Soulful electronics, laser light and mylar mirrors combine to hypnotic effect in an audiovisual concert which blurs the lines between sound, light and visual art.
Descend into deeper waters with durational performance, live electronic music and an audiovisual installation marked by twelve points of light.
A multi-sensory, virtual reality performance using Oculus Rift, for one person at a time. Find out what’s inside #TheCube.
Dark, body-based performance, visceral live sculpture and intense vibrational sounds await you in the beautiful surrounds of an 18th century church.
A violent act of destruction gives way to live cinematic sound. Experience total bodily immersion into an all enveloping audio, performed in total darkness.
Enter a higher state at the festival club with woozy late-night house, techno and surreal performance at a former mortuary and coroners court.
The debut film EXIST (2016) by UK-based audio/visual artist CUTS premieres as a looped video installation.
Speakers and incandescent bulbs transfigure the tunnels and architecture beneath Temple Meads, creating an immersive, audiovisual experience.
French visual artist Guillaume Marmin reveals the processes behind his audiovisual and immersive artworks.
Festival launch featuring the grand opening of Licht, mehr Licht! and a late night romp with one of the city’s finest taste-makers – 2257ad
Submerge & NoNeed2Shout present Pastoral – Gazelle Twin (Live) & Guests.
Contemplative sound and light installation exploring stories from the local populations in the UK and Norway around climate science and migration.
Free workshop for artists, storytellers and makers of any kind interested in learning more about Virtual Reality and its potential.
French visual artist Guillaume Marmin creates a “tunnel of light” opening up beyond the darkness. Installation runs 2nd – 10th March from 11am daily within Arnolfini standard opening hours.
A Q&A with Batu, Head of Bristol’s Timedance label and Curator of the first in the Submerge Nights series.
A choreography for stroboscopes, physically perceptible sounds, vibrating space and images that form on the retina of the eye just after the lights go out.
Visual theatre at the interface between sonic art, aerial circus and laser light scenography presented in association with Feral.
Timedance label boss and producer Batu curates a lineup of fractured, bass driven electronic music
Audio experience and walk using evocative music, narration and field recording to bring you stories of changing environments.
An experiment between improvised film and musical experience, working with local musicians to develop new forms of ritual ceremony.
Dreaming of a career working in festival and event production? Hear from some of Bristol’s leading directors and producers on their journeys into festival production
An introduction to Modular Synthesisers for people who identify as women, non binary, gender fluid and/or trans*
Artist and musician Graham Dunning presents a talk and demo of his incredible ‘Mechanical Techno‘ installation.
Live AV and artificial intelligence combine as Young Paint performs live on stage in collaboration with Actress.
An album launch party set in the edgelands between dub, electronics, noise and post-punk, as Ossia (Young Echo) + special guests celebrate his new LP for Blackest Ever Black
Audio experience and walk using evocative music, narration and field recording to bring you stories of changing environments.
A free talk and workshop for enthusiasts and artists to learn more about sound design for visual media, and get some hands-on experience recreating sounds and implementing them into a video game.
Live art, machine learning and artificial intelligence combine for a unique durational performance.
A choreographic and multi-sensory journey into the complex nature of both emotional and physical darkness.
A powerful evening of danceable electricity, exploring the dark and twisted sounds of bleeping electro to synth-ed out EBM and pure wave.
A bold and experimental late night clash of artists working with tactile sound, custom instruments, handmade electronics and mechanical techno.
Submerge Artistic Director Mike Pony reveals the thought processes behind the diverse curation of Submerge Festival 2019.
A large-scale, immersive audiovisual installation marks the launch of a bold new manifesto for gender equality in music.
Dan Daw takes ownership of the beautiful mess that encompasses all that he is, and lets go of who he once was to make room for who he wants to be.
A one-to-one performance investigating the politics of care, gender and coexistence through the act of breastfeeding.
Pianist Zubin Kanga performs music celebrating queer identity in works where classical piano meets new digital technologies.
A site-specific and temporary public lecture exploring disobedience, complicity and public resistance.
A giant latex pig gives birth to a litter of scrambling, human-sized piglets, desperate to suckle and feed.
A screening of the acclaimed documentary Queer Japan followed by a Q+A with one of the stars of the film, Saeborg.
Seeking queer, trans, non-binary and genderfluid young people to join Hot Bodies Choir.
A dance double bill consisting of works from Alessandro Sciarroni and Thick and Tight.
Part ritual, part sex club, part dance party – and fully WTF. Created by a Black queer ensemble, JUMBIE is a ritual for our sickened times.
Ten Commandments combines a captivating stage performance with lacerating social commentary.
2 Pigs Under 1 Umbrella host a three-day workshop on strategies for merging liveart and club performance.
Hot Bodies Choir Manchester perform a sensational live electronic + choral music concert.
Cakes Da Killa performs live at Yes during their upcoming UK tour.
Artist in residence Tammy Reynolds aka Midgitte Bardot develops ideas for their new one-to-one performance.
Jackie Stacey and Monica Pearl will guide this workshop that’s about creating a better understanding of the terms and theories that have influenced all of us.
Performance artists Jade Blackstock and Shrek666 create new durational liveart works at Manchester Art Gallery in response to the Derek Jarman exhibition; Protest!
Live BDSM body music meets contemporary performance art and drag with 2 Pigs under 1 Umbrella, Gerald Kurdian + Friends.