Future Ritual is a practice of gathering, curating and organising. We collaborate with artists to create contemporary expressions of performance and ritual, working to support the emergence of new and more attuned cultures. 

We are based in Peckham (London) and work from STUDIO: Future Ritual.


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STUDIO Residents wanted, next deadline 15 August

Join our community of practice at STUDIO: Future Ritual, a new space for gathering, performance and embodied practice in Peckham.

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Anne Bean + Marilyn Arsem
Friday 7 August

A special performance encounter in the Old Waiting Room (Peckham Rye Station), working with found objects and happenstance. 

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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) (b. Gonesse, France, 1992) is an atmosphere-maker with a practice rooted in Congolese, Guadeloupean, and Beninese heritages. Building upon (more than) human, cross-border collaborations, they unearth ancestral ceremonies to be with change. They play with unexpected pairings between materials, bodies, and concepts, disrupting colonial binaries and dominant narratives. 

n:u combines intuitive, embodied-knowledge in artmaking with a political ecology approach grounded by an MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development from University College of London (UCL).  

Performing at Tate Britain in February 2026 as part of Land, Material, Memory, Performing Landscape, n:u’s  experimental practice unfolds with emotional excavation, ancestrality and devotional use of materials (rum, oil, soil, hair), as well as curatorial reparative initiatives, such as les ongles noirs dirty nails (Dakar–Birmingham, 2022–24), B.O.O.K   (supporting Black artists in the UK, 2020–23), Open Call(archived platform for artist-researchers, 2020-23) and PAPAYA (Luxembourg-UK afro-feminist collective, 2019–23). n:u is an Axis Fellow (2025-26), Feeney fellow (2025-26), a CVAN WM steering group member (2025-28). 

They have collaborated with Agnes Essonti Luque, Tobi Onabolu, and Maria Muehombo. They have been invited to create atmospheres by organisations such as Eastside Projects, Ban Workshop, Ambassade de France x l’Institut français du Bénin - programme Inspiration Bénin, au coeur des mondes Africains. 

www.atmosphere-maker.org/about

Bio supplied in June 2026 for FREE(HOLD).
n:u, FREE(HOLD), 2026. Photo by Devika Bilimoria.