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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News + Upcoming

open call
DISCHARGE
1 March

An open call for performance work that doesn’t fit elsewhere.

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 zack mennell
COMMON HOST
13 - 15 March

A weekend gathering situating ancient folk customs such as mumming in new relation to the post-industrial landscapes of London and Essex . 

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On 14 March we’ll host contaminated materials, a workshop exploring the performing our difficult histories.

> workshop info


Martin O’Brien
ON DISCIPLINE
11 - 15 May

This intensive workshop looks at discipline in performance making - how commitment, repetition and training can shape the way we work.

> workshop info + booking


Watch Our Work
 
Some of the performances, projects and events we have worked on are available to watch online
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Getting in Touch
Advice + Consultancy




Martin O’Brien, What the Serpent told me in the misty gloom, Tate Britain, 2025. Photo by Fenia Kotsopoulou.



 Martin O’BrienLegacies of the Unwell in Live Art, 2026



Zombie Time is a project by Martin O’Brien about living politically as a sick person. Through residencies, performance, publishing and a series of gatherings, O’Brien explores how Live Art and performance art practices can shift understandings of health, disrupt the vulnerabity of the patient and the rhetoric of illness as weakness. Living sick can also mean living well!

> Artist Index: Martin O’Brien


Funders and Support
Commissioned by Performance, Posession + Automation. Funded and supported by Arts Council England, the Leverhulme Trust and Queen Mary University of London. Supported by Warehouse9. Produced by Future Ritual.


Credits
Lead artist ~ Martin O’Brien

Producer ~ Future Ritual

Videography ~ Baiba Sprance and Marco Beradi
Photography ~ Fenia Kotsopoulou


Programme






On Discipline is an intensive workshop looking at discipline in performance making - how commitment, repetition and training can shape the way we work. Together we’ll explore how we can make rules - and break them - as we make our performances.

> 11 - 15 May (registration deadline 1 April)



Discharge is a series of performance gatherings foregrounding work informed by kink, fetish and sexual cultures and strange bodily practices. 

> Open Call for performances (closes Sun 1 March)