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

We are based in London (UK).

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FIELD WORK
Deadline: Fri 31 Oct
Field Work is an intensive residential workshop led by Marilyn Arsem & Anne Bean in Cumbria, UK.

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ALMANAC
Next: Sun 2 Nov
Almanac is a new regular performance platform taking place monthly in London.

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DO IT TOGETHER
Deadline: Weds 12 Nov
Open call for peer-to-peer professional development projects designed by artists for artists

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CEREMONY
A year-long programme cycle exploring performance in times of fragmentation.
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Poster design by Thomas Yeomans, 2018.


VfD

08.02.2018

Original copy: “responding to the recent trend or arcane praxes of occultist ritualism, neo-paganist symbolism and meme magick being co-opted in the online culture wars between the alt-right and alt-left, FUTURE RITUAL is an evening of performances to reclaim these practices of magical thinking, ritual, fluid identities and leaderless activism, to take them offline and to explore, analyse, and imagine future possibilities. 

how can arcane technologies shape our future? what do future rituals look like? who are they for? what should they try and do?

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 be a strategy for survival, for effecting social and political change, for taking on the world and for making it through the damn day. 

a queer ritual might involve dancing, sigil crafting, dragging up, singing, bleeding, mourning, celebrating, loving, shouting, or something else entirely.”



Antonio Branco & Riccardo T, Burning Pricks, Future Ritual, VfD, 2018. Photos by Asher Fynn.

Antonio Branco & Riccardo T

Burning Pricks


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Ellis D, Future Ritual, VfD, 2018. Photos by Asher Fynn.


Ellis D



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Joseph Morgan Schofield, withstand // standwith, Future Ritual, VfD, 2018. Photos by Asher Fynn.


Joseph Morgan Schofield

withstand // standwith


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Laura Burns

Hag


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Neo Fung, Future Ritual, VfD, 2018. Photos by Asher Fynn.

Neo Fung



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Tsinder Ash, Future Ritual, VfD, 2018. Photos by Asher Fynn.

Tsinder Ash



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