Agata Madejska AND Elisabeth Molin: PICNIC X GRAND HABITAT HORROR VACUI
Sculptural intervention with readings by Naomi Credé, Kate Fahey, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín, Arsalan Isa, Mary Hurrell, Agata Madejska, Elisabeth Molin, Agnieszka Szczotka
Saturday 14 September 2024 3–5pm
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.
As part of the event alcoholic beverages will be served alongside non-alcoholic alternatives.
This event has been funded by the Danish Art Council.
The sculptural intervention has been realised with the support of the Eaton Trust.
Contributor biographies
Naomi Credé is an artist and writer based in London. She works primarily with sound and text — using voice as both a medium and a focal point of her research — resulting in immersive installations, radio broadcasts, writing, performances and readings.
Kate Fahey is an artist based between Kilkenny and London working with sound, sculpture, moving image, text and installation. Her practice explores ways of understanding and meaning making that are not reliant upon scientific logic. Recent exhibitions include When We Cease to Understand the World, Interface Connemara (2024), Bodies of Water, CCA Andratx, Mallorca (2023) and Mouthnotes, Pallas Projects Dublin (2022).
Laura Ní Fhlaibhín is based in London and Wexford. Exhibitions include Britta Rettberg Gallery, Munich (2024), Belmacz, London (2023) Palfrey, London (2020). She is a graduate of Goldsmiths and Conditions Programme, and a current Gilbert Bayes Sculpture Award recipient. Laura will be in residence at British School of Rome, 2025.
Mary Hurrell (South Africa/UK) is a Bristol-based artist and musician working across experimental music and performance to explore language and movement in relation to physical and psychological experience. Mary recently released her debut album ‘FORMATIONS' with Calling Cards Publishing and is a Studio Artist at Spike Island.
Arsalan Isa is a writer and artist. In 2022, he founded the theory of Dissociative Realism.
Agata Madejska is a London-based artist working across post-photographic processes, sculptural interventions, sound and installation. She has shown previously at Flat Time House, London; Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven; Tate Modern, London; Museum Folkwang, Essen; and Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover. She has just published her first book Mistakes Were Made with Edition Taube, Munich.
Elisabeth Molin is an artist and writer. She holds a BA from Chelsea College of Art and an MA in Fine Arts from Royal College of Art London and has shown work at KW Institute, Berlin; Wiels, Brussels; No Show Space, London; PUBLICS, Helsinki; and ISCP, New York.
Agnieszka Szczotka is an artist, writer and performer based between London and Grudziądz. She received her postgraduate degree from the Royal Academy Schools, London, in 2021.
Photography: Peter Otto (@artdoculondon)