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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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.

> full call out
> about STUDIO

ALMANAC
Sunday 20 September

Our regular performance art gathering returns with performances by Samm Shackleton, Dominique Savitri Bonarjee +  Awc Chuwen Wang.

> event info + tickets

Martin O’Brien & Sheree Rose
Saturday 26 September

A special Greatest Hits performance, celebrating 15 years of collaboration.

> event info + tickets
Watch Our Work
 
Some of the performances, projects and events we have worked on are available to watch online
> watch









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


Credits
Lead artist ~ Martin O’Brien
Producer ~ Future Ritual

Videography ~ Baiba Sprance and Marco Beradi
Photography ~ Fenia Kotsopoulou


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.

programme

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

> Friday 1 May
> Saturday 18 July
> Saturday 28 November

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