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Benjamin Sebastian, 3 Reflections², Future Ritual, ICA (London), 2022. Photos by zack mennell.
ICA (London)
a season of performance18.05 - 29.05.2022
The fog of the here-and-now is ossifying. Contemporary culture is characterised by states of anxiety, alienation and exile. Breaking with these states requires a series of temporal maneuvers. Ritual is an apt symbolic technology for this work, for ritual is a way of entering time and rendering it habitable through communion.
The performance works of this Future Ritual represent a plurality of responses to this question: how can the archaic technology of ritual be deployed in the divination, manifestation and sustentation of something else - of alternative [queer] futurities, wherein states of belonging (in difference) are felt deeply and more readily?
Curated and produced by Future Ritual
Curator: Joseph Morgan Schofield
PR: ABSTRAKT
Programme assistance: Ash McNaughton
Documentation: Fenia Kotsopoulou, zack mennell, Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi
This iteration of Future Ritual was commissioned by the ICA (London) and further supported with public funds by Arts Council England.
With thanks to Sara Sassanelli
Enquiries: producing@futureritual.co.uk.
Soojin Chang
Heavenly Shower of Banknotes21.05.2022
What will you do with your vision of her?
Heavenly Shower of Banknotes is a space for gambling desire and testing sight. Soojin Chang invites the audience to offer her fate as she is bound to another in a room. Georgie (Rei-n) Lo performs as mediator in this experimental ritual as it oscillates between a fighting ring, feast, and transaction. Come and join the match.
Artist Index: Soojin Chang
Soojin Chang, Heavenly Shower of Banknotes, Future Ritual, ICA (London), 2022. Photos by zack mennell.
Soojin Chang, Heavenly Shower of Banknotes, Future Ritual, ICA (London), 2022. Videography and editing by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi.
Rubiane Maia
Every Time I Trace The Horizon, My Hands Catch Fire [Book-Performance, Chapter III]29.05.2025
From January 2018 to January 2019, I made a commitment to write every day. I simply created the exercise of sitting at the computer and writing whatever came to mind, purposely without setting a specific direction. I was influenced by both the 'Automatic Writing' method used by surrealist poets to subvert the conscious mind and by the 'Psychography' a practice initiated by Allan Kardec. Through this process, a series of cathartic writings emerged. Mostly narratives that start from my own daily life connecting layers of traumatic memories buried in oblivion. Situations that reveal the violence and brutality of a system that silences and alienates minority identities: in my case, a Latin American, mother and black female artist.
As I am very interested in the resonances that memory has on our behaviour and ways of existing, I started developing an ongoing project of live performances called Book Performance, in which I review these writings and transform them into symbolic actions to be presented in public.
This iteration of Rubiane’s Book Performance is made in collaboration with Tiffany Auttrianna Ward.
Artist Index: Rubiane Maia
Rubiane Maia, Every Time I Trace The Horizon, My Hands Catch Fire [Book-Performance, Chapter III], Future Ritual, ICA (London), 2022. Photos by zack mennell.
Rubiane Maia, Every Time I Trace The Horizon, My Hands Catch Fire [Book-Performance, Chapter III], Future Ritual, ICA (London), 2022. Videography and editing by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi.
Joseph Morgan Schofield
with bare feet touching the sky I yearn 26.05.2022Underpinned by a deep sense of longing that is about both loss and desire, with bare feet touching the sky I yearn calls to a queer futurity which is wilder and more raw than the anxious, ossifying present. This futurity is multiplicitous - shrouded, erotic, and non-linear. It is bound up with more-than-human ecologies and, like life itself, it is chaotic and non-binary.
Prophetic fictions compost with dried flowers, soil and natural pigments; a wormhole is opened in the earth and the boundaries between human subjectivity and the worlds beyond are made porous.
Sweaty, bloody gestural embodiments of yearning and rudimentary chroma-keying facilitates a symbolic, DIY diffusion of selfhood; the poetic resonances of texts, movements, materials and actions are offered to those gathered as a divinatory device. The work offers no clear path but rather an invitation - to step into a more mythic time, a space for dreaming, grieving, desiring and communing.
Artist Index: Joseph Morgan Schofield
Joseph Morgan Schofield, with bare feet touching the sky I yearn, Future Ritual, ICA (London), 2022. Photos by zack mennell.
Joseph Morgan Schofield, with bare feet touching the sky I yearn, Future Ritual, ICA (London), 2022. Videography and editing by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi.
3 Reflections² 18.05.2022
This work seeps slowly, requesting patience, reflection, vision & vulnerability from both you and I.
Repetitive actions loop on themselves again and again. Across three hours; three full cycles will be completed.
Voice, light, language, adornment and a breaking of the skin; will be used in an attempt to temporarily bridge interiority and exteriority, the proximate and distant - the past, present & future.
Alone, together.
ɿoɿɿim ɿυoγ mɒ I
Artist Index: Benjamin Sebastian
Benjamin Sebastian, 3 Reflections², Future Ritual, ICA (London), 2022. Photos by zack mennell.
Benjamin Sebastian, 3 Reflections², Future Ritual, ICA (London), 2022. Videography and editing by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi.