FTHo

Flat Time House is pleased to host PICNIC, a collaboration between artists Elisabeth Molin and Agata Madejska. Elisabeth Molin conceived of PICNIC in 2023 as a space to bring together artists who use text as part of their practice and create a space for listening to and experimenting with words.

Developed through a dialogue between Elisabeth and Agata and their mutual interest in the architecture of language, this year’s PICNIC will take place in the garden of Flat Time House and feature a collaborative sculptural intervention. The event will also serve as an epilogue to Agata’s exhibition GRAND HABITAT HORROR VACUI, which took place at FTHo at the beginning of 2024.

A group of artists has been invited to infiltrate the space by reading a previously written or newly conceived text in response to some of the concerns raised in GRAND HABITAT HORROR VACUI, reflecting on personal, institutional and architectural forms of embedment and the role of language in both resisting or inhabiting a narrative.

FTHo is pleased to host a live performance by US artist Clifford Owens as part of a collaboration with TALKER, an interview zine about performance art, published by artist Giles Bailey since 2016. 

Clifford Owens' work brings the significance of liveness and presence into dialogue with the photograph. It acknowledges the complexities that come with a compulsion to record events and asks questions about the existential anxieties that accompany the camera. His own body is a crucial player in this. His practice takes the legacies of emergent performance art making from the ‘60s and ‘70s in which we see the artist’s body as the site of the work and pulls it into a conceptual dynamic with themes of race, masculinity, class and the fragility of social structures.

His project Anthology features performances scores—written or graphical instructions for actions—that Owens solicited from a multigenerational group of African-American artists. Twenty-six major artists have contributed scores — including Pope.L, Kara Walker and Senga Nengudi — nearly all of whom composed new works specifically for Owens and his project.

Working in partnership with Deveron Projects, the Constellations ° Cohort 2023 will undertake a week-long group residency in Huntley, Aberdeenshire, this September. The cohort will be responding to the local context of Huntly by focusing on making specific connections to the area through devised activities and workshops. The residency will be an opportunity for the cohort to extend the collaborative work and peer to peer learning undertaken during the Constellations programme, whilst engaging in a programme of activities devised by Deveron Projects around the complexities of community/

Participating artists: Nancy Clayton, Ntiense Eno-Amooquaye, Nick Fenn, Christian Ovonlen, Andre Williams, Dawn Wilson, Clifton Wright

Launched in the summer of 2023 What Time is Love? is an ongoing programme of conversations with artists from the Intoart Studio hosted by Flat Time House. What Time is Love? invites the group of seven artists to use Flat Time House as a space to reflect, talk about their practice and think about where they want to go next.

Flat Time House and Intoart are collaborating on a new residency that invites the development of new writing through research at Flat Time House and in conversation with artists from the Intoart Studio.

We are excited to announce Amber Hahn as Intoart Writer in Residence for 2023/2024. Amber Hahn is an artist and writer based in Peckham, London. She works with people through different methods of dialogue, collaboration and workshops with an interdisciplinary practice that encompasses installation, sound and choreography. As well as working with the artists over the next nine months, she will spend time with the John Latham archive to draw upon the theoretical ideas and reciprocal relevance between Intoart and FTHo as spaces for alternative education, critical thinking and reflective practice.