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John Latham, still from The Gulf, video, 1984. From the series Targets, commissioned by Anna Ridley's Annalogue Productions for Channel 4 in as part of Dadarama. Courtesy Anna Ridley and the Artist
Exhibition
And what can we say to be going on now...?
1 Oct 2020 – 20 Nov 2020
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- Closed
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Address
- 210 Bellenden Road
- London
- SE15 4BW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: 12, 36, 436
- Train: Peckham Rye Station
Flat Time House re-opens with a selection of works by John Latham that reflect on a period of action, political critique and protest untaken by the artist in the mid to late 1980s.
About
In the present moment of political turmoil, Latham’s axiom And what can we say to be to be going on now…? can be read with a note of exasperation, frustration but also close analysis. The phrase acts as a bridge to a previous political moment in the mid 1980’s, when Latham had just moved to 210 Bellenden Road, now ‘Flat Time I–Io’, and throughout which he was engaged in correspondence with the Arts Council of England (sometimes expressed by Latham as an arm of ‘United Kingdom Corporation’) over their lack of recognition and refusal to seriously consider his Time-Based ideas. Alongside this correspondence the exhibition presents documentation of Latham’s work Distress over Parliament. A direct response to his personal frustrations with the Arts Council, this action was a largely overlooked public performance in which Latham shot two maritime flares over the House of Parliament on Mayday 1983.
Also presented is Latham’s video work, The Gulf from the Dadarama video series produced by Anna Ridley for Channel 4 in 1985; Latham’s textual contributions to the radical publication, AND: Journal of Art and Art Education; and several book ‘intercourses’, sculptural studies by Latham; all alongside Flat Time House’s permanent display of John Latham's work which provides an introduction to his cosmological theory.
Visits are only available by appointment between Thursday–Saturday 12–6pm. Please book your visit at least 24 hours in advance by emailing info@flattimeho.org.uk or leave a message on 0207 207 4845, with your name and a day and time you would like to come.
