Friday 31 May 6 - 8.30 pm

& Saturday 1 June 12 - 6 pm

curated by Margarida Mendes

February 15, 2002 -- The sun has just undergone an important change. Our star's magnetic field has flipped. The sun's magnetic north pole, which was in the northern hemisphere just a few months ago, now points south. It's a topsy-turvy situation, but not an unexpected one. "This always happens around the time of solar maximum," says David Hathaway, a solar physicist at the Marshall Space Flight Center. "The magnetic poles exchange places at the peak of the sunspot cycle. In fact, it's a good indication that Solar Max is really here."

The sun goes through dramatic changes every 11 years with unpredictable effects on our planet’s life. Alexandre Estrela, in his first solo presentation in London, will demonstrate the direct effect that these changes have with two works: the installation Antipodes, a video scroll composed of two complementary images of ethereal molecular matter that defy the perceptive movement of a rotating planisphere as if endless; and Polar Inversion, a 16mm film which depicts an image of the sun spontaneously composed by the passage of its rays through a small gap between trees, an autonomous image formed by an ephemeral camera obscura.

For more information please see our website www.flattimeho.org.uk

Flat Time House seeks participants for a new performance by artist Sarah Pierce
 
Sarah Pierce is looking for a small group of currently enrolled art students to participate in an hour-long public rehearsal and performance. Pierce works in a number of discursive formats that incorporate the personal and the incidental. The piece, titled Campus, emerges from Pierce’s ongoing interest in the college campus as a space of community predicated on shifting levels of presence and participation.

The performance will take place in Flat Time House over the course of one evening on 22 June 2013 and will be part of Flat Time House's forthcoming exhibition The Mental Furniture Industry. No prior experience necessary. For expressions of interest, or for more information please email info@flattimeho.org.uk

Forthcoming exhibition: The Mental Furniture Industry  29 June - 4 Aug

Image: Hornsey School of Art students, 1968, courtesy of Middlesex University Archives

Institutionalised education and standardised pedagogical practices are principal activities of the Mental Furniture Industry (MFI). Likewise, the tools of this trade – books and language – are the apparatus of learnt knowledge and received opinion.

This exhibition narrates three historic examples of pedagogical radicalism. The Anti-University, The Hornsey Sit-in and Alexander Trocchi’s sigma project. Alongside a small, accessible archive of material from 1964-1968 are selected works produced by the artists and writers involved in the collective activism.

In addition, a number of artists propose contemporary projects of un-learning, obstruction to instruction and anti-knowledge through performances, physical and performative interventions, including Olivia Plender & Patrick Staff, Sarah Pierce and Adelita Hsuni-Bey. Jakob Jakobsen will launch his new project, Anti-know.

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