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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News
STUDIO Residents wanted, next deadline 30 September
Join our community of practice at STUDIO: Future Ritual, a new space for gathering, performance and embodied practice in Peckham.
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ALMANAC
Sunday 20 September
Our regular performance art gathering returns with performances by Samm Shackleton, Dominique Savitri Bonarjee + Awc Chuwen Wang.
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Martin O’Brien & Sheree Rose
Saturday 26 September
A special Greatest Hits performance, celebrating 15 years of collaboration.
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Watch Our Work
Some of the performances, projects and events we have worked on are available to watch online
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Julia Bardsley
Julia Bardsley is an artist working with the interplay of performance, pinhole photography, video projection, sculptural objects, psychological garments and hybrid personae. Works include: The Divine Trilogy: Trans-Acts, Almost The Same (feral rehearsals for violent acts of culture) and Aftermaths: a tear in the meat of vision (London, Glasgow, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, Croatia, Belgium, Italy); meta-FAMILY (Brazil, UK, Belgium, Slovenia) and Medea:darkmatterevents (Brazil & UK).Under the creative umbrella The House of Wonder & Panic, she developed a series of durational process events entitled, Reading Rooms. These pieces have repurposed a political, a philosophical and an entomological text. The third of the series, An Apian Paradox, conjures an apicultural BJ hive party, that offers an ecology of creativity, pleasure and female bee-ing (London, Lisbon, Birmingham).
Her current phase of exploration comes under the title: The Abyss System. The first in the series, Elliptical Abyss Ellipses #3… was presented in 2024 and the third, M[eye] Abyss [i]DEA #1. in 2025. The second part, Apis Abyss Anomaly #2: is in development.
Bio supplied Aug 2025 for ALMANAC.
Julia Bardsley, S P E L L - an intensity for | from The Abyss System, Future Ritual: ALMANAC, 2025. Photo by zack mennell.