FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ
For her latest piece, ‘Lesions in the Landscape’ at FACT in Liverpool, Danish born artist Shona Illingworth presents a probing challenge to our traditional systems for recounting the past, exposing the fragile relationship between memory and identity, and the duplicity of fixed narratives. Review by Sara Jaspan
Zabludowicz Collection, 176 Prince of Wales Rd, London NW5 3PT
Richardson’s motivation for wrapping himself in junk and prosthetics is visibility: these additions allow his form to be more easily scanned by the software that captures and translates his likeness into a three-dimensional image. Clarity is sought through obfuscation. Marianne Templeton reviews
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 1V9
The 2015 Sobey Art Award exhibition of finalists is currently on show at Halifax’s Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Awarded to a Canadian artist under 40, the prestigious award and exhibition comes with a first prize of $50,000. Review by Elizabeth Grant
Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham B9 4AR
I got all kinds of reactions from friends and family when I told them I was off to sleep with a curator. Your idea of hell or unique, horizontal networking? Kate Self reviews
Cass Sculpture Foundation, New Barn Hill, Goodwood, Chichester PO18 0QP
Rough Music is not merely a homage to the handmade but draws out issues of feminism and the subversion of domestic objects. It is an intervention into how we use objects and what we might expect from them.
waterside contemporary, 2 Clunbury Street, London N1 6TT
The video combines and overlays several sets of footage; images of migrant ships seemingly taken from television news, newly shot sequences of rather liminal spaces such as train-lines that seem like the ports of southern England, and 'dramatic' or 're-enacted' scenes. These scenes are played by actors. David Price responds to this timely exhibition.
‘Spectacle: A Portrait of Stuart Sherman’, Deacon’s first full-length feature film, represents a major departure from his established practice.
Online 2nd to 16th November 2015
Chewday's,139 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6EE
Switching on my mobile torch reveals paintings beneath the monochromes; images of vintage female figures, overtly sexualised, sensationalised and often victims of violence. Limb by limb the figures become exposed in the darkness, creating dramatic flashes of a sinister narrative. Katherine Jackson reviews.
Valentin, 9 rue Saint-Gilles, 75003, Paris
Gabriele De Santis questions the codes of a fast-paced society that is constantly forced to perform demanding success, giving space to a translation of a system, the construction of a contemporary iconography and of an aesthetic of the present.
Elgiz Museum, Beybi Giz Plaza Maslak 34398 Istanbul
Elgiz Museum presents a solo show of Turkist artist Azade Köker whose work explores the resistance that nature shows towards its destruction and urbanisation.
Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre, Lochmaddy, Isle of North, Uist, Outer Hebrides HS6 5AA
Niven and Macdonald have responded to two distinct archeological sites - Rubh an Dunain on the Isle of Skye and The Udal on Uist. In negotiating these sites both artists seem to approach the same question albeit in different ways - that is to ask how we might talk about the contemporary? Or perhaps more poetically, to try and describe what it feels like to look out on the world from a particular moment in time. Review by Alexander Storey Gordon
The Old Print Works, 506 Moseley Rd, Birmingham B12 9AH
Miguel Gutierrez makes performances ‘that are about things and are things themselves. The things they are about are big: how to live in the world, how to love, how to feel about being yourself’. Kim McAleese reviews
Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA
Long has made both an art and a science out of walking, and it is this tension between qualitative and quantitative modes of experiencing, measuring and representing the natural environment that is evident throughout the exhibition. Review by Joseph Constable
Ocean Studios, Unit 12, Residence Two, Royal William Yard, Plymouth PL1 3RP
‘A Taste of Things to Come’, Ocean Studios’ inaugural exhibition, guarantees a future for Plymouth as a formidable force for arts and culture. Review by Eva Szwarc
