Listening Session II

An overloaded transmission from a quasi-personal stellar source
A live, long form radio broadcast from Flat Time House in collaboration with Resonance 104.4fm

Adam and Jonathan Bohman, Daniela Cascella, William Furlong, Ken Hollings, Elisa Kay, Roberta Kravitz, Noa Latham, Richard Thomas, Athanasios Velios, Patrick Wildgust, Mark Peter Wright (UK)

Curated by Lucia Farinati and Richard Thomas with the assistance of Gareth Bell-Jones

Flat Time House, London, 29 July - 1 August 2010

"This project is about organising the documents of the late artist John Latham: a vast amount of unpublished and disorganised correspondence, writings, video, audio tapes and other material found at his house in South London. The research will produce detailed descriptions of the archive contents and a newly designed database and classification system that will mirror Latham's theories on 'Events and Event Structures'. Without the presence of John Latham, this research will allow his material to be presented to a new generation of artists and academics in a manner consistent with his way of thinking, promoting new work and disseminating his thinking to a much wider audience. This classification system will rely on the content management tools offered by the open source system Drupal. Choosing suitable models for classifying the archive documents within Drupal will be a large part of the proposed work. This research takes place inside a larger project to create a John Latham Centre at which exhibitions, artist residencies, screenings and other events will take place, all informed by the work and ideas of John Latham. The archive's presence at the centre of this will help reanimate John Latham within his own home. The digitised archive will be available on-line, encouraging wider research into Latham as well as visits to the house itself." -- http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/reanimating_john_latham_through_archive_event

Project Website: http://www.ligatus.org.uk/jla/

Exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, Anarchive, [2 April - 5 September 2010], exploring John Latham's archive through a selection of works and papers co-curated by Antony Hudek, Athanasios Velios, Research Fellows at Ligatus, University of the Arts, London, and Nayia Yiakoumaki, Archive Curator, Whitechapel Gallery.: http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/john-latham-anarchive

During the exhibition other related events took place in the Gallery:

• A performance by David Toop entitled FLAT TIME/sounding, supported by the PRS Foundation, which produced material for the Alyosha section of the online archive
• The launch of the book The Portable John Latham
• The launch of a DVD with John Latham's films
• A gallery talk by Nayia Yiakoymaki
• A film screening entitled The Films of John Latham: EXPRMNTL followed by a discussion between Antony Hudek and Athanasios Velios about the online John Latham Archive

courtesy of Ligatus.org