SE8 Gallery, 171 Deptford High Street, London SE8 3NU
The works take on a role somewhere between experiments, demonstrations, performances, drawings and statements, and are largely affectless. The text of this review begins in this way, logically but obscurely, in the spirit of the show. David Price reviews Tamarin Norwood
Limoncello, 340-344 Kingsland Road, London E8 4DA
This is no twee, feel-good surreality: characterisations bite, unexpected turns of events provoke a wince, and Williams’ delivery is invariably wry and self-reflexive. Isabella Smith reviews.
La Loge, Kluisstraat - Rue de l’Ermitage 86, B-1050, Brussels
La Loge presents Arvo Leo's feature-length film 'Fish Plane, Heart Clock' which celebrates and responds to the work of the Inuit hunter-turned-artist Pudlo Pudlat, alongside original drawings from Pudlo - many of which have never previously been exhibited.
The Drum, 144 Potters Ln, Birmingham B6 4UU
Season Butler is a maker-upper of stories. She plays provocatively and evocatively with truth and fiction, musing on the difference between what is unlawful and what is against the rules. Marlene Smith reviews
Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
'UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991-2015' is the most comprehensive midcareer survey of the work of the Los Angeles–based artist and writer to date, featuring 125 drawings, collages, paintings, and video installations.
DanceXchange, Thorp St, Birmingham, West Midlands B5 4TB
There is a power struggle between us, the audience, trying to fix our own meaning onto these multiplicitous bodies, and these bodies constantly tricking us, evading us, sending us on a wild goose-chase. The show teases us, castigating us lightly for trying to force the violence of our own perception and interpretation on these bodies. Louise Orwin responds to Supernatural.
mac birmingham, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, B12 9QH
Atom Egoyan, a Canadian film director renowned for his movies concerning themes of displacement and mechanisms of time and memory, has always been fascinated by Beckett and his pursuit to tackle the inexplicable within the brackets of language. Review by Dominika Mackiewicz
RCA, 1 Hester Road, London SW11 4AN
Royal Academy Schools
“There wasn’t another course which would have given that level of intimacy, attention or rigour.” Lucy Williams, Graduate of the RA Schools
Sluice, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, South Bank
Artists André de Jong, Andrew Lacon and Cathy Wade in conversation at Sluice 2015 with Anneka French. ‘After Carl’ discusses the discrepancies around Carl Andre's 'Equivalent VIII' (1966) - its description, measurements, provenance and position within art history in relation to new work made for exhibitions at Exchange Rates, New York (2014), Sluice (2015) and a new publication.
Various locations, Birmingham
In Victoria Square, performers play with the topographical change of the public realm, rolling their bodies against the Town Hall wall like water settling at the bottom of a valley. Review by Alessandro Columbano
Kingsgate Workshops, 110-116 Kingsgate Road, London NW6 2JG
Conran’s starting point was an eerily and unpredictably-wrought screenplay about a marooned islander, co-authored with novelist Yannick Hill – we’re given a page from it along with the gallery blurb. It occupies a place of possibility and provisionality that stands in pleasing contrast to the more polished quality of the recorded extract played. Review by Helena Haimes
Moseley Road Baths, Moseley Rd, Birmingham B12 9AN
Dominika Mackiewicz reviews the siting of Tim Etchells' neon sculpture 'Will Be' on the façade of the under-threat Moseley Road Baths for Fierce Festival.
Royal College of Art, 1 Hester Road, London SW11 4AN
Harun Farocki, Martha Rosler and John Smith's works are united by their critically engaged use of broadcast media. All three explore the potential impacts of media imagery, language and modes of representation upon political understanding and experience in the context of war. Review by Isabella Smith
