Friday 14 August 2026, 7.30pm
TLC23, the London based collective of artists Katie Shannon and Keira Fox, present the first in a series of residency events at Cafe OTO over the next year under the title Lessons In Humiliation # 1.2.3.4 [L.I.H.]
Title taken from Idolatry: The Second Death 1992 - 1998. by Hex Minora
Alongside this collaboration they will curate two evenings related to their specific solo projects.
Lamb K305 is a Berlin-based artist known for intense live performances built around powerful vocals and a mix of heavy bass and raw electronic sound. The music leans into body horror as a live experience — pulling the audience into a collective ecstatic exorcism employing its lyrics as an exploration of vulnerability and rage.
Lamb has produced events in esteemed institutions such as ICA, KV, Opernhaus Wien and Volks bühne, having opened for artists from Stephen O’Malley to Florentina Holzinger and released its music on labels including Danse Noire, The Brvtalist, Desktop Pop, Opal Tapes, Ashida Park, and Soul Feeder in collaborations alongside XVII, Imaabs, and Reelle.
Purged of the poison, Lamb emerges becoming itself—hollowed, vulnerable, yet empowered. This narrative journey through light and darkness unveils an intricate dance, a testament to Lamb’s prowess in transformation, and an ode to the power of art to heal.
https://soundcloud.com/lamb-k305
https://lambkebab.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@lambkebab8525
https://www.instagram.com/lamb_k305/
ATTRITION are pioneers in what has become known as darkwave. Formed in 1980 in Coventry, England, influenced by a mix of punk ideology and experimental art aesthetics, they emerged as part of the early '80's UK Industrial scene alongside contemporaries Coil, Test Department, Legendary Pink Dots, In The Nursery, Portion Control et al.
Founder Martin Bowes has steered the band through a 42 year career, fuelled by a succession of critically acclaimed albums...a selling over 100,000 to date.
The band has regularly toured Europe, North America and South America, Russia and Asia, appeared at major festivals and had their music included on a number of TV and film soundtracks....
Through their career Attrition have worked with musicians as diverse as psychedelic veterans The Legendary Pink Dot’s to punk legend TV Smith to Franck Dematteis of the Paris Opera.
Attrition’s music has featured on countless releases - from 1984’s “Bullshit detector 3” on Crass records to the hugely successful “Animal liberation” album alongside Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Smiths, Nina Hagen & Lene Lovich etc…
Martin’s increasing studio production work at his studio, The Cage, has included mixes for The Damage Manual (Martin Atkins, Jah Wobble, Geordie Walker, Chris Connelly et al…), Die Form, In the Nursery, Black tape for a Blue girl, Mona Mur/En Esch and mastering for countless bands and labels…
He contributes synths and vocals on a song on the last Pigface album, is the narrators voice on US horror series, “C for Chaos”, has written the score to US horror film G.H.O.S.T from Mutantville productions …
Their most recent album, Millions of the Mouthless Dead (inspired by Martin’s grandfather's experiences on the Western Front in 1917) includes collaborations with Anni Hogan (known for her work with Marc Almond through the 80’s) and the legendary Wolfgang Flur (ex-Kraftwerk)…
www.attrition.co.uk
www.facebook.com/ATTRITIONMUSIC
http://attritionuk.bandcamp.com/
www.youtube.com/user/attrition
Nikoko is the music project of artist Vera Karlsson. She has recently summarized some previous work into albums available on her bandcamp. She makes compositions by use of software, sampling and recordings of instruments, rooms and voice. At Café Oto she will present new material.
TLC23 started in 2021 in London, Shannon and Fox explore themes around collective trauma, mania, panic and unravelling personas, within a distinctly feminist impulse.
The collective is rooted in experimental music of the darker ilk, which often plays an integral part of TLC23 happenings and offerings. The project exists at the intersection of music, visual art, performance and DJing, creating curated spaces, collaborating with other artists, musicians and makers, within blurred line environments and often using site specific locations.
https://tinaofficial.co.uk/exhibitions/shitbrickhousetlc23131224tina191wst
https://xxleotardxx.substack.com/p/centralised-marginalia
https://www.instagram.com/tlc.23.tlc
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 re-readings of time and space, outsider musical histories, pedestrian and public artforms, and subjective perceptions of the End.
Upcoming exhibitions include Virgin Prune Reprise at CCA Goldsmiths, UK, 2026 and Loiteretto with TLC23 at Vermillion Sands, DK, 2026. Recent solo and collaborative outputs including exhibitions Bedding, TINA, London (2026); Precarious Egg spilling it’s rotten albumen in Time, Bolding, London 2026, DEVECORPOSTO , Neven Gallery, London (2025), TLC23 FETMIASMAMIS, Le Bourgois, 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.
Keira Fox is an Artist based in London, working with performance, improvisation, props, sound and curation.
She co-founded the performance duo New Noveta in 2012. She is also one part of the collective TLC23 founded in 2021. Fox’s work explores socio-political struggle, heightened through repetitive actions. She often uses domestic objects and characterizations of banal, everyday work and dress to amplify resistance via bodily penance. Collaboration is key to her practise, working with musicians and artists on productions and events.
Recent exhibitions include: Contrivances of Hell for Blow the Boutique -Group show and performance at Anorak (Berlin 2026) HIAR, Solo performance for Bolding Gallery (London 2026) ‘PFED for Where are the Hackers?’ at Berlin Atonal (Berlin, 2025), ‘Wast hast du mir angetan’ at Gropius Bau (Berlin, 2025), ‘Technoavoidancemanias,’ performance at Faun Festival with Rian Treanor(Brno 2024) TLC23 and the Amber Press performance and publication with TLC23 and Zoe Williams for Kunstverein Dortmund (Dortmund 2024), SHITBRICKHOUSE, Performance and event with TLC23 at Tina Gallery (London 2024) ‘Peine forte et dure Performance’ for Teatro Bastardo Theatre Festival (Palermo, 2023)
