24hr GNOSIS ︎ THE HOT SNAKES NIGHT CLUB ︎ 24hr GNOSIS ︎
24hr GNOSIS ︎ THE HOT SNAKES NIGHT CLUB ︎ 24hr GNOSIS ︎
HOTSNAKE NIGHT CLUB PRESENTS:
24hr Gnosis
22.08.26 - 23.08.26
no admittance after 11pm
Please note this event will be filmed and documented.
CHLOE LANGLOIS, John Anthony Thadicaran, Harun Morrison, Arianne Churchman, Kate Mahony, Wayne Burrows, Qingqing Liu, Sister Punch, Friederike Steinert, OILS, Frankie Roberts, National RAILS, DINoSAUR KILBY, The HUNDRED CLUB, Wojciech Rusin, CATHERINE CARTER
To inaugurate the Hotsnakes Night Club, please join us for 24hr Gnosis - 24hr’s of artist performances and live stream occult sleepover. Every hour for a whole day, Chloe Langlois has invited multiple artists to conjure and perform.
Aiming for a mammoth group hallucinatory state, join Chloe Langlois and guests as they attempt to reach a sublime consciousness to be with Hot Snakes - Chloe Langlois’s childhood guardian angel.
Over the duration of 24hr hours, audiences can attend as a live studio audience, witnessing a range of participatory and passive performances. Access is free with a paid bar serving food and artist cocktails.
Audiences wishing to take part in the gallery sleepover from 11pm til 9am can do so by booking. Places are limited. Please see the end of this web page for full details on how to take part in the sleepover. There is no admittance to TACO! after 11pm.
24hr Gnosis will be live-streamed on TACO!’s and the rtm websites.
Artists participating in 24hr Gnosis include Chloe Langlois, John Anthony Thadicaran, Harun Morrison, Arianne Churchman, Kate Mahony, Wayne Burrows, Dinosaur Kilby, Qingqing Liu, Sister Punch, Friederike Steinert, OILS, Frankie Roberts, Dinosaur Kilby, Pil & Galia Kollectiv, The Hundred Club, and magical instruments from The Pipe Shoppe.
A full 24-hour schedule for timings of events and performances for the event is listed below. Update will be announced via social media.
August 22
10:00 - Opening Circle
11:00 - The Hundred Club Pop Pop Hiss Hiss Ha Ha Performance
12:00 - Harun Morrison
13:00 - Lunch! Chloe x Hot Snakes
14:00- Chloe x Hot Snakes
15:00 - Frankie Roberts
16:00 - Friederike Steinert
17:00 - John Antony Thadicaran
18:00 - The National Rails
19:00 - Qingqing Liu
20:00 - Chloe x Hot Snakes
21:00 -Sister Punch
22:00 - Arianne Churhman
23:00 - Wayne Burrows
00:00 - Gusty Ferro
August 23
01:00 - Chloe x Hot Snakes
02:00 - Catherine Carter
03:00 - OILS
04:00 - Dinosaur Kilby
05:00 -Kate Mahoney
06:00 - Chloe x Hot Snakes
07:00 - Breakfast
08:00 - Everyone x Hot Snakes!
09:00 - Closing Circle
To book your place for the 24hr Gnosis gallery sleepover to info@taco.org.uk with the Hotsnakes Sleepover in the subject header.
Please read the our guidance and terms of agreement.
In addition, you will need to:
Please be advised that this event is documented, and that footage from the event made be used in the production of an artist film by Chloe Langlois.
The sleepover is for people aged over 18 only.
You will need to arrive before 11pm to take part. There is no admittance after this time.
The Hotsnakes Night Club is an immersive installation and performance space by artist Chloe Langlois. Co-curated by TACO! and Dinosaur Kilby, the club hosts a diverse programme of cabaret, live artist performance, workshops, and experimental music from invited artists and guests.
The nightclub takes its name from Chloe Langlois’s ongoing project - Hotsnakes in which the artist uses performance to interact and communicate with a holy guardian angel from her childhood - the eponymous ‘Hotsnakes’.
Drawing on aesthetics of ‘social’ performance traditions such as clowning, folk rituals, stand-up comedy, vaudeville, and the occult, Langlois has transformed TACO! Into an artist nightclub complete with an artist-themed cocktail bar.
Chloe Langlois completed a BA at Chelsea College of Art, then worked in a betting shop for nearly eight years, moved to Nottingham, and returned to the compulsion of art making working with peers in art, comedy, and the occult. She completed an MA in Contemporary Art Practice: Moving Image at the Royal College of Art. Since she has been trying to contact her Holy Guardian Angel, ‘Hotsnakes’, with mixed results. Looking at the messy and the magical in video and live performance, her interests lie in channeling, re-enactment, non-verbal communication, and collective euphoria.
Dinosaur Kilby is an Artist-Curator based in Birmingham, UK. He currently works at Wolverhampton Art Gallery as a Digital Producer. Between 2021-23 he completed an artist-curator traineeship at Eastside Projects. He set up and ran Cheap Cheap, an artist-led space, between 2019-2023. Dinosaur is currently working on Free House, a new artist studio complex and Prayer Room, a new exhibition space, both in Digbeth, Birmingham. He is also a founding member of Kühle Wampe, a horrible collaboration based across The Midlands.
John Anthony Thadicaran is a UK‑based conceptual visual artist and curator who grew up between India and Bahrain, and he thinks of himself as very much an outsider artist. His work is rooted in the ways trauma and isolation shape the illusions people live with, and in how hard it can be to see beyond them. He moves between photography, painting, sound, video installations, and contemporary philosophy, using these mediums to question where the line between private and public space really lies today. His work has been shown at spaces including Sadler’s Wells, Tate Modern, Frieze London, Studio Wayne McGregor, and the Lethaby Gallery.
Harun Morrison is an artist and writer based in London, he is a Somerset House Studio Resident. He is formerly an associate artist with Greenpeace UK. His forthcoming novel, The Escape Artist will be published by Book Works in 2026. Since 2006, Harun has collaborated with Helen Walker as part of the collective practice They Are Here. He is a former trustee of the Black Cultural Archive (est. 1981).
Kate Mahony makes work in front of people.
Since 2012, Mahony has been creating and curating live performance and moving image works that have embraced immediate ‘DIY’ ways of making. Her practice explores the possibilities of performance through wrongness, noise, tech she doesn't get and disruptions of normative behaviour. Rooted in an understanding of performance as a form of labour, Mahony frames her work within a “gig” economy within ‘gig’ settings - often low or unpaid, and contingent on availability, speed, and demand. By responding directly to the gig at hand, her performances are shaped and reworked by the conditions under which they are commissioned and consumed. Mahony graduated from Goldsmiths College with her BA in Art Practice in 2012, School of the Damned 2016, and MFA from the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford in 2017. She is the Subject Coordinator and Lecturer in BA Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University.
Wayne Burrows currently works with writing, cut and paste collage, popular music, found film footage and archival photography, often exploring the overlaps between historical fact, fiction and myth in work that deliberately blurs the distinctions between past and present, received truth and folklore, art and kitsch, authenticity and forgery. Much of his visual arts work since 2010 has been credited to pseudonyms (notably Robert Holcombe, b.1923 – d.2003), framed as fiction and – since 2018 – made in collaboration with artists working against, or wholly or partly outside, the increasingly academic and micro-managed professionalized arts system.
Qingqing Liu is a Chinese visual artist who is currently based in London. Her works ranges across mediums including film, text, performance and installation. She enjoys playing with and creating surreal scenes, influenced by neon-scifi, strange flora. As a result of her curiosity about animism, “the form of beings themselves” is a constant theme in her work. She likes to celebrate the joy of being born out of the darkness.
Sister Punch is a performance and music duo co-founded by artists Giuli Dal Lago and GiannaT in London. Through a mix of genres that incorporates and expands the limits of techno, house, jungle, breakcore, ambient and lento violento, SISTER PUNCH presents a driving performance in between the dramatic and the clownesque which jumps from sound art, heavy rhythms and cabaret-style experimental acts.
Friederike Steinert’s work is the result of a very slow and very modern nervous breakdown. They are interested in understanding how we create our identities and wonder which part social media and algorithms play in the construction of said identities. Interested in failures and moments of awkwardness. They use video, text, photography, and performance as tools. And sing a lot.
The National Rails
The National Rails are a cat-punk family band. They mostly write songs about their fluffy feline, Myshkin, and a host of other cool cats, both imaginary and real.
Aiming for a mammoth group hallucinatory state, join Chloe Langlois and guests as they attempt to reach a sublime consciousness to be with Hot Snakes - Chloe Langlois’s childhood guardian angel.
Over the duration of 24hr hours, audiences can attend as a live studio audience, witnessing a range of participatory and passive performances. Access is free with a paid bar serving food and artist cocktails.
Audiences wishing to take part in the gallery sleepover from 11pm til 9am can do so by booking. Places are limited. Please see the end of this web page for full details on how to take part in the sleepover. There is no admittance to TACO! after 11pm.
24hr Gnosis will be live-streamed on TACO!’s and the rtm websites.
Artists participating in 24hr Gnosis include Chloe Langlois, John Anthony Thadicaran, Harun Morrison, Arianne Churchman, Kate Mahony, Wayne Burrows, Dinosaur Kilby, Qingqing Liu, Sister Punch, Friederike Steinert, OILS, Frankie Roberts, Dinosaur Kilby, Pil & Galia Kollectiv, The Hundred Club, and magical instruments from The Pipe Shoppe.
A full 24-hour schedule for timings of events and performances for the event is listed below. Update will be announced via social media.
August 22
10:00 - Opening Circle
11:00 - The Hundred Club Pop Pop Hiss Hiss Ha Ha Performance
12:00 - Harun Morrison
13:00 - Lunch! Chloe x Hot Snakes
14:00- Chloe x Hot Snakes
15:00 - Frankie Roberts
16:00 - Friederike Steinert
17:00 - John Antony Thadicaran
18:00 - The National Rails
19:00 - Qingqing Liu
20:00 - Chloe x Hot Snakes
21:00 -Sister Punch
22:00 - Arianne Churhman
23:00 - Wayne Burrows
00:00 - Gusty Ferro
August 23
01:00 - Chloe x Hot Snakes
02:00 - Catherine Carter
03:00 - OILS
04:00 - Dinosaur Kilby
05:00 -Kate Mahoney
06:00 - Chloe x Hot Snakes
07:00 - Breakfast
08:00 - Everyone x Hot Snakes!
09:00 - Closing Circle
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Please read the our guidance and terms of agreement.
In addition, you will need to:
- Bring your own sleeping bags and pillow, and sleeping mat.
- Sign an agreement with TACO! outlining and confirming the terms of the sleepover and your participation.
Please be advised that this event is documented, and that footage from the event made be used in the production of an artist film by Chloe Langlois.
The sleepover is for people aged over 18 only.
You will need to arrive before 11pm to take part. There is no admittance after this time.
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The Hotsnakes Night Club is an immersive installation and performance space by artist Chloe Langlois. Co-curated by TACO! and Dinosaur Kilby, the club hosts a diverse programme of cabaret, live artist performance, workshops, and experimental music from invited artists and guests.
The nightclub takes its name from Chloe Langlois’s ongoing project - Hotsnakes in which the artist uses performance to interact and communicate with a holy guardian angel from her childhood - the eponymous ‘Hotsnakes’.
Drawing on aesthetics of ‘social’ performance traditions such as clowning, folk rituals, stand-up comedy, vaudeville, and the occult, Langlois has transformed TACO! Into an artist nightclub complete with an artist-themed cocktail bar.
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Chloe Langlois completed a BA at Chelsea College of Art, then worked in a betting shop for nearly eight years, moved to Nottingham, and returned to the compulsion of art making working with peers in art, comedy, and the occult. She completed an MA in Contemporary Art Practice: Moving Image at the Royal College of Art. Since she has been trying to contact her Holy Guardian Angel, ‘Hotsnakes’, with mixed results. Looking at the messy and the magical in video and live performance, her interests lie in channeling, re-enactment, non-verbal communication, and collective euphoria.
Dinosaur Kilby is an Artist-Curator based in Birmingham, UK. He currently works at Wolverhampton Art Gallery as a Digital Producer. Between 2021-23 he completed an artist-curator traineeship at Eastside Projects. He set up and ran Cheap Cheap, an artist-led space, between 2019-2023. Dinosaur is currently working on Free House, a new artist studio complex and Prayer Room, a new exhibition space, both in Digbeth, Birmingham. He is also a founding member of Kühle Wampe, a horrible collaboration based across The Midlands.
John Anthony Thadicaran is a UK‑based conceptual visual artist and curator who grew up between India and Bahrain, and he thinks of himself as very much an outsider artist. His work is rooted in the ways trauma and isolation shape the illusions people live with, and in how hard it can be to see beyond them. He moves between photography, painting, sound, video installations, and contemporary philosophy, using these mediums to question where the line between private and public space really lies today. His work has been shown at spaces including Sadler’s Wells, Tate Modern, Frieze London, Studio Wayne McGregor, and the Lethaby Gallery.
Harun Morrison is an artist and writer based in London, he is a Somerset House Studio Resident. He is formerly an associate artist with Greenpeace UK. His forthcoming novel, The Escape Artist will be published by Book Works in 2026. Since 2006, Harun has collaborated with Helen Walker as part of the collective practice They Are Here. He is a former trustee of the Black Cultural Archive (est. 1981).
Kate Mahony makes work in front of people.
Since 2012, Mahony has been creating and curating live performance and moving image works that have embraced immediate ‘DIY’ ways of making. Her practice explores the possibilities of performance through wrongness, noise, tech she doesn't get and disruptions of normative behaviour. Rooted in an understanding of performance as a form of labour, Mahony frames her work within a “gig” economy within ‘gig’ settings - often low or unpaid, and contingent on availability, speed, and demand. By responding directly to the gig at hand, her performances are shaped and reworked by the conditions under which they are commissioned and consumed. Mahony graduated from Goldsmiths College with her BA in Art Practice in 2012, School of the Damned 2016, and MFA from the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford in 2017. She is the Subject Coordinator and Lecturer in BA Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University.
Wayne Burrows currently works with writing, cut and paste collage, popular music, found film footage and archival photography, often exploring the overlaps between historical fact, fiction and myth in work that deliberately blurs the distinctions between past and present, received truth and folklore, art and kitsch, authenticity and forgery. Much of his visual arts work since 2010 has been credited to pseudonyms (notably Robert Holcombe, b.1923 – d.2003), framed as fiction and – since 2018 – made in collaboration with artists working against, or wholly or partly outside, the increasingly academic and micro-managed professionalized arts system.
Qingqing Liu is a Chinese visual artist who is currently based in London. Her works ranges across mediums including film, text, performance and installation. She enjoys playing with and creating surreal scenes, influenced by neon-scifi, strange flora. As a result of her curiosity about animism, “the form of beings themselves” is a constant theme in her work. She likes to celebrate the joy of being born out of the darkness.
Sister Punch is a performance and music duo co-founded by artists Giuli Dal Lago and GiannaT in London. Through a mix of genres that incorporates and expands the limits of techno, house, jungle, breakcore, ambient and lento violento, SISTER PUNCH presents a driving performance in between the dramatic and the clownesque which jumps from sound art, heavy rhythms and cabaret-style experimental acts.
Friederike Steinert’s work is the result of a very slow and very modern nervous breakdown. They are interested in understanding how we create our identities and wonder which part social media and algorithms play in the construction of said identities. Interested in failures and moments of awkwardness. They use video, text, photography, and performance as tools. And sing a lot.
The National Rails
The National Rails are a cat-punk family band. They mostly write songs about their fluffy feline, Myshkin, and a host of other cool cats, both imaginary and real.