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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News

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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Getting in Touch

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Martin O’Brien

Martin O’Brien is an artist and zombie. He works across performance, writing and video art. His work uses long durational actions, short speculative texts and critical rants, and performance processes in order to explore death and dying, what it means to be born with a life shortening disease, and the philosophical implications of living longer than expected. 

He has shown work throughout the UK; Europe; USA; and Canada, and is well known for his solo performances and collaborations with the legendary LA artist and dominatrix Sheree Rose. His most recent works were at Tate Britain in 2020, and the ICA (London) in 2021. He is winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Visual and Performing Arts 2022. He will be writer in residence at Whitechapel Gallery throughout 2023. Martin has cystic fibrosis and all of his work and writing draws upon this experience. In 2018, the book ‘Survival of the Sickest: The Art of Martin O’Brien’ was published by Live Art Development Agency. His work has been featured on BBC radio and Sky Arts television. He is currently senior lecturer in Live Art at Queen Mary University of London.


Bio updated in September 2024.

Martin O’Brien, An Ambulance to the Future, 2023. Photo by zack mennell.