Shoot the Lobster

An Evening of Performances

17 January, 2026

First Floor, 58 Davies Street, London 

Performances

William Joys

Katie Shannon, Sara Graça, Chris Owen, & Moritz Tibes

Stuart McKenzie

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Exhibition

Maya King Dabbs

Enzi Randolfi

Sophie Howe 

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The Sandwich Book Launch

Superstars Only Magazine x Shoot the Lobster

An Evening of Performances is a collaborative project between Shoot the Lobster Gallery and Bolding Gallery. 

A celebration of intimacy and ecstasy, the event includes a line-up of performances by William Joys, Katie Shannon, Sara Graça, Chris Owen, Moritz Tibes, and Stuart McKenzie. Art works by Maya King Dabbs, Enzo Randolfi, and Sophie Howe frame the evening in the form of ceramic bread works, welded candelabras, and short-form fiction pieces written onto tablecloths, adorning long dining tables. Lastly, the event hosts the launch of the Sandwich Book, published by Superstars Only Magazine x Shoot the Lobster, a collection of ingredients chosen by over 170 artists. 

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Everybody is an actress in the audience of William Joys, the evening’s first performer. Burdened with a bookshelf balanced on his head and shoulders resembling a diligent milkmaid or ready for pelting in some medieval stocks, he will perform Wilful Pleasure. Joys traverses the space undergoing a precarious balancing act as he postures over middle class vernacular, the actress as an object and whether one should ever live an experience in one's life. He is currently part of the Conditions Studio Programme.

Chris Owen, Katie Shannon, Moritz Tibes & Sara Graça will then perform a text titled Precarious Egg spilling it’s rotten albumen in Time, written by Katie to accompany Sara Graça’s institutional show in Lisbon. Shifting between time and space planes, wry humour critique with people trying to play themselves. Katie Shannon is a multimedia artist, revealing connections between people, place and sound with a strong focus on DIY music cultures. Her research charts peripheral music scenes and elongated adolescence, rooted in socialist, feminist, and materially-led approaches to explore collective intimacy, class, counter-culture, and temporal states of unrest. 

Stuart McKenzie joins us last, with a performance titled “House Poems”, drawing from his recent poetry collection “The Dead Weight of Beauty” published in November 2025 with Joan Publishing, set against a backdrop of 808 and 909’s played out on an SP 404 mk II. An artist, illustrator, poet and musician, his work explores the performance of self through materiality, manifested through painting, poetry, performance and objects. As Bowie said, Turn and face the strange. An icon and champion of divine forces on the fringe, McKenzie shows us the way forward. 

Maya King Dabbs’s porcelain sculptures derived from stock images- Bread line, 2026- adorn the tables at which you are seated. Her practice, primarily based in ceramics and installation, brings cast porcelain into dialogue with licensed stock media to unsettle ideas of labour, repetition, and industrial order. 

Enzo Randolfi presents Castle candelabras, 2025. Constructed from mild steel, the works combine Tudor castellation with British industrialisation. Randolfi is a London-based sculptor and performance artist who works primarily with metal. His work weaves Britain’s industrial legacy into a gilded refrain of memory, recasting it as an elegy for a mythic Britain predating 43 A.D.

Sophie Howe’s collection of letters ‘From Rob to Untitled’, ‘I’m Not Sure I Understand What You Enjoy About Life’ and ‘5/18/23’ are displayed on the tablecloths themselves, like so many oversized and crumpled pieces of paper. Howe’s writing style explores auto-fiction, queer ecology, non-nuclear families, and compassionate body horror. Howe was part of the 2023-24 Whitechapel Gallery Young Writer in Residence Programme.

List of works:

William Joys, Wilful Pleasure, 2023. Live performance, 20 minutes. 

Katie Shannon, Chris Owen, Moritz Tibes & Sara Graca, Precarious Egg spilling it’s rotten albumen in Time, 2026, Live performance, 20 minutes. 

Stuart McKenzie. House  Live performance, 20 minutes. 

Enzo Randolfi, Castle candelabras, 2025. Mild steel, TIG brazed, dimensions vary. 

Sophie Howe “From Rob to Untitled”,  “I’m Not Sure I Understand What You Enjoy About Life” and “5/18/23”, 2026. Written text on linen. 

Maya King Dabbs, Bread line, 2026. Cast porcelain, dimensions vary.