THE HOT SNAKES ARTIST NIGHT CLUB ︎
THE HOT SNAKES ARTIST NIGHT CLUB ︎
THE HOT SNAKES ARTIST NIGHT CLUB
22.08.26- 13.09.26
CHLOE LANGLOIS
Various events
see details below
The Hot Snakes 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.
For the duration of 4 weeks TACO! will be transformed into a multidisciplinary nightclub, complete with an artist-themed cocktail bar and an accompanying programme of cabaret, live performance and music.
The club launches on 22nd August with the event 24hr Gnosis - a 24 hr occult marathon of artist performances live-streamed on TACO!’s website and IRL in the gallery. Audiences can seek to participate in the gallery sleepover. See the 24hr Gnosis event page for full details.
The full programme of free events hosted by the Hot Snakes Night Club can be found below︎︎︎. Event announcements will be made on the TACO! website and social media.
The nightclub takes its name from Chloe Langlois’s ongoing project - Hot Snakes in which the artist uses performance to interact and communicate with a holy guardian angel from her childhood - the eponymous ‘Hotsnakes’.
Drawing on the 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.
Installed in the gallery are a series of moving handmade curtains that define the performance frame for an audience. In collaboration with Wojciech Rusin and The Pipe Shoppe, Langlois has made 4 bespoke sculptural instruments used in performance and communication with a Holy Guardian Angel from Langlois’s childhood - the eponymous ‘Hot Snakes’. Whilst TACO!’s social space is dressed with further collaborative sculptures extending from the ceiling, turning the air ducting into gargoyle guardians accompanied by silver shimmer curtains.
A special group performance by the Hundred Club, a club for 5-12 yr olds and their families. Made in collaboration with Chloe Langlois the performance is inspired by an ancient magical story about a god who laughed the world into existence. Featuring laughter yoga, dance, music, singing, shouting and sound, The Hundred Club will laugh into being with decorated masks and sunglasses. This event forms part of 24hr Gnosis. To join the Hundred Club and participate, please sign up to the workshop on the 19th August.
Every hour for a whole day, Chloe Langlois has invited multiple artists to conjure, perform and speak to the spirts. Through a mammoth group hallucinatory state join us as reach a sublime consciousness to be with Hot Snakes. Live streamed on TACO!’s website and IRL in the gallery. The event includes an opportunity to sleep over and stay throughout the duration. See the event page for details.
Intimacy presents an evening of live experimental music and broadcast for a live audience with invited artist guests. Performers include Harry Smithson,Eleanor Arnold, and DJ Euro Kurd (Caroline Meyer). Existing as a monthly radio show on rtm.fm since January 2024, Intimacy is a common ground for artists working with sound to develop work through the live performance of radio and an ongoing broadcast project by artist Elliot Buchanan. See the event page for details.
Mind Your Head Art Cabaret returns to Thamesmead with Out of the Rubble, a surreal evening of humour, weirdness and pastiche with live art collaborations, music and site-specific occurrences that consider the perpetual demolition/rebuild of the area, as well as a wider sense of rebirth and recovery in difficult times. Always remember to…Mind Yooooour Heeeead! See the event page for details.
Join the Electronic Audio Club for a collaborative workshop with the South London Drone Orchestra. Learn how to make electronic instruments, and take part or enjoy an impromptu improv session. Booking Essential
Join Chloe Langlois, Peter Groom, and Ugly Drugless for G.O.D. A Foam party filled with pumping tunes, love songs played backward, artist noise, erotic mystic texts, chaos, and soggy hymn sheets. Hot Snakes has been conjured; now experience an erotic encounter with the divine on the dance floor. Come and get foamy. See the event page for details.
An evening of readings, karaoke performances from Alan Fielden, Flo Ray and the Empy Void Orchestra to mark the launch of the Floor Book, a limited edition artist journal reflecting back on TACO!’s work with artists, communities and groups over an 18month period. See the event page for details.
The Electronic Audio Club Live
19:00
The Electronic Audio Club presents a free evening of live experimental AV electronica, improv and visuals from members of the collective. Expect serious repetitive beats and a large number of machines that go beep.
Join us for the nightclub closing party with Transmead with live performance of electronic music and leftfield from Gusty Ferro, R3YWYA, and Kicho. Transmead is an experimental electronic music platform and radio show resident on rtm.fm broadcasting sonic collaborations featuring noise, left-field tracks, and field recordings. See the event page for details.
Artist contributors to the Hotsnakes Night Club include Chloe Langlois, Dinosaur Kilby, Kate Mahony, John Anthony Thadicaran, Arianne Churchman, Wayne Burrows, Qingqing Liu, Sister Punch, Friederike Steinert, OILS, Frankie Roberts, Harun Morrison, Gusty Ferro, The Hundred CLub, Ugly Drugless, Intimacy, The Electronic Audio Club, Mind Your Head Carbet, The Empty Void Orchestra, National Rails, Catherine Carter, R3YWYA, Kicho, Flying Carpets, Letti O’Burn & Sunnyboy Tyson, Maryam Sandjari Hashemi, The Pipe Shoppe (Wojciech Rusin), Peter Groom, Sarah Doyle, Sparkes Thompson, The Receipt, and more….
The history of the night club is is intimately tied to the role of artists, evolving out of avant-garde cabarets into multidisciplinary immersive spaces. Today night clubs continue to act as incubators for fashion, music, and contemporary art. The Hot Snakes Night Club takes it inspiration from previous famous clubs, run and designed by artists such as the Cave of the Golden Calf (1912), Cabaret Voltaire (1920), the Electric Circus (1960), and the Blitz Club (1979)
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 then 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.
Peter Wojciech Rusin is a Polish-born audio visual artist based in London. He draws inspiration from alchemical and gnostic texts, early renaissance choral music and Eastern European mythologies. He released Syphon LP on AD93 in 2022 and The Funnel LP on Akashic Records in April 2019. He designs and makes 3D-printed reed instruments, reworking ancient designs with contemporary 3D modelling technologies. In 2020 he released Meat for the Guard Dogs on Cafe OTO’s Takuroku digital imprint, and the Rufus Orbis cassette for Boomkat Editions / Documenting Sound series.
For the duration of 4 weeks TACO! will be transformed into a multidisciplinary nightclub, complete with an artist-themed cocktail bar and an accompanying programme of cabaret, live performance and music.
The club launches on 22nd August with the event 24hr Gnosis - a 24 hr occult marathon of artist performances live-streamed on TACO!’s website and IRL in the gallery. Audiences can seek to participate in the gallery sleepover. See the 24hr Gnosis event page for full details.
The full programme of free events hosted by the Hot Snakes Night Club can be found below︎︎︎. Event announcements will be made on the TACO! website and social media.
The nightclub takes its name from Chloe Langlois’s ongoing project - Hot Snakes in which the artist uses performance to interact and communicate with a holy guardian angel from her childhood - the eponymous ‘Hotsnakes’.
Drawing on the 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.
Installed in the gallery are a series of moving handmade curtains that define the performance frame for an audience. In collaboration with Wojciech Rusin and The Pipe Shoppe, Langlois has made 4 bespoke sculptural instruments used in performance and communication with a Holy Guardian Angel from Langlois’s childhood - the eponymous ‘Hot Snakes’. Whilst TACO!’s social space is dressed with further collaborative sculptures extending from the ceiling, turning the air ducting into gargoyle guardians accompanied by silver shimmer curtains.
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POP POP HISS HISS HA HA!
August 22nd
11:00-12:00A special group performance by the Hundred Club, a club for 5-12 yr olds and their families. Made in collaboration with Chloe Langlois the performance is inspired by an ancient magical story about a god who laughed the world into existence. Featuring laughter yoga, dance, music, singing, shouting and sound, The Hundred Club will laugh into being with decorated masks and sunglasses. This event forms part of 24hr Gnosis. To join the Hundred Club and participate, please sign up to the workshop on the 19th August.
24hr Gnosis
22nd & 23rd August 2026
10:00 - 10:00Every hour for a whole day, Chloe Langlois has invited multiple artists to conjure, perform and speak to the spirts. Through a mammoth group hallucinatory state join us as reach a sublime consciousness to be with Hot Snakes. Live streamed on TACO!’s website and IRL in the gallery. The event includes an opportunity to sleep over and stay throughout the duration. See the event page for details.
Intimacy
28th August
19:00Intimacy presents an evening of live experimental music and broadcast for a live audience with invited artist guests. Performers include Harry Smithson,Eleanor Arnold, and DJ Euro Kurd (Caroline Meyer). Existing as a monthly radio show on rtm.fm since January 2024, Intimacy is a common ground for artists working with sound to develop work through the live performance of radio and an ongoing broadcast project by artist Elliot Buchanan. See the event page for details.
Mind Your Head Art Cabaret
29th August
19:00 -23:00Mind Your Head Art Cabaret returns to Thamesmead with Out of the Rubble, a surreal evening of humour, weirdness and pastiche with live art collaborations, music and site-specific occurrences that consider the perpetual demolition/rebuild of the area, as well as a wider sense of rebirth and recovery in difficult times. Always remember to…Mind Yooooour Heeeead! See the event page for details.
The Electronic Audio Club x London Drone Orchestra workshop
30th August
11:00Join the Electronic Audio Club for a collaborative workshop with the South London Drone Orchestra. Learn how to make electronic instruments, and take part or enjoy an impromptu improv session. Booking Essential
G.O.D Foam Party
4th Sept 2026
17:00 - 22:00Join Chloe Langlois, Peter Groom, and Ugly Drugless for G.O.D. A Foam party filled with pumping tunes, love songs played backward, artist noise, erotic mystic texts, chaos, and soggy hymn sheets. Hot Snakes has been conjured; now experience an erotic encounter with the divine on the dance floor. Come and get foamy. See the event page for details.
The Floor Book launch & Empty Void Orchestra Experimental Karaoke
10th Sept
19:00An evening of readings, karaoke performances from Alan Fielden, Flo Ray and the Empy Void Orchestra to mark the launch of the Floor Book, a limited edition artist journal reflecting back on TACO!’s work with artists, communities and groups over an 18month period. See the event page for details.
The Electronic Audio Club Live
11th Sept
19:00The Electronic Audio Club presents a free evening of live experimental AV electronica, improv and visuals from members of the collective. Expect serious repetitive beats and a large number of machines that go beep.
TRANSMEAD LIVE NIGHT CLUB CLOSING PARTY
12 SEPT
19:00 - lateJoin us for the nightclub closing party with Transmead with live performance of electronic music and leftfield from Gusty Ferro, R3YWYA, and Kicho. Transmead is an experimental electronic music platform and radio show resident on rtm.fm broadcasting sonic collaborations featuring noise, left-field tracks, and field recordings. See the event page for details.
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Artist contributors to the Hotsnakes Night Club include Chloe Langlois, Dinosaur Kilby, Kate Mahony, John Anthony Thadicaran, Arianne Churchman, Wayne Burrows, Qingqing Liu, Sister Punch, Friederike Steinert, OILS, Frankie Roberts, Harun Morrison, Gusty Ferro, The Hundred CLub, Ugly Drugless, Intimacy, The Electronic Audio Club, Mind Your Head Carbet, The Empty Void Orchestra, National Rails, Catherine Carter, R3YWYA, Kicho, Flying Carpets, Letti O’Burn & Sunnyboy Tyson, Maryam Sandjari Hashemi, The Pipe Shoppe (Wojciech Rusin), Peter Groom, Sarah Doyle, Sparkes Thompson, The Receipt, and more….
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The history of the night club is is intimately tied to the role of artists, evolving out of avant-garde cabarets into multidisciplinary immersive spaces. Today night clubs continue to act as incubators for fashion, music, and contemporary art. The Hot Snakes Night Club takes it inspiration from previous famous clubs, run and designed by artists such as the Cave of the Golden Calf (1912), Cabaret Voltaire (1920), the Electric Circus (1960), and the Blitz Club (1979)
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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 then 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.
Peter Wojciech Rusin is a Polish-born audio visual artist based in London. He draws inspiration from alchemical and gnostic texts, early renaissance choral music and Eastern European mythologies. He released Syphon LP on AD93 in 2022 and The Funnel LP on Akashic Records in April 2019. He designs and makes 3D-printed reed instruments, reworking ancient designs with contemporary 3D modelling technologies. In 2020 he released Meat for the Guard Dogs on Cafe OTO’s Takuroku digital imprint, and the Rufus Orbis cassette for Boomkat Editions / Documenting Sound series.