Future Ritual amplifies the enlivening and transformative potential of performance art. 

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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Intensive Workshop with Ron Athey & Michele Occelli
Deep dive into the practices of hypnosis, trance movement, mortification of the flesh and pageantry that have informed Ron Athey’s legendary works.

11 - 15 November, Peckham

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Intensive Workshop with gustaf broms
Explore London’s hidden stories, restless energies and feral undersides through performance art action.

22 - 26 November, Peckham

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Join our community of practice at STUDIO: Future Ritual, a new space for gathering, performance and embodied practice in Peckham.

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Ian Whitford

Ian Whitford and Samm 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. 

Bio supplied for DISCHARGE (2026)