Hot SNAKES! 🐍 CHLOE LANGLOIS 🐍 







Hotsnakes is a devotional performance project conceived by artist Chloe Langlois. It takes as its starting point the artists attempt to interact and communicate with a Holy Guardian Angel from her childhood - the eponymous ‘Hotsnakes’. Chloe’s attempts take the form of monthly broadcasts, live to air performance events, and bar takeovers.

Hotsnakes is being created through Chloe’s research residency at TACO! In which she use RTM’s radio production and publishing facilities, gallery, event and social bar spaces to develop the project. Chloe will invite artist collaborators, friends, and strangers to ponder and contribute to the audiovisual occult that is Hotsnakes. Chloe’s experiments in live to air events and performances will generatate material to be used in the production of an artists film, and gallery installation.

 What is this entity and what are its intentions? Do they mean Chloe , or us, good or ill? It’s all for you Hotsnakes!

Hotsnakes is curated by Dinosaur Kilby in collaboration with TACO!

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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.




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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.  

Recent projects include ‘Peasants Revolt Now!’ at Prayer Room, ‘If It Thunders on All Fool’s Day’ at Eastside Projects. Recent exhibitions at Cheap Cheap include; Ishmail De Niro’s ‘The Saracen’s Head,’ Leah Hickey’s ‘How to Get Attention When You’re Drowning’ & Campbell Mcconnell’s ‘Harbouring Delusion.’





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