FTHo

Please join us for the launch of NOIT — 5: bodies as in buildings guest edited by the MA Writing programme at the Royal College of Art. There will be refreshments, readings from contributors, and journals for sale.

NOIT — 5: bodies as in buildings features works by students from the MA Writing Programme at the Royal College of Art and an afterword by Brian Dillon. This collection of essays, short stories, and images explore what happens when the domestic, the home, and the body are alienated from their most basic associations and given new ones. In these works, the threshold between house and street, the distinction between the public and private, becomes porous and inexhaustibly complex.

A one day event focusing on contemporary artists’ engagement with the Five Sisters’ Bings and specifically Latham's approach to site from above as manifested in his 1975–76 APG placement with the Scottish Development Office. With contributions from Joy Sleeman, Katherine Jackson, Nicky Bird and Onya McCausland. 

A short presentation about Artist Placement Group and the Arts Council

"Looking at the Art's Council's current funding criteria we can see that developing new audiences is their primary concern. Strangely there is nothing mentioned in their literature about existing audiences, about art for people who have already decided they like art; the entire drive of the Arts Council is give artists money only if they are taking the Arts Council logo to new people, people who, for the moment at least, don't have any interest in art. Perhaps these people can be convinced that they do in fact like art if they are shown art that is really nothing like the art that the people who like art like, but is instead an awful lot more like something else."

Between 1973 and 1978 artist Nicholas Wegner presented a succession of seminal exhibitions at his studio in Lisson Street, London. Under the banner of ‘The Gallery’, these projects confronted current trends in the art world, including Performance, Body, Land and Theoretical art. As well as working with artists including John Latham, Rita Donagh, Gerald Newman and Stephen Willats, The Gallery also, more originally, exhibited companies including German manufacturers H. Stoll and Co., Hasselblad Cameras and Artforum Magazine.

A partnership with artist Vaughan Grylls between 1974 and 1975 resulted in a series of exhibitions utilising modular display units and with a distinct graphic identity. This included the re-working of John Latham’s Offer for Sale, a typically radical proposal in a series that also included socio-political subjects such as Drug Abuse in Maine and Belfast In Art.

How do we start to rethink how we approach discussing climate change, and consider issues of timeliness, urgency, and ethics? This conversation will explore how artists and curators are reflecting on and reacting to the climate crisis.

Flat Time House is delighted to host an event with artist Sung Tieu for the launch of Parrhesiades, a multi-platform project, working with artists for whom language, either written, spoken or otherwise performed, is an important component in the construction of their work.  As an online platform, a physical location in SE5, an annual reader and with institutional partners for live events and launches.

A Lecture exploring time perception, LSD, psychiatric neuroimaging, and schizophrenia.

As part of her exhibition the billion year spree Annika Kahrs has invited a series of guests to create a special programme of performances, concerts and talks.

Saskia Steinmann works at the Psychiatry Neuroimaging Lab of Harvard Medical School, Boston, with the aim to identify biomarkers that predict transition from a high-risk state into a first episode of schizophrenia. From 2010 onwards, the focus of Saskia’s scientific work has been in psychiatric neuroimaging research projects using EEG/ERP, fMRI and DTI with a major interest in the pathophysiological mechanism underlying auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia.

Event is free, no booking required

7-8pm: Talk: Annika Kahrs in conversation with Gareth Bell-Jones
8-9pm: Book Launch: Marius Schwarz, eee books: Annika Kahrs SKOOBEEE

As part of her exhibition the billion year spree Annika Kahrs has invited a series of guests to create a special programme of performances, concerts and talks. On Saturday the 6th join us for an in-conversation with the artist, followed by the book launch of the eeebook Annika Kahrs SKOOBEEE by Marius Schwarz. 

Event is free, no booking is required

Daylong Event at Flat Time House, Artist Run and Peckham Liberal Club

Guest artists and writers include Sally O'Reilly, Megan Rooney, Audrey Reynolds, David Raymond Conroy, Lucy Vann, and Daisy Hildyard.

Organised by RCA Writing Programme in Residence

2pm - 7:30pm: Flat Time House & Artist Run

Artist Run: Unit 6, Bellenden Road Business Park, SE15 4RF

7pm - Late: Peckham Liberal Club: 24 Elm Grove, London, SE15 5DE

What happens on the threshold where the home and the public meet?

What kind of face does a place need to put on to become public-facing – and how can it express welcomeness and be welcomed?

When a house tries to make itself hospitable, what happens to us inside?

Join us for a day of workshops, performances and discussion, moving between three neighbouring venues in Peckham. Events include artist demonstrations, writers' seminars, performances, talks, and a 'pub' quiz full of the unexpected. Guests include Sally O'Reilly, Megan Rooney, Audrey Reynolds, David Raymond Conroy, Lucy Vann, and Daisy Hildyard.

Hosted by Flat Time House in collaboration with MA Writing students from the Royal College of Art.

Attendance is free across all three venues and all events but booking is required.

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Performance starts at 7pm

Followed by In-conversation and Refreshments

Roar Vol. I - Naz Balkaya (Panicattack Duo), Giulio Dal Lago, Marta Melià

Roar is a series of events curated by trans- which explore the political implications of sound within our visual-saturated daily life. Through conversations, spoken word or live performances, artists, theorists and mediators will exchange thoughts, practices and debates questioning the automatisation of language and behaviours, while investigating the non-functional nature of human voice.

To accompany The Psychopathic Now! on Saturday 8th December FTHo is hosting a reading group with Emmy Beber followed by a film screening event hosted by Jamie Sutcliffe. You are welcome to attend one or both events. Events are free but booking is required for the reading group.

1-3pm: Reading Group with Emmy Beber NOW FULLY BOOKED

Writer Emmy Beber, editor of The Bodies That Remain (Punctum, 2018), leads a reading group based on Jeff Nuttall’s Bomb Culture, extrapolating a bodily politics of frailty, vulnerability and resilience from the post-atomic condition described by Nuttall's evocative text. Readings will be drawn from Bomb Culture and both contemporaneous and contemporary sources. You are welcome to stay and attend the film screening afterwards.

4-6pm: Film Screening with introduction by Jamie Sutcliffe

Writer and exhibition co-curator Jamie Sutcliffe introduces a selection of films that parenthetically book-end Bomb Culture’s political, psychological and aesthetic concerns. Lindsay Anderson’s March to Aldermaston (1959) and Jamie Wadhawan Cain’s Film (1969) record a journey from popular anti-nuclear demonstration to an interest in the possibilities of anti-psychiatry and the insurrection ‘of a million minds’.

Free, no booking required.