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UP Projects is working in partnership with John Hansard Gallery to present Co-Creating Public Space: How can we thrive? a one-day conference taking place at MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton. 

Co-Creating Public Space: How can we thrive? is part of Constellations 2023, curated by UP Projects in partnership with Flat Time House and in association with Liverpool Biennial.

Informed by notions of care and principles underpinning alternative economies, the conference will look at how creative practice can build collectivity by sharing resources, values and opportunities in equitable ways.

Contributors include: Sepake Angiama, Helen Cammock, Suzanne Lacy, Owen Griffiths, Fatoş Üstek, Raluca Voinea, Torange Khonsari, Jes Fernie, Lady Kitt, Binki Taylor and more tba

Constellations 2023 supports a group of ten early to mid-career practitioners from across the UK, the Constellations ° Cohort, to develop their practice, collaborate with others, access new networks, and contribute to critical debate surrounding the future of public practice. The programme will explore urgent lines of enquiry and best practice in relation to this field, including questions around the potential of art to help communities reimagine new futures, principles underpinning alternative economies, and notions of care.

Selected through an open call, the Constellations ° Cohort 2023 are Seyi Adelekun, Ian Giles, Holly Graham, Faye Hamblett-Jones, Benjamin Malcolmson, James McColl, Laura Onions, Cherelle Sappleton, Giulia Shah and Becky Warnock.

Applications are now open for Constellations 2023, a free, eight-month learning and development programme for artists, curators, producers, and practitioners active and/or interested in the expanded field of public art. 

The programme is curated by UP Projects in partnership with Flat Time House and in association with Liverpool Biennial.  

Constellations 2023 supports a group of ten early to mid-career practitioners from across the UK, the Constellations ° Cohort, to develop their practice, collaborate with others, access new networks, and contribute to critical debate surrounding the future of public practice. 

The programme will explore urgent lines of enquiry and best practice in relation to this field, including questions around the potential of art to help communities reimagine new futures, principles underpinning alternative economies, and notions of care. 

Join us for the first event as part of Constellations ° Assemblies, a series of free online events curated and delivered by UP Projects in partnership with Flat Time House and Liverpool Biennial. The events are open to all artists, curators and practitioners active and/or interested in the expanded field of public art.

Taking place between March and November 2022, Constellations ° Assemblies are series of free online events curated and delivered by UP Projects in partnership with Flat Time House and Liverpool Biennial. The events are open to all artists, curators and practitioners active and/or interested in the expanded field of public art.

The Constellations ° Cohort is a group of artists, curators, producers, and practitioners active and/or interested in the expanded field of public art. The cohort will take part in Constellations, a free, nine month learning and development programme, curated and delivered by UP Projects, working in partnership with Flat Time House and Liverpool Biennial. By ‘the expanded field of public art’, we mean the work that happens at the intersection of contemporary art and culture, social practice, and the public realm. 

We are pleased to announce this years cohort are Amina Lawal Agoro, Benedict Rutherford, Jordan Rowe, Kate Mahony, Laura Eldret, Manon Awst, Monica Tolia, Nisha Duggal, Rebecca Moss and Taey Iohe.

Flat Time House is pleased to announce the open call for Constellations, a free, nine-month learning and development programme for artists, curators, producers, and practitioners active and/or interested in the expanded field of public art. Constellations is curated and delivered by UP Projects, working in partnership with Flat Time House and Liverpool Biennial. By ‘the expanded field of public art’, we mean the work that happens at the intersection of contemporary art and culture, social practice, and the public realm.

Taking inspiration from British artist John Latham’s unique approach to the role of time and event, students from BA (Hons) Design for Art Direction at London College of Communication will organise an activity-based discursion around the themes embodied by Flat Time House, Latham’s former home.

Through this ’incidental event’ - lasting for an undefined period of time - visitors to the space are invited to search for prompts and questions; ‘chits’ hidden across the gallery. These chits, when uncovered, can be exchanged for a printout relating to John Latham’s lectures. The task engages Latham’s reflective and intuitive approaches to interrogating space and will continue until all chits have been found.

Flat Time House in partnership with Up Projects is pleased to announce the 2020–21 cohort who will be participating in Constellations, a development programme that supports UK-based artists to explore socio-political issues, community-oriented practice, and public contexts. 

Following an overwhelming number of applicants to the open call, all of an incredibly high standard, the nine artists who have been selected to participate in the programme are Adam Moore, Hussina Raja, Lady Kitt, Niki Colclough, Mark Bleakley, Sophie Seita, Tom Pope, Winnie Herbstein and Youngsook Choi.

Over the past term students on the BA (Hons) Design for Art Direction course at London College of Communication have been engaged in research about work in relation to the legacies of Flat Time House, John Latham and the Artist Placement Group (APG). Works included in this online exhibition consider various questions surrounding labour conditions such as feminised labour, disembodied communication, social exclusion and the overproduction of content.

Flat Time House, in partnership with UP Projects, is delighted to announce the open call for Constellations 2020–21, a free artist development programme that supports eight UK-based artists to explore socio-political issues, community-oriented practice, and public contexts.  

This year’s iteration will also consider the digital realm as a platform for collaboration, engagement, and exchange as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are looking for artists who are interested in experimenting with alternative forms of learning and exploring the challenges and opportunities of the digital realm.

Starting in July 2020, the programme will be structured around a series of artist-led and self-led workshops taking place both online and offline over the course of eight months.

Please join us in the kitchen of Flat Time House for a reading group centred on Sophie Lewis's recently-published book, Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family. In her revolutionary text, Lewis departs from Marxist feminism's dream of full reproductive automation, arguing for solidarity with gestation workers. Dismantling the rhetoric of the anti-surrogacy movement, Lewis proposes that surrogacy, in its exceptional status as a global capital stream, object of (re)legislation, and overt feminisation, presents the starting point for a renewed utopian communism. 

Constellations invites you to take part in three unique workshops taking place as part of the Life Rewired season at the Barbican. Through collaboration, co-creation and peer-to-peer learning methodologies, each workshop explores the implications of an accelerated, networked lifestyle on human relations. All sessions are free and advance booking is recommended. 

Meetings Postponed Until Further Notice

After some years of nomadic existence, The Impossible University are taking up residence at Flat Time House from the autumn of 2019. We will continue to gather in the insistent and determined spirit of an anti-institution as a place of exchange and camaraderie that might lead to new ways of working or producing.

Amanda Ramasawmy, Angharad Davies, Dunya Kalantery, Edwin Mingard, Hannah Kemp-Welch, Katie Fiore, Mai Omer and Miki Holloway

Drawing on the history of gasholders in King’s Cross, Constellations will present a series of participatory activities that explore ideas related to public space as part of Art Night 2019.