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Flat Time House are pleased to announce that Elisabeth Del Prete will be undertaking an AHRC-funded PhD at Birmingham City University, working in partnership with Eastside Projects and FTHo to examine how the ideas and models developed by Artist Placement Group (APG) (1966-89) are both relevant today, and to future possibilities for the role of artists in society. 

Elisabeth’s research will evaluate contemporary experimental art projects, exploring how principles of regenerative design can generate new understandings of the impact of APG’s approach. Drawing on regenerative design as a method that acknowledges the interconnectedness and co-evolving nature of living systems (social, political, economic and natural), the research will ask how APG's motto “context is half the work” can be expanded upon to evaluate contemporary reworkings and inform future modes of creative practice.

Flat Time House is currently in-between temporary exhibitions but we are open by appointmen, Wednesday–Friday, to view the house and the permanent display of John Latham works in the front 'Mind' gallery which give an introduction to Flat Time.

Please email info@flattimeho.org.uk or call 02072074845 to arrange a visit.

In partnership with Flat Time House and Eastside Projects, Birmingham City University are looking for a candidate to undertake an AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Award on the subject of The Incidental Artist approach: contemporary reworkings of the methods and legacies of the Artist Placement Group 1966-1989 as part of the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnerships.

Flat Time House (FTHo) is working with Wayi Wayi Art Studio and Gallery, founded by artist couple Agness Buya and Lawrence Yombwe, in Livingstone, Zambia, as part of a British Council funded research project to support direct exchange between artists in the UK and Zambia. FTHo and Wayi Wayi support artists with socially engaged practices, and have a focus on engendering inter-generational exchange. Both organisations are currently building residency programmes with the aim of fostering international dialogue. Over the next six months, Wayi Wayi and FTHo will be learning more about each other’s unique context: looking at how artists in both countries work with sustainable materials; and also how artists in both countries work with non-art organisations to effect social change.

This Thing We Call Art is a project by trans-disciplinary artist Kelly Lloyd. Lloyd has been interviewing people in the arts about their livelihoods since 2017 – interviewing 85 people thus far. This archive is now available online at thisthingwecallart.com, and, in addition, Lloyd is sharing excerpts from a series of interviews via a new podcast with contributors including Gregory Bae, Gordon Hall, Nicole Morris, Leah Capaldi, Hilary Powell and Bella Milroy.

Art360 have made a short film introducing the John Latham Archive. This film marks the completion of an ambitious five year project making photographic material from the archive fully accessible for the first time.

These materials were digitised, catalogued and re-housed by Flat Time House archives assistant Sarah Millet, with funding by Art360 and additional support from the John Latham Foundation.

In addition to the John Latham archive, Flat Time House is home to a collection of John Latham artwork which until now has never been the subject of sustained investigation. A new research space for these items is currently being developed by AHRC funded researcher Sean Ketteringham to allow greater access to the materials by both education groups and artists. The cataloguing of the collection will build upon the experimental structure of the John Latham Archive. The creative archival methodologies we employ explore how cataloguing and storage processes relate to Latham’s ideas of knowledge and confusion, destruction, authority, community, and landscape.

Works by John Latham are included in EXTROSPECTION, curated by David Thorp at Pi Artworks, London. Also included are works from Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Barry Flanagan, Toby Tobias Kidd, Cally Spooner and Anne Tallentire.

Private View: Thursday 24 September 2020, 12–7pm

We are delighted that John Latham is included in the exhibition Memory Game at Villa Lontana, Rome.

Tauba Auerbach, Cyprien Gaillard, Susan Hiller, Thomas Hutton, John Latham, Charlotte Moth, Rosalind Nashashibi + Lucy Skaer, Olu Ogunnaike, Giorgio Orbi, Andrés Saenz De Sicilia + Emiddio Vasquez, Edoardo Servadio, Joëlle Tuerlinckx.

Opening hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 11am—6pm or by appointment.

Following an open call, Flat Time House is delighted to announce that the recipients of The Delta (Δ) Research Placement will be Madyha J. Leghari, Padraig Robinson and Diagram Research Group (DRG). The artists are currently undertaking remote research with the John Latham Archive to develop digital projects which will launch this autumn on a new experimental online platform for FTHo. The season will begin with a series of online events hosted by Diagram Research Group (DRG).

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Independent curator and writer Jes Fernie is developing an archive of public art works that have been destroyed over the last century through fear, boredom, rage, greed, decay and love. She is looking for examples to document in the archive, which will launch online early next year.

The Sir Denis Mahon Foundation awards The Sir Denis Mahon Essay Prize of £2,000 for an essay of distinction which reflects Sir Denis Mahon’s studies, research and interests.

Whilst Sir Denis Mahon focused on the 17th century period and especially on the work of Guercino, Carracci, Caravaggio and Nicolas Poussin, his much wider range of art historical interests included the 15th and 16th centuries, and also certain key modern and contemporary artists. Sir Denis was a contemporary and a friend of Graham Sutherland, Stanley Spencer, Henry Moore, Eduardo Paolozzi, Giorgio Morandi and he much admired their work.  Of the contemporary artists, he particularly liked the post-war avant-garde conceptual British artists, as well as David Hockney, Grayson Perry and others. Essays are welcomed on any of these aspects and artists including the contemporary ones.

The prize is open to undergraduates or post graduate students aged 30 years or below

Seventeen years to the day since the Flat Time House’s famous Face sculpture was completed, the work has been de-installed for extensive conservation work.