Colston Hall / Fri Nov 18 - 7:00pm
The Well – Koreless (Live) + Gil Delindro
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.
Calendar View
Loco Klub / Fri Nov 18 - 9:00pm
Submerge Nights 1: Into The Deep – Adam Basanta, Francesca Fini + Friends
Descend into deeper waters with durational performance, live electronic music and an audiovisual installation marked by twelve points of light.
Colston Hall / Sat Nov 19 - Sun Nov 20
The Cube – Circa69
A multi-sensory, virtual reality performance using Oculus Rift, for one person at a time. Find out what’s inside #TheCube.
Coroners Court / Sat Nov 19 - 3:00pm
Transfiguration – Oliver de Sagazan, Rrose + Friends
Dark, body-based performance, visceral live sculpture and intense vibrational sounds await you in the beautiful surrounds of an 18th century church.
Coroners Court / Sat Nov 19 - 7:00pm
The Lost City – Fis (Live) + FK Alexander
A violent act of destruction gives way to live cinematic sound. Experience total bodily immersion into an all enveloping audio, performed in total darkness.
Coroners Court / Sat Nov 19 - 11:00pm
Submerge Nights 2: The Ascent – Octo Octa, Rrose, Steakhouse Live, Project O
Enter a higher state at the festival club with woozy late-night house, techno and surreal performance at a former mortuary and coroners court.
Coroners Court / Sun Nov 20 - 10:00am
Exist – CUTS
The debut film EXIST (2016) by UK-based audio/visual artist CUTS premieres as a looped video installation.
Loco Klub / Sun Nov 20 - 10:00am
Room Dynamics – Adam Basanta
Speakers and incandescent bulbs transfigure the tunnels and architecture beneath Temple Meads, creating an immersive, audiovisual experience.
Watershed / Thu Feb 28 - 5:00pm
Submerge Talks: Between Images & Sound – Guillaume Marmin
French visual artist Guillaume Marmin reveals the processes behind his audiovisual and immersive artworks.
Arnolfini / Fri Mar 01 - 5:30pm
Image: Andrej Zajac
Submerge Launch: Winter Music Series – Guillaume Marmin, 2257ad + Friends
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
Exchange / Fri Mar 01 - 7:00pm
Pastoral – Gazelle Twin (Live) + Orryx
Submerge & NoNeed2Shout present Pastoral – Gazelle Twin (Live) & Guests.
We The Curious / Sat Mar 02 - Sun Mar 10
Leviathan’s Temple – Live Digital Design
Contemplative sound and light installation exploring stories from the local populations in the UK and Norway around climate science and migration.
Arnolfini / Sat Mar 02 - Sun Mar 10
Licht, Mehr Licht! – Guillaume Marmin
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.
Watershed / Sat Mar 02 - Sun Mar 03
Image: Emmanuel Lubezki
Submerge Labs: Filming in 360 for VR
Free workshop for artists, storytellers and makers of any kind interested in learning more about Virtual Reality and its potential.
Arnolfini / Sat Mar 02 - 1:00pm
Submerge Talks 2: Curators Q&A – Batu
A Q&A with Batu, Head of Bristol’s Timedance label and Curator of the first in the Submerge Nights series.
Arnolfini / Sat Mar 02 - 3:00pm
Image: Adéla Vosičková
Shadow Meadow – Jan Mocek
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.
Circomedia / Sat Mar 02 - 8:00pm
Image: Jack Wrigley
Liquid Sky – Bassline Circus/MHz + Sue Zuki
Visual theatre at the interface between sonic art, aerial circus and laser light scenography presented in association with Feral.
Loco Klub / Sat Mar 02 - 11:00pm
Submerge Nights 1: Curated by Batu – JASSS, Batu, Klein, Chekov
Timedance label boss and producer Batu curates a lineup of fractured, bass driven electronic music
Watershed / Sun Mar 03 - 10:15am
It Must Have Been Dark By Then – Duncan Speakman
Audio experience and walk using evocative music, narration and field recording to bring you stories of changing environments.
Cube Microplex / Wed Mar 06 - 7:30pm
SACRED✚S A Music+Cinema Ritual – Vincent Moon
An experiment between improvised film and musical experience, working with local musicians to develop new forms of ritual ceremony.
Arnolfini / Thu Mar 07 - 4:00pm
Submerge Talks 4: Starting a Career in Festivals
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
Elevator Sound / Thu Mar 07 - 6:00pm
Submerge Labs 2: Intro to Modular Synthesisers – Elevator Sound
An introduction to Modular Synthesisers for people who identify as women, non binary, gender fluid and/or trans*
Watershed / Fri Mar 08 - 1:00pm
Submerge Talks 3: Making Mechanical Techno – Graham Dunning
Artist and musician Graham Dunning presents a talk and demo of his incredible ‘Mechanical Techno‘ installation.
SWX / Fri Mar 08 - 6:30pm
Actress + Young Paint (Live AV/AI) + Zoë Mc Pherson
Live AV and artificial intelligence combine as Young Paint performs live on stage in collaboration with Actress.
Brunswick Club / Fri Mar 08 - 8:00pm
Devils Dance – Ossia
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
Watershed / Sat Mar 09 - 10:15am
It Must Have Been Dark By Then – Duncan Speakman
Audio experience and walk using evocative music, narration and field recording to bring you stories of changing environments.
dBs Music / Sat Mar 09 - 12:00pm
Submerge Labs 3: Audio Design for Visual Media – dBs Music
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.
Arnolfini / Sat Mar 09 - 12:00pm
Kawasaki Plant – Bean
Live art, machine learning and artificial intelligence combine for a unique durational performance.
Arnolfini / Sat Mar 09 - 7:00pm
YAYAYA AYAYAY – Ultimate Dancer + Robbie Thomson
A choreographic and multi-sensory journey into the complex nature of both emotional and physical darkness.
Arnolfini / Sat Mar 09 - 8:00pm
Winter Music Series: MLE + Tilly
A powerful evening of danceable electricity, exploring the dark and twisted sounds of bleeping electro to synth-ed out EBM and pure wave.
Loco Klub / Sat Mar 09 - 11:00pm
Submerge Nights 2: Tactile Sound – Rian Treanor, Nguyễn + Transitory, Graham Dunning, AJA
A bold and experimental late night clash of artists working with tactile sound, custom instruments, handmade electronics and mechanical techno.
Arnolfini / Sun Mar 10 - 1:00pm
Image: Adéla Vosičková
Submerge Talks 5: Director’s Q&A – Mike Pony
Submerge Artistic Director Mike Pony reveals the thought processes behind the diverse curation of Submerge Festival 2019.
Depot Mayfield / Tue Mar 08 - 7:00pm
Image: Rebecca Smith
Festival Launch: All Things Equal – Rebecca Smith + Loraine James
A large-scale, immersive audiovisual installation marks the launch of a bold new manifesto for gender equality in music.
HOME / Thu Mar 17 - Sat Mar 19
Image: Hugo Glendinning
The Dan Daw Show – Dan Daw Creative Projects
A shiny and sweaty peep into living with shame whilst bursting with pride; this is a show about care, intimacy, resilience, letting go and reclaiming yourself.
HOME / Thu Mar 17 - 9:15pm
Submerge Talks: Dan Daw + Christopher Owen Artist Q&A
Dan Daw and Christopher Owen discuss the themes and topics explored in The Dan Daw Show.
SEESAW / Fri Mar 18 - Sun Mar 20
Image: Filippo Zambon
Nurture – Samuli Laine
A one-to-one performance investigating the politics of care, gender and coexistence through the act of breastfeeding.
RNCM / Fri Mar 18 - 7:30pm
Cyborg Soloists: The Body Electric – Zubin Kanga
A contemporary experimental concert celebrating queer identity, where classical piano meets new digital technologies.
Carpenters Lane / Sat Mar 19 - 3:00pm
Image: Claudia Pajewski
Will You Marry Me? – Sara Leghissa
A site-specific and temporary public lecture exploring disobedience, complicity and public resistance.
SEESAW / Sat Mar 19 - Sun Mar 27
Image: Taisuke Tsurui
Pigpen – Saeborg
A giant latex pig gives birth to a litter of scrambling, human-sized piglets, desperate to suckle and feed.
Chapeltown Picture House / Sun Mar 20 - 2:00pm
Queer Japan Movie Screening + Artist Talk – Saeborg
A screening of the acclaimed documentary Queer Japan followed by a Q+A with one of the stars of the film, Saeborg.
Contact Theatre / Mon Mar 21 - Sun Mar 27
Submerge Labs: In Residence – Tammy Reynolds
Artist in residence Tammy Reynolds develops ideas related to their one-to-one performance encounter Get In Loser, We’re Going Shopping.
Contact Theatre / Mon Mar 21 - Sun Mar 27
Image: Gerald Kurdian
Submerge Labs: In Residence – GÆRALD
Artist in residence GÆRALD develops material for their new show X ! (un opéra fantastique) with Manchester practitioners, performers and activists.
Contact Theatre / Mon Mar 21 - Sun Mar 27
Submerge Labs: In Residence – Lydia L’Scabies
Drag artist Lydia L’Scabies develops ideas for her new project; a haunted house of queer trauma.
Salford Lads Club / Tue Mar 22 - 6:00pm
Dance Double Bill – Alessandro Sciarroni and Thick & Tight
A double bill of wild contemporary dance pieces from a visual-art inspired Italian choreographer and a surrealist dance-drag duo.
HOME / Wed Mar 23 - Sat Mar 26
Image: The Other Richard
Jumbie – Jamal Gerald
A ritual for our sickened times. Created by a Black queer ensemble, JUMBIE is part ritual, part sex club, part dance party – and fully WTF.
The Lowry / Wed Mar 23 - 8:00pm
Ten Commandments – David Hoyle
A light-hearted antidote to the rat-infested dystopia in which we currently find ourselves, combining a captivating stage performance with lacerating social commentary.
SOUP / Thu Mar 24 - Fri Mar 25
Submerge Labs: Liveart + Club Performance Workshop – 2 Pigs Under 1 Umbrella
A three-day workshop on strategies for merging liveart and club performance, resulting in a live BDSM inspired performance at the festival closing party.
HOME / Fri Mar 25 - 9:15pm
Submerge Talks: Jumbie – Toni-Dee Paul
Toni-Dee Paul unwraps some of the key themes in Jamal Gerald’s Jumbie.
YES / Fri Mar 25 - 11:00pm
Image: Ebru Yildiz
Cakes Da Killa (Live)
A late-night club show of hip-house and electronic dance music from Brooklyn’s Cakes Da Killa.
Whitworth Art Gallery / Sat Mar 26 - 10:00am
Image: Isi Parente
Submerge Labs: Queer Theory For Queer Artists – Sexuality Summer School
A workshop on Queer Theory, designed to demystify the terms and ideas that have influenced and fuelled queer art practice.
Manchester Art Gallery / Sat Mar 26 - 1:00pm
Protest! Live Art Takeover – Jade Blackstock & Shrek666
A liveart takeover of the Derek Jarman exhibition; Protest! This event features new durational performances from two of the UK’s most exciting artists.
SOUP / Sat Mar 26 - 7:00pm
Club Submerge: 2 Pigs Under 1 Umbrella + GÆRALD
Live electronic body music meets radical performance art with 2 Pigs under 1 Umbrella + GÆRALD.
Online / Tue Jun 14 - 7:00pm
Submerge Talks: Artist in Residence – Tammy Reynolds
Artists Tammy Reynolds and mentor Rosana Cade host a candid discussion about about Tammy’s ongoing project “Get in loser, we’re going shopping”
Online / Tue Jun 21 - 7:00pm
Submerge Talks: Artist in Residence – Lydia L’Scabies
Artist in residence Lydia L’Scabies is joined by artist and mentor Joss Areté for an online conversation exploring Lydia’s ongoing project; “House of Trauma!”
Factory International Aviva Studios / Fri Mar 28 - Sun Apr 06
Festival Launch: Contranatura (Against Nature) – Giacomo Cossio
A lush landscape of potted plants is transformed into a monochromatic installation in a violent act against nature.
New Adelphi Theatre / Sat Mar 29 - 11:00am
Image: Kris Moor
Submerge Labs: On Ice Workshop – WAUHAUS and Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava
WAUHAUS member, choreographer Jarkko Partanen introduces you to the challenges of dancing in lube.
New Adelphi Theatre / Sat Mar 29 - 7:00pm
Image: Dajana Lothert
Breathe – Milla Koistinen
A solo dance performance on a vast football pitch invites the audience to revisit memories of collective euphoria and joy.
New Adelphi Theatre / Sat Mar 29 - 8:30pm
Image: Quentin Chevrier
Fluids – WAUHAUS + Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava
One part strange spectacle on ice, one part slimy orgy.
The Lowry / Sun Mar 30 - 7:30pm
Image: Holly Revell
Lucy & Friends – Lucy McCormick
Queer cabaret spectacular leaving audiences needing a hug, a cry and an immediate shower.
The Lowry / Mon Mar 31 - 11:00am
Submerge Labs: Three Easy Steps To Becoming A Triple Threat Workshop – Lucy McCormick
Provocative artist and performer Lucy McCormick shares insight into her unique performance making practice.