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.
> full call out
> about STUDIO
ALMANAC
Sunday 20 September
Our regular performance art gathering returns with performances by Samm Shackleton, Dominique Savitri Bonarjee + Awc Chuwen Wang.
> event info + tickets
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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Bart Seng Wen Long, ASMR. Image courtesy of the artist.
DISCHARGE is three nights of performance, which turn into parties. DISCHARGE revels in the messy, the gross, the sticky and the distasteful. DISCHARGE is a sanctuary of sickness, curated by artist Martin O’Brien.
> Saturday 28 November
> doors 7.30pm, til late
> Copeland Gallery, SE15 3SN
ACCESSIBILITY
> Wheelchair Accessible
TICKETS
> £15 / £18 / £20
> UC / PC: £10
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Day passes also available for Julia Bardsley, Dagmara Bilon, n:u (melissandre varin) and Ron Athey, plus entry to DISCHARGE
DISCHARGE is a space for performance work some consider difficult, explicit, transgressive or taboo. It may feature nudity, explict acts, the exhibition of bodily functions, temporary bodily mortification, slow work, difficult work, sick work, or work which speaks to the intensity of living and dying. It is not for the easily offended.
If you have questions about content please contact us. We reserve the right to remove audience members who disrupt the space, or put others at risk from the event.
Please direct any queries to producing [at] futureritual.co.uk
Over 18s only.
> Buy tickets
> Buy a day pass, including tickets for Julia Bardsley, Dagmara Bilon, n:u (melissandre varin) and Ron Athey, plus entry to DISCHARGE
Doors at 7.30pm, performances from 8.30pm, DJ from 10.30pm.
There will be limtied seating - some audience will stand or sit on the floor. 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 next door in SOCIAL.
accessibilityThe gallery is wheelchair accessible and has accessible toilets on the same floor.
> Future Ritual access info
Gillian Dyson, Around About Doncaster, Artbomb 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.
Original image: Martin O’Brien, The Last Breath Society (Coughing Coffin), ICA (London), 2021. Photo by zack mennell.
Saturday 18 July
Curated by Martin O’Brien and Future Ritual. Organised in partnership with IKLECTIK. Supported with public funds by Arts Council England.
Production Team: Regina Agard-Brathwaite, Ewan Hindes, zack mennell and Joseph Morgan Schofield. Documented by Henri T and Marco Berardi and Baiba Sprance.
Nathan Walker, Queer is the Opposite of Police, 2026. Future Ritual: DISCHARGE, hosted by IKLECTIK (London). Photo by Henri T.
Friday 1 May
Hosted by IKLECTIK as part of our 2026 event series DISCHARGE, this evening featured performances by:Curated by Martin O’Brien and Future Ritual. Organised in partnership with IKLECTIK. Supported with public funds by Arts Council England.
Production Team: Regina Agard-Brathwaite, James Dolan, zack mennell, Joseph Morgan Schofield, Alana Young. Documented by Henri T and Marco Berardi and Baiba Sprance.
Bevis Wu, Re-Travel / Soul Retrieval, 2026. Future Ritual: DISCHARGE, hosted by IKLECTIK. Photo by Henri T.
about DISCHARGE
These events follow a short-run but notorious DIY performance art event dedicated to presenting difficult, uncompromising and marginalised performance work which took placed in the kink and fetish club The Flying Dutchman, in London 2012-2014. DISCHARGE embraces the endless possibilities of the performance space for aesthetic, physical, and political art and experimentation.
DISCHARGE was reprised for a special one off event in 2024 at Ugly Duck.
open call
> open call now closed
DISCHARGE will be programmed through a mix of open call and invitation.
The events will be mixed bills, featuring a number of short, sharp shocks each night. These don’t need to be club style performances - we welcome work that is difficult and asks for the audiences’ attention and focus.
The open call is for performance work that is informed by experimental and non-normative bodily practices, including, but not limited to: action; kink and fetish; sexual cultures; experimental movement; strange embodiments; body art; channelings; happenings. DISCHARGE is a space for work that struggles to fit in elsewhere.
The events will be mixed bills, featuring a number of short performances (under 20mins) each night. As this is the case, the works must have quick and minimal set up. This is not a call for cabaret or club style performances - we are interested in work that is difficult and asks for the audiences’ attention and focus.
IKLECTIK’s programme brings together experimental sound, non-normative embodiment, performance rituals, and visual practices, with a focus on accessible technologies. For IKLECTIK, sound is a central point of enquiry, possibility, and exploration.
While the works presented at DISCHARGE will foreground the body, we encourage you to think about the role of sound (including silence) in your proposed work. IKLECTIK is situated in Peckham Levels. There is step free access to the space.
> IKLECTIK
We can offer performers a fee of £500, rehearsal space, technical assistance (focussed on sound), photo and video documentation.
what you need to do
To apply please complete this google form. The deadline is end of day, Sunday 1 March.
If you have any questions, please contact Future Ritual:
producing@futureritual.co.uk
event dates
> Friday 1 May
> Saturday 18 July
> Saturday 28 November
> open call now closed