ANTIKNOW

29th November—12th January '14

Opening Thurs 28 Nov 6 - 8pm
A pedagogical theatre of unlearning and the limits of knowledge. Directed by Jakob Jakobsen.

NOIT

23rd November '13

Launching 23 November, NOIT, a biannual creative journal published by Flat Time House and Camberwell Press.

Proto-tools

16th November—17th November '13

Proto-tools is a 2-day exploratory event at Flat Time House, part symposium, part conversation and part exhibition, with work by Jonathan Kemp, Colm Lally, John Latham and Fay Nicolson.

PHYNANCE RESIDENCY ARTISTS ANNOUNCED

23rd October '13

Flat Time House are pleased to announce that following an open call of over 300 applications, Simon & Tom Bloor have been selected as PHYNANCE resident artists.

EXCHANGE

26th September—27th October '13

EXCHANGE is an exhibition and publication including works by Lynda Benglis, Patricia Lennox-Boyd, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, John Latham, Robert Morris, Hollis Frampton, Ian White and H.D. Curated by Gil Leung.

KARI ROBERTSON: Self Evident Truths Belong to Bourgeois Philosophy

18th September—22nd September '13

Following on from her month long N-U Graduate residency at FTHo this spring, Kari Robertson presents her resulting work, alongside a screening event of artists' films and other research material.

MFI GROUP: Future Lasts a Long Time

18th September—19th September '13

Wednesday 18th & Thursday 19th 7.30 - 9.30pm at Choumert Road Market as part of Peckham Artist Moving Image Festival (PAMI)

MFI Graduate Award 2013

8th September '13

Post-graduate Application Deadline Sunday 8 September

PATRICK STAFF: MENTAL EFFORT BEFORE ACTION 1-5A-5B

24th July '13

7pm at the South London Gallery. Patrick Staff presents an experimental dance work exploring the intersections of play and performance, learning and re-enactment.

NOIT School: Mental Furniture Industry

13th July '13

2pm - 5pm
The Mental Furniture Industry exhibition will be temporarily closed for a conversation around experimental education, it's histories and current incarnations.

THE MENTAL FURNITURE INDUSTRY

29th June—11th August '13

An exhibition including archival printed matter, video and original artworks from three radical pedagogical activities of the late 60s; The Anti-University, The Hornsey Sit-in and Alexander Trocchi's sigma project, with new contributions from Adelita Husni-Bey & Park McArthur, Jakob Jakobsen, Sarah Pierce and a major new commission by Olivia Plender & Patrick Staff.

PHYNANCE RESIDENCY OPEN CALL

23rd June—8th September '13

In partnership with the Barry Flanagan Foundation, Flat Time House is accepting applications for an artist's residency to begin in November 2013.

SARAH PIERCE: Performance and Book launch

22nd June '13

4.30pm
As a prelude to the Mental Furniture Industry exhibition, Sarah Pierce presents the performance Campus which emerges from Pierce's ongoing interest in the college campus as a space of community predicated on shifting levels of presence and participation. Followed by the launch of 'Sketches of Universal History Compiled from Several Authors by Sarah Pierce' edited by Rike Franke and published by Book Works.

CALL OUT for PARTICIPANTS

1st June—14th June '13

Artist Sarah Pierce is looking for a small group of currently enrolled art students to participate in an hour-long public rehearsal and performance.

The Sunspot Cycle

31st May—1st June '13

Last Friday 6-8.30pm & Saturday 12-6pm Alexandre Estrela curated by Margarida Mendes

Melanie Jackson in conversation with Esther Leslie

26th April '13

6.30 - 8.30pm To coincide with South London Art Map (SLAM) Last Fridays, FTHo will present a kitchen salon with Melanie Jackson and Esther Leslie in conversation.

Melanie Jackson: The Urpflanze (Part 2)

28th March—12th May '13

(closed Fri 29 - Sun 31 March) In a series of moving image works and ceramic sculptures, Jackson continues her ongoing invest- igation into mutability and transformation, which takes its lead from Goethe's concept of an imaginary primal plant, the Urpflanze, that contained coiled up within it the potential to unfurl all possible future forms.

N-U Graduate Residency: Call for Applications

28th February '13

The N-U graduate residency is intended give mentorship to an emerging artist, as well as time and space to research and develop their artistic consciousness.

The Institute for Mathematical Sciences (IMS) Project

23rd February—2nd March '13

Saturday 23 February & Saturday 2 March, 3-6pm
Flat Time House will operate as a testing ground where The IMS Project will present new hypotheses and findings over 2 weekends.

STUART WHIPPS: Birth Springs, Death Falls

10th January—10th February '13

Opening Wed 9 Jan 6 - 9pm
Flat Time House opened its adjoining flat as a permanent residency space in 2012. For his first solo show in London, Stuart Whipps presents an exhibition of work made while in residence.

STUART WHIPPS: An Event

30th November '12

Friday 6.30 - 8.30pm
An evening event celebrating FTHo's Artist in Residence - Stuart Whipps - joined by guests Joy Sleeman and Kate Simpson for a performance, archive screenings and discussion. Stuart's solo exhibition will open in January 2013.

EYE MUSIC FOR DANCING: Some Performances

14th October '12

Sunday 2-5 pm
Anna Barham, Julika Gittner, Heather Phillipson, Jennifer Pike (Cobbing), Robert Sheppard with Patricia Farrell, a photocopier. An afternoon of performances that relate to or extend our understanding of the work in exhibition. Curated by Bridget Crone.

EYE MUSIC FOR DANCING

29th September—28th October '12

Opening Fri 28 Sept 6-8pm
Anna Barham, Julika Gittner, Heather Phillipson with work by Bob Cobbing. This exhibition takes experimentation with phonetics as a starting point, addressing the abstraction of language through the physicality of sound itself.
Curated by Bridget Crone.

Minits 4

20th September—23rd September '12

Opening Wed 19 Sept 6-9pm
A collaborative video essay program conceived by MFI Group as part of PAMI

Luke Fowler: All Divided Selves

27th July '12

7-9pm
A lyrical collage of film about R.D. Laing completed in 2011. Using footage from the FTHo archive amongst multiple other sources, Fowler's film focuses on one of the key characters in the history of Better Books.

Better Books screening & panel discussion at South London Gallery

25th July '12

A series of films by artists associated with Better Books, a bookshop which served as the hub of London's counterculture during the 1960s. The screening includes early London Filmmakers Coop films by filmmakers Stephen Dwoskin, Simon Hartog, Jeff Keen, John Latham, Pip Benveniste, Piero Heliczer, Marie Menken, William Burroughs & Anthony Balch.

Better Books: Art, Anarchy & Apostasy

28th June—29th July '12

Opening Thursday 28 June 6-9pm An archival exhibition including film, sound, installation and events presenting a portrait of the Better Books bookshop, a hub of the London avant-garde during the late 1950s and the 1960s.

A Rehearsal / Fable of the Bees: Annika Eriksson

3rd June '12

3-5pm
Free event, booking is essential.
A performance using an unknown script, four actors and a Sunday afternoon. Tested out, rehearsed and finally performed, the script is an open text, giving a limited set of instructions about time, name and place.

Giant Step Reading Group

19th May '12

A meeting to articulate a collective reflection on the contemporary role of the art institution in the current economic, cultural and political climate. The project is initiated in collaboration with Van Abbemuseum | The Netherlands, MOSTYN | Wales and Galeria Labyrint | Poland.

Erth_Speak

27th April '12

A selection of film works by John Latham installed around the house. Curated by MFI Group. 7-9pm

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FIRST AND THIRTEENTH CHAIR

31st March—6th May '12

Following a performance at Wysing Arts Centre on 10 March with a reworked script, Flat Time House presents an exhibition including an installation of the original set with props, preparatory material and documentation from performances in 1978, 1991 and 2012.

The Government of the First and Thirteenth Chair

10th March '12

A special performance John Latham's work, The Government of the First and Thirteenth Chair with a script re-worked by Mark Aerial Waller with students from NUCA.

Murmur become ceaseless and myriad

29th September—30th October '11

John Latham and Austin Osman Spare, curated by Mark Titchner. PLUS illustrated talk by Spare biographer Phil Baker on Friday 28 October, 7pm.

Gewaltopia and other places

14th September—18th September '11

Following our recent screening of short films by Motoharu Jonouchi, this exhibition presents six recent works that resonate with the filmmaker's layered treatment of image and sound.

The Brothers Karamazov

11th September '11

A rare chance to see the 1958 adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, a book that inspired many of John Latham's early works and ideas.

Frozen Events; a simple act of being

5th August—12th August '11

Flat Time House hosts a project by three students of curating at Chelsea College of Art and Design presenting work by Nicholas Johnson and Haruka Hashiguchi.

Motoharu Jonouchi - Three Short Films

29th July '11

To coincide with the Close-Up Film Centre's Theatre Scorpio season, Flat Time House presents 16mm projections of three short films by Motoharu Jonouchi.

Studies for a catalogue - a study for an exhibition of violence in contemporary art (reprise 1964/2011)

24th June—31st July '11

A reprise of the 1964 ICA exhibition with some free replacements and omissions. Please note special opening times.

Bracket, Bea McMahon

14th May '11

Bea McMahon in conversation with Chantal Pontbriand for the launch of her publication Bracket.

Bea McMahon:

7th April—15th May '11

A symmetric metric of feats and tales - an exhibition of new work made at Flat Time House.

The Future is Social

25th March '11

6-8pm. Sonia Boyce and post-graduate students from Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Art will be in residence at FTHo for 2 weeks. Join us to see how the residency is progressing.

THE

25th February '11

6.30-8.30pm. John Latham's kinetic roller painting THE (1976) and films and video around the house by Ian Bourn and John Smith, Charles & Ray Eames, Hollis Frampton, John Latham.

Reading for Reading's Sake: Unfixed

2nd December—4th December '10

Reading for Reading's Sake is an ongoing platform for a discursive series of events that shift in geographical and conjectural location with each installment.

Nights of Skoob Sadness

25th September—24th October '10

An exhibition about John Latham's Skoob Tower Ceremonies (1964-68 & 1996-1998), with A Place to Sit, A Place to Read, A Place to Sit and Read by Gareth Long.

The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas

25th September '10

Gareth Long & Derek Sullivan's performance illustrating Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas. 2 - 5pm.

An overloaded transmission from a quasi-personal stellar source

29th July—1st August '10

A live, long form radio broadcast from Sound Threshold in collaboration with Resonance 104.4fm with a new installed work by William Furlong.

Blow Up: Exploding Sound and Noise (London to Brighton 1959-1969)

24th June—25th July '10

featuring material from AMM, Better Books, Bob Cobbing, DIAS, Coleridge Goode, Joe Harriott, James Joyce, Jeff Keen, John Latham, Annea Lockwood, Gustav Metzger, John Stevens, Val Wilmer and more.

0K - a play in five acts

16th May '10

Per Huttner and Fatos Ustek investigate the conditions of knowledge in non-ordinary reality.

The Story of the RIO (Abridged)

6th May—6th June '10

Coinciding with three Latham shows in London this spring* Flat Time House presents two studies for John Latham's epic 20 panel work Story of the RIO.

showinshow

24th April '10

Laure Prouvost invites Tobias Collier, Julika Gittner, Tom Humphreys, Ken Jacobs, and Mark Aerial Waller to make a show in her show for one day. 3 - 8pm.

Laure Prouvost: all these things think link

8th April—25th April '10

New work for Flat Time House. Join us for the preview on 8 April, 6 - 9pm, and a special event on 24th April.

Noit School reading group at Arnolfini: Big Breather

10th December '09

Part of 100 Days, marking the countdown to the 15th UN Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP 15) opening in Copenhagen on 7 December.

Time and the Score

19th November '09

Artists' film and video by Manon de Boer, Lis Rhodes, Mark Aerial Waller, Emily Wardill, and Guido van der Werve. 7.30pm at the Wishing Well. Free but booking essential as space is limited.

The Present Moment/The Whole Event: Part Two

5th November—22nd November '09

Works on the time-base spectrum by Jose Arnaud-Bello, Juliette Blightman, Mariana Castillo Deball, John Latham, Carlyle Reedy, and Barbara Steveni.

Halloween, the Least Event

31st October '09

Performance and more from Mark McGowan, The Glamourous, Lady Stubbs. 8-11pm.

THE PRESENT MOMENT/THE WHOLE EVENT: Part one

15th October—22nd November '09

Works on the time-base spectrum. A solo show followed by a group show, and some recurrent events.

The Body Event

3rd September—6th September '09

David Toop from John Latham. A sound work for computer and voice.

Industry and the Arts must walk hand in hand

30th July '09

Part 1: The limits of 'The Art of Governance' - an open discussion with Howard Slater and Anthony Davies.

Time and Space

19th July '09

Films made within two years of the first moon landing by Ian Breakwell & Mike Leggett, David Lamelas and John Latham at the BFI.

Flat Time - An Introduction

14th July—31st October '09

Flat Time House opens to the public with a permanent display of John Latham's work explaining his Flat Time theory.

The Wager

11th July '09

The Office of Experiments presents work by the artists and incidental persons Sarah Andrew, Tina O'Connell and Neal White.

Eventual, Pip Benveniste

10th May '09

A looped screening of Pip Benveniste's 1968 film Eventual, featuring the work of Stuart Brisley, John Latham, and Jeffrey Shaw. From 4 - 7pm

Inside Outside Show

16th April—10th May '09

Some performed sculpture made in London 1968-1974. Barry Flanagan, John Latham, Liliane Lijn, Bruce McLean, and The Locked Room compiled and edited by Garth Evans, Peter Harvey and Gareth Jones. *download a pdf of the exhibition booklet here

Fiona's Shoe

7th March '09

A restaging of John Latham's 'play without words' Juliet and Romeo with a special evening event curated by Stewart Home. At South London Gallery

Time and Destruction

19th February '09

An evening of films including a short feature, some different kinds of cut-ups, and a very special trailer...

Open Weekend I

22nd January—25th January '09

Flat Time House will be open this week from Thursday to Sunday with a permanent display of John Latham's work, and a temporary display of several recently restored works - for one weekend only!

David Lamelas in conversation with Lisa Le Feuvre

3rd December '08

Artist David Lamelas in conversation with curator and writer Lisa Le Feuvre at Flat Time House.

Time & Language

19th November '08

A screening of artists' film on the nature of time and language; their loops, slips and knots. Including work by David Lamelas, Hollis Frampton, John Latham, Peter Rose and John Smith. Free but booking required.

Conservation project

13th November—14th December '08

There will be changing displays at FTHo throughout this period, as works come in and out of the house for conservation by Helen Foster Spragge. This is an opportunity to conserve damaged works which have not been exhibited for some considerable time. It returns the Hand to its original function as studio.

Distress of a Dictionary

2nd October—2nd November '08

This small exhibition brings together ten works made over a period of forty years, all reflecting in some way Latham's use and misuse of language and humour.

About

Flat Time House (FTHo) was the home and studio of John Latham (1921-2006), recognised as one of the most significant and influential British post-war artists. In 2003, Latham declared the house a living sculpture naming it FTHo after his theory of time, "Flat Time". Until his death, John Latham opened his door to anyone interested in thinking about art. It is in this spirit that Flat Time House opened in 2008 as an archive, artist's residency space and gallery with a programme of exhibitions and events exploring the artist's practice, his theoretical ideas and their continued relevance.

Barbara Steveni and The Artist Placement Group (APG)

1st January '08