Phil Coy
In-conversation
Thursday 26 November, doors 6.30pm, talk 7pm
No booking neccessary, all welcome
Phil Coy will give a tour of Hydro Electric Domestic including presenting a live activation of the sonic time-machine. The conversation with FTHo Director/Curator Gareth Bell-Jones will draw on a background dialogue that began after Coy visited Latham at his house and studio in the early 2000s, creating a dialogue between the two artist's conceptual practices.
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Langue Cassée, 1994, eleven hour poem, construction in process, bottle rack, wine bottles, whited out typewriter
Phil Coy’s approach is sensitive to materials, site and context. Formerly trained in sculpture, works employ a hybrid collage of concepts and processes. Particularly they have interrogated human exploitation of the landscape through the intersection of digital and analogue technologies. Sequential works examine the architecture of the archive, and the networked image alongside technologies of surveillance and self-surveillance.
He has shown extensively at galleries and film festivals and has created site-specific and public commissions in the UK and internationally, exhibiting at venues including Matt’s Gallery, London; South London Gallery; Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire; Arnolfini, Bristol; Dan Graham’s pavilion at Hayward Gallery; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; the National Maritime Museum, London; Living Art Museum, Reykjavik; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Theatre Guild Tokyo, Japan; York Art Gallery; Eastside Projects, Birmingham; Focal Point Gallery, Southend; Siobhan Davies Studios, London; Grimshaw Architects, London Festival of Architecture; Sainsbury’s Centre, Norwich; EVA Biennale, Limerick; Whitstable Biennale; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Volt, Bergen, Norway and the Aldeburgh Music festival amongst others.
His mediative sound works have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Late Junction and Resonance FM. The deep listening sound installation Stereo Pair is permanently installed at Brunel University, London. The publication ‘Stereo Pair,’ documenting the making of the site sensitive sound sculpture and including essays by Jennifer Lucy Allen, Lee Mackinnon and Will Self was published by Slimvolume in 2026.
Phil Coy: Hydro Electric Domestic
6 November–12 December 2026
Hydro Electric Domestic transposes Phil Coy’s site-sensitive deep listening sound installation Sixty Beats Per Minute to the physical spaces of Flat Time House, itself a conceptual articulation of John Latham’s time-based theories. Transforming Flat Time House into a sonic time-machine and live film score, the domestic interior is prepared to perform a live pulse mixed with details of Peckham’s ambient soundscape.