Price
£100 full course / £30 individual session / £75 concession
Dates
10 Oct–11 Dec 2026
Times
Various times
Location
Foyle Rooms
A four-part ritual writing programme exploring intuition, creativity and self-expression, culminating in a public performance at Turner Contemporary.
SEANCES by RIEKO: In Residence is a four-part ritual writing programme with multidisciplinary artist RIEKO, culminating in a public performance at Turner Contemporary.
Across four sessions, participants will explore intuition, memory, sound and self-expression through writing, meditation, movement, drawing and improvised performance. Each session takes one of four intuitive senses as its starting point — claircognizance (knowing), clairsentience (feeling), clairaudience (listening) and clairvoyance (envisioning).
The sessions will build progressively, moving from personal writing and reflection into voice, sound, movement and visualisation. Along the way, participants will develop ideas and material that can be brought together in a final public presentation, sharing work created during the programme.
Taking place as part of RIEKO’s residency at Turner Contemporary, SEANCES offers a space to experiment with different forms of creative expression and to become part of the artist’s evolving practice — connecting personal ritual with collective creativity and performance.
The programme concludes with a public presentation on Friday 11 December, bringing together work developed by participants alongside RIEKO’s own work in progress.
Sessions
Session 1 — Claircognizance: Writing for Knowing
Saturday 10 October, 10am–12pm
Explore memory, emotion and past experiences through intuitive writing, including conversations between past and present selves.
Session 2 — Clairsentience: Writing for Feeling
Saturday 31 October, 10am–12pm
Work with the body through somatic exercises and self-Reiki, using physical sensation as a starting point for writing and imagining desired futures.
Session 3 — Clairaudience: Writing for Listening
Sunday 15 November, 1–3pm
Explore deep listening, sound, voice and improvised performance. Develop earlier writing through spoken and embodied expression and create a shared soundscape.
Session 4 — Clairvoyance: Writing for Envisioning
Saturday 28 November, 10am–1pm
Combine drawing, writing and visualisation to explore possible futures and develop material for the final public presentation.
Final public presentation
Friday 11 December, 6–9.30pm
The programme culminates in a public presentation bringing together work developed by course participants alongside RIEKO’s work in progress, with a Q&A and guided meditation with Margate-based violinist Raven Bush.
Booking
Full course — £100
Includes all four SEANCES sessions, participation in the work-in-progress sharing and free entry to the final public presentation.
Concession — £75
Concessionary places are available.
Individual session — £30
Individual sessions can be booked separately, subject to availability.
Final public presentation — £12 / £10 concession
Free entry for full course participants.
About RIEKO
RIEKO (Rieko Whitfield) is a Japanese-born ritual artist and composer working across music, performance, writing and live art. Her multidisciplinary practice explores cycles of life, death and rebirth, bringing together experimental music, ritual and collective creative experiences.
RIEKO is currently an artist in residence at Turner Contemporary. She was previously an artist in residence at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (2025–2026), Tate Modern and Tate Britain (2022–2023), and has worked with institutions including the V&A, Southbank Centre, Barbican Centre, Whitechapel Gallery, The Photographers’ Gallery, South London Gallery and the Fitzwilliam Museum.
Her signature SEANCES by RIEKO workshops have been presented at the Royal College of Art, University of the Arts London, University of Cambridge, American University of Paris, Rupert Alternative Education Programme in Lithuania and the Transart Institute for Creative Research’s international PhD programme.
RIEKO is also the Founding Director of Diasporas Now, a live art platform and cultural agency supporting Global Majority artists working across experimental music, performance and ritual world-building. She works between London and Margate.
@riekowhitfield
@diasporas_now
