A festival of disappearing images. Things that can’t be saved. Across disciplines: film, performance, theatre, music, talk.
Poster: Adélaïde de Alfaro
Tickets:
Festival Pass: £50
Single Event: £10-14 Sliding Scale
A festival of disappearing images. Things that can’t be saved. Across disciplines: film, performance, theatre, music, talk.
Featuring: Angusraze, bod [包家巷], Capital City, Charlie Osborne, Daniel Gatenio, dove / Christine Kirubi, Existers, Harry Murdoch, Jeremy Gilbert, Joe Davies, Klein, Mark Leckey, nunez, Open Secret, Plastique Fantastique, Regan Bowering, R.I.P. Germain & more
54 The Gate is an arts and resource centre for people with learning disabilities based in Shepherds Bush, London. We were set up around twenty years ago by Yarrow Housing to cater for the daytime needs of their tenants and anyone else who could make use of us in the West London area and beyond. Largely we're an arts centre but we see ourselves as a base where people can come and be free to be themselves and express that in a creative manner and we think there should be a Gate on every street corner, for everyone.
Alya Al-Sultani is a British-Iraqi dramatic soprano and composer of new opera living in London. Her work focuses on integration - of a diaspora identity, varied musical loves, the organic beauty of the human voice and the digital hum of modern life, structure and free improvisation.
Angusraze is a musician currently based in Kent, UK. His work focuses on primality and emotive extremity through the lens of a large, multimedia narrative.
https://angusraze.bandcamp.com/
After a sustained foray into deepest, darkest Kent, Brigantia’s prodigal son ANGUSRAZE returned to northern climes in the spring of 2026 to continue wreaking havoc on artistic conservatism and social norms.
Deviating from the bloodied footsteps of his Hull forbears COUM Transmissions, ANGUSRAZE comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable in equal measure. With a shapeshifting intelligence reminiscent of Björk and a pop theatricality akin to Kate Bush, his multimedia practice conjures an extradimensional realm less white-spore-ridden than The Upside Down and blacker than The Black Lodge.
Rejecting absolutely the high art versus lowbrow dichotomy, ANGUSRAZE’s latest album would have been a welcome thorn in Adorno’s well-tailored brogue, had the bourgeois musicologist lived to contend with PROTO GUILLOTINE HYPER IMPACT.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a polymath with a budget vocal mic and a Samurai sword chopping up a nuclear-powered server bank – forever.
bod [包家巷] is an audiovisual artist from Tucson that is currently based in Berlin. Their work has detailed habitation against annihilating solipsism in search of emotional connections beyond discourses of trauma/memory. Their current, self-released works face the same topics and challenges via the maintenance and critical evaluation of self in an ever more individualistic and atomized environment.
https://baojiaxiang.bandcamp.com/music
capital city is a collective that makes narrative performance. It was founded in southeast London in 2024. Its members are George Lynch, Joe Davies, Alex McKenzie, Tom Hardwick-Allan, and Hannah Taverner. capital city is a collective that makes narrative performance. It was founded in southeast London in 2024.
cc's first major production was the play 12april, which debuted at CCA Glasgow in November 2024. cc has since produced performances for London Performance Studios, Beaconsfield Gallery and Les Urbaines Festival 2025.
https://capital-city.neocities.org/
Charlie Osborne (b. 1999, Cardiff) is a London-based artist working across video, performance, music, writing and painting. Working through poetic vignettes, their practice employs a fictive logic to theatricality and the hyperreal. Drawing on horror aesthetics in both style and strategy, the work takes hybrid form—shock-rock essay-concert, noise performance, magical-realist story—shaped by screamo, synth-punk, hypnagogic pop, screaming harmonica, and a never-ending love-story rendered polyphonically. Osborne’s characters, video, sculpture and live shows are conceived as a spiritual dimension, where existential excess and the folly of modernity drive conspiracy and phenomena—replying through a new mythicism.
https://charlieosborne.xyz/
Daniel Gatenio is an artist, facilitator. Born and raised in New York City he is now based in London where he lives with his cat Misha.
Daniel’s art practice stems from his lifelong interest in how things work (or don’t) and how things are made; explored via diagrams, drawing, photography, and other images. Daniel’s art and work practice are indistinguishable from each other; meeting notes, utility bills, electrical diagrams, and other work related ephemera often make their way into drawings and then back again.
https://gaten.io/
dove / Christine Kirubi is a poet-artist based in London. She is the author of WILDPLASSEN published by the87press in 2024.
Existers
https://www.existersgallery.com/
Fatima Lahham is a musician and researcher based in London. She uses the recorder and her voice to tell stories alongside bees, poems and the sea. Fatima has performed all over the UK and Europe both as a soloist and with collaborators.
Harry Murdoch has released music as hmurd with labels including TT, Gin & Platonic and All Centre. He is a member of Forest Casual and Hard on Yarn Sourdonk Communion, and co-runs the label Cherche Encore. He often makes music with code.
http://hmurd.net/
Jeremy Gilbert is Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London, and the current editor of the journal New Formations. His most recent publications include Twenty-First-Century Socialism (Polity 2020) and Hegemony Now : How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World, co-authored with Alex Williams (Verso 2022). Jeremy also maintains a lifelong commitment to public education outside the academy, currently hosting Culture, Power, Politics, a regular podcast and series of free open seminars and lectures. He is also a co-host of the popular podcasts Love is the Message and #ACFM.
https://www.jeremygilbert.org/
Joe Davies practice explores the social histories of objects through their embodied, emotional charge. His work usually takes the form of expansive installations strewn with combinations of the given and the made. Results are often uncanny, occupying a zone between archeological reconstruction and fictional tableaux. His practice also involves regular collaboration with other artists and musicians with a focus on analogue technologies, multimedia and expanded cinema. He has shown in artist-run and DIY spaces internationally and nationally, exhibitions include The Listeners, The Horse Hospital (2024), XX-XX-XXXX, West Werk, Hamburg (2023) and always already, Old Souvenirs, Zona Mista, London (2021).
Kenichi Iwasa is a London based improviser and multidisciplinary artist from Japan. Also known for his legendary event Krautrock Karaoke night, he has collaborated with visual artists and musicians such as Beatrice Dillon, Maxwell Sterling and Linder Sterling.
He currently performs with Naima Karlsson under the name Exotic Sin and released LP on Blank Forms. Most recent live and recording collaborations have been with Neneh Cherry ,David Ornette Cherry, Tyson, Denardo Coleman, Rebecca Salvador, Alexis Taylor, Visio, Heith, ,Finley Clark, Lutto Lento, Blood Music
Klein is an artist and musician whose work often blurs the lines between fact and fiction. Her music releases, films, and performances are often informed by urban mapping, surveillance, humor, hip-hop, noise, identity, and beyond. Her work has been shown and/or performed at Museums, Galleries, yards, squats, and pubs, including the infamous The Old Blue Last and the New Cross Inn.
https://wahalawahalawahala.org/
Mark Leckey (b. 1964, Birkenhead, United Kingdom) lives and works in London. Leckey’s dynamic practice takes various forms including video, installation, performance, and sound, to address notions of memory and class, desire and identity. His work focuses on the effects of technology on popular culture, often through the rhetoric of British youth and subcultures.
https://markleckey.com/
nunez is a Spanish designer and artist working mostly visually with code. They co-run a baby label and platform for experimental music called ROCA which organises DIY outdoor events in SE London.
Open Secret is a curatorial internet cinema programme led by Palestinian artist Dana Dawud. Organised autonomously by the evergrowing Open Secret network of artists and internet friends, it is manifesto-less, letting the work speak for itself—and no two screenings are alike.
https://www.dazed.me/film-tv/cross-sectioning-the-slop-notes-on-internet-cinema
Plastique Fantastique is a collaboration between Ana Benlloch, David Burrows, Arianne Churchman, Tom Clark, Benedict Drew, Alex Marzeta, Simon O’Sullivan, Vanessa Page, Frankie Roberts. Past collaborators include Mark Jackson, Motsonian, Harriet Skully, Stuart Tait, Tom Clark, Simon Davenport, Joe Murray, Lawrence Leaman, Samudradaka. Plastique Fantastique is a performance fiction - an investigation of aesthetics, the sacred, popular culture and politics - produced through comics, performances, text, installations and shrines and assemblages.
Regan Bowering is a percussionist, improviser and sound artist based in London. Her solo work explores various combinations of drums and percussion, objects, amps, speakers, and feedback. Her debut album Solos for _ _ _ _ Spaces (Dec 2023 on Bezirk Tapes) was described as “a play of contrasts, contradicting voluminous expressions with confined phrases, taming resounding feedback with faint percussive flutters, but one that feels driven by the desire to craft electrifying drama rather than pure autotelic dissonance.” (The Quietus). She is one third of a collaborative project with Li Song and Conal Blake, with two releases: 2 Movements (Feedback Moves, 2024) and Music for Snare Drums and Portable Speakers (Infant Tree, 2023). Her debut LP A Technology of Feeling was released in January 2026 on Infant Tree.
https://reganbowering.com/
Richard Layzell has been showing installations, films and performances internationally since 1980. His multi-sensory Tap Ruffle and Shave was experienced by 100,000 people across the UK. He’s worked with communities in Bristol, Shanghai, Brisbane, London, Canvey Island, Swindon, Colchester, Glasgow, Minsk and Dundee, and teaches at University of the Arts London. He’s the author of Enhanced Performance and Cream Pages. For Disappearing Images he will present the piece La Busqueda, a unique interaction of film and live performance, where the narrator/performer exists in many different shapes and places.
R.I.P. Germain (b. Luton) is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist, archivist, lecturer and mentor. He focuses on disentangling the inner and outer wars that pertain to the Black male, through essays, interactive audiovisual installations and performances. His practice traffics in double meanings, deep resonances and a tension between accessibility and occlusion. Trickster and guide, he tries to dance a fine line: making work that speaks to deep truths without cheapening them with explanations or flattening them out for easy consumption. Sedimented with layers dense with cultural meaning and reference, the extensive research undergirding R.I.P. Germain’s work draws from multiple genres of Black experience, history and culture – personal and collective, seeking to make art that is rigorous about his commitments and possibilities as a Black artist.
Ship Sket is Josh Griffiths. Originally from Dorset, he’s lived in Manchester for seven years and forged his own path within the city’s welcoming and close-knit music scene, arriving on Planet Mu this autumn with his debut album InitiatriX. He has released EPs on Sidechains; Heel-Zone; SZNS7N; Modern Trips; Unguarded and Illegal Data and collaborated with Alza54 and Seychelles as well as self-releasing his own drill, grime, pop and rap edits on his own label Hdmurder.
Wonder is an alias of the musician, producer and performer Sonny Holland. Raised on UK bass music, his music combines electronic dance music influences with extreme metal. Big bass, fucking screaming, guitars and shit.