Future Ritual is a practice of gathering, curating and organising. We collaborate with artists to create contemporary expressions of ritual, working to support the emergence of new and more attuned cultures. 

We are based in London (UK).

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Poster design by Thomas Yeomans, 2018.


Hackney Showroom

05.10.2018
 
Original copy: “F U T U R E R I T U A L is a performance platform for radical queer artists + audiences interested in ritual, myth, magick + mysticism to come together, to resist marginalisation, to challenge decency, to protest, to process, to dream us forward.“

Throughout 2018, Future Ritual presented a touring platform of performance art, visiting Bristol, Folkestone, Leeds and London. The other programmes were:

Hellen Burrough, Fragment, Future Ritual, Hackney Showroom, 2018. Photo by Jemima Yong.

Hellen Burrough

Fragment

A fairy tale smashed up and expectations shattered. 

Our glittering future, broken up and razor sharp.

In a room full of shattered glass shards, a body works to make peace with the pieces left behind.

Artist Index: Hellen Burrough


Eunjung Kim, Temporal Fragment, Future Ritual, Hackney Showroom, 2018. Photo by Jemima Yong.

Eungung Kim

Temporal Fragments

Inspired by the ancient East Asians' shamanistic myth, Mago, Temporal Fragments open the myth and will seek a fragment of it. Desiring ultimate present of the myth that is not affected by existing historical and social power structure. In the present of doing and sharing this work the mythology fractures and decays the chain of signification and the trace forms a new temporal map of geographic formations without any boundaries.

Artist Index: Eunjung Kim



Joseph Morgan Schofield, yesterday I dreamt of flying, Future Ritual, Hackney Showroom, 2018. Photo by Jemima Yong.

Joseph Morgan Schofield

yesterday I dreamt of flying

thinking about icarus and deleuze and gender and my father. this is a leap of faith. the point is never to fly.

Artist Index: Joseph Morgan Schofield


Anni Movsisyan, Ritual for Renewal, Future Ritual, Hackney Showroom, 2018. Photo by Jemima Yong.

Anni Movsisyan

"A study of a West Asian Diasporan's use of magical practices in the early 21st century" & Ritual for Renewal

Pardis is a Herstory Teacher from an optimistic future that is borne of a radical shift in peoples' ways of thinking. Pardis will present their Herstorical research on a particular 21st century artist's practices of growth and resistance against the violent world she found herself in, in order to learn more about how their world came to be.

Ritual for Renewal invites participants to eat and drink from a shared pomegranate. We will take a moment to reflect, let go of that which our hearts and minds no longer need to hold onto, and plant seeds of intentions, whether they be personal, collective, political, metaphysical, etc. The choice of fruit aligns with the season and is inspired by the Tree of Life, which has been represented by the pomegranate in West Asian cultures. 

Artist Index: Anni Movsisyan


Alicia Radage, M, Future Ritual, Hackney Showroom, 2018. Photo by Jemima Yong.

Alicia Radage

M

M works to seep through our silencing of queered bodies. Wading through the visible, the invisible and what exists in between, M paints images and soundscapes in an attempt to find other ways of knowing. 

Artist Index: Alicia Radage