Sunday 20 July 2025, 7.30pm

INFLUXX ASSEMBLY: ADELE LAZZERI & TOBY KIDD, DEE SADA & GUESTS, YUKAKO TANAKA, subsignal, POPPY COCKBURN, SAOM, CHARLIE GUY

£12 £10 Advance £6 MEMBERS

INFLUXX ASSEMBLY is a platform that celebrates the intersection of music, visual art, and poetry, holding space for experimentation and improvisation.

The events are designed to be both ambitious and accessible, blending the DIY ethos of underground scenes with the frameworks and infrastructures of established institutions. From intimate performances to large-scale public events, INFLUXX ASSEMBLY aims to create experiences that leave a lasting legacy through documentation, publications, and recordings.

The inaugural event takes place at Cafe OTO on Sunday July 20th. In September 2025, INFLUXX ASSEMBLY will curate a special programme for the Totally Thames Festival, in partnership with Thames Festival Trust.

For more information: https://www.instagram.com/influxxassembly/

*Call for submissions*

INFLUXX ASSEMBLY ZINE: Issue 1 will be launching at Cafe OTO in July. We’re looking for submissions covering visual art, poems, prose and essays.

If you’re interested, please email submissions to: influxxassembly@gmail.com and include:
Name and contact details
Brief bio - 50 words
Type of submission: Art/image/poem/prose/other
Maximum words: upto 350 words
Deadline: 06/06/25

Adele Lazzeri

Adele Lazzeri is a multidisciplinary sculptor, born in Florence, Italy, and based in London. With a background in both art and philosophy, her practice is grounded in a sustained philosophical engagement with material transformation.

She constructs environments by working directly with the mechanics of matter, both physical and digital. Following her postgraduate studies at the Centre of Research of Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), her pieces emerge from ongoing research into Schelling’s Philosophy of Nature, Kant’s early cosmologies, and the development of sculpture-making as a geological-philosophical act.

Her work looks at how planetary systems (like gravity, sedimentation, and pressure) can be simulated, manipulated, or redesigned. She sets up material conditions where forms develop through interaction. The outcomes are textured, tectonic environments that oscillate between sculpture, painting, and installation.

Lazzeri also collaborates with artist Toby Tobias Kidd on a series of site-specific interventions and films. Recent projects include a residency at High House Estate in Norfolk, where she developed five installations across the meadows, as well as collaborations with Live Art Ireland, Bastioni Association, and W1 Curates. Lazzeri’s work has been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Palazzo D’Accursio and Ippodromo in Bologna. She is a cofounder of Pragmata Collective, curating experimental art events, and recently performed new works with the PPG group at Filet Space.

https://www.adelelazzeri.com/
https://www.instagram.com/adelelazzeri/

Toby Tobias Kidd

Toby Tobias Kidd (aka Toby Tobias / Toby Kidd) is a Welsh-born, London-based artist and musician. He employs sound, text, encounters, and sculpture, engaging in how art can reshape (public) space, collective imagination, and the politics of shared experience.

Founding member of indie art-pop band Hatcham Social ("Irresistible" – The Guardian, "Orange Juice of the noughties" – Alan McGee, "slow burning brilliance" – Louder Than War) (Fierce Panda, TBC ATO) and deconstructed-pop duo New Commercial Product, he has exhibited and performed at venues including the Barbican Centre, Pi Artworks, Channel 4, and BBC Radio 4 (including Loose Ends with Clive Anderson). He's collaborated with musicians including Tim Burgess, Douglas Hart, members of Primal Scream, artists such as Janette Parris, and civil society campaigners. His 2022 work Blossom showed alongside Fiona Banner, Barry Flanagan, and John Latham.

He is co-founder of micro-institution Pragmata Collective, staging experimental installations and interventions. Recent work includes land-based sculpture in the English countryside, Italy, and Ireland, exploring ideas of rewilding and land beyond borders, and a speculative fiction robot opera performed at Filet Space.

He leads Public Art & the Economics of Imagination, a research podcast with King’s College London’s Centre for Philosophy & Art and co-founded Crocodile Laboratories London, a collaborative label distributed via Cargo Records.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/t0bytobiaskidd
Website: https://tobytobiaskidd.com/
Listen to new NCP track: https://fckncp.bandcamp.com/track/a-buffoon-in-a-suit-is-this-how-it-works
Solo Album: https://soundcloud.com/tobykidd/sets/bot-opera-beta-1
Public Art & The Economics of Imagination Podcast: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/public-art-the-economics-of-imagination

Dee Sada

Dee Sada is a London-based musician and curator of Nepalese and Indian origin. For over 15 years, she has moved through the underground and experimental arts scene with a quiet intensity — fusing noise, melody, and memory into a distinctive body of work that spans music, performance, and visual curation.

Her artistic journey has seen her perform in a range of critically regarded projects, including An Experiment On a Bird in the Air Pump, Blue On Blue, NEUMES, and Everywhere is Haunted. She has worked with renowned engineer Steve Albini (Big Black/Shellac) and musician and producer, Steve Mackey (Pulp) and supported artists such as Lydia Lunch, Colin Stetson and Mica Levi. With Fergus Lawrie of Urusei Yatsura, she co-founded the duo Paper Birch, releasing the album, ‘morninghairwater’ through Cafe OTO’s TAKUROKU label and Reckless Yes Records.

As a curator, Dee has programmed interdisciplinary exhibitions and performances with some of the most radical voices in contemporary art, including Carolee Schneemann and Laure Prouvost. Her work has been supported by influential institutions such as CIRCA, Whitechapel Gallery, IKON Gallery, and Cafe OTO. In September 2025, she will curate and perform in a new commission for the Thames Festival Trust. Dee will also be hosting a regular radio show on community arts station, Resonance FM later in the year.

Currently, Dee is preparing to release her debut solo album and first poetry collection. Her performances blend song and spoken word, drawing on horror, grief, and ancestral memory to create spaces of reckoning and reclamation. For this performance, Dee will be performing solo and alongside special guests including Massimo Braghieri.

https://deesada.com

Poppy Cockburn

Poppy Cockburn is a poet based in the seaside town of Margate, UK. She is the author of four slim volumes of poetry, with her most recent —Liquid Crystal Lovesick Demon — published by Broken Sleep in 2023. and a full-length collection is forthcoming with If a Leaf Falls press. Elsewhere, she’s been published by Rough Trade Books, Worms magazine, SPAM, A Fucking Magazine, Perverse and others.

‘Am I making the most of it?’ is a performance reading of her ultra-concise, tragi-comic poetry musing on the everyday ephemera of romantic disillusionment, existential panic and desire.

https://www.instagram.com/tru_romank/

Yukako Tanaka

Yukako Tanaka is a Japanese conceptual artist, working and living in London. She graduated from the Royal College of Art, Contemporary Art Practice, Public Sphere in 2021 and was awarded the Princess of Wales Award 2018/19 (RCA/Contemporary Art Practice) in her first year.

She worked at UAL, Central Saint Martins, BA, Performance Design and Practice (Jan 2023-Jan 2024)as an associate lecturer and finished the PGCert (Teaching Program) at UAL, and she was awarded an Associate Fellow in Higher Education in Jun 2023 and Fellow in Higher Education in Jun 2024.

In 2023, she participated as a juror in the Aesthetica Art Prize 2023, which coincided with the result of winning the Emerging Prize in Aesthetica Art Prize 2022. In 2022, she was selected by Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022 and was the Finalist CIRCA X Dazed Class of 2022. She also had a solo exhibition, "Fluctuating Fluctuations: now= then here= elsewhere" at Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (London). In 2020, she participated in the #SciCommHack, which took place at CERN, Geneva, as a member of the Ethereal Antimatter Challenge. Currently, she engages in the collaboration scheme "Transcending the Invisible" (23/25) at King’s College London, Department of Physics, Photonics and Nanotechnology Group.

Recent group exhibitions include: Braziers International Film Festival, Reading, UK (2024); Pragmata Collective “Speculative Land(e)scapes”, Silian Gallery, London (2024); Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022, Ferens Art Gallery Hull/South London Gallery, London (2022); Aesthetica Art Prize 2022, York Art Gallery, York, UK (2022); "Sunscreen", LUX Moving Image, London (2023); London Grads Now. 21, Saatchi Gallery, London (2021); Late Light 2019, King's College London, London (2019); and SICF20, Spiral Hall, Tokyo (2019).

Website: https://yukako-tanaka.com
Insta: @yukako_tanaka_

subsignal

Thomas is an experimental audiovisual artist whose work explores computational ecologies through a range of digital and physical media. With a background in cinematic and performing arts, Thomas uses code, computation and sound design to create expansive performative experiences, using custom software and hardware instruments to develop bespoke performance methodologies. 

His work is formed by a collage of hacked electronics, computing, live-coded synesthesia and hand built instruments. Examining the role of technology upon contemporary consciousness, his work traverses site-specific performance, lighting, moving image and speculative fiction.

He is interested in the ecologies of computing and digital technologies and his work is rooted in research around digital collectivism and human computer interaction in interactive art. Thomas designs creative tools to enact collective social change through making, play and performance. Guided by research into permacomputing and network communication protocols, he uses salvaged components and obsolete technologies to synthesise new tools and instruments.

https://www.instagram.com/_subsignal/

SAOM

SAOM is a monthly-ish night for experiments in sound, inviting performers to share work and test things out with a warm, open audience. Running since 2022, we’ve hosted 150+ artists through our rolling open call – bringing together performers of all experience levels. Catch us at Avalon Cafe on the last Wednesday of most months. SAOM will be a guest curator at INFLUXX ASSEMBLY.

@saom_ldn

CURATED BY SAOM - CHARLIE GUY

Charlie Guy is a multimedia artist with a particular prowess for hand-sewing. His practice is informed by the gendered history of homemaking and the current day waste-management crisis. Charlie's main medium is textiles, but he's been known to dabble in papier-mache, comedy songwriting and sewing machine based noise art.