FTHo

Flat Time House Curator/Director Gareth Bell-Jones leads a tour of the exhibition, A World View: John Latham at the Serpentine Gallery. In addition to giving context and backgroud information on specific artworks, he will also use artworks in the space as tools towards exploring Latham's understanding of time and mode of thinking.

Event is Free, no booking required.

Seventeen works by John Latham will be included in this year's Venice Biennale, opening to the public on 13 May. The 57th edition, titled 'VIVA ARTE VIVA', is curated by Christine Macel.

This year's Biennale is organized into nine pavilions or 'chapters'. Latham's works will be on view in the 'Pavilion of Artists and Books'.

Athanasios Velios in conversation with Katherine Jackson

Athanasios Velios, Reader in Documentation at the Ligatus Research Centre, UAL, was principle investigator of “Archive as Event”, the project for which the online John Latham Archive was created. Art historian and FTHo archivist Katherine Jackson will join Velios to discuss the creation and use of the John Latham Archive and the application of the artist’s Event structure theory as a basis for the archive’s organisation.

Live Sound Performance

David Toop is a composer/musician, author and curator who has worked in many fields of sound art and music, including improvisation, sound installations, field recordings, pop music production, music for television, theatre and dance.  He was also a long-time collaborator with John Latham. For this live sound performance event Toop will collaborate with Rie Nakajima and Lucie Stepankova to respond to the space and history of Flat Time House.

John-Paul latham in conversation with Harriet Latham

One of John Latham’s three children, John-Paul Latham will be in discussion with granddaughter Harriet Latham to recall FTHo as a domestic environment and home. In a convivial atmosphere they will talk on how John Latham lived and worked in the space from the early 1980s up to its transformation to a living sculpture in 2003 and how that led to the founding of the art space it is today.

THE MIND 

John Hill in conversation with Elisa Kay

THE HAND

Jakob Jakobsen in conversation with Claire Louise Staunton

Flat Time House is hosting a series of informal in-discussion events with significant figures in the development of the institution. The conversations moderated by Gareth Bell-Jones will take place over successive weeks addressing the Mind, Brain, Body Event and Hand of the living sculpture. On Sunday April 9th we will hear from The Mind and The Hand.

LOUISA MARTIN LOSSY ECOLOGY PUBLICATION LAUNCH

4-6pm Sat 8 April

Lossy Ecology is a new publication conceived and edited by Louisa Martin and published by Flat Time House. Borrowing from Latham’s Flat Time as well as Alfred Jarry’s ‘pataphysics, the book explores atypical experiences of embodiment, focusing on autism, with the aim of outlining a new body concept that is time-oriented.

For the launch event Martin will create a performative environment at FTHowhich will contain a reading from the book,an introduction to Flat Time by Gareth Bell-Jones, a talk by Sabel Gavaldon on ecologies of experience, followed by an in-conversation with the artist.

Supported by a Wellcome Trust Arts Award

Continuous Performances 2-5pm

During his time at Gallery House, John Latham wrote a number of text scores titled Lectures, each only a few minutes long. These will be performed for the first time since 1973 by artists, writers and performers including Patrick Goddard, Holly Pester, Carlyle Reedy and Sue Tompkins.

This event forms part of the closing weekend of Raven Row's exhibition This Way Out of England: Gallery House in Retrospect. Seven weekends of performances, screenings and discussions

A WORLD VIEW: JOHN LATHAM

Flat Time House is delighted to be working with the Serpentine Galleries as they host a new exhibition that encompasses all strands of Latham’s extraordinary practice, including sculpture, installation, painting, film, land art, engineering, found-object assemblage, performance and the artist’s theoretical writings.

SPEAK: TANIA BRUGUERA, DOUGLAS GORDON, LAURE PROUVOST AND CALLY SPOONER Serpentine Sackler Gallery

Speak, at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, brings together four artists – Tania Bruguera, Douglas Gordon, Laure Prouvost, Cally Spooner – and coincides with the Serpentine Gallery’s survey of the late British conceptual artist John Latham. 

Join us to say Goodbye

Please join us for our NOIT-3 Journal launch event featuring a talk by Roger Cook at the Peckham Liberal Club

An educational bring and buy sale as part of the closing programme for Flat Time House.

Thinking Through Publishing is a peer-learning seminar for arts workers, or students interested in the subject, looking to examine different aspects and ways of publishing within the arts.The programme is designed to consider the possibilities of publishing as an expanded form of their programme. There will be three panels looking at different models, including print, digital alternatives and what publishing aims to do. Speakers include Francesca Vinter (Whitechapel), Christian Hiller (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) and Jane Rolo (Book Works). 

Curated by Valentinas Klimašauskas and Jennifer Teets

Offsite at Royal College of Art Dyson Gallery, Dyson Building, 1 Hester Road, London SW11 4AN