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What Time is Love? is an exhibition created by six artists from Peckham based collective Intoart presented within the domestic space of Flat Time House, the studio home of artist John Latham (1921–2006). Incorporating textiles, furniture, book works, drawing, painting, sculptural garments and photography, the artworks in What Time is Love? speak in chorus about moments of connection and belonging. This group exhibition has grown from time spent by the artists at Flat Time House over two years, with the house forming a space to reflect, talk about their practice and think collectively. The monumental scale and ambition of these works is politically charged, representing at once the energy and emotional intensity of the dancer whilst confronting the marginalisation of disabled people in the history of art. The exhibition title, taken from The KLF’s 1988 electronic dance anthem What Time is Love? references a shared subject of exploration for the group: alternative histories of music and culture. Over the course of the artists’ extended research, they explored how self-identities are expressed through sound and are formed and evolve from different cultural backgrounds and sonic contexts. The works in conversation reveal deep connections and histories shared by the artists as part of Intoart which has developed as a scene in its own right over the past 25 years.

Chelsea Arts Club Trust award recipient Katie Shannon will be in residence at Flat Time House this summer. This is the first-ever residency at Flat Time House for a Chelsea Arts Club Trust awardee, an opportunity for a recent graduate artist to engage with Flat Time House as a space for dialogue and experimentation. 

Katie Shannon is an artist based between Glasgow and London, working across drawing, installation, printmaking, textiles, writing, performance, curation, music and collaborative formats. Her practice centres on the event as medium, exploring temporalities, collective intimacy, and states of energetic unrest. Rooted in a socialist, feminist, and materially led approach, her work navigates themes of class, sociality, and counter-culture, using repurposed or ‘low’ materials, laborious processes, and printmaking as means of dissemination to propose alternative economies of making and meaning.

Shu Chang, Ross Head, Sarah Hopper, JEEHEE, Jana Kühne, Katie Shannon, Ciana Taylor, Xinxin Wang

Drinks reception: Thursday 4 September 6–8pm

Exhibition open to public 5, 10, 11 and 12 September 12–6pm

To celebrate the practices and individuals supported by the Chelsea Arts Club Trust, Flat Time House is hosting a salon exhibition of work by recent awardees. This is to coincide with the first-ever residency at Flat Time House for a Chelsea Arts Club Trust award recipient, which was awarded to artist Katie Shannon in Summer 2025.

The Reader includes conversations, texts, photos, statements, reflections and a graphic story on the necessary destruction of artworks; vulnerability and death; catharsis and joy; restorative practice; ghosts of our youth, and archives of neglect.

Contributions by / with artists, curators, academics and writers: Pilar Quinteros, Tschabalala Self, Joseph Constable, Jaime Gili, Alice Channer, Anne Hardy, Jes Fernie, Rosie Ram, Ben Cranfield, Josephine Meckseper, David Hammons, 3Nós3, Olu Oguibe, Jacob Epstein, Henry VIII’s Wives and Candice Purwin.

Edited by Jes Fernie

Graphic design by Daly & Lyon

Published by Flat Time House

£8 

All proceeds go towards contributors’ fees for Reader III

36 pages, 289 × 380 mm, printed web-fed offset in full colour onto 55gsm improved newsprint