COMPRESSION
[SO-ON-ICASPACI-AAAH-SQUZZE-TIE-ME-NUE-RO-TIC-A-IN-UR-GEN-C-Y]
20.03.26 19:23 - 21:51
Friday 20 March 7.23–9.51pm
Durational work and spatial intervention with Clichee Toupee, Depletion, Mun Sing (1.5 x performance) & TLC23
This piece is developed by Katie Shannon in collaboration with the artists involved in response to her recent residency period at Flat Time House and research into O-structure* supported by the Chelsea Arts Club Trust 2025–26.
This event is free and unticketed, starting at 19:23 sharp, at some point thereafter the doors will be locked. Please support (if you can) the continuation of the artists in precarity's activities by bringing a cash donation. Property owners will be charged. Ear protection may be advised.
Katie Shannon (b. Glasgow) is an artist based between Glasgow and London who works across visual art, performance and event making. Her practice considers the event as a medium in itself, shaped by long term research projects which unfold within and beyond gallery contexts. Drawing on sustained engagement with the histories of musical subcultures, Feminist re-readings of time and space, and fascinations with pedestrian and public forms, her work traces the social, psychogeographical and material conditions which structure shared experience. Recent and upcoming solo presentations include DEVOCORPOSTO, Neven Gallery 2025; (upcoming) Back Room Virgin Prune , CCA Goldsmiths, 2026, and Tina Gallery, 2026. Collaborations include TLC23 with Keira Fox, Daisies, event/exhibition series curated with artist Francelise McGurn; Rebi an ongoing work posed as a gig series at Cafe Oto/ Exit; and formerly record labels/events Domestic Exile with Conal Blake and Alicia Matthews, and So Low with Ribeka and the late JD Twitch.
Cliché Toupee is a London based musician who explores themes of deterioration and decay; working in the space where the beautiful is distorted and compressed but not destroyed. Endlessly Continuous (SELN, 2025) revisited recordings created between 2007 and 2015, assembling them into a cohesive statement that traces the evolution of her early sonic language. Building on that history, last month’s Rent-a-Rag EP signals her current direction… Not harming computers.
https://selnrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/endlessly-continuous
Depletion Experimental electronic project of Gateshead resident Martyn Reid who began developing his own brand of classic electronic squall in the late 90’s as a teenager , compiling the results on a series of tapes created purely for his own enjoyment until 2013, where he began releasing tapes and performing gigs in the local experimental scene. Via a range of instruments from analog synth to household objects to tape loops, his performances can have a pummeling yet cathartic effect on those present, calling to mind those earlier pioneers of what we now call noise such as Robert Ashley and creating what could be called ‘machine music’ in the truest sense. Depletion has presented music on Invisible City Records and his independent tape label Dark Passage which releases artists working with analog electronics.
https://invisiblecityrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cotard-delusion
Mun Sing (1.5x performance) “Love is what you choose to ignore”
For the event at Flat Time House, Mun Sing presents a special ‘(1.5x performance)’ which responds to the relationship between love, compression and mania. A fleeting moment can feel like an eternity, and an eternity can feel like a fleeting moment. Mun Sing is an artist/musician from Bristol, having released records on Planet Mu (a Resident Advisor album of the year 2023), Shanghai’s SVBKVLT and his own label Illegal Data. His last record ‘Frolic’ saw him perform around the world as a blue-faced scarecrow, centred around ideas of over indulgence and pantomime villainy. He has since been personally invited by Björk to perform live and DJ in NYC and Reykjavik, and has recently toured with Machine Girl and Model/Actriz across the UK and Europe.
TLC23 is the collaborative project of London based artists Katie Shannon and Keira Fox. They explore themes of mania, collective trauma, panic and protection with a distinctly Feminist impulse. Research related to gender-based violence, female exploitation cinema, persecution, and bias often informs the work. By focusing on intersectional allyship as a guiding ethos, TLC23 create immersive place where they and sometimes other artists perform and partake, orchestrating spaces for collective experience and resilience in uncertain times. Incorporating sound, performance, installation, print media, film, sculpture and radio, TLC23 works become a site of both production and reception. TLC23's recent and upcoming exhibitions/ performances include Loiteretto, Vermillion Sands, Cophenhagen, 2026; Out of Office, Existers, London, 2025; SHITBRICKHOUSETLC2313122024TINA191WST, Tina Gallery, 2024; Scene, Neven Gallery, London, 2024; TLC23 and The Amber Press, TLC23 with Zoe Williams, Dortmund Kunstverein, Dortmund, 2024; TLC23 with Vera Karlsson, La Bourgouis Gallery, London, 2023; FET MIASMA MIS, Le Bourgeois / 3236rls, London, 2023 https://tinaofficial.co.uk/artists/tlc23
* The O-Structure: An Introduction to Psychophysical Cosmology; Anita Kohsen, C.C.L. Gregory; 1959