First public presentation of the Archive As Event project about the archive of the artist John Latham. Tate auditorium. ARLIS UK&Ireland event. Co-researcher and co-presenter: Antony Hudek.

1. Archive as Event
www.ligatus.org.uk/jla
Antony Hudek Athanasios Velios

2. John Latham by Ida Kar (NPGx131192)

3. John Latham outside Flat-Time-House

10. Cosmological theory

12. The Sibling Structure of Archive as Event
‘You will remember one of the brothers [Karamazov] was head-on into
whatever happened to him, and he never observed himself in the least; the
next one was observing himself so closely that the only free act ultimately
open to him was suicide. However acute his observation the world was
still an illogical farce. The third, youngest brother was reflective but not
stuck on his intellectual rigour, and this left him free to ‘intuit’ right
solutions in the context he was in.’
John Latham in conversation with Charles Harrison, ‘Where does the collision happen?’, Studio
International vol. 175, n 900 [May 1968], 260.

13. Observer I (1959)

14. Book Relief Triad (1959/2003)

15. O1-1O [OHO]
‘If the symbol ‘0’ represents a state of zero action and least
extension, and the symbol ‘1’ represents a state of least action and
least extension then a ‘least event’ is the change of state 01 and the
return to state 0. The existence of state ‘1’ presupposes state ‘0’ and
vice versa. A possible alternation between these states was
expressed in Andrew Dipper’s delightful equation, the prototype
oscillation, 01-10.’
(Richard Hamilton, John Latham: Early Works 1954-1972 [London: Lisson Gallery, 1987], 14.)

16. One-Second Drawing [Time-Signature 5:1] (1972)

17. Three Times
‘Well, it’s an artist’s natural medium to use three kinds of time. And you
find it in music as obvious – there’s no question about it. There a
performance takes say half an hour, which is in clock time, and what I
would call count time, whereas the sound that you hear is an
organization of time-bases, which is virtually rhythms, intervals, and
insistently recurrent sounds….’
John Latham in conversation with Alanna Heiss at the Venice Biennale (9 June 2005)

18. Time-Base Roller (1972) Time-Base Roller with Graphic Score (1987)

20. Sun Times, Mitya Edition (12 June 2009)

21. APG Art & Economics exhibition catalogue, Hayward Gallery
(1971/1972)