The Hot Snakes Night Club
Chloe Langlois
22 August 2026 - 13 September 2026
The Hot Snakes Night Club is an immersive installation and performance space by artist Chloe Langlois. Co-curated by TACO! and Dinosaur Kilby, the club hosts a diverse programme of cabaret, live artist performance, workshops, and experimental music from invited artists and guests.
For the duration of 4 weeks TACO! will be transformed into a multidisciplinary nightclub, complete with an artist-themed cocktail bar and an accompanying programme of cabaret, live performance and music.
The club launches on 22nd August with the event 24hr Gnosis - a 24 hr occult marathon of artist performances live-streamed on TACO!’s website and IRL in the gallery. Audiences can seek to participate in the gallery sleepover.
The full programme of free events hosted by the Hot Snakes Night Club can be found below. Event announcements will be made on the TACO! website and social media.
The nightclub takes its name from Chloe Langlois’s ongoing project - Hot Snakes in which the artist uses performance to interact and communicate with a holy guardian angel from her childhood - the eponymous ‘Hotsnakes’.
Drawing on the aesthetics of ‘social’ performance traditions such as clowning, folk rituals, stand-up comedy, vaudeville, and the occult, Langlois has transformed TACO! Into an artist nightclub complete with an artist-themed cocktail bar.
Installed in the gallery are a series of moving handmade curtains that define the performance frame for an audience. In collaboration with Wojciech Rusin and The Pipe Shoppe, Langlois has made 4 bespoke sculptural instruments used in performance and communication with a Holy Guardian Angel from Langlois’s childhood - the eponymous ‘Hot Snakes’. Whilst TACO!’s social space is dressed with further collaborative sculptures extending from the ceiling, turning the air ducting into gargoyle guardians accompanied by silver shimmer curtains.
All photos by Rob Harris.
