TACO

TACO Situated in Thamesmead, South East London, TACO is an arts space for making, learning and experimenting

The Hot Snakes Night Club by Chloe Langlois. Runs until 13 Sept. 🤡 Drawing on the aesthetics of ‘social’ performance tra...
05/09/2026

The Hot Snakes Night Club by Chloe Langlois. Runs until 13 Sept.

🤡 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. A full programme of free events hosted by the Hot Snakes Night Club can be found on the TACO! website.

🐍 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 ‘Hot Snakes’. Hot Snakes is a co-curated project by TACO! and Dinosaur Kilby.

👉 Installed in the gallery is 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! is dressed with further collaborative sculptures extending from the ceiling, turning the air ducting into gargoyle guardians accompanied by silver shimmer curtains.

Chloe Langlois


📸 Rob Harris

25/08/2026

🔥 Thank you to everyone who made the opening of the Hot Snakes Night Club such a speacial evening of joyous madness and love. 24hrs of artist performances, live streamed with a live audience.

🖤 Big Love to Chloe Langlois, Dinosaur Kilby , all the performing artists, the audience , and the hardcore sleepover crew



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🖤 Last week to catch Ruthless Aggression by Dandy Day. The exhibition closes on Sunday 26 July 🖤Weds - Thurs : 10-4Fri -...
18/07/2026

🖤 Last week to catch Ruthless Aggression by Dandy Day. The exhibition closes on Sunday 26 July 🖤

Weds - Thurs : 10-4
Fri - Sat : 10 - 5
Sun : 10-4



📸Rob Harris

🖤 Ruthless Aggression, an exhibition of new work by Dandy Day runs until 26th July Echoing the room in which they are pr...
18/06/2026

🖤 Ruthless Aggression, an exhibition of new work by Dandy Day runs until 26th July

Echoing the room in which they are presented, the images clinically depict close-ups from a boy’s bedroom, focusing on apparently empty features such as the bed or door frame, or the soft, cuddly Disney character toys. The formal painterly qualities of the images, their composition and tone, sit at odds with their cheap presentation and the emptiness of the images. The apparent details of the scene within the room, as witnessed by the soft toys, are left to the viewer’s imagination.



📸 Rob Harris

🖤 Ruthless Aggression, an exhibition of new work by multidisciplinary artist Dandy Day runs until 26th July 🖤 👉 OpenWed ...
13/06/2026

🖤 Ruthless Aggression, an exhibition of new work by multidisciplinary artist Dandy Day runs until 26th July 🖤

👉 Open
Wed - Thurs: 10-4,
Friday: - Sat 10 - 5
Sun: - 10 - 4



📷️ Rob Harris

Restocks of the best books about, plus some stock new in today! Find them all online at link in bio, or in-store. 🤎 Slow...
27/05/2026

Restocks of the best books about, plus some stock new in today! Find them all online at link in bio, or in-store.

🤎 Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection 🤎 a collection of essays about slow approaches to spatial practice and pedagogy from around the world.

🧡 COMPOST #4 - In Flames 🧡 Fire! This issue stokes the kindling, in thrall to the incendiary potential of a Molotov cocktail, the molten annihilation of lava. Consumed by an elemental force which fuels and feeds us, seduced by its scorch and blaze. .marykate

💙 Plan and Play, Play and Plan: Defining Your Artistic Practice 💙 a reflective book intended to delve into the very fibre of the artist’s profession and sustainable artistic practices.

❤️ Basta Now: Women, Trans and Non-Binary in Experimental Music (expanded edition) ❤️ a huge overview of 2,371 womxn in the global experimental sound & music scene, published by F***y Chiarello and Valentina Magaletti.

🖤 NO! Against Adult Supremacy 🖤 a collection of writing jointly published by Dog Section Press and Active Distribution. “Every hierarchy, every abuse, every act of domination that seeks to justify or excuse itself appeals through analogy to the rule of adults over children.”

💛 Drawing Risky Play 💛 The drawings in this book illustrate a process of doing, exploring, thinking, and of tackling questions together. Action-research by ten children led by artist Ruth Beale, with two South London organisations at the forefront of progressive approaches to self-directed learning and play. .beale

🤍 Frayed Edges 🤍 Contains a book of essays and a book of poetry charting a space for textile poetry.

✊️ ACTION! - There Aint No Black In The Union Jack, is a reading group series led by Holly Graham that considers anti-ra...
08/05/2026

✊️ ACTION! - There Aint No Black In The Union Jack, is a reading group series led by Holly Graham that considers anti-racism, memorialisation and care through a reading of Paul Gilroy’s seminal book There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack (1987), exploring the cultural politics of race in the UK.

🇬🇧 Undertaken within the framework of Leftovers, a group for reading otherwise, Holly’s textual enquiry looks at racial violence, far-right sentiment and anti-racism then and now, and the shifting symbolism of the British Union Jack and St George Cross, in light of its resurgent use in the ‘stop-the-boats’ flag-flying and far-right populist politics.

📖 In this reading series, Holly will bring Gilroy’s book into dialogue with other texts, including material from the developing Rolan Adams Legacy Archive, a collection of materials being developed by Holly and the family of Rolan Adam’s as part of her ongoing project Action! Holly’s project seeks to memorialise Rolan Adams and the collective anti racism actions it inspired in the early 1990’s in Thamesmead and SE London.

👉 To join the reading group, and receive information and updates, including reading texts & materials, please sign up to the Leftovers mailing list via the link in our bio or via the TACO! website.

Our first reading session will meet on the 28th May / 19:00 and will explore the localised experiences of Racism and Anti Racism within a wider historical national narrative, both past and current.

👉 All Texts for the reading group are available to download via the TACO! website

🖤 Holly Graham is an artist living and working in London. She works across audio, text, still and moving image, and sculptural forms. The work she makes is research-driven and is often specific to particular sites and localised contexts. Recent exhibitions and projects include: The Warp and The Weft, Manchester City Art Gallery (2026), To Us It Just Looks Like A Lemon: Bothy Residency, Southwark Park Galleries (2019); On Board II, Art Licks & Espacio Vista, Madrid; BOUNDS, Skelf, Online (2019); The Oval Window, Gerald Moore Gallery.

🌈 Are you interested in DIY printing, in publishing your own work, or exploring print-making? Join artist Dunya Kalante...
05/05/2026

🌈 Are you interested in DIY printing, in publishing your own work, or exploring print-making? Join artist Dunya Kalantery(.unya.k) for The Perfect Binder: a series of workshops in collaboration with ***rcircle, exploring print-making and DIY publishing. You will learn how to use a risograph printer, experiment with DIY print culture and distribution in a collective and supportive environment.

🙌 The group is open to 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ q***r young people and allies aged 16-25 living or working in London and the surrounding area. A small travel budget is available for those who need it.

No prior experience necessary, just bring your curiosity and yourselves.

📅 Workshops dates include June 4, 11th, 18th, 25th, July 2nd, 9th / all sessions 6-8pm

👉️ This project will take place at the TACO! Printo Studio. A small travel bursary is available for those who need it.

see link in bio to sign up

🖤 Ruthless Aggression by Dandy Day, opens on the evening of 4th June, running from 5th June to 26th July 🖤 Day presents ...
01/05/2026

🖤 Ruthless Aggression by Dandy Day, opens on the evening of 4th June, running from 5th June to 26th July 🖤

Day presents an installation consisting of a new body of work centred on the commercial spectacle of WWE, an American sports entertainment form that presents ‘professional wrestling’.

Dandy Day’s work considers the autobiographical through their use of personal memories and family history as a starting point to explore wider societal themes and lived contemporary experience.

Day freely borrows images, texts, objects, materials and signifiers from wider popular culture that hold personal meaning and history, creating ambiguity and slippages between personal fact and cultural fiction. Combining ‘low-fi’ aesthetics and forms of everyday cultural production with formal and elevated display strategies traditionally associated with the museum or archive, Day’s artworks convey personal and social narratives, imbued with an uncanny sense of loss, trauma, pathos, and humour.

🖤 Ruthless Aggression 2002-2008 by Dandy Day, opens on the evening of 4th June, running from 5th June to 26th July 🖤 Day...
01/05/2026

🖤 Ruthless Aggression 2002-2008 by Dandy Day, opens on the evening of 4th June, running from 5th June to 26th July 🖤

Day presents an installation consisting of a new body of work centred on the commercial spectacle of WWE, an American sports entertainment form that presents ‘professional wrestling’.

Dandy Day’s work considers the autobiographical through their use of personal memories and family history as a starting point to explore wider societal themes and lived contemporary experience.

The freely borrows images, texts, objects, materials and signifiers from wider popular culture that hold personal meaning and history, creating ambiguity and slippages between personal fact and cultural fiction. Combining ‘low-fi’ aesthetics and forms of everyday cultural production with formal and elevated display strategies traditionally associated with the museum or archive, Day’s artworks convey personal and social narratives, imbued with an uncanny sense of loss, trauma, pathos, and humour.

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