FTHo

Opening: Thursday 25 January - 6.30-8.30pm

Open: Thursday - Sunday 12-6pm

This solo exhibition by London and Zagreb based artist Ben Cain, brings together a new body of work that responds to John Latham’s thinking on time and the event based nature of objects. Drawing on the domestic spaces of Flat Time House Cain creates an installation throughout Latham’s former home. Cain’s work explores art’s ambiguous relationship to industry, commodification and immaterial labour. He is interested in how artworks might pose questions about what we think they are doing and, by implication, our role as viewers in their social and cultural production. For Passive Imperative Participation Vibe Cain has focused on a subjective experience of time via labour, leisure and domestic living.

With contributions by: Emmy Beber, Dean Kissick, John Latham

For her first institutional show in the UK, Lina Hermsdorf presents an architectural transformation of Flat Time House with an immersive sound installation throughout John Latham’s studio home. For this new commission, Hermsdorf uses large sheets of reinforced glass to divide the rooms of Flat Time House creating different sound spaces in which viewers may experience a temporal dissonance. The exhibition environment is used as a time-based medium with the viewer at the centre of a series of non-linear scripted narratives. Over the course of the show performances will take place within the installation.

Flat Time House is pleased to collaborate with Künstlerhaus Bremen on Lina Hermsdorf's exhibition Vantage Point with contributions by Casper-Malte Augusta and John Latham and sound design by Marian Mentrup.

Lina Hermsdorf´s exhibitions unfold as time-based processes that place the experience of the viewer at their centre. Their non-linear, polysemous narratives often materialize in installations and performances, with a particular focus on biological phenomena relating to the corporeal and temporal texture of technologically infiltrated bodies. Frequently taking into account the specific histories of her performers, Hermsdorf combines biographical material with a multitude of voices, forming avatar-like characters that meander between virtual and physical realities. 

Exhibition introducing Flat Time House and John Latham with Giles Bailey, Anna Barham, Laure Prouvost and David Toop. 

6 April - 21 May 2017

Open: Thursday - Sunday 12-6pm

Opening Event: 5 April, 6-8pm

Exhibition Tours: Saturdays in April

ALL TOURS NOW CONCLUDED. IF YOU WOULD LIKE AN EXHIBITION TOUR PLEASE EMAIL: gareth (at) flattimeho.org.uk

To celebrate the newly secure future of FTHo and in collaboration with the Serpentine Galleries, the space will open from the 6th of April with a new exhibition. Living Sculpture acts as an introduction to FTHo and John Latham’s conception of Flat Time. A highlight of the exhibition is Latham’s large text and spray paint work ‘Twentieth Century Trajectory’. This work, which demonstrates the convergence of art and science, is on public view for the first time. Throughout the exhibition will be newly commissioned work by artists with a relationship to Latham and FTHo including Laure Prouvost, Giles Bailey with David Toop and Anna Barham.

For Tears Shared Marc Camille Chaimowicz has created a specially commissioned installation throughout the whole of Flat Time House. The exhibition includes the first UK presentation of Bruno Pélassy curated by Marie Canet and a selection of glassware from Chaimowicz’s personal collection of pressed glass.

Flat Time House presents Bandits Live Comfortably in The Ruins, curated by Irish artist Sean Lynch. The exhibition broadly explores the attitudes that underpin human relationships to the environment. There is no masterplan of coherence here, or indeed any transcendental experience to be had. Instead, a series of artistic positions, objects and artefacts bargain and improvise through hard-won perseverance and novel invention. This loose grouping proposes no tranquil uniformity or comforts of identifying with history and heritage. Instead, everything constantly mutates, and nothing ever stays the same. Including works by Seanie Barron, Stephen Brandes, John Carson, Burke Kennedy Doyle, Michele Horrigan, Sam Keogh, John Latham, Fiona Marron, Eilis O’Connell, Freek Wambacq and materials from Country Life and British Telecom.

For his first solo exhibition in London, Rory Pilgrim presents a constellation of works that explore the relationship between words, age and intergenerational dialogue as a radical proposition. Centred on a new film work that concludes his film trilogy Sacred Repositories, The Open Sky is developed through working with 5 women who lived through the radical movements of the 60s and 70s. Narrated by their words and poetry, the film becomes intertwined with the words and songs of women from younger generations. Exploring ideas of time, family and solidarity Pilgrim attempts to create a home for language past, present and future at Flat Time House that endeavours to allow words to remain a transformative tool of action.

'Common Enemies' is an exhibition of work from Julika Gittner’s year-long Incidental Person residency with Flat Time House and Southwark Council’s Planning Department.

An exhibition of new mixed media sculptures and drawings that use and manipulate motifs relating to the home and domesticity, from Alex Frost’s residency at Flat Time House. A reflexive exercise, these works have been made whilst living and working in a home, gallery and archive. They have developed out of an investigation into the role of artists within a community, and the way in which the living conditions of artists have been politicised through the current culture of property speculation, and property guardianship programmes in particular. Alex’s work is made not with any critical distance but rather from a conflicted and implicated position.

’pataphysics and transactions between Barry Flanagan and John Latham

Curated by Jo Melvin, Palindromes looks at Barry Flanagan and John Latham’s preoccupation with ’pataphysics.

Produced by Book Works and Flat Time House with artist Katrina Palmer following her residency in Summer 2013, and featuring work by Katrina Palmer, Francesco Pedraglio, Samuel Hasler and Sarah Tripp, this exhibition comprises writing, sound recordings, video, sculpture and printed matter, presented in conversation with the physical and symbolic environment of John Latham’s former home and studio. 

A solo presentation of works by Carlyle Reedy, also featuring materials, documents and fragments of a career in art, writing and performance that spans five decades. Curated by Karen Di Franco

This series of events at Flat Time House is part of a research project with Electra into the work of the women active in 60s and 70s London. Rather than a direct historical enquiry, each weekend event explores collaborative relationships between artists of this and younger generations, through performance and discussion. Places for all events are limited and must be booked in advance.

A pedagogical theatre of unlearning and the limits of knowledge. Directed by Jakob Jakobsen.