Against the alienation and fragmentation of contemporary life, Future Ritual creates and holds spaces for curious publics to gather, to think and to feel through place, desire, belief, loss and mystery.
We are based in Peckham (London) and work from STUDIO: Future Ritual.
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STUDIO Residents wanted, next deadline 30 September
Join our community of practice at STUDIO: Future Ritual, a new space for gathering, performance and embodied practice in Peckham.
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ALMANAC
Sunday 20 September
Our regular performance art gathering returns with performances by Samm Shackleton, Dominique Savitri Bonarjee + Awc Chuwen Wang.
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Martin O’Brien & Sheree Rose
Saturday 26 September
A special Greatest Hits performance, celebrating 15 years of collaboration.
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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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Vriddhi Chaudhry, Future Ritual: ALMANAC, May 2026. Photo by Devika Bilimoria.
next: Sunday 20 September featuring Samm Shackleton, Dominique Savitri Bonarjee + Awc Chuwen Wang
ALMANAC is a recurring performance art gathering in London, organised by Future Ritual.
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Following three evocative events at Asylum Chapel in 2025, we are reframing ALMANAC as a space for experimentation - by showing work here, artists are asking questions and seeking insight. In this, we acknowledge the process driven nature of performance art and welcome performances which risk it all, mutating and misbheaving. We hope ALMANAC can be a useful space for artists and audiences, especially in these lean times.
Our events this year take place in STUDIO: Future Ritual, a light-filled former industrial space. Each event will feature performances from three artists, programmed through invitation and open call. The series is intended as a way of providing a social space for London’s performance art community to meet (and expand!) and as a regular platform for performance artists to make work.
The performances will take place at Studio: Future Ritual, Bussey Building (yellow stairs), Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 3SN
Peckham Rye station (served by the Windrush line and National Rail) is a 5 minute walk away.
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contactPlease direct any queries to producing [at] futureritual.co.uk
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 to the event, please let us know.
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sunday 20 september
Samm Shackleton, Dominique
Savitri Bonarjee + Awc Chuwen WangImage courtesy of the artist.
Dominique Savitri Bonarjee is an Indian-French artist whose transdisciplinary practice spans choreography, sound, installation, and visual art. She creates live artworks as techno-rituals combining bodies, materials and electronics. The artwork becomes a framework allowing chance and improvisation to guide the work. Drawing on diverse movement practices, ancient wisdom traditions, and computational technologies, her work explores how liveness in contemporary aesthetics can cultivate embodied forms of knowing beyond language.
Through her ongoing project Butoh Mutations, she develops participatory pedagogies, public artworks, and collective performances that re-imagine post-war Japanese Butoh for an era of polycrisis. Her monograph Butoh, as Heard by a Dancer (Routledge, 2024) and practice-led PhD Space of the Nameless (Goldsmiths, 2024) investigate embodied methodologies of perception and artistic inquiry.
Her work has been presented internationally, including at the Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore, Nakanojo Biennale, Tate Modern, and the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.
Samm Shackleton & Ian Whitford, Feeder, DISCHARGE, 2026. Photo by Henri T.
Samm Shackleton is a Yorkshire-based artist working across performance, installation, video and writing. Their practice approaches performance as a way of carrying something through the body, through time and through relationship. Working with everyday materials and durational actions, Shackleton moves between public interventions and site-responsive encounters, treating the body as a site of memory where ordinary gestures
accumulate significance. Rooted in recovery and shaped by spirituality, the work stays close to what is unfinished, where endurance, devotion and presence emerge through the simple insistence of staying. Performance becomes a way of discovering what the body knows more than the person performing it.
Image courtesy of the artist.
Awc Chuwen Wang (b. 1995, China) is an interdisciplinary artist based in London, working across performance and participatory practice. Treating the body as both medium and method, Wang’s practice asks how identities are negotiated and sustained through systems of care, medicine, social norms and institutional power that alternately hold the body together and pull it apart.
Wang's performances are built through repetition, endurance and rupture: walking without sight, holding a position until it fails, binding bodies together until the tension breaks. These are not gestures of spectacle but of exposure—each work stages a threshold where agency slips into vulnerability, and control reveals itself as something continuously, precariously maintained. Audiences are often drawn into this negotiation directly, tied, guided or implicated, so that the questions Wang raises about bodily autonomy become questions the audience must also physically answer.
Recent work turns toward chronic pain, trans embodiment and urban ecologies, tracing how care and control operate not only on the body but across geopolitical structures—and how fragility, held long enough, can become a form of resistance, intimacy and becoming.
Seating is a mix of cushions and wooden benches. There are a limited number of chairs with backs. Seats will be prioritised for those with access needs.
Drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) will be available on a donation basis. We can take donation by card payment at the venue.
The maximum capacity is 60.
We hope most of our audience are able to pay £10 or £14, supporting the lower price tickets and helping us meet the costs of putting the event on.
There’s also a £20 option for those feeling flush! If you are able to pay this, you’re helping us to keep ALMANAC going into the future.
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sunday 17 may
featuring Vridhhi Chaudhry, Joseph Morgan Schofield and Claudia Palazzo
Joseph Morgan Schofield, Future Ritual: ALMANAC, May 2026. Photos by Devika Bilimoria.
Vriddhi Chaudhry, Future Ritual: ALMANAC, May 2026. Photos by Devika Bilimoria.
Claudia Palazzo, Future Ritual: ALMANAC, May 2026. Photos by Devika Bilimoria.
> Future Ritual: Industrial Echoes