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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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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n:u (melissandre varin)
n:u (melissandre varin) has been described as an atmosphere-maker, with a practice rooted in Congolese, Guadeloupean, and Beninese heritages. Building upon cross-border collaborations, they unearth ancestral ceremonies to invite shared moments of freedom. They make performance art works, installations, sculptures, and liberatory infrastructures. They play with unexpected pairings between materials, bodies, and concepts, disrupting colonial binaries and dominant narratives. n:u combines intuitive, embodied-knowledge with an approach grounded by Political Ecology from an MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development from University College of London (UCL).
Recent presentations of their work include performances and exhibitions at Tate Britain (UK), Lọpọ Lọpọ (Benin), Ikon Gallery (UK), the OFF Dakar Biennale (Senegal), Glasgow Buzzcut (UK), Fierce Festival (UK), Kulturfabrik (Luxembourg), Mimosa House (UK), Kunstal Mechelen (Belgium), PAE Aktionslabor (Germany), Ceremony (UK), Contact Theatre (UK), Tangent Projects (Barcelona), and Eastside Projects (UK).
n:u has received awards from institutions including l'Ambassade de France x l’Institut français du Bénin (programme Inspiration Bénin, au coeur des mondes Africains), Franklin Furnace, and the Henry Moore Foundation,. They have held fellowships with Axis, John Feeney Trust, and Hood Futures Studio and serve as a steering group member for CVAN WM in the UK, alongside their role as an invited founding member of Popo Culture in Grand Popo, Benin. They have designed atmospheres and infrastructured unusual ways of working, including with longer-term collaborators Eastside Projects, Ban Workshop, and Future Ritual. n:u's reparative practice is nourished by friendships, conversations with materials, spirits and ancestors, and homes like Finding Etherea.
www.atmosphere-maker.org/about
Bio supplied in June 2026 for FREE(HOLD).
n:u, FREE(HOLD), 2026. Photo by Devika Bilimoria.