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 London (UK).


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DISCHARGE @ IKLECTIK
Friday 1 May

A sanctuary of sickness: short sharp shocks curated by Martin O’Brien.

> event info + tickets


STUDIO Residents wanted, deadline 31 May

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

Watch Our Work
 
Some of the performances, projects and events we have worked on are available to watch online
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Martin O’Brien & zack mennell, Whistling as the Night Calls, 2024. Photography by zack mennell. 



an intensive workshop with Martin O’Brien,
Monday 11 - Friday 15 May, Peckham (London)

> Book now (two places remaining, payment plans available)


This intensive workshop looks 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.

In his own his work, Martin O’Brien sets up rules and conditions. These inform his choice of actions, materials and aesthetics and give the work an internal logic which he can make decisions with - or against. 

Using exercises dervived from Martin’s practice, we’ll work through ways of (re)committing to an artistic exploration. Identifying and clarifying our own existing rules, and experimenting with new logics, we'll explore how adherence to these self-defined / self-inflicted conditions can push our actions beyond the expected and familiar. 


We'll also look at what happens when we transgress, disrupt, break or overturn established rules during our performances. What do refusal and resistance bring to our work? 

We might also understand our rules as an expression of our artistic values, what happens when we subvert our them? 

We invite artists and performers with varied and diverse practices to join ON DISCIPLINE. Although Martin will reference his own explorations of pain-based and BDSM-informed practices, they are not the focus of this workshop. Our guiding principles will be commitment, dedication, repitition and endurance - principles which will mean different things to different artists.

> Artist Index: Martin O’Brien


to participate

Monday 11 - Friday 15 May

The workshop is priced £325 for the week (£275 concessions). To access the concession price, use the code ‘concession50’ at checkout. 

There is the option to pay a 30% deposit now, and we will be in touch about the balance in mid April. 

If price is a barrier, please be in touch as we can offer a limited number of subsidised places. The number of participants will be limited to 15 artists. 

> Book now (last few places remaining)


key info
Monday 11 - Friday 15 May,
10.00 - 17.00, daily

Bussey Building, Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 4ST

If you have any questions, please contact Future Ritual:
producing@futureritual.co.uk


accessibility
The studio is located on the second floor of the Bussey Building, a former industrial warehouse. Regrettably, there is currently no lift access to this studio.

There are 44 steps, across 5 flights with between 5 and 10 steps each. There is a handrail along the stairs. There are bathrooms on the same floor as the studio.

If there are other ways we can facilitate your access during the workshop, please let us know on the info form when making your booking - or write to us with any questions.

> further accessibility info

Martin O’Brien, Fading Out of Dead Air, A Collective Archive, Ugly Duck, 2025. Photo by Jean Cleverley.



Zombie Time

DISCHARGE is presented as part of Zombie Time, a project exploring 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!