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
Ecka Mordecai
Athanasios Argianas
Jim Hobbs & Ojon
Merkaba Macabre
Edwin Rostron
Deniz Johns
Martin Zeilinger
More artists tbc
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
Ecka Mordecai is a British artist based in London. Situated between sonic, performative and olfactory disciplines, her work is driven by sensation: entwining cello, horsehair harp, voice, eggflute, scent and improvisation into time-based objects expressive of emotional complexity.
Both intimate and exacting, this body-driven practice defies formal constraints, undoing the limits of genre and allowing for works such as Aequill Sound, a line of niche perfumes inspired by elements of the East London soundscape, or Promise & Illusion (Otoroku, 2022), the album in which Ecka explores myriad internal states using the compositional device of a creaking door hinge (or charniére).
Performing since 2010, Ecka has appeared alongside the likes of David Toop, Malvern Brume, Thurston Moore, Keeley Forsyth, Ilan Volkov, Ex-Easter Island Head, Greta Buitkute, Dave Birchall and Kate Armitage. She has played at Cafe OTO, BBC Glasgow, Islington Mill and inside a Berlin wasserturm, amongst others.
She has projects with Revox tape performer Valerio Tricoli in the duo Mordecoli (The Addiction, Hedione 2022), and in the trio Circæa with Andrew Chalk and Tom James Scott (The Bridge of Dreams, Faraway Press, 2019).
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.
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/
