FTHo

Online and In Person at Flat Time House (doors open at 6pm)

Panel discussion with Dr. Althea Greenan, Curator of the Women’s Art Library (Goldsmiths), Chloe Turner and Lauren Craig, reflecting on their experience of engaging with the WAL and the screening of a newly commissioned film by Holly Antrum on the WAL.

The spirit of the Women's Art Library, as a space of Being, Making and Becoming, manifests in the traces left behind by the people who have passed through the space since its formation. It is a place that connects people and ideas across generations, movements and geographies. It began as the Women Artists Slide Library, an artists' initiative that developed into an arts organization publishing catalogues and books as well as a magazine from early 1983 to 2002. WAL actively collects slides, ephemera and documentation of women’s art practice, and functions as a creative space for artists, curators and researchers to convene, explore and make new work. The event will celebrate the work of Dr. Althea Greenan, Curator of the Women’s Art Library, and will highlight how the archive has been used and experienced, its value as an intergenerational resource for political and artistic activism, and the possibilities and tensions of the WAL as a sanctuary and explorative space within a larger institution.

The event also coincides with the release of a film commissioned by Art360 by Holly Antrum on location at the Women’s Art Library with contributions from some of the many artists, curators and researchers who have engaged with and made new work at the WAL.

Theatrum Mundi is pleased to invite you to the launch of Site Report, its latest book by Glasgow based artist Rhona Warwick Paterson. The book was commissioned as part of Rhona’s fellowship with Theatrum Mundi. Rhona is a visual artist, poet and research practitioner whose principle research interests have focussed on the contexts and processes of creativity in response to urban space. 

Flat Time House will host the launch of the book with a public reading of the text introducing some of the characters inhabiting the book. 

The /origin\forward/slash\ group, currently on a digital placement at Flat Time House, invite you to a live presentation by five of their members:

How can art be a location or place of ‘dwelling’ in our contemporary situation and why should it matter to us? What does it mean to be ‘at-home-in-the-world’ and if, as Heidegger maintained, we are suffering from the ‘plight of homelessness’, does this imply that domestic, artistic or philosophical action is called for? Maybe all these areas need to combine and risk blurring boundaries (we call this the ‘Heidegger Lasagne’)? We welcome you at our virtual table where each of us shares through thinking and materials their current location in the House of Art. Presentations will be followed by open discussion together. We are particularly keen to honour video link technology’s role during the past few years in affording relationships, connections and idea formation across the planet.

patten x Boyle Family (live)
Silvia Kastel (live)
Flora Yin Wong (live)
Mark Leckey (DJ)

Organised by Flat Time House and the Roberts Institute of Art

Venue: Peckham Audio 133 Rye Lane, London SE15 4ST 

Free, but limited capacity, 18+ only, booking essential. Book tickets via DICE or eventbrite

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Grace Ndiritu, Event Structure: Holistic Reading Room, 2022.

Video, 7 minutes 31 seconds.

Part of the series Healing The Museum. Performance at Flat Time House, March 2022.

Co-commissioned by Flat Time House and the Roberts Institute of Art.

For Event Structure: Holistic Reading Room artist Grace Ndiritu will lead a group reading of John Latham's text Event Structure, which focuses on ‘Deep Time’ and group work. The reading will be interspersed by silent meditation breaks led by Ndiritu. Ndiritu’s intervention seeks to transform notions of group experiments from history to the present day through social practice. This commission reveals a resonance between her practice and Latham’s lifelong aim to bring reflective and intuitive modes of thinking to wider society – most clearly manifested in his work with the Artist Placement Group, a pioneering organisation that negotiated placements for artists within industry and government.

FTHo is delighted to screen John Smith's influential 1988-91 film Slow Glass, as part of Anna Barham’s current exhibition /S/T/R/O/B/E////L/I/C/K//// . For this special event at FTHo John Smith will introduce Slow Glass with Anna Barham, who has chosen to present the film for its parallels with her own newly produced work, its investigation of image and language, and resonance with John Latham’s thinking.

Renowned for its formal ingenuity, subversive wit and oblique storytelling, John Smith's significant film and video works have been shown in museums, galleries and cinemas around the world for more than four decades.

This event is free but booking is essential

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ANNA BARHAM, We may be ready to have verbal intercourse (trailer) 

2017, HD video, 2 minutes 23 seconds

Presented as part of Anna Barham's exhibition /S/T/R/O/B/E////L/I/C/K////, 25 November 2021 – 13 February 2022.

Learn to make dye from alkanet roots retrieved from the Flat Time House garden during the garden’s current renovation with natural dyer Rachel Jones. Discover a range of other plants in the immediate area which can be used for dye, along with dye processes to make site-specific, time-specific colour palettes.

During the workshop you will have access to a detailed archive of natural dyes from the 1970s with digital access after the workshop for future experimentation.

The workshop is suitable for all abilities and ages. Materials are provided. We request that workshop participants wear a face covering whilst indoors if they are able.

Workshop is free but places are very limited.

The event is now fully booked but places are likely to come up on the waiting list.

Flat Time House are excited to announce the opening of new studios and research space alongside a research project and plans for a new garden for the gallery. This open weekend will give a special one off opportunity to view our archives and collections and plans for our outdoor spaces.

The house, garden and outbuildings will be open from 12 to 6pm on Saturday & Sunday 2-3 October

Presentations: Saturday 2nd October 3-6pm

Throughout the house will also be a rare opportunity to view never before exhibited materials from the newly catalogued John Latham collection of artworks, and browse newly rehoused photographs from the John Latham Archive.

Visitors will also be able to explore the new research and studio spaces and spend time in the Flat Time House garden including a display of materials from research by artists William Evans and Julia Crabtree with writer Alice Hattrick.

Presentations: Saturday 2nd October 

3-4pm – Talk by Sean Ketteringham presenting new research into the collection of artwork. Followed by Q & A.

4-5pm – Opportunity to view the collections, research spaces, gardens and exhibited materials with refreshments in the Flat Time House garden.

5-6pm – Reading of new writing by Alice Hattrick, followed by in-conversation with Hattrick with artists William Evans and Julia Crabtree, discussing their research and plans for a new garden at Flat Time House.

Places for talks are free but booking is essential. The house will also will also be open to visitors (no booking required) from 12–6pm Saturday and Sunday to view collections.

Artist Kelly Lloyd is currently undertaking a research residency at Flat Time House focusing on John Latham’s collection of books. Latham’s library, which includes books intended for the making of artwork as well as for research purposes, has never been catalogued or the subject of sustained investigation. Since March 2021 Lloyd has explored the library with particular interest in Latham's personal books vs. books for work, marginalia and other physical interventions.

Kelly Lloyd will present her research on Saturday, 18 September 2021 at 3pm. Specifically, she will present a speculative library (2006-2021), and read excerpts from a small publication containing thoughts on personal book collections as portraits and the place of books in the archiving and preservation of artist homes and studios, as well as reflections on conversations with Flat Time House Director/Curator Gareth Bell-Jones, Noa Latham, son of John Latham and Barbara Steveni and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary and Lisa Stone, Curator of the Roger Brown Study Collection from 1996–2020.

Event free but booking essential 

The /origin\forward/slash\ group, currently on a digital placement at Flat Time House, invite you to a live presentation by 5 of their members against the backdrop of their virtual extension to the gallery, 'The Other Hand.’ United by a shared investment in thinking through with and against Martin Heidegger’s The Origin of the Work of Art, the group have been developing, over the past year, a shared exploration into the recesses of the essay, finding provocative ground for new thinking and making. They have been working in pairs (through artistic practice and philosophical thinking) with a process of open-ended collaborative production and it is this which will be discussed and demonstrated at Dust Jacket for an Exhibition Postponed. A dust jacket promotes, promises and protects ‘the book’, and the book in turn forms an abode for the ‘work.’ Initially invited to create an exhibition at Flat Time House in 2020, the /origin\forward/slash\ group have used the hiatus of pandemic lock down as a rare opportunity to spend time online ‘inhabiting’ their interests and friendships together. This event welcomes you into discussion with their work and aims to act as a promise and promotion of their future exhibition at the gallery.

Performed by Emmy Beber at Flat Time House, May 2021 on the occasion of the exhibition Ants and Grasshoppers: reflections on the anxious object curated by David Thorp with artwork by Pavel Büchler, Eva Kot’átková, John Latham & Sarah Lucas with musical composition by John Cage. Film: Holm Films.

ZOOM EVENT, HOSTED BY:

WAYIWAYI ART STUDIO AND GALLERY, LIVINGSTONE, ZAMBIA

John Latham was born on 23rd February, 1921, in Livingstone, Zambia. To mark his centenary, on 23rd February 2021, Agness and Lawrence Yombwe of Wayiwayi Art Studios & Gallery, Livingstone, will host an event that marks and maps this anniversary and relates it to creative initiatives in contemporary Livingstone.

Please join us for an hour-long live zoom event entitled 'African Incidentalism: The Context is Half the Work’ featuring contributions from artists based in Livingstone and in the UK, and from John Latham's family.

Contributors include:

Agness Yombwe, mixed-media artist, Zambia; Noa Latham, son of John Latham and Professor at University of Calgary, Department of Philosophy; Harriet Latham, artist and granddaughter of John Latham; John-Paul Latham, son of John Latham and Reader in Geomechanics at Imperial College London; Serah Chibombwe, artist in residence, Wayi Wayi Studios; Sarah Andrews, artist and human rights lawyer with Avaaz; and Benjamin Mibenge, local environmentalist and artist, Zambia; Anne Bean, artist, UK.

Flat Time House is delighted to present Choose Your Own Father the first UK project by Pakistan based artist Madyha Leghari. This new commission derives from extensive archival research into John Latham’s early history in Zambia, fictionalising personal histories of Latham’s father and interweaving these with those of Leghari's own father. Ultimately, she uses the figure of the father as a metaphor to speak about paternalistic order, the fantasy of “The West”, myths of origin and whether one can ever be free to choose one’s own fathers.

Produced as an outcome of the Delta (Δ) Research Placement for Flat Time House's new online platform, the film is anchored by a consistent voiceover but is edited afresh through code each time it is played. It has an exact mathematical number of permutations but these amount to far more than what is possible to view. In this sense, the film is poised between control and fatalism, akin to how one might imagine one’s influences.

Madyha Leghari is an artist who uses language and its counterpart silence, as a medium and initiator of her work, examining 'silences created by the failures of language'. Following an open call, Madyha Leghari was awarded The Delta (Δ) Research Placement to undertake remote research with the John Latham Archive. 

Daily 25 minute screenings at 8pm local time (all time zones)

Padraig Robinson’s Five Short Stories on Fire encounters John Latham’s deployment of books and fire as temporality and event, using the broadcast format as a way to talk about the screen itself as a territory of attention. The commission sees Padraig Robinson experiment with a new direction, drawing on the domestic context of Flat Time House.

The film takes place in one day in the life of The Novelist (Anne von Keller), who is beginning the first day of writing a book called Five Short Stories on Fire. The day follows her through her domestic space; sleeping, eating, writing and researching, where she encounters the environmental historian Stephen J. Pyne (played by himself). During the course of the day the Novelist seems haunted by ‘The Wanderer’ (Francesco Vellei), who may in fact be a fictional character she is writing, one whose relationship with fire is very different from her own. The film begins with the Novelist waking up, and ends with her falling asleep.