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27/11/2013

Antiknow

Flat Time House, London

A pedagogical theatre of unlearning and the limits of knowledge. Directed by Jakob Jakobsen.

Script and performance by the Antiknow Research Group: Maria Berrios, Howard Slater, Marina Vishmidt, John Hill, Mary Vettise, John Cunningham, Henrik Heinonen, Claire Louise Staunton, Katriona Beales, Mohammad Namazi, Danny Hayward, Paul Abbott, Gabriel Humberstone, Emma Hedditch, Anthony Iles, Jakob Jakobsen et al.

The exhibition, Antiknow is a collective effort into unlearning and non-knowledge as critical strategies. This, in a time where institutional and frozen forms of knowledge and learning shaped by economic forces increasingly characterise education and society in general. The term, Antiknow was originally introduced by John Latham as his course title for the Antiuniversity of London in 1968. It is doubtful whether this course ever took place.

During his six month residency at Flat Time House, starting in April 2013, visual artist Jakob Jakobsen engaged in elaborating possible meanings and consequences of the term Antiknow in the current context of so-called knowledge economy. Jakobsen set up the Antiknow Research Group involving young artists from FTHo's MFI Graduate Group as well as an number of artists, writers, and therapists with whom Jakob has collaborated for many years. This led to a series of meetings focusing on Antiknow in relation to work, politics, art, and resistance. Marina Vishmidt, Maria Berrios, Howard Slater and John Cunningham were invited to reflect on specific themes within these fields of social practice. Also involved in the group were John Hill, Mary Vettise, Henrik Heinonen, Claire Louise Staunton, Katriona Beales, Mohammad Namazi, Danny Hayward, amongst other incidental participants.

This exhibition is one of the consequences of Antiknow and involves experiments into drama for non-actors, unskilled music and free drawing. The exhibition uses FTHo as a ready made stage, using as a point of departure the anthropomorphic scheme that John Latham proposed for the building where each room is dedicated to a specific part of the body: The Mind, The Brain, The Body Event (Plumbing), and the Hand. In the space, a mechanical theatre has been developed. The various themes investigated by the Antiknow Research Group are presented as a drama (or anti-drama) between sets of loud speakers and synchronised lighting. The scripts have been produced collectively using transcriptions of the Antiknow Research Group meetings. The improvised/unskilled music is produced together with Paul Abbott and Gabriel Humberstone.

During the exhibition a series of events and performances will take place where poets, writers, musicians, and performers have been invited to relate to the term Antiknow.

A publication related to the exhibition will be available. Consisting of the collection of Antiknow Research Reports produced by the Group, the publication includes material and leftovers from Jakobsen's 6-month working process.

Sunday 1 December 6.30pm
A special performance by Emma Hedditch

Thursday 12 December 6.30pm
"anti poetry event know structure". With Danny Hayward and guests

Thursday 19 December 6.30pm
"This is the chariot, the ring, the circle... an infidel heteroglossia". An address by Anthony Iles and Eve Lear

Sunday 5 January 6.30pm
Roundtable on Madness. Hosted by Leon Redler

Thursday 9 January 6.30pm
"Let's make another possible now". Performances

Supported by the Danish Arts Council, Arts Council England and the Barry Flanagan Foundation.

Flat Time House (FTHo) is a gallery, archive and artist's residency space in the former home and studio of the British visual artist John Latham. Today, FTHo is a dynamic and autonomous institution with an emphasis on research-based art.

For further information please contact:
John Hill 0207 2074845 john@flattimeho.org.uk

Opening Thurs 28 Nov 6 - 8pm

Flat Time House
210 Bellenden Road London UK SE15 4BW
Opening hours are Thursday - Sunday, 12am - 6pm.

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