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LYÓNN WOLF READING AND IN-CONVERSATION WITH LÉANN HERLIHY

Saturday 24 January 4–5.30pm, Readings begin 4.30pm

To mark the final weekend of Lyónn Wolf’s solo exhibition De-production, FTHo is delighted to host a special event to take place within the installation of the exhibition. Wolf will give a reading from Big Book of De-production, a unique artist’s book published in an edition of one. This reading will be followed by an in-conversation with Léann Herlihy, an artist, researcher and educator based in Dublin, exploring the broader frame of the De-production project.

Wolf describes Big Book of De-production as charting ‘an extended time of relational self-making’ citing Trans Femme Futures by Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift as an important reference, detailing ‘the importance of practices that transform our everyday lives such as practising solidarity, support care, theorising and embodied transformation’.

Free, booking essential, to book please email [email protected]

Flat Time House is Closed

Flat Time House closed today - Thursday 15th January 2026, due to staff illness, hopefully open tomorrow.

About

Flat Time House (FTHo) was the studio home of John Latham (1921-2006), recognised as one of the most significant and influential British post-war artists. In 2003, Latham declared the house a living sculpture, naming it FTHo after his theory of time, ‘Flat Time’. Until his death, Latham opened his door to anyone interested in thinking about art. It is in this spirit that Flat Time House opened in 2008 as a gallery with a programme of exhibitions and events exploring the artist's practice, his theoretical ideas and their continued relevance. It also provides a centre for alternative learning, which includes the John Latham archive, and an artist's residency space.

OPENING HOURS

Thursday–Sunday 12–6pm for temporary exhibitions

Open by appointment at other times. To view work by John Latham or to visit the John Latham Archive between exhibitions and events, please email [email protected] or call 02072074845 to arrange an appointment.

GETTING HERE

Peckham Rye – Overground / Rail

East Dulwich – Rail

Free parking is available on roadside in some bays at weekends and from 11am onwards on weekdays

Lyónn Wolf: De-production

28 November 2025–25 January 2026 Opening Thursday 27 November 6–8pm Closed 20 December–7 January

Flat Time House and Askeaton Contemporary Arts are pleased to present the first UK solo exhibition of Lyónn Wolf, and a new commission initiated during an artist residency at FTHo in summer 2024. Wolf’s De-production creates an installation running through a succession of spaces in Flat Time House, dramatically transforming its interiors through sculptural and textual interventions. Playing upon the narrative and spatial tropes of popular Science Fiction, De-production has grown into an ongoing project for Wolf, tracing states of transition through what he describes as ‘an intentional re-patterning of reproductive logics’. Themes drawn from close readings of Ridley Scott’s Alien motion picture and subsequent sequels from 1979 to 1997 are a dominant aspect explored – monstrous motherhood, alienated embodiments and transitional states.

Barbara Steveni: I Find Myself OPENS AT VOID ARTS CENTRE, DERRY

24 January–4 April 2026

Preview: Saturday 17 January 2026 5.30–7.30pm

The life and work of Barbara Steveni (1928–2020), who described herself as an artist–activist, embodied an archive and pioneered a diffused art practice that resists clear definition. Invisible threads interlink the various roles she played in the contexts within which she was situated and responding to. As with other women artists of her generation she combined childrearing and managing domestic chores with the production of work, and was frequently overshadowed by her male partner’s success. The importance of Steveni’s role in the Artist Placement Group (APG) was often marginalised by gender-inflected terms such as ‘honorary secretary’, her practice was rarely recognised as having a value in its own right. The exhibition I Find Myself intends to redress this imbalance and encompass her life’s work, drawing together her practice and her experimentation with materials, media and strategies across a career spanning more than seventy years.

I Find Myself, co-curated by Jo Melvin and FTHo Curator/Director Gareth Bell-Jones was first presented at Modern Art Oxford in 2025.

TYLER COBURN: Some Monologues Book Launch, Performance and Conversation

4 February 2026 Doors 6.30pm, performance begins at 7pm

Join us for the release of Some Monologues by Tyler Coburn, a publication that gathers fifteen years of the artist’s scripts (Wendy’s Subway, 2025). On this occasion, Coburn presents a new monologue entitled People that draws influence from A Personal History of American Theatre (1980), a one-person performance by the American actor and writer Spalding Gray (1941–2004). Moving through a set of index cards bearing the names of plays he acted in, Gray told stories related to those productions, dwelling on events unfolding behind the scenes. As the order of the index cards was random, no two performances were ever the same. In Coburn’s version, each of his cards indicates the name of a person who has a role in the book: an academic he interviewed for a project, an amorous attendee to one of his monologues, his collaborator Susan Bennett (the original voice actress of Siri), a data center employee who insulted him, and more. People brings focus to Coburn's many collaborators and the monologues they helped create.

After performing People, Coburn is joined in conversation by writer and art critic Orit Gat.