2018: TeachingThe 3D PageX-Publishing SchoolPublishing WorkshopFlat Time House
X-Publishing School offers roaming independent classes that teach ideas and skills for innovative and experimental publishing, across various sites and locations. Future classes include: Teaching + Learning at the London Art Book Fair, and Original Risographies at the London Centre for Book Arts.
The Three Dimensional Page workshops consider multi-dimensional sites for writing through discussion and practice-based writing and production workshops. Each day is taught by a new practitioner who has created a workshop that encourages the author to be a producer, developing their writing from the page, to a site, to performance and installation, to digital platforms and networks. We are looking for 10 artists and writers who want to create texts that can be translated and tested across multiple formats and sites. The cost of the 4-day workshop is £100 (£25 per workshop). The workshops take place in the studio home of artist John Latham (1921-2006).
The Three Dimensional PageA four-day experimental writing workshop at Flat Time House14 –17 August 2018Tuesday to Friday, 10.30am-4.30pmPrice £100
Session 1D: Introduction to Flat Time and the work of John Latham, with Gareth Bell-JonesWorkshop: Writing between two points, with Eleanor Vonne Brown
Session 2D: Workshop: Situations of writing, with Sunil Manghani and Jane Birkin
Session 3D: Workshop: Speaking from an alternative perspective, with Patrick Goddard
Session 4D: Workshop: Hybrid strategies in network culture, with Ami Clarke
Gareth Bell-Jones is the curator and director of Flat Time House. From 2010-14 he was a curator at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire and he is currently a cross department MA Group tutor at Royal College of Art and an associate lecturer and assessor for MA Curating and Collections at Chelsea School of Art. He is also the editor of NOIT, a journal exploring John Latham’s art and ideas.
Flat Time House (FTHo) was the studio home of John Latham (1921-2006). In 2003, Latham declared the house a living sculpture, naming it FTHo after his theory of time, ‘Flat Time’. It also provides a centre for alternative learning, which includes the John Latham archive, and an artist's residency space.
Eleanor Vonne Brown produces publishing projects and spaces working mainly in the field of independent publishing. Projects include bookshop and project space X Marks the Bökship, X-Publishing School, Publication as Practice; A Short Course on the Concepts of Artists’ Books, Post Internet Cafe @PrintRoom, The Cast of the Crystal Set, and Super Woofer Sound Fair. She is a lecturer at the London College of Communication, Greenwich University and Camberwell College of Art.
Sunil Manghani is Professor of Theory, Practice & Critique and Director of Research at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. He studied Anthropology and Communication Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, in the early 1990s, and later completed a Masters and PhD in Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham. He is author of ‘Image Studies: Theory and Practice- (Routledge, 2013) and co-editor of 'Barthes/Burgin’ (EUP, 2016) among other books. He teaches and writes on various aspects of critical theory, visual arts and image studies. He regularly works with practice-based PhD students and is currently engaged in developing a new project under the title of 'Situations of Writing', which examines approaches to the publication of ‘writing’ as both form and content.
Jane Birkin is an artist, designer and scholar. She is a visiting lecturer at Winchester School of Art and she also works in Archives at the University of Southampton as exhibition designer and curator. Taking the archive into her own art practice and writing, she is specifically concerned with institutional techniques that define and manage the photographic image. Birkin’s research combines media culture and techniques of the archive, as well as contemporary discourse on art and conceptual writing. She is currently working on an academic monograph on photography and the archive, to be published in 2019 by Routledge.
Patrick Goddard is an artist and writer working in London. Completing an MFA at Goldsmiths University in 2011, he is currently studying for a doctorate at Oxford University, in Fine Art practice. Creating video, graphic novels, performance and installation and drawings; Patrick’s politically loaded and narrative based works undermine themselves with a self-defeating black comedy. Works focus on a range of topics: between gentrification, post industrialisation, anarcho-individualism, class politics and the wider idea of the creative class and its impact on the modern city. Inverting the position of the aloof cultural critic, the works wrestle with the complexities of commitment and the artist’s own fumbled attempt to create a personal and political integrity. Recent shows include: ‘Go Professional’ at Seventeen Gallery, London April-June 2017; ‘Looking for the Ocean Estate’ Almanac Projects, London, Nov-Dec 2016, ‘Gone To Croatan’ at Outpost Gallery, Norwich, May-June 2015; ‘Revolver II’ at Matt’s Gallery, London, November-December 2014.
Ami Clarke is an artist, writer, and educator, working within the emergent behaviours that come of the complex protocols of platform capitalism, with a focus on the interdependencies between code and language in hyper networked culture. She is also founder of Banner Repeater; a reading room with a public Archive of Artists’ Publishing and project space, opening up an experimental space for others, on a working train station platform at Hackney Downs station, London. Ideas that come of publishing, distribution, and dissemination, that lead to a critical analysis of post-digital art production, are shared in her practice as an artist and inform the working remit of Banner Repeater. She has recently exhibited work at LUX in conjunction with Chelsea Space (2018), HereNow art + tech residency SPACE (2018), Xero Kline and Coma (2017), Gallery Filodrammatica, Rijeka (2017), Aksioma, Ljubljana (2017), Furtherfield gallery (2017), StudioRCA Riverlight (2016), Centrespace Dundee (2016), ICA (2016), Wysing Arts Centre (2016), Hayward Gallery (2015), Museo Del Chopo - Mexico City (2015), collaborated with Cuss Group SA - Ithuba Gallery (British Council connect_ZA) (2015), David Roberts Arts Foundation (2015), Camden Arts Centre (2015), The Container, Tokyo (2013). Recent and forthcoming writing includes: ‘covfefe: language within a meme economy’, “Text as Market” Artists Re-thinking the Blockchain, “The Currency of Data” Sonic Acts journal, ‘Ami Clarke: Author of the Blank Swan’ with Elie Ayache. Her work is included in Information edited by Sarah Cook (2016) - an art-historical reassessment of information-based art and exhibition curation, from 1960s conceptualism to current digital and network-based practices - Whitechapel Documents in Contemporary Art and MIT press series. See here for more details: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/information.
Image: Flat Time I-IO, by John Latham
