HALLOWEEN
THE LEAST EVENT
31 October 2009
Performance and more from Mark McGowan, The Glamourous, Lady Stubbs.
HALLOWEEN
October 1954. Brush painter John Latham, of Fleet, Hampshire, is commissioned by friends to create a mural for a Halloween party. The two friends are the astronomer Clive Gregory (a former director of the University of London Observatory) and animal behaviourist and parapsychologist Anita Kohsen. Latham uses a spray-gun, used for applying creosote to a new property, on a white ground and immediately realises the significance of his art-making discovery. The spray-gun image embodies Latham's concept of Quantum of Mark at the same time as physically resembling a negative image of the cosmos. The spray-gun image simultaneously signifies least event and most and becomes known to Latham, through his writings, as the Idiom of '54. Latham, Gregory and Kohsen go on to found the Institute for Mental Images which publishes Gregory and Kohsen's 'The O-Structre: Introduction to Psychophysical Cosmology' in 1959.
THE LEAST EVENT
31 October 2009. You are invited to celebrate Halloween, the Least Event, the Io54, and the end of the first year of events at John Latham's home in Peckham, Flat Time House.
Featuring:
MARK MCGOWAN, FLETCHER BOOTE & ROBIN BALE
Monochrome for Yves Klein Fluxversions I & II (BEN VAUTIER, 1963)
THE GLAMOUROUS
LADY STUBBS
And more...
FANCY DRESS*
* If you want to, and you know you want to.
Lady Stubbs' One Second Drawing cake
The Glamourous performing Beat Boy, Beat Girl
Jordan Hunt preparing for a performance of Ben Vautier's Monochrome for Yves Klein Fluxversion II (1963)
A One Second Drawing by John Latham, who first used a spray gun to make a painting in October 1954
Performance of Ben Vautier's Monochrome for Yves Klein Fluxversion II (1963)