FUTURE RITUAL

Four strange happenings, as part of COMMON HOST, back in March. Convened by artist zack mennell, COMMON HOST situated ancient folk customs in new relation to the post-industrial landscapes of London and Essex. Pictured are works by Fenia Kotsopoulou, Jo Morrison, zack mennell and Nathalie Coste. Produced by Regina Agard Braithwaite. Funded by @aceagrams . First image by Vanio Papadelli, other images by Fenia Kotsopoulou. @zackmennell @joannemorrison72 @feniakotsopoulou @_nathalie_coste_ @reginaproducedit

Another vision of DISCHARGE, with Bevis Wu. Hosted by @iklectikartlab 💚💚 Bevis Wu, Re-Travel / Soul Retrieval, 2026. Future Ritual: DISCHARGE, hosted by IKLECTIK. Photo by Henri T. @documentedbyhenrit @woobo26_

Thanks to those who joined us at @iklectikartlab for our first DISCHARGE of the year! Here's @nthn.wlkr who cracked and groaned across a remembered terrain. Photographed by @documentedbyhenrit . Next DISCHARGE is Saturday 18 July. See you there 💚 Credit: Nathan Walker, Queer is the Opposite of Police, 2026. Future Ritual: DISCHARGE, hosted by IKLECTIK (London). Photo by Henri T.

ALMANAC 🌸🔥 Our regular performance art platform returns on Sunday 17 May, 3-6pm. This edition features offerings by Vriddhi Chaudhry, Claudia Palazzo and Joseph Morgan Schofield. Tickets (£14/£10/£6) on sale now - link in bio. After three evocative events last year, we are shifting venue to STUDIO: Future Ritual, a light filled former industrial space in the Bussey Building (Peckham). Hope you can join us in our new gaff! ALMANAC is 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. Images 2 - Vridhhi Chaudhry, Silent Echoes of Salient Sores at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts. Photo credit: Ashok Mathur. 3 - Joseph Morgan Schofield, with bare feet touching the sky I yearn, Future Ritual, ICA (London), 2022. Photo by zack mennell. 4 - Claudia Palazzo, The Last Breath Society workshop. Photo by Marco Berardi.

Open Studio! Monday 4th, Tuesday 5th and Thursday 7th, 18.00 - 19.00 Check out our space in progress and hear about how we're making a resource for artists with physical and embodied practices in Peckham! Pls RSVP to let us know you are coming. Link in bio. 2nd Floor, Yellow Stairs, Bussey Building 133 Copeland Road, SE15 3SN

Join our community of practice at STUDIO: Future Ritual, a new space for gathering, performance and embodied practice in Peckham. (better images to follow when we have finished our build! message or email to arrange a visit in May!) This long term residency is imagined as a way for makers at all stages to charge their work, with regular access to a 80m2 studio space for physical practice, and supported by Future Ritual’s advisory services. The STUDIO is a light-filled former industrial space in Peckham's Bussey Building. Apply now! Applications reviewed on a rolling basis, deadline 31 May. STUDIO Residents will have access to 16 or 32 hours studio space per month, plus other discounts and benefits.Pricing starts at £112 per month for 16 hours, or £192 for 32 hours. All info on our website 🔗

🔮 STUDIO: Future Ritual is a space to gather, on the threshold of art & ritual, to connect with ourselves, each other & the places we inhabit 🪬 Opening this May in Peckham. Watch out for our first events and the call out to join our community of practice.

Will you join us in the sanctuary of sickness? DISCHARGE, Fri 1 May Curated by Martin O'Brien and Future Ritual, and hosted by IKLECTIK. This evening features short sharp shocks by Tallulah Haddon, Mahsa Salali, Samm Shackleton and Ian Whitford, Nathan Walker, and Bevis Wu DISCHARGE is three nights of performance, which turn into parties. DISCHARGE is for the freaks, monsters and weirdos. It is for the messy, the gross, and the sticky. It revels in the distasteful. Tickets on sale now and full info on our website - links in bio @martinobrienart @iklectikartlab @jmschofield @reginaproducedit @tallulah_haddon @mahsasalali @samm.shackleton @weeks_and_whitford @nthn.wlkr @woobo26_ Image Credits 1&7: Original image: Martin O’Brien, Fading Out of Dead Air (Transmissions for the Necropolis), Ugly Duck: a collective archive, 2025. Photo by Oduenyi Nwike. 2: Tallulah Haddon, I Left My Vibrator In A Cave, Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist. 3: Mahsa Salali. Photo by Davide Edoardo. 4: Samm Shackleton and Ian Whitford, Feeder. Image courtesy of the artists. 5: Nathan Walker, Queer is the Opposite of Police 1, presented as part of 1984/85 A Symposium of Art & Politics, at York St John University, York, 2025. Photograph by Amy D’Agorne. 6: Bevis Wu, Re-travel. Image courtesy of the artist.

'Growing up by the chalk pits of Thurrock, Essex, and making their way into London’s live art scene for its “hotspot of queer iniquity and filth”, they were always drawn by the Thames. It’s what called to mennell in their darkest moments; where they walked when they were getting sober; and where they return for their art, including their latest film, a sea change. “I feel like I’m working with it,” they say of the water, “sometimes arguing with it too.”' @zackmennell 's new film (para)site: a sea change premieres this weekend as part of the gathering COMMON HOST. mennell imagines a series of mutant, cryptid beings emerging from the sites where human structures have been overtaken by natural processes. In these overlapping layers of prehistoric ritual, imperial ambition, industrial collapse and ecological crisis, zack’s strange beings corrode temporal boundaries. Made in collaboration with Baiba Sprance, @marco____berardi and @leonclowes , and produced by @reginaproducedit . Thanks @abstraktpublicity and @katewyver for this feature in today's Guardian. Ticket link in bio.

COMMON HOST, 13-15 March, Peckham This is a gathering of odd beings and strange happenings, exploring folk customs in post-industrial landscapes. Full programme now online! PWYC ticket link in bio. Exhibition features @juliabardsley , @selenachandler , @leonclowes , @_nathalie_coste_ , @ellajohnstonart , @feniakotsopoulou , @zackmennell , @andrea.mindel , Baiba Sprance and @marco____berardi , @manuelvason Performances on Friday from @fraxin_us , @leonclowes and @zackmennell , doors 6pm, beginning 7pm Performances on Saturday from @_nathalie_coste_ , @martinobrienart and @piankamperformance_ , doors 4pm, beginning 6pm Performances on Sunday from @joannemorrison72 , @ewanicorn , @leonclowes , @chanelvegas.art , @feniakotsopoulou and @zackmennell , doors 12pm, beginning 2pm Images: 1. Manuel Vason, courtesy of the artist 2. Ash McNaughton, DREDGE, 2024. Photo by Manuel Vason 3. Pianka Pärna, 2024. Photo by Manuel Vason 4. Fenia Kotsopoulou, DEAD BUTTERFLIES ARE STILL ALIVE (2019), GlobalArtTogether Face to Face: Psychologic Games, Gwangju, ph. Kwon Young Il

Helen Davison, The Time I Set My Heart By, ALMANAC, December 2025 Photo by zack mennell. @onamatterpoetic @zackmennell

ANSWERING THE CALL An intensive workshop with Lois Weaver 4-8 May 2026 Glad to announce this special intensive with the brilliant Lois Weaver. Tickets for the 5 day intensive are £300//£250 (payment plans available) and registration deadline is 1 April. All details online - link in bio. We will address questions of purpose by asking what it means to practice Live Art, to minister, to serve, to be of service in our work, especially now in these times of crisis. We will look for ways to enliven calls to community while keeping faith with deep artistic and aesthetic impulses. We will explore what calls each of us to make art that is live, in the presence of others and in response to the moment, and we will explore ways to build both an aesthetic and a social practice that answers that call. Using writing, movement, image making and creative performed response we will work through how we think of service in relation to our work, our audiences, our communities. @whynottammy @reginaproducedit @gigi_brathwaite_ @jmschofield @split_britches @thesplitbritches Original image by zack mennell.