Wednesday 3 December 2025, 7.30pm
Contact and The Thames Submarine presents Surfeit, a celebration of music, film, sound and performance featuring:
Angharad Davies
Beanie Bhebhe
Athanasios Argianas
Jim Hobbs & Ojon (plus special guest Yi Ting Liong)
Merkaba Macabre
Edwin Rostron
Deniz Johns
Martin Zeilinger
Zara Joan Miller
Adam Coney
Clementine March
Angharad Davies is a Welsh violinist based in London working with free-improvisation, compositions and performance. Her approach to sound involves attentive listening and exploring beyond the sonic confines of her instrument, her classical training and performance expectation.
angharaddavies.com
Beanie Bhebhe is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and session drummer best known for being the drummer for the band Rudimental. He is also a prolific songwriter and has toured and worked with numerous other artists, including Anne-Marie, Paloma Faith, and Nile Rodgers. Bhebhe is recognized for his high-energy live performances and his ability to adapt to a diverse range of genre
Athanasios Argianas lives and works between Athens and London. Rooted primarily in sculpture, and spanning music, film, painting, text and performance, his artistic practice is open, interdisciplinary and deeply influenced by his background in musical composition. His work operates in a realm between affect and methodology. He released music as Gavouna on Melodic, Arable and Lo Recordings and recently under his name.
His work was featured at the 30th São Paulo Biennial (2012), Documenta 14 (2017), Fridericianum, Kassel (instinct; Kunsthalle Wien (2016); Fondazione Prada, Ca Corner della Regina, Venice (2014); Performa 13, New York (2013); Tate Britain, London Art Now Live (2011), Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London and The Barbican Art Gallery, LondonLondon.’Species Counterpoint’ (Lenz press) a monograph on his work was published to coincide with his solo exhibition Hollowed Water at Camden Arts Centre, London, in 2020.
Steven McInerney (b. Melbourne, 1983) is an artist living in London, combining photochemical synthesis, computational processes, and immersive sound to create expanded forms of cinema, live performances, and installations. McInerney’s work investigates emergent phenomena, using socio-technical assemblages of media for exploration. These time-variant works draw upon dichotomous energies, meditating between the sacred and profane. Live performances utilise multi-channel dispersion and real-time feedback systems, employing a structuralist methodology that values error and reappropriation. From here, speculative narratives take form, often blurring the lines between science and fiction. In 2014 they established Psyché Tropes, an interdisciplinary platform for media archaeological research, releases, and events, while hosting a monthly radio programme on Resonance 104.4 FM. As a specialist gong practitioner, McInerney guides sonic meditations for individuals and groups working intuitively with psychoacoustics for healing, transformation, and altered perception.
Edwin Rostron has been making animated films for over 25 years. His work is rooted in drawing and improvisational processes, and also encompasses collage, photography and painting. He has collaborated with musicians Supreme Vagabond Craftsman, Dean Honer and the writer Ben Marcus, and has exhibited at galleries and film festivals internationally, including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Eyeworks, BFI Southbank, The Royal Academy of Arts, Artists’ Television Access, Imperial War Museum and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Edwin also runs Edge of Frame, a blog and screening series focusing on experimental animation, and has taught at the Royal College of Art, CalArts and Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. He lives and works in London.
Contact is an artist-run organisation based in London that has been curating screening events involving experimental film, video and other art forms since 2013 and recently published Film Talks:15 Conversations in Experimental Cinema.
https://www.contactscreenings.co.uk/
Zara Joan Miller is an artist working across poetry, performance and film. Her work often plays with movement and sound as a way of reimagining a body’s rhythm. She is the author of BLUE MONDAY (JOAN Publishing, 2022), which was also released as a duo LP with cellist Ute Kanngießer on Reading Group in 2023.
Her work has recently been presented at Les Atelier Claus, TACO!, Barbican Centre, Maximilian William Gallery, Horse Hospital, In Vitro, Default Den Haag and and has appeared in motor dance journal, Fieldnotes, Hotel, Another Gaze and Worms Magazine.
Jim Hobbs & Ojon (Jono Crabbe) have been collaborating on expanded cinematic works for over 5 years. They combine analogue film, digital projection, light play, electric and acoustic instruments, unique microphones, field recordings and lots of distortion– often resulting in intense experiences exploring ideas around memory, place and systematic failures. For this event, the pair have invited Yi Ting Liong, an aerial artist and dancer, to collaborate on a performance that interacts with Oto’s architecture and the disruption of both projected image and sound. All three have recently collaborated on Hobbs’ short film Heliotrope & Citron, which stemmed from a reading of Marguerite Duras’ novella “The Malady of Death”.
Adam Coney has been based in the London experimental and improvisation scene since 2002. Primarily associated with the prog - jazz group Morviscous, he is also credited on Trestle for his involvement in Acland & Sydney, Calibos (with Jonny Fryer) and Noon. A graduate of contemporary composition from Newcastle University, Adam is a guitarist with a keen sense of production aesthetic and progressive sensibilities. His solo debut record is entitled The Fall Of The Flamingo Gardens.
"The product of singular fascinations that cohere into something remarkably persuasive" - The Wire - review September 2014
London-based chanteuse, composer and filmmaker, Clémentine March forays into a very personal approach to pop songs, playing with languages and textures, with a Brazilian savoir-faire and a post-punk edge. Clementine releases her new album Powder Keg in January on Prah Recording
https://clementinemarch.bandcamp.com/
The Thames Submarine is an art and sound platform featuring work and conversation with artists who use sound as an integral or evocative element of their practice.
https://thethamessubmarine.com/
