Lara Thoms

How to piss off the music industry and the artworld - an exploratory model.

Lara Thoms will perform How to piss off the music industry and the art world – an exploratory model, a new experimental lecture drawing inspiration from anarchic pranksters The KLF (Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond) who believed that absolutely anyone could have a number one hit (they successfully implemented the approach themselves!) – releasing an extensive how-to guide in 1988. Thoms will performatively revisit their methodologies including harassing ABBA, burying music awards at Stonehenge and burning a million pounds – plotted out through a small diorama of the entire universe.

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