England
London
BARRIO: An Immersive Theatre-Club Experience
Sunday 4 October – various times
From Experiment-funded artists Sara Al Ghanem and Maria Cuervo.
A rave at the edge of demolition. A community at the edge of change.
Step into a disappearing council estate — not to watch a story of gentrification, but to move inside it. Through bone-conducting headphones, navigate the intimate memories of a migrant family as Fernanda and her loved ones face a choice: resist, or flee. Then dissolve into a community rave, where spatial audio turns stories of displacement and resilience into shared release, with Patricia Doors performing a live DJ set throughout.
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LFF Expanded Industry Day
Thursday 15 October – 10:00-20:00
This year is the 70th edition of the BFI London Film Festival. Their LFF Expanded Industry Day brings together the latest in the fields of gaming, immersive and beyond, at BFI London Film Festival. This Industry Day includes some of our funded artists Peter and the Wolf AR (PAW) by AΦE and PILGRIMS by Darkfield.
South West
Kow – Unearthing the Voices of West Penwith (Immersive Installation)
Cornwall
Saturday 3 October
Kow by Experiment-funded artist Natalia Mamcarczyk explores the social, cultural, and natural wealth of the southwestern tip of Cornwall.
The immersive installation includes a 28-speaker array, VR headset and XR interactions, multi-projection screening and analogue 35mm photography. At its heart are the voices of local people from Zennor to Cape Cornwall.
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UN/VEIL: An Infinite Choral Soundbath
Plymouth
Thursday 8 Friday 9 October
What if a choir could sing forever – and your voice could change what happens next?
UN/VEIL, which is an Expand-funded project, is an interactive audiovisual installation combining human voices, spatial sound and responsive 360° visuals. The installation is based on work by ILĀ and James Gibbons Macgregor with singers from London Contemporary Voices and their sister choirs across the UK.
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South East
XR Sunday Social
Innovate UK’s Immersive Tech Network Kent Hub Launch – Kent
Sun 18 October – 14:00-17:00
The future doesn’t get decided in one place. It’s shaped by local communities, grassroots initiatives, institutions and government, often without any of them talking to each other about what they’re building together. For the next XR Sunday Social, Experiment-funded artists Aoi and Esteban host their round table at A+E Lab with an amazing panel including Asha Easton, Co-founder of XRDI and a member of our research and management team.
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The Midlands
Taylormade Studios: Virgo Multiverse – Leicester
Thu 22 October – 19:00 – 21:00
Tales of intergalactic diaspora told through multimedia multidisciplinary melanated minds and movement combined with open source software and lo-fi hardware. Explore-funded Artist Vidal Montgomery presents and produces an interactive multimedia exploration of themes of identity and citizenship.
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Resistance, Re-Imagine – Birmingham
Running until Sunday 3 January 2027
Resistance, Re-Imagine is a collaboration between GRAIN Projects and Pathshala Media Institute (Bangladesh), featuring artists Mushfiq Mahbub Turjo and Zillah Bowes (who is also an Experiment-funded artist). The international residency is a dialogue and exchange on themes of resistance and reimagining and an exploration of the climate emergency. Part of British Council’s Connections Through Culture.
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North of England
Victory Over the Sun: Encounters with Light – Durham
Running until Sunday 17 January 2027
From the invention of the light bulb to contemporary light art, discover how artificial light transformed the modern world and inspired generations of artists. This major exhibition brings together spectacular works by leading international artists who have used light as material, medium, subject and metaphor.
