COW, 82-85 Digbeth High Street, Birmingham B5 6DY & The Drum, 144 Potters Ln, Birmingham B6 4UU

Fierce Festival, PME-ART: The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information & Listening Party

In the YouTube/Spotify universe where we expect flashy visuals and every song present at our fingertips, in a world where recorded music is so often the sound of the background, the gentle fumbling of the record player and clumsiness of the vinyl is charming. The liveness of the performance offers an alternative mode of being together, a difference pace for our communal rhythm. Review by Phoebe Patey-Ferguson

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Finding Fanon 2 by Larry Achiampong and David Blandy

Finding Fanon 2, made by Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, uses the Grand Theft Auto 5 in-game video editor. Finding Fanon 2 was commissioned by Brighton Digital Festival 2015, supported by Arts Council England. The Finding Fanon series is inspired by the lost plays of Frantz Fanon, (1925-1961) a politically radical humanist whose practice dealt with the psychopathology of colonisation and the social and cultural consequences of decolonisation.

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The Old Print Works, 506 Moseley Rd, Birmingham B12 9AH

Fierce Festival, Club Fierce: Gazelle Twin and Sarah Farina

The short songs are beat heavy, rhythmic and repetitive, perfect for dancing, right? But to close your eyes and freestyle doesn’t feel right. This is observation dance music. Review by Sarah Lafford

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Skarstedt, 23 Old Bond Street, London, W1S 4PZ

Childish Things

Featuring iconic works by Vija Celmins, Robert Gober and Mike Kelley, 'Childish Things' engages with the deeply personal and often repressed memories of childhood.

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Lakeside Gallery, Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham B9 4AA

Fierce Festival, Livingstone / Lacey / Pétrin / Thompson: Culture, Administration & Trembling

Culture, when the administration is sophisticated (as it is here), will often leave us trembling; our knowledges questioned, comforts challenged and consumerist engagement practices interrupted. Benjamin Sebastian reviews

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Moseley Road Baths, Moseley Rd, Birmingham B12 9AN

Fierce Festival, SLIP

SLIP, Fierce Festival’s two-day take-over of the disused Women’s Slipper Baths at the historic Moseley Road Baths, is reviewed by Phoebe Patey-Ferguson.

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David Dale Gallery & Studios, 161 Broad Street, Glasgow, G40 2QR

Hardeep Pandhal: Plebeian Archive

Hardeep Pandhal's multi-media installation at David Dale is punctuated with large scale wall drawings of Bhagat Singh, an activist who disguised himself by cutting his beard and replacing his turban with a trilby to commit violent acts of protest during the Indian independence movement.

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Korean Pavilion, Il Padiglione Coreano Biennale di Venezia, Giardini di Castello 30122 Venice

Venice Biennale 2015 - Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho: The Ways of Folding Space & Flying

A sense of groundlessness flows throughout this image laboratory, where the notion of creativity and the artist’s hand are rendered redundant amidst the overload and future drowning of history. Review by Joseph Constable

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Birmingham Open Media (BOM), 1 Dudley St, Birmingham B5 4EG

Fierce Festival, Club Fierce: Anklepants & Chromatouch

For this iteration of Club Fierce a small stage is arranged near the entrance and two overlapping projections outline the performance area. Gradually an audience gather for the presentation of Berlin-based artist Anklepants and Birmingham-based Chromatouch. Sean Francis Burns reviews.

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Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP

Josh Kline: Freedom

If the politics of the future is of pre-verbal desires, Kline has succinctly traced a terse list of claims for the increasingly self-digitised future that has yet to be publicly voiced by elected figures. Review by Jaime Marie Davis

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Regents Park

A portrait of Frieze London 2015 by Sylvain Deleu

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Den Frie, Kunstforeningen, GL STRAND, Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Nikolaj Kunsthal og Overgadan, Copenhagen

Copenhagen Art Festival 2015: TRUST

Five important art venues in the city (and Copenhagen has surprisingly many for its size) have been relabelled with fictional titles such as The Temple, The Salon or The Palace, based on bourgeois archetypes. Pieter Vermeulen reviews this year's Copenhagen Art Festival, curated by Sonia Dermience.

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Birmingham Open Media, 1 Dudley St, Birmingham B5 4EG

Fierce Festival, Selina Thompson: Race Cards

Race Cards is a stream of consciousness that emerges from an epic durational work. The questions are a mapping of Thompson’s thoughts containing humour, tragedy, irony and pathos. Harold Offeh reviews the project.

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Various locations, London

Art Licks Weekend

In contrast to 21st century globalised biennales, Art Licks offers the freedom and initiative for artist-run projects, curatorial collectives and emerging galleries to show their work to the public without the daunting voice of authority hovering overhead. Review by Aris Kourkoumelis

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