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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ALMANAC
Next: Sun 7 Dec

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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Watch Our Work
 
Some of the performances, projects and events we have worked on are available to watch online
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All videography and editing is by long term collaborators Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi.

curatorial programmes

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CEREMONY (2024/25) was a 12 month programme of programme of performances, exhibitions, artist labs and workshops exploring the function of performance as a modality for gathering, ritual and ceremony amidst the fragmentation of contemporary life. The project unfolded in London and Venice.

> Future Ritual: CEREMONY

Marilyn Arsem, Raisa Kabir, Rubiane Maia & Pianka Pärna, CEREMONY, 2025. 

Alastair MacLennan, gustaf broms & Liz Rosenfeld, CEREMONY, 2025. 


Marilyn Arsem, Devika Bilimoria, Helena Goldwater & Sandra Johnston, CEREMONY, 2024. 


Martin O’Brien’s DISCHARGE (2024) was a special day of presentations, conversations and performances reflecting on sickness, sex, disability, mourning and practices of living and dying queerly. The event marking the end of O’Brien’s year-long Whitechapel Gallery residency (An Eternity of Nothingness or The (Im)possibility of Living On).

> DISCHARGE 

Anne Bean & Ansuman Biswas, candle / stick, DISCHARGE, 2024.

Ash McNaughton, Dredge, DISCHARGE, 2024.



producing + management

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In Search of the Miraculous (2023) was a weekend of artistic pilgrimage in the village of Walsingham for Norfolk and Norwich Festival. The project was curated and convened by Anne Bean and produced by Future Ritual.

Known for a miraculous happening in 1061 and previously as a sacred Roman site, Walsingham provides a unique context for artists. Thousands of people visit the village on pilgrimages every year. The audience for this event became ‘pilgrims’ (wayfarers), led through the village, encountering performances, actions, demonstrations, films, exhibitions and installation, creating a basis for shared dialogue, conviviality and reflection ‘in search of the miraculous.’

The event and exhibition featured works and offerings by Anne Bean, Anna Brass, Ansuman Biswas, selina bonelli, Oona Grimes, Poppy Jackson, Joan Key, Scilla Landale, Helen McIlldowie-Jenkins, Reverend Gyoro Nagase, Holly Slingsby, Filipos Tsitsopoulos, Candide Turner Bridger and Richard Wilson RA.

> In Search of the Miraculous


Anne Bean, In Search of the Miraculous, 2023.

‘An Eternity of Nothingness (or the Impossibility of Living On)’ (2023) was a residency by Martin O’Brien and hosted by the Whitechapel Gallery. Martin’s work is continually exploring the politics of illness, death, and the undead. For this residency, O’Brien worked through writing and performance to consider ideas of immortality. The residency involved three live events and three published texts. Together they made up a series that playfully ask questions about the potential for immortality, and imagine a future without an eternity of nothingness.

> An Eternity of Nothingness (or the Impossibility of Living On)

Martin O’Brien, Overture for the End (an ashen place), 2023. 


Martin O’Brien, Fading Out of Dead Air (Transmissions for the Necropolis), 2023.