Sunday 22 November 2026, 7.30pm
In conjunction with her exhibition BACK/PRUNE/VIRGIN/RUIN at Goldsmiths CCA which looks into relations between place, sound, mood and body, Katie Shannon programmes an evening of experimental electronics and industrial music, including a collaborative DJ set with Proteus.
John Gosling (Zos Kia / Psychic TV / Jiz), Isabelle De Jour (Jiz) and Jill Westwood (Fistfuck) unite in a rare live collision of sound, film, image and performance.
Nova Ghost Transmission cuts into their personal archives—film, sound, image and recordings—reassembling decades of transgressive practice into a volatile act of transmission and disruption.
Part séance, part broadcast, the performance invokes William S. Burroughs: language as virus, signal as control, cut-up as rupture. An unstable transmission where breakdown becomes method. In the collapse, something persists: a ghost transmission interrupting the machine.
JOHN GOSLING: A key figure in the UK industrial and experimental underground, Gosling founded Zos Kia, worked closely with Coil, and was a long-time member of Psychic TV. His practice spans tape manipulation, industrial sound, live sampling and electronic music.
ISABELLE DE JOUR: Artist, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, De Jour is a core collaborator in Jiz. Her practice encompasses voice, saxophone, clarinet, keyboards, film, visual art and live improvisation
JILL WESTWOOD: Artist and researcher, Westwood's “life as art” practice emerged from the transgressive performance and industrial underground of the 1980s. A founding member of Fistfuck, her work spans radical performance, film, sound, the body and the archive.
Forged in Sheffield.
Proteus plays the extended realms of industrial music, both as a DJ and sound artist. Working with noise, visceral sounds and ritual catharsis, she’s performed at internationally renowned venues such as Fabric, Tresor, Basement New York, The Royal Albert Hall, Iklectik and Tate Britain.
Katie Shannon is Scottish artist based in London whose work moves across visual art, performance, writing, and event-making. Often collaborative and situational, projects unfold through relationships contextually arriving through the conjunctions which they explore. Her ongoing research interests interrogate feminist readings of time and space, outsider musical histories, municipal artforms, and subjective perceptions of the End.
Upcoming exhibitions include BACK/PRUNE/VIRGIN/RUIN at CCA Goldsmiths, UK, Recent solo and collaborative outputs including exhibitions The Basement, Bedding, TINA, London (2026); Precarious Egg spilling it’s rotten albumen in Time, Bolding, London 2026, DEVECORPOSTO, Neven Gallery, London (2025), TLC23 FETMIASMAMIS, Le Bourgeois, London (2023) and TLC23 The Amber Press at ASP fair (2024) and Dortmunder Kunstverein (2024). Former record labels and events include series Domestic Exile with Conal Blake and Alicia Matthews, and So Low with Ribeka and JD Twitch.
