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15.12.2017Original copy: “Future Ritual is curated by HereNow residency artist Thomas Yeomans and performance artist Joseph Morgan Schofield. In response to Yeoman’s research into online ritual practices, this event will feature a number of performances that attempt to reclaim ritual from the online sphere. Over the course of the evening, a number of artists will respond to the notion of a ‘queer future ritual’, unmediated by the screen, acted out live and in the flesh. The performances will encourage to ask: what might future rituals look like? Who are they for and what are they trying to do?
A ritual can be a religious, spiritual, domestic and/or magic act. It can be performed in public or private, by one person, or by many. It can be grounded in a particular tradition or devised by the practitioner.
A queer ritual might be a ritual where rites and traditions are queered, or re-discovered, or enacted by queers for queers. It is likely engaged in the conscious rejection of heterosexual societal norms. They likely resist and critique the politics of assimilation and celebrate, instead, subversion, indecency, aberrance and difference.
A queer ritual might involve dancing, sigil crafting, dragging up, singing, bleeding, mourning, celebrating, loving, shouting or something else entirely.
A queer ritual might be a strategy for survival, for effecting social and political change, for taking on the world and for making it through the damn day.”
Charlie Ashwell, Banishing Dance, Future Ritual, Space studios, 2017. Photo Jemima Yong.
Charlie Ashwell
Banishing DanceCharlie Ashwell is a dance witch. They want to let go of stuff with you. Ditch things, dump things, cast things off. Banishing Dance is a cross between a ritual, a participatory performance and a dance piece.It is an invitation to speculate on gender, power and the magical potential of turning our attention to the seemingly impossible.
Artist Index: Charlie Ashwell
Evie Fehilly, Future Ritual, Space studios, 2017. Photo Jemima Yong.
Evie Fehilly
Artist Index: Evie Fehilly
Iris Madariaga, MOKSHA, Future Ritual, Space studios, 2017. Photo Jemima Yong.
Iris Madariaga
MOKSHAIris Madariaga is a multi-disciplinary queer artist from Liverpool
Artist Index: Iris Madariaga
Joseph Morgan Schofield, RamCycle, Future Ritual, Space studios, 2017. Photo Jemima Yong.
Joseph Morgan Schofield
RamCycleArtist Index: Joseph Morgan Schofield
Louisa Robbin, to care, Future Ritual, Space studios, 2017. Photo Jemima Yong.
Louisa Robbin
to careHow do you distract yourself from negative thoughts? Herbal tea, meditation, booze, bubble baths?
Louisa shares her musings away from the therapist’s chair. Watch as she tries to cope, to care and not to disappear.
Artist Index: Louisa Robbin
ROMA, Future Ritual, Space studios, 2017. Photo Jemima Yong.
ROMA
Artist Index: ROMAOberon White, Future Ritual, Space studios, 2017. Photo Jemima Yong.