MASSSSSSSsss 🐍 HOT SNAKES 🐍
MASSSSSSSsss 🐍 HOT SNAKES 🐍
SINGING AND MUSICAL WORKSHOP
12.04.25/ 14:00
Please Join us for Massssssssssss, a free open singing workshop led by musician and composer Catherine Carter and artist Chole Langlois.
Over the course of the afternoon we will improvise choruses led by Catherine accompained by sssynth sssoundssscapes by the muscian OILS. Being able to sing in tune, or confidently is not important.
Masssssssssss is a workshop that forms part of Chole Langlois ongoing project Hot Snakes, a devotional projct concived by the artist that takes as its starting point an attempt to communitcate with Holy Guardian Angel from her childhood - the eponymous ‘Hotsnakes’.
During Massssssssss we will sing hymns taken from different magical sources to see if Hot Snakes resonates with any of them. Singing together, we will sound out clues as to what this entity could be.
The event is free to attened and participate in but booking is advised
* The workshop will include filming of singing. Participation in the film is optional and does not preclude taking part
Hotsnakes is a devotional project concieved by artist Chloe Langlois, developed as part of a performance based residency at TACO! in which she will work within the space and its facilities for prolonged period of on site research and production. During her time at TACO! Chole will use TACO!’s radio production and publishing facilities, gallery, event and social bar spaces.
Hotsnakes takes as its starting point the artists attempt to interact and communicate with a Holy Guardian Angel from her childhood called- ‘Hotsnakes’. With research taking the form of monthly broadcast and performance ‘episodes’ Hotsnakes is a live research residency that invites a public to interact and take part in Chloe's performative based practice. Whilst at TACO! Chole will undertake experimental live to air events, generatating material for the production of a film and gallery installation.
As part of the Hotsnakes project and it realisaiton Chloe will invite artist collaborators, friends, and strangers to ponder and contribute to the audiovisual occult that is Hotsnakes. 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!
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.
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.’
Over the course of the afternoon we will improvise choruses led by Catherine accompained by sssynth sssoundssscapes by the muscian OILS. Being able to sing in tune, or confidently is not important.
Masssssssssss is a workshop that forms part of Chole Langlois ongoing project Hot Snakes, a devotional projct concived by the artist that takes as its starting point an attempt to communitcate with Holy Guardian Angel from her childhood - the eponymous ‘Hotsnakes’.
During Massssssssss we will sing hymns taken from different magical sources to see if Hot Snakes resonates with any of them. Singing together, we will sound out clues as to what this entity could be.
The event is free to attened and participate in but booking is advised
* The workshop will include filming of singing. Participation in the film is optional and does not preclude taking part
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Hotsnakes is a devotional project concieved by artist Chloe Langlois, developed as part of a performance based residency at TACO! in which she will work within the space and its facilities for prolonged period of on site research and production. During her time at TACO! Chole will use TACO!’s radio production and publishing facilities, gallery, event and social bar spaces.
Hotsnakes takes as its starting point the artists attempt to interact and communicate with a Holy Guardian Angel from her childhood called- ‘Hotsnakes’. With research taking the form of monthly broadcast and performance ‘episodes’ Hotsnakes is a live research residency that invites a public to interact and take part in Chloe's performative based practice. Whilst at TACO! Chole will undertake experimental live to air events, generatating material for the production of a film and gallery installation.
As part of the Hotsnakes project and it realisaiton Chloe will invite artist collaborators, friends, and strangers to ponder and contribute to the audiovisual occult that is Hotsnakes. 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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Catherin Carter is a singer, theatre maker and composer. Highlights of Catherine’s vocal work include performing John Cage’s Aria with Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Theatre de la Ville Paris; Sonic Trail for the Filters a commission by Tate Britain; and the premier of K Stockhausen Mittwoch aus Licht for Birmingham Opera Company.
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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.’