Festival Hub @ The Edge, 79–81 Cheapside, Birmingham B12 0QH
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Both tearing apart and remodelling the female form from within itself is Narcissister. Her performance and video works for Fierce Festival are reviewed by Benjamin Sebastian.
Nightclub, 2017 W. Moffat St. #1 Chicago, IL 60647
Despite noble attempts to avoid overt referencing, the works of both artists share a quietly macabre aesthetic that feels intentionally dated; filtered through outmoded technologies and 90s horror film clichés. Review by Alex Kuusik
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, City Library and Arts Centre, Fawcett Street, Sunderland SR1 1RE
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George Vasey’s inaugural exhibition as curator of the NGCA deplores the aesthetics of sensitive observation, the poetics of biographical distance and ruminates on our disparate screen-based devices as the threshold for introspective broadcast. Review by Josh Wilson
Polish Centre, Bordesley Street, Birmingham B5 5PH
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Slow Dance invites you to cast off the awkwardness of the school disco and embrace the music wrapped in a stranger's arms. Review by Shelley Hastings.
Union Pacific, 17 Goulston Street, London E1 7TP
Union Pacific's inaugural exhibition features works by Olga Balema, Adriano Costa, Jan Kiefer, Aude Pariset, Max Ruf, Yves Scherer, Julie Born Schwartz & Pedro Wirz.
Various locations
Eat the Street invites audience members to share a meal with a group of specially trained food critics aged eleven and twelve years old. Part of Fierce Festival. Review by Kaye Winwood.
Festival Hub @ The Edge, 79–81 Cheapside, Birmingham B12 0QH and Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Broad St, Birmingham B1 2ND
Influences is a pop-up nail bar that forms a site of exchange exploring attitudes to feminism, female expectations and aspirations within Fierce Festival. Review by Jacqueline Taylor.
Festival Hub @ The Edge, 79–81 Cheapside, Birmingham B12 0QH
Madlove provides an open space for participants to collaboratively imagine the asylum of their insanest needs. Part of Fierce Festival. A personal response by Laura Delaney.
David Zwirner, 537 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011
PeaRoeFoam is Rhoades’s self-made recipe for a “brand new product and revolutionary new material” created from whole green peas, fish-bait style salmon eggs, and white virgin-beaded foam.
DanceXchange, Birmingham Hippodrome, Thorp Street, Birmingham B5 4TB
Gutierrez's performance held the audience experience in the highest regard, working with total precision to create a painstakingly designed landscape. Part of Fierce Festival. Review by Season Butler.
Festival Hub @ The Edge, 79–81 Cheapside, Birmingham B12 0QH
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Jo Bannon's performance reveals much about the act of looking in an intimate and highly personal encounter. Roma Piotrowska reviews Exposure at Fierce Festival.
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Festival Hub @ The Edge, 79–81 Cheapside, Birmingham B12 0QH
Biters by David Blandy and Larry Achiampong prove that newly visual language always has some theft at its roots. Part of Fierce Festival Lates. Cathy Wade reviews.
Birmingham Conservatoire, Paradise Place, Fletchers Walk, Birmingham B3 3HG
The agony of music lessons; the exclusivity of the grand piano and the loneliness of the solitary pianist are explored in Concerto No 3. Part of Fierce Festival, reviewed by Rowan Lear.
