mac birmingham, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, West Midlands B12 9QH
Performers are so frequently on stage as the audience enters that it barely warrants notice, but in McIntosh’s piece it is significant - it is the first instance of her observing us as a collective. She is not just sitting of course. She is watching and apparently noticing. Deborah Pearson responds to All Ears.
Birmingham Open Media (BOM), 1 Dudley St, Birmingham B5 4EG
By taking part you reveal and pull up what anchors you. Take a look at it. Perhaps it isn’t what you expected. Is that all right? Arike Oke responds to 'Spit Kit'.
Cecilia Brunson Projects, 3 Royal Oak Yard, London SE1 3GD
We are meant to be those adrift: the whole premise is a simulation of migration, a mid-point between hope and despair. Niko Munz reviews Coco Fusco's And the Sea Will Talk to You.
SD Video 31’ 15 video, colour, sound online 12 - 26 October 2015
For LADA Screens 4 we screened the film documenting ‘One Year Performance 1981–1982 (Outdoor Piece)’ by Tehching Hsieh.
The Mockingbird Theatre, Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham B9 4AA
Martinez appears in a crisp white suit and a flash of jewellery. She's dressed elegantly, so when she whips out a trowel and mixed cement, any preconceived ideas a chauvinist might have on gender are called into question. Eloise Fornieles reviews the performance at Fierce Festival.
Coates and Scarry 8 Duke St, ST James, London SW1Y 6BN
When Wright takes a step back, letting her images be messy or even awkward, her work begins to take hold of you not by its staged loveliness but by its ineffable strangeness. Review by Lizzie Lloyd
Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Rd, Coventry, West Midlands CV4 7AL
I am greeted by the following sign when I arrive: ‘‘Weaklings’ performance contains scenes of a sexual nature and content that some viewers may find disturbing’. I can’t wait! I don’t leave the house for anything less. Review by Leo Francisco
Frutta, Frua Via Giovanni Pascoli, 21 00184 Roma, Italy
In Santo Tolone's solo exhibition at Frutta, his works are housed in a theatre and waiting room space, slowly revealed by motorised curtains.
SPREEZ, Schwanthalerstraße 147, 80339 Munich, Germany
SPREEZ presents 'MULTIBALLS', a solo exhibition by Berlin based artist Julian Stalbohm.
Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Durslade Farm, Dropping Ln, Bruton, Somerset BA10 0NL
Contrary to the more general scope of Holzer's previous series, which covered feminism, politics, domestic violence, and power dynamics, ‘Softer Targets’ shifts to focus aim on state secrets, cover-ups and government corruption. Review by Trevor H. Smith
Birmingham Open Media (BOM), 1 Dudley St, Birmingham B5 4EG
‘Orange Bikini’ visualises the psyche of a woman of colour, revealing her powerful and resilient spirit and subtlely acknowledging anxieties around beauty ideals. Review by Lynnette Miranda
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, City Library and Arts Centre, Fawcett Street, Sunderland SR1 1RE
Dennis approaches conditions through his visual vernacular, in a gangly muddling of personal and public affairs. Review by Zara Worth
SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves St, Long Island City, NY 11101
An interactive institutional critique, ’Numbers in a Room’ grants viewers permission to reconfigure the set language of a space as a form with which one can create, move, and play. Review by Rusty Van Riper
Centrala, Unit 4 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5RT
As anyone who’s opened a British newspaper recently will be amply aware, the word ‘migrant’ has become an incredibly loaded one over the last few months. Małgorzata Dawidek has stepped straight into the fray with her distinctive visual language. Review by Helena Haimes
