eden, Long Meg and her Daughters, and the fields and forests surrounding them.
Facilitation
Marilyn Arsem and Anne Bean. Still from video by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi.
In co-facilitating this workshop, I hope to design a framework that deepens participants' engagement with the environment around them and with their own practice. Practically speaking, that means creating daily prompts that trigger our imaginations, challenge our assumptions and habits, and inspire a diversity of embodied responses to the landscape. I look forward to the conversations about the work that we create together in this week.
> collaborators: Marilyn Arsem
However, deep in us we have the ease, the affinity and awareness, to connect with ourselves, with others, with where we are. There are many ways of opening ourselves to this, some as simple as sharing food, as in ancient harvest festivals.
I would like these days together to unfold between us, with myself just as a nudger and Marilyn's process adding other ingredients to this unfolding.
> collaborators: Anne Bean
| Field drawing of Little Meg carved rock, a clockwise spiral linked to a set of concentric circles. |
We will work throughout the workshop week, working to support the deepest possible experience. Field Work represents a unique opportunity to bring the distinct practices of Anne and Marilyn, two of our dear collaborators, into relation in a special place. Joined by the Field Work participants, we expect this will be a powerful convergence of artistic forces.
About Future Ritual
Structure
Field Work takes place from Friday 18 to Friday 25 June 2027 in the Eden Valley, Cumbria.
The nearest train station is Penrith. From Penrith, it is a 20 minute drive. For drivers, there is parking onsite. Train timetables will be available in Spring 2027.
Participants should plan to arrive ready to begin at 5pm on Friday 18 June. For those taking the train, you should plan to arrive to Penrith by 3pm. We will finish around midday on Friday 25 June.
Gate Opener
Sometime in late Spring we will host an online Gate Opener, giving participants a chance to meet each other and check in with our team on artistic and logistical information.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be provided.
We will need some participants to help with preparation each day, though this will be scheduled so that it does not interrupt the workshop plans.
Teas, coffees and some soft drinks will also be included.
Participants should bring their own snacks.
In the evening, we will light fires and sit under Cumbria’s dark skies.
Accommodation is in tents. Our ambition is to tune in and immerse ourselves in this calm and beautiful place.
Participants will need to source their own tents and sleeping materials. A packing list will be shared following the Gate Opener.
There are showers with (usually) hot water and compost toilets on site.
There is no WiFi onsite.
We will be the only people onsite, so there is plenty of space to go for quiet periods.
Lacy’s Caves on the river Eden. Photo credit unknown.
Part of the kitchen area at our basecamp. Image courtesy of Into The Woods Cumbria.
Field Work 2026. Still from video by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi.
Participation
Field Work is primarily geared towards those who practice performance art, though we welcome those who practice other disciplines (visual artists, dancers, musicians etc.) and those with unruly, undefined or emergent practices. We invite participants with any level of professional experience.
The most important quality is an openess towards discovery, with yourself, with others and with the landscape.
If you would like to speak through any aspect of the workshop, you are welcome to contact Future Ritual by email: producing@futureritual.co.uk.
As we will be camping, you should be someone who welcomes a back to basics approach and spending time outdoors!
Accessibility
There are some limitations with Field Work, as the residency involves camping in tents and there are no accessible toilets or showers at the campsite.
We will be spending most of our time immersed in the surrounding landscape. Some sites are accessible by road or paved path, but others are only accessible via informal footpaths. There will be no need to rush to any of the sites and the routes would be graded ‘easy’ or ‘moderate’, though may still contain stiles. You should expect to be traversing between 2 and 5 miles each day.
We welcome all those who need more information to make a decision about joining the process or who would like to explore adaptations together to contact us by email (producing@futureritual.co.uk) and we will figure it out together.
Concession: £700
Standard: £800
Supporter: £900
The ticket includes: a week’s facilitation by Marilyn Arsem and Anne Bean; breakfast, lunch and dinner; tea, coffee and soft drinks; daily access to a wood-fired sauna, and the campsite pitch.
The ticket does not include: tent and sleeping gear; travel to and from the residency; snacks.
Payment Schedule
£300 deposit to secure your place, due Fri 15 Jan
£250, due Fri 1 May
Balance, due Fri 18th June
Expressions of Interest
Our callout is open until 11pm Sunday 6 December 2026.
Please submit your Expression of Interest via this google form.
The form asks for contact, access and dietary information, along with the following:
- Tell us about your relationship with a place that is important to you, or describe an encounter with a place that left a lasting impression.
- Tell us about your practice, in your own terms.
- Tell us why you want to take part in Field Work.
You can answer these questions in text, or in a video or audio response. Share a link in one of the text fields, and please make sure sharing settings are correct so we can access them!
We look forward to seeing you in the field!