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zack mennell
COMMON HOST
13 - 15 March
A weekend gathering situating ancient folk customs such as mumming in new relation to the post-industrial landscapes of London and Essex .
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On 14 March we’ll host contaminated materials, a workshop exploring the performing our difficult histories.
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Martin O’Brien
ON DISCIPLINE
23 - 27 March
This intensive workshop looks at discipline in performance making - how commitment, repetition and training can shape the way we work.
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Decommissioned nuclear power station, Bradwell, Essex. Photo by zack mennell, 2024.
zack mennell
common hostA weekend convened by zack mennell. Working with strange archetypes and inviting in odd beings, the gathering explores practices such as mumming, situating these ancient folk customs in new relation to the post-industrial landscapes of London and Essex .
Drawing in members of zack's artistic community, the programme involves performances, conversation, a workshop and an exhibition. zack will show a new short film, made in collaboration with Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi. zack will facilitate contaminated materials, a workshop exploring performing our difficult histories.
common host is the final element of a wider project by zack, deepening their exploration of difficult ecological and personal legacies through performance, film and workshop activities. These works explore the resonances between zack’s experiences of madness and institution and the wider climate of political hostility to disabled, neurodivergent, queer and working-class communities.
Safehouse 1 & 2, 139 Copeland Rd, London SE15 3SN
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Press: abstrakt@abstraktpublicity.co.uk
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An evening of performances by zack mennell and Ash McNaughton.
Exhibition View from 18.30
Performances from 19.15
Ends 21.00
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Contaminated Materials: a workshop exploring the performance of difficult histories
10.00 - 16.00
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An evening of performances, including Nathalie Coste & more, to be announced.
Exhibition View from 17.30
Performances from 18.15
Ends 21.00
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An afternoon performance marathon, featuring Leon Clowes, Chanel Davis, zack mennell, Jo Morrison and more, to be announced.
Exhibition View from 13.00
Performances from 14.00
Ends 17.00
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Booking info
The Safehouses are derelict domestic spaces and capacity is limited! Access to each performance event is Pay What You Can, with a suggested £3 minimum. Booking is via Outsavvy. If price is a barrier, please write to producing@futureritual.co.uk
Accessibility
The Safehouses are old, imperfect domestic spaces. The venue provide the following access information:While the ground floor, garden and toilet are accessible at Safehouse 1, and at Safehouse 2 the ground floor is accessible, there are steps into the garden. For this reason, the houses are not wheelchair accessible, so we’d recommend the spaces for people with a high level of mobility.
Floorplans can be viewed online. Our gathering takes place on the ground floor of each building only. Please write with any questions around access: producing@futureritual.co.uk
(para)site: a sea change is supported with DaDaFest International’s 2025 Live Art Commission and with public funds by Arts Council England. Further support towards the project has been given by Duckie. The project is produced by Future Ritual.
Rage Reactor
As part of the common host project, zack developed a new durational performand and installation, Rage Reactor.Rage Reactor contemplates care, estrangement, containment, and heritage. The work explores the long half-life of generational trauma, asking how its invisible legacy might be honoured and its cycle broken.
Performance artist zack mennell invites you into a strange world where the material remnants of childhood collide with the visual culture of the civil nuclear industry. In entangling their memories with the environmental and social damage caused by nuclear power, zack creates a unique, poetic reflection on lineage and the generational cycles of trauma.
Combining humorous and odd image making with materials drawn from personal and social archives with intense physical action, zack asks: What does this leave us with? Where does this leave us? Where can we go from here?
Rage Reactor, zack mennell, DaDaFest International, Bluecoat, 2025. Photos by Tom Horton.