Surfeit is an ongoing series of events, presented by Contact and Thames Submarine, which brings together moving image and sonic arts, celebrating music, film, sound and performance, emphasising how different practices influence and inform one another.


Surfeit IV
Café Oto, 3 December 2025
MerkabaMacabre (Steven Mcinerney) (expanded film performance)
Hollowed Water, Athanasios Argianas (2020, video, sound, 3 mins)
Returning and Turning, Deniz Johns & Martin Zeilinger (2024, video, sound, 6 mins)
Clementine March
Beanie Bhebhe with Adam Coney
Song of Nondurational Time, Athanasios Argianas (2020, video, sound, 2 mins)
Nearby, Andrew Vallance (2025, video, sound, 2 mins
Night Music, Edwin Rostron (2024, video, sound, 4 mins)
Zara Joan Miller
Angharad Davies
Jim Hobbs & Ojon with Yi Ting Liong (expanded film performance)


Surfeit III
Café Oto, 8 January 2025
Drag, Bea Haut (2017, 16mm, optical sound, 5 mins)
Via, Andrew Vallance (2024, Video, Sound, 3 mins)
Illia & Laura Rogatchevski (10 mins)
In Our Mind's Eye, Ben Kreukniet & Steven McInerney (2021, video, sound, 4 mins)
YES / NO, Simon Payne (2021, video, stereo, 4 mins)
Ostrobothnia, Jenny Baines (2010-2025, 16mm x 2, silent, 2 mins)
Magnetic North, Miranda Pennell (2003, video - 16mm transfer, sound, 8 mins)
Rie Nakajima
Liz Hanks
Asanoha, Lynn Loo with Emil Karlsen (2024, 16mm x 2, sound, 10 mins)




Surfeit II
Café Oto, 21 February 2024
GLOBO, David Leister with Andrew Knight-Hill (2024, 16mm x 3, performance, 10 mins)
Throwing 4, Matt Harding & Esmeralda Valencia Lindstrom (performance)
Dreams From the Past, Bridget Coderc (2023, video, 6 mins)
Kenichi Iwasa
Clapping Piece, Simon Payne (2024, video, performance, 4 mins)
Rie Nakajima
Foxtrot, Stuart Pound with Rosemary Norman (2022, video, 1 min)
Civil Disobedience, William Raban (2004, video transfer from 35mm, 4 mins)
Angharad Davies
Loop Leaders +, Guy Sherwin with Lyn Loo (2016-2024, 16mm x 3, performance, 10 mins)
Surfeit I
Café Oto, 12 January 2023
Gong, avid Leister with Andrew Knight-Hill (16mm, multi-projector performance with sound)
Melody Inside a Fire, Matt Harding & Sue Harding (foley & phone)
Surfeit, Jo Millett (2010, video, sound)
Metronome/Pendulum, Li Song (snare drum, metronome & hanging speaker)
Ecka Mordecai (horsehair, harp & voice)
Wind, Mersea Island, Steven Ball (video & sound performance)
My Line, Livia Garcia (graphic score performed by Steve Beresford)
Angharad Davies (first solo violin performance of 2023)
Vowels & Consonants, Guy Sherwin & Lynn Loo (16mm, multi-projector performance with sound)

