Friday 3 July 2026, 7.30pm
Décalé makes its first appearance at Cafe Oto with an evening of sonic and visual experiments, bringing together four artists working with moving image, live performance, improvisation, inner and outer landscapes.
Simeon Barclay will perform An Ode To a Crow — “Come on an excursion through Yorkshire, along arterial roads that bear witness to an industrial legacy, birthing a sonic heartbeat that serves as a symphony to didactic desire, memory and transformation. Through words spoken, and a sonic and visual landscape, I shall doff a hat to the purveyors of electronic pop in the region, and the high fashion that was their armour.”
Juline Hadaya’s Double Life performance will explore the entangled self suspended between two timelines: the past and the future.
Hannah Catherine Jones will present a largely improvised set, channelling grief from recent bereavements through a multi-instrumental set-up, including theremin, synthesisers, loopers, fx and samples.
Drawing from her multiple known and unknown aliases, Laila Sakini will perform a mini set utilising percussion, voice, piano, found sound, electronics and whatever’s close to hand.
Décalé is programmed by Leila Arenou, Kadeem Oak and Chooc Ly Tan.
Simeon Barclay (b.1975, Huddersfield, UK) spent his formative years during the 90s employed as a machine operative whilst being submerged in the transformative potential of clubs, music, fashion and youth culture movements across the world. Channeling those alternative modes of expression, he would later attend night school, finally graduating in (2014) with an MFA from Goldsmiths College. Barclays practice spans sculpture, installation, sound, performance, and writing. Drawing on his own personal history, popular culture, fashion and design, he creates environments where the personal meets the social, and the emotional connects with the architectural. He reshapes and collides these references, often with humour, to explore the complex and contradictory narratives that shape the modern British experience. Barclay has been nominated for the 2026 Turner Prize which will be held at MIMA in autumn 2026, he is the recent recipient of the Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Fellowship; the Roberts Institute of Art, Practicing Performance Commission; Ares Art Award and was included in the Heywood Gallery Touring exhibition; British Art Show 9. Barclay lives and works between West Yorkshire & London.
Juline Hadaya is a London-based artist and filmmaker, of Syrian origin, whose interdisciplinary practice spans sound, video and sculpture. Drawing from field recordings, archival material and open-source data, her work engages with memory regimes within physical, emotional and digital geographies of violence. She is the co-director of the filmic essay 'Shapeshifting', released in 2025 and has contributed to 'Feel The Sound' book published by The Barbican Centre. Recent performances and shows include Chisenhale Gallery, Ormside Projects, Cafe Oto and Kanaal 40 (Amsterdam).
Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, producer and performer Laila Sakini is London based, Melbourne born.
Her major works include Like A Gun (EP), Vivienne (LP), Strada (EP), Into The Traffic, Under The Moonlight (LP), Princess Diana of Wales (LP), Cupo (LP w/ Valentina Magalett) and Figures (LP w/ Dr Lucy Van) among several single, EPs and cassette release on her series Mystery Messages.
Working with piano, voice, guitar and silence Laila creates dynamic and textured environments that provide the listener with space to develop their own meanings and responses.
Laila has performed at: Cafe Oto, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Berlin Atonal, De Nor, Listen! festival, Gaudeamus Festival, Meakusma x Arkaoda, The London Handel Festival, Wunkderkammer Festival, Ponto d’Orvalho, Intonal Festival and among others.
She has been featured several times in The Wire Magazine, graced the cover of Switzerland’s cult Zweikommasiben music magazine, been featured on BBC1, in Frances’ Les Inrockuptibles, LA’s AQNB, Belgium’s Gonzo magazine, Italy’s Blow Up and in several specials on NTS Radio, LYL, Dublab, Red Light.
https://lailasakini.bandcamp.com/
Hannah Catherine Jones (aka foxymoron) is a Doncaster-born, Bajan-diasporic, London-based artist, researcher, multi-instrumentalist, broadcaster/DJ (BBC Radio/TV, NTS - The Opera Show), composer, conductor, founder and creative director of Peckham Chamber Orchestra – a community project established in 2013 and founder and creative director of Chiron Choir - a queer diasporic choir established in 2022.
In performance, Jones conjures transcendent soundscapes, building layers from a live multi-instrumental set-up including theremin(s), voice, synthesisers, strings, samples and utilising fx and multiple looping systems simultaneously, to transport audiences into interdimensional sonic portals.
Jones completed her AHRC DPhil scholarship at Oxford University in 2021 for which the ongoing body of work The Oweds was presented as a series of live and recorded, broadcast, audio-visual episode-compositions, using disruptive sound as a methodology of institutional decolonisation.
Jones has performed, exhibited and lectured widely, internationally, including: Leeds Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, National Gallery, Southbank Centre, Institute of Contemporary Arts, V&A, Oxford University, Trinity Laban, Cafe Oto, Nottingham Contemporary, BrittenPears, (UK), Ocean Space (IT), ECAL (CH), Sandberg Institute (NL), University of Bayreuth (GER), Beirut Art Centre (LEBN), Oi Futuro (BR), Eyethu Centre (SA), New York University, Harvard University (U.S.), NIRIN: 22nd Biennial of Sydney, Liquid Architecture (AUS), Wonderfruit (TH), amongst others.
