Flat Time House

Flat Time House The home of artist John Latham (1921–2006) now housing a gallery, event space, archive, centre for alternative learning, and artist's residency space.

As part of the upcoming retrospective of Barbara Steveni’s work at Modern Art Oxford (1 March-8 June) FTHo and Knotenpun...
10/02/2025

As part of the upcoming retrospective of Barbara Steveni’s work at Modern Art Oxford (1 March-8 June) FTHo and Knotenpunkt have invited artist Eloise Hawser to interact with Barbara’s collection of newspapers as part of a studio residency at Flat Time House. News-printing has been a key thematic within Eloise’s practice, which has examined the systems through which news is created, circulated and consumed amid the changing status of print media (Images 1 + 2 showing work in progress in the studio)

Barbara collected over two decades worth of the Guardian and Observer newspapers in her studio-home in Anstey Road Peckham, pictured in 2016 by photographer Jean-Philippe Woodland (image 3). This material, alongside Steveni’s own archive and the archive of Artist Placement Group (APG), fed into her ongoing I AM AN ARCHIVE (IAAA) project, initiated in 2002, which traced her role within APG, through a series of performances, walks, revisits, conferences, slide-shows, exhibitions and interviews. An unfinished video work, Conversations with myself (image 4), features these newspapers, where they act as contextual instigators for Barbara’s reflections.

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Our good friends at Arcade gallery have launched a crowdfunder to help support the development of their new gallery, kit...
07/02/2025

Our good friends at Arcade gallery have launched a crowdfunder to help support the development of their new gallery, kitchen and event space in South Bermondsey.

In 2021 Arcade evolved from a traditional gallery to a Community Interest Company (CIC) to better align with their commitment to serve both the artist community and the local areas in which they work. This new iteration will place a community kitchen programme at the heart of Arcade, breaking down the boundaries between art and everyday life to foster direct, communal engagement.

AVIVA will match every donation up to £250, effectively doubling your impact. Please Support!

Food for Thought: Art, Cooking, and Connection
https://www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/this-is-arcade

Next week: Join as part of their Constellations ° Assemblies programme, as they explore the urgent need to get culture ...
05/02/2025

Next week: Join as part of their Constellations ° Assemblies programme, as they explore the urgent need to get culture back on the agenda in schools.

With cultural education being downgraded in the UK school curriculum, they will ask creative practitioners with experience of working within education settings:

What does best practice look like when developing creative projects with schools? And how do we advocate for policy change at government level?

Speakers Cathy Wade ( ) and Abbas Zahedi ( ) alongside moderator Steve Moffitt, CEO of A New Direction ( ).

12 February 14:00 – 15:15 GMT Online

Book now: bit.ly/art-in-schools

5 Films by Athanasios ArgianasScreening and in-conversationFriday 31 January 7–8.30pm Branching Music (Under The Sky Abo...
10/01/2025

5 Films by Athanasios Argianas
Screening and in-conversation
Friday 31 January 7–8.30pm

Branching Music (Under The Sky Above You) 2013
Hollowed Water (A Gesture 24 Times) 2020
Music Sideways (Canon For Three Voices) 2011
Pinna (Monologue for two actors) 2013
Manifesto of Nondurational Time 2010

As part of Athanasios Argianas’s residency at Flat Time House, we are delighted to present a screening event and in-conversation with the artist. The artist will present five of his short films which use moving image in reciprocal and complementary relationship to a sonic score. Accompanying the screening Argianas has decided to include a special screening of Encyclopedia Brittanica 1966 by John Latham, with an audio commentary by composer/musician, author and curator David Toop.

Free but booking essential. Please email [email protected] to book.



Image: Athanasios Argianas, Stills from Hollowed Water (a gesture 24 times), 3min 4sec, 2k video. Back projection with sound, 250x250cm. Commissioned by Camden Arts Centre London, 2020.

Flat Time House is pleased to announce that artist Eloise Hawser will be undertaking a studio residency at Flat Time Hou...
05/12/2024

Flat Time House is pleased to announce that artist Eloise Hawser will be undertaking a studio residency at Flat Time House in partnership with Knotenpunkt. The residency will culminate in a solo exhibition at FTHo in 2025, in addition to a new commission to be presented as part of ‘I Find Myself’, a Barbara Steveni retrospective upcoming at Modern Art Oxford.

Drawing from her longstanding interest in the materiality of modern life, Eloise has been invited to undertake original research into Barbara Steveni’s collection of studio materials – specifically over a decade’s worth of newspapers – with a focus on Barbara’s home-studio in Anstey Road, Peckham as a site of artistic production, conversation, and reflection on past endeavours.

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Image: Eloise Hawser Uncontrollable variant TT. 03Jun. 03:06:21 00:09:21, 2022 Found Aluminium Afga CP09 newspaper printing plates from June 2020 – 25 Jan 2022, rods, steel racking Photo: Gigi Giannella

Barbara Steveni: I Find MyselfAt Modern Art Oxford1 March–8 June 2025 Flat Time House is pleased to announce that a firs...
05/12/2024

Barbara Steveni: I Find Myself
At Modern Art Oxford
1 March–8 June 2025

Flat Time House is pleased to announce that a first retrospective exhibition of Barbara Steveni’s work, co-curated by Jo Melvin and FTHo Curator/Director Gareth Bell-Jones will be presented at Modern Art Oxford in 2025.

Pioneering and influential, Barbara Steveni worked outside the art gallery to create artworks that were multi-disciplinary and research based, often taking place without participants realising. ‘I Find Myself’ brings her multi-faceted practice together for the first time to uncover a unique perspective and life.

With a career spanning seventy years, Steveni was influential on artists of many different generations. As part of ‘I Find Myself’ some of her key collaborators and those influenced by her career will create new commissions restaging and responding to her work including Laure Prouvost, Anne Bean and Eloise Hawser.

Eloise Hawser commission as part of I Find Myself is supported by Knotenpunkt

More information to follow

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Image: Barbara Steveni and Artist Placement Group contributing to the event ‘L’Engineering conceptuel’, part of the exhibition Un Certain Art Anglais at the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 20th January, 1979. Image copyright Rolf and Ros Sachsee. Courtesy Estate of Barbara Steveni.

Join UP Projects for the next Constellations ° Assemblies as they host three UK based and international artists, Manon A...
18/10/2024

Join UP Projects for the next Constellations ° Assemblies as they host three UK based and international artists, Manon Awst ( ), Anne Duk Hee Jordan ( ) and Victoria Pratt () (Invisible Flock) who are each working across the themes of ecologies and environmental justice.

Each artist will offer their perspective on how we can best advocate for a public art ecosystem that is locally rooted, non-extractive and joined up to climate action.

Moderated by Alison Tickell ( ), CEO of , the pioneering not-for-profit mobilising the arts and culture to take action on the climate crisis, they will explore practices for designing and implementing culture-based climate action through the lens of the artists’ respective practices.

Wednesday 13 November 14:00 – 15:15 GMT Online

Book now: bit.ly/culture-climate-action

Next week we’re delighted to be hosting a live performance by US artist Clifford Owens () as part of a collaboration wit...
04/10/2024

Next week we’re delighted to be hosting a live performance by US artist Clifford Owens () as part of a collaboration with TALKER, an interview zine about performance art, published by artist Giles Bailey ()

Saturday 12 October 3pm, free to attend, no ticket required. Performance starts at 3.30pm. Please arrive at 3pm to guarantee attendance.

Portrait by Emmie America

NEXT EVENT AT FTHo:PICNIC X GRAND HABITAT HORROR VACUISaturday 14 September 2024 3–5pmSculptural intervention with readi...
30/08/2024

NEXT EVENT AT FTHo:

PICNIC X GRAND HABITAT HORROR VACUI

Saturday 14 September 2024 3–5pm

Sculptural intervention with readings by

Naomi Credé
Kate Fahey
Laura Ní Fhlaibhín
Arsalan Isa
Mary Hurrell
Agata Madejska
Elisabeth Molin
Agnieszka Szczotka

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

Thanks to everyone who came on Saturday for very special readings and performances by Lyónn Wolf, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, ...
06/08/2024

Thanks to everyone who came on Saturday for very special readings and performances by Lyónn Wolf, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Linda Stupart, and Raju Rage with Nad MA. There’s still a few copies left of Lyónn’s limited edition zine ‘De-production – First Trimester Mourning Sickness’ featuring event contributors which will be available on our website soon

We’re looking forward to this years annual exhibition, taking place next weekend at Copeland Gallery, Peckham, 12–14 Ju...
08/07/2024

We’re looking forward to this years annual exhibition, taking place next weekend at Copeland Gallery, Peckham, 12–14 July

Over the past year Flat Time House has been working with 7 Intoart studio artists – Nancy Clayton, Ntiense Eno-Amooquaye, Nick Fenn, Christian Ovonlen, Andre Williams, Dawn Wilson & Clifton Wright – on 'What Time Is Love', an ongoing programme of conversations with artists that uses FTHo as a space to reflect and talk about practice.

Works by these 7 artists are included in this exhibition 'Live in A New World' alongside work by other Intoart Studio Members.

Opening Event: Thursday 11 July, 6–9pm
To book opening event email [email protected]

Artwork: Nancy Clayton, Reaching Out, 2024

Last weeks to view Can Altay ‘Been Waiting For Rain To Fall’ at Flat Time HouseExhibition continues to 7 July, open Thur...
23/06/2024

Last weeks to view Can Altay ‘Been Waiting For Rain To Fall’ at Flat Time House

Exhibition continues to 7 July, open Thursday–Sunday 12–6pm

Images:

1. Been Waiting for the Rain to Fall (Sebil I), Plywood, water tanks, funnels, hose, ratchet strap, 3 wooden stools approx. 240 x 170 x 170cm, 2023

2. (left) Monumental returns, Sgraffito on Gesso on Newsprint on Mylar, 28.5 x 20” 2023, (right) Convening at the water line, Sgraffito on Gesso on Newsprint on Mylar, 28 x 20” 2024

3. tunnel vision pipe dream, PVC piping, Mylar, 70 x 10 x 10 cm, 2024

4. Teenage Sherbourne, Video, 3’ 27” 2024

5–6. Mississippi Steppes, 4-channel video (varying durations on loop) (detail), 2024

All photos: Andy Keate

Presented in partnership with Arcade, with thanks to

BEEN WAITING FOR THE RAIN TO FLOWCAN ALTAY 31 May–7 July 2024Preview: Thursday 30 May 6–8pm Arcade and Flat Time House a...
26/04/2024

BEEN WAITING FOR THE RAIN TO FLOW
CAN ALTAY

31 May–7 July 2024
Preview: Thursday 30 May 6–8pm

Arcade and Flat Time House are pleased to present a new exhibition with Can Altay (TR, 1975). Through drawing, sculptural propositions and the presentation of research, Altay speculates how access to water can act as a model towards a more regenerative public space. Central to this presentation is a large-scale sculptural intervention, filling Flat Time House’s rear gallery, that acts as a proposal for a rainwater-harvesting drinking fountain. At this moment where water and its processing has become a subject of prevalent political dialogue, this exhibition provokes a conversation around our environment and who cares for it.

This exhibition will be part of the programme for (May 31-June 2)

We are grateful to for their support of this exhibition

Image: Can Altay Been Waiting for the Rain to Fall (Sebil I) (detail) 2023 Plywood, water tanks, funnels, hose, ratchet strap, 3 wooden stools approx. 240 x 170 x 170 cm

Joan Hills 1931-2024Inspirational artist and member of Boyle Family. Photograph by Mark Boyle.
20/03/2024

Joan Hills 1931-2024

Inspirational artist and member of Boyle Family. Photograph by Mark Boyle.

The Berlin launch of Mistakes Were Made will take place this weekend, on Saturday 16 March 4-8pm at ACRE Studios Skalitz...
14/03/2024

The Berlin launch of Mistakes Were Made will take place this weekend, on Saturday 16 March 4-8pm at ACRE Studios Skalitzer Str. 54b

Mistakes Were Made is a new publication by artist that coincides with her solo presentation Grand Habitat Horror Vacui at in London. The exhibition is on view until March 22 with the publication also available to purchase.

Agata Madejska’s Mistakes Were Made is a collection of deconstructed speeches made by prominent political figures such as Donald Trump and Angela Merkel. By removing the action from these addresses the poems within Mistakes Were Made reimagine the pathos that has come to structure mainstream thought.

For the launch event, Agata will be in conversation with who is a writer and editor based in London. She co-edited Margaret Raspé—Automatik (Haus am Waldsee, Berlin 2023), and co-authored issue #7 of the series “ ”: Abbas Zahedi in conversation with Eva Wilson (Rome, 2023).

Mistakes We Made is published by Munich. Co-published by London, 2024. Softcover, 14 × 22 cm, 272 pages, Edition of 501, ISBN978-3-945900-96-3
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We’re delighted to receive our copies of TALK, issue 4 of series of screen-printed text-based art publications. Featuri...
07/03/2024

We’re delighted to receive our copies of TALK, issue 4 of series of screen-printed text-based art publications. Featuring Latham’s Object Lectures, Issue 4, TALK mixes the historical and contemporary, working with the John Giorno Foundation in New York, and Flat Time House on behalf of the John Latham Foundation. Giorno and Latham are set against contemporary international artists Cem A., Darren Bader, Naomi S*x and Susan MacWilliam.

TALK launches , Paris on 19 March

TALK is co-edited by Laura Fitzgereld (), James Merrigan () and Alan Phelan (); and printed by James Merrigan. SMALL NIGHT PROJECTS is a studio, in a garage, in the tail end of Ireland, which, for the last three years has screen-printed artists’ ideas and images for dissemination through zine and exhibition.

Look out for Maria Walsh’s insightful review of Agata Madejska ‘Grand Habitat Horror Vacui’ in the latest issue of Art M...
29/02/2024

Look out for Maria Walsh’s insightful review of Agata Madejska ‘Grand Habitat Horror Vacui’ in the latest issue of Art Monthly

The exhibition is extended to 22 March with special opening hours: Thursday and Friday only 12–6pm

Last week to view Agata Madejska ‘Grand Habitat Horror Vacui’ at Flat Time HouseOpen Thursday–Sunday 12–6pmImages: 1-5. ...
14/02/2024

Last week to view Agata Madejska ‘Grand Habitat Horror Vacui’ at Flat Time House

Open Thursday–Sunday 12–6pm

Images:

1-5. Housing T (Current Affairs), Organza, steel, aluminium, marbles, lice comb, tweezers, lighter, lipstick, whistles, key, ring pulls, hair pins, coins, pendant. 2024.

6. Socle du Monde (Second), Perspex box, steel, rubber hose, cable, led lights, resistors, smoke generator, glycerine, propylene glycol, batteries. 2024.

7. The End, Hand woven cotton yarn. 2023.

8. Essentials, Site-specific flooring installation, dimensions variable. Leatherette, plywood, carpet underlay, steel, ring pulls, marbles, money, glitter, keys, whistles, toy cars, personal and found objects. 2024

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Are you active or interested in the expanded field of public art? Our friends @UPProjects are launching Constellations ° Assemblies 2024 with a series of three online events involving UK and international speakers and open to all artists, curators, practitioners, commissioners, communities, and those working across public art, social practice and regeneration. Beginning in September, the learning programme will explore how creative practice can catalyse change at policy level and will respond to pressing issues relevant to the public art sector across three public events: 🗳️ Dread Scott: How Can We Harness Political Energy 🌎 Pushing For Culture-Based Climate Action 🎨 Art In Schools: Getting Culture Back on the Agenda 🔗Register now at bit.ly/constellations24

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