Saturday 20 December 2025, 7.30pm
TLC23 x Proteus invites you to an evening of abject noise, performative action, projection, underlyingly Gothic before Christmas. It's cold outside, it's cold inside and … Things Fall Apart.
Profits after paying the artists will go to Sistah Space, a charity based in London who ‘Support women and families affected by domestic abuse whilst ensuring cultural factors are not only considered but understood'.
Sacrifice Zone - is a new collaborative endeavour from Susu Laroche & Josef Kurtz.
Susu Laroche is an anagram of Chaos Lure Us and a multidisciplinary artist & musician of Egyptian & French descent.
Her 16mm short films have screened internationally including at London Short Film Festival (UK), Samawah Cinema (Iraq) and Nihilist Film Festival (USA). A comprehensive DVD collection of her cinematic work was released by Purge.xxx in 2023, while her debut photobook Chaos Rule Us was published by Wrong Eye Books in 2021.
Following releases with Xquisite, Haunter Records and Accidental Meetings, her third album War Against the Lie was released this year on Doyenne, following the launch of a collaborative project with Mobbs on Modern Love.
She is one half of The Fertile Crescent with collaborator Oxhy, curates the acclaimed Seraph FM event series at Ormside Projects, and maintains an active performance schedule across the UK and beyond, with recent appearances at Cafe Oto, Belgium's Meakusma and Italy's Lost festival
JOSEF KURTZ is an artist based in London.
His work, equal parts emotive & alien, breaks a window into a darkly psychedelic dream state, where genre tropes express and depress themselves in a mania of sounds and textures.
He has performed across the UK in varying modes of obfuscation, evidence of past outings often washed away like the destruction of a buddhist mandala, remaining only in memory and word-of-mouth. He has performed in London, Glasgow & Newcastle.
Sacrifice Zone is the new project of both artists, this will be their first live collaborative iteration.
https://susularoche.bandcamp.com/
https://susularoche.com/info/
www.youtube.com/@JOSEF_KURTZ
Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, born 1988, is a Southend-on-Sea-based writer, local journalist, and artist. She holds a PhD from Goldsmiths College, London, where she teaches as an Associate Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies. Her latest book. Code: Damp - An Esoteric Guide to British Sitcoms (2024) is published by Repeater. Her ongoing work invokes an occult connection between magic and place that is distributed across writing, printmaking, spoken word and cassette releases.
https://www.sophiesleigh-johnson.co.uk/
https://thequietus.com/culture/books/marshland-surrealism-rising-damp-code-damp-sophie-sleigh-johnson-review/
https://repeaterbooks.com/authors/sophie-sleigh-johnson/
https://purgexxx.bandcamp.com/album/collapse
Charlie Osborne (b.1999,Cardiff) is an artist based in London, who works across video, performance, music and writing.
Through fictioning and fracturing, Osborne's projects use structure systems similar to poetry and works are presented through sensations of never ending performance.
https://charlieosborne.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@charlieosborne686
TLC23 is the collaborative project of artists Katie Shannon and Keira Fox.
They construct and curate events, exhibitions and situations which explore themes of mania, gender-based violence, melancholy, persecution, and protection with a distinctly feminist impulse.
TLC23 creates immersive environments where they and other artists and musicians perform and partake, orchestrating spaces for communal experience and resilience in uncertain times.
Incorporating sound, performance, installation, print media, film, sculpture and radio and Dj sets, TLC23 works 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.
https://tinaofficial.co.uk/exhibitions/shitbrickhousetlc23131224tina191wst
http://3236rls.com/TLC23.html
https://www.nts.live/shows/katie-shannon/episodes/katie-shannon-4th-november-2025
https://www.instagram.com/tlc.23.tlc
Proteus explores industrial, experimental, and modernist electronics. From the avant-garde pioneers of electronic music to the roaring and raging industrial techno of today. A cross section thread of the dark and challenging, celebrating the urge to dance and move through caustic noise, visceral and feral sound.
