an artist lab with Dani d’Emilia, Future Ritual Festival in Peckham (London)
Wednesday 25 + Thursday 26 November 2026
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how can we cultivate discernment in times of transformation?
The rules we inherited for organising life no longer seem to suffice. Did they ever? If ecosystems thrive through ongoing relational recalibration, how might we cultivate ecological discernment in times of radical transformation? Through embodied practice, reflection, and dialogue with more-than-human companions, we will explore practices of attention that help us stay in relationship while everything – including ourselves- is changing.
The workshop draws on ideas explored in ABSCISSION, a new artist book by Dani d’Emilia exploring release as a relational practice of care.
Join us for the launch of ABSCISSION at Live Art Development Agency, Friday 20th November.
Through performance documentation and visual works, accompanied by critical, poetic writing, Dani engages their experiences of hysterectomy and non-binary mastectomy as entry points into wider questions of transformation, queerness, ecology and more-than-human kinship, inviting readers to move from overwhelm towards wonder with radical tenderness.
This workshop is presented as part of CEREMONY, Future Ritual’s festival of performance art.
Wednesday 25 November, 14.00 – 18.00
Thursday 26 November, 10.00 – 18.00
Bussey Building, Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 4ST
The number of participants will be limited to 12 artists.
Practices of Ecological Reconfiguration is offered as part of our festival, CEREMONY. Participants can access discounted tickets (£10) to the Wednesday and Thursday performances, during booking, or at a later date.
If you have any questions, please contact Future Ritual: producing@futureritual.co.uk
accessibilityThe studio is located on the second floor of the Bussey Building, a former industrial warehouse. Regrettably, there is currently no lift access to this studio.
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If you would like more information to make a decision about joining the process or who would like to explore adaptations together to contact us by email (producing@futureritual.co.uk).
CEREMONY, Future Ritual’s festival of performance art returns for its second edition in Peckham this November.
Intergenerational and international, CEREMONY is a heady gathering of artists and ideas. This year’s programme considers the ways queers, migrants and others who inhabit the outsides and undersides have tended to mystery, ritual and connection in the shadow of Empire and industry. What wild energies and enlivening presences may yet be found, growing up through the concrete?
The programme features: the world premiere of ASCLEPEION by Ron Athey; new commissions by n:u (melissandre varin), Pianka Pärna and Mal Parry; durational works by Julia Bardsley, Dagmara Bilon, gustaf broms, Rona Lee, Lynn Lu and Katharine Meynell; and performances by Tiziano Cruz, Eoin McCaul, Paul Regan and Lois Weaver.
There’s also DISCHARGE, a performance party curated by Martin O’Brien and featuring Shaun Caton, Daniel Oliver + Claudia Palazzo, selina bonelli, Bart Seng Wen Long + Tommy Burke and Ewan Hindes.
The festival opens with the launch of Dani d’Emilia’s ABSCISSION, a new book which considers how we might navigate endings, identity, metabolic intimacy and planetary crisis beyond the binaries that shape dominant ways of understanding ourselves and the world.
There are discursive events: GRAFTING, for anyone who is (or wants to be) professionally engaged in performance art, and ARTISTS TALKING, a morning of conversation open to all.
And gustaf broms returns to London to offer a 5 day intensive workshop exploring performing with the hidden and feral energies of the city, and Dani d’Emilia explores the practices of ecological reconfiguration through a two day artist lab.
