The kitchen/living room, bedroom and bathroom represents the internal organs, which Latham described as the Body Event, or ‘plumbing’.įlat Time House aims to make a wider audience aware of Latham's work and ideas, his spirit of discovery, and through his example to understand and appreciate the crucial role of art and the artist in society. Latham's wall spray artworks in the long gallery joining the Brain to the Hand encourage us to make ‘the shift’, emphasising Latham's eternal drive to find new ways of thinking and working. The book sculpture inside/outside is the Face, a small front gallery (housing more of Latham's works related to time) is the Mind, an office centre and archive is arranged as the Brain, and the large gallery/studio space represents the Hand. Inside, Latham assigned the rooms with the anthropomorphic attributes of the living body, with the aim of taking us on a physical and metaphorical journey. A giant cantilevered book entitled How the Univoice is Still Unheard emerges through the glass frontage of the building. The name of the house derives from Latham’s theoretical language, in which ‘Flat Time’ describes the way in which time and all possible events can be represented by the length and width of a flat canvas, demonstrated in works including Time-Base Roller (1972, Tate Collection). He developed a theory of time - ‘ Flat Time’ - relating the notions of time-base, passing time and the atemporal. Latham passionately believed that this would free the mind, language and pedagogy from dangerous specialisations and inevitable divisions. He proposed a shift towards a time-based cosmology to compensate for our sensory, spatially-dominated view of the world. He believed the non-linguistic media of art were the keys to resolving society’s conflicted relationships with objects, money and possessions. His work became increasingly driven by theoretical questionings. Latham’s art extended the boundaries of nearly every artistic genre conspicuous in Western art from the 1960s, including sculpture, installation work, paintings, film, land art, engineering, found-object, assemblage, video, performance happenings and theoretical writings.
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