SHITBRICKHOUSETLC23131224TINA191WST

TLC23 w/ Crystabel Riley, L, Iman Mohammed, Katie Shannon, Keira Fox and Vera Karlsson

13th December, 2024

TINA presents a collective work by TLC23 titled SHITBRICKHOUSETLC2313122024TINA191WST from 6pm until late, that sees the occupation and transformation of the space as a situational and durational work. The project thinks about support systems in times of precarity and instability, offering a reactionary procedure, activating the gallery space through live musical acts within a constant and conflicting frequency or ‘shattered undercurrent’. DJ mix, live spoken text, processed, percussive interventions and an, as ever, industrial temporal backdrop (steel installation and accessories) are understood not as a protest but just the continuous drudge of the melancholy role-play we are subjected to. SHITBRICKHOUSETLC2313122024TINA191WST offers a cognitive break from this, and collectively, together, at least temporarily, this can feel exultant. A bar will be set up in TINA for the duration of the evening and an editioned poster will be available on the night. An additional text will be included, and elements of the project will appear on TLC23’s archived NTS radio show with Katie Shannon.

TLC23 was initiated by Artists Keira Fox and Katie Shannon in London in 2021, the collective recurrently collaborates with Berlin-based Artist Vera Karlsson. Frequently folding in the work of other artists, performers, sound engineers, musicians, designers, writers and photographers, they collectively investigate themes of trauma, mania, release and protection with a distinctly feminist impulse. TLC23 is a collective, rooted in underground and experimental music, emerging from the subcultures and alternative music scenes that shaped Fox and Shannon’s experiences as teenagers. The work exists at the intersections of music, art, and performance, drawing on personal narratives and the transformative spaces found in these formative scenes. Themes related to gender- based violence, persecution, and bias often inform the work, particularly through a female-identifying perspective. By focusing on intersectional allyship as a guiding ethos, TLC23 create immersive environments where they and others perform, orchestrating spaces for collective experience and resilience in uncertain times. Through such events, their work is resistant to clear authorship, fluid in its means and modes of display, and heterogenous in the archiving and distribution of its documentation. Incorporating sound, music, print media, film, performance, sculpture and radio, TLC23 events become a site of both production and reception and as such inscribe viewers in a dynamic arena of complicity and voyeurship that is simultaneously reactive and restorative in its processes.

Special thanks to Lilian Zancajo Lugo, Riccardo Greco, Maria Herrero Tejada, Crystabel Efemena Riley, Iman Mohammed, Jack Paton, Laurie Pitt, Jack Mellin, Andy Healy, Victor Jakeman, Paul Mcgann, Avalon Cafe, Lottie Lou, The Hire Store, James Jessiman, Anton Karlsson and The Contemporary Wardrobe.