TINA presents a collective work by TLC23 titled SHITBRICKHOUSETLC2313122024TINA191WST from 6pm until late, that sees the occupation and transformation of the space as a situational and durational work. The project thinks about support systems in times of precarity and instability, offering a reactionary procedure, activating the gallery space through live musical acts within a constant and conflicting frequency or ‘shattered undercurrent’. DJ mix, live spoken text, processed, percussive interventions and an, as ever, industrial temporal backdrop (steel installation and accessories) are understood not as a protest but just the continuous drudge of the melancholy role-play we are subjected to. SHITBRICKHOUSETLC2313122024TINA191WST offers a cognitive break from this, and collectively, together, at least temporarily, this can feel exultant. A bar will be set up in TINA for the duration of the evening and an editioned poster will be available on the night. An additional text will be included, and elements of the project will appear on TLC23’s archived NTS radio show with Katie Shannon.

TLC23 was initiated by Artists Keira Fox and Katie Shannon in London in 2021, the collective recurrently collaborates with Berlin-based Artist Vera Karlsson. Frequently folding in the work of other artists, performers, sound engineers, musicians, designers, writers and photographers, they collectively investigate themes of trauma, mania, release and protection with a dist...