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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Sandra Stanionyte, Somewhere Between Memory and Memorial, Future Ritual, Kunstraum, 2019. Photo by Jemima Yong.

Kunstraum & Live Art Development Agency

a three day convening
24 - 28.09.2019

In this two-day artist lab led by Claye Bowler, we will  delve into the intersections of queer/trans/disabled experience, memory and materiality through engagement  with practices of casting, collecting and archiving.


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Film Night

Live Art Development Agency
24.09.2019An evening of artist films, performance to camera and archival documentation by artists thinking through ritual, performance and queer futurity. The evening featured works by Jon John, Martin O’Brien and Sheree Rose, and Nwando Ebizie.


Performance

Kunstraum
27 & 28.09.2019





Charlie Ashwell

spells

spells is an experiment in the technical potential of dance and language to produce alternative orientations to the world.

spells speculates.
spells interrupts.
spells communes.
spells conjures.
spells oscillates.
spells flickers.
spells summons.
spells refuses.
spells desires.
spells determines.

Made in collaboration with Frances Morgan.

Artist Index: Charlie Ashwell

Sandra Stanionyte

Somewhere Between Memory and Memorial

I fear falling, fear getting hurt.
I plead with the moment to be on my side.
I will gather white flour,
Pour it into a bowl until it overflows—
As in our times,
Overfilled with the white man’s power ...

... I’ll let the water drip down,
And I’ll hold the weight of memory—
A burden no one can ever truly own.


Artist Index: Sandra Stanionyte



Kelvin Atmadibrata

til they are caught  in the trap

Kelvin Atmadibrata recruits superpowers awakened by puberty and adolescent fantasy. 

Equipped by shōnen characters, kōhai hierarchy and macho ero-kawaii, he often personifies power and strength into partially canon and fan fiction antiheroes to contest the masculine and erotica in Southeast Asia.

Artist Index: Kelvin Atmadibrata

Photographs by Jemima Yong.





Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu

surrounded by water

Leman sees the process of making art as a performative research on the self. They use the work as a tool to transform their limits and their subjectivity and also to create new corporal concepts to think, to imagine, to dream, to act, to be and to become.

Artist Index: Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu

Radage & Hardaker


Our work focuses on the body in a state of flux. We are concerned with gender and sexuality, care and violence. We are concerned with how the body interacts with other bodies and other materials and dismantling the hierarchy built into body politics and materialism, how it contaminates, is contaminated, dilutes, is diluted, concentrates, is concentrated. We make work with our bodies as the starting point.

Artist Index: Alicia Radage
Artist Index: ROMA



Augusto Cascales 

Lucifer In My Belly

Using queer feminist and post-colonial positions, Cascales (soma)tic ritualistic practice explores deviant forms of knowledge production and distribution.

Lucifer in My Belly is a somatic ritual weaving togther sigil magic, queer club culture and the mating call of fireflies.

Artist Index: Augusto Cascales



Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

You Are Being Let Into A Space
I CREATE WORK THAT SEEKS TO ARCHIVE BLACK TRANS EXPERIENCE. I USE TECHNOLOGY TO IMAGINE OUR LIVES IN ENVIRONMENTS THAT CENTRE OUR BODIES...

THOSE LIVING, THOSE THAT HAVE PASSED AND THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN

Artist Index: Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

Photographs by Julia Sterre.