Bermondsey Tube Station, 142-154 Jamaica Road, London SE16 4RX

Ilona Sagar and Patrick Coyle: Art Licks Weekend

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Earlier this month, Art Licks partnered with Art on the Underground to bring some of the 'Stop, Look, Listen!' performances to Bermondsey tube station. Edwina Attlee reviews Ilona Sagar and Patrick Coyle's work.

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No Movie for Asco: Harry Gamboa Jr & Rita Gonzalez, broadcast live from Nottingham Contemporary 6:30 BST
http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/no-movie-asco-harry-gamboa-jr
An opportunity to reveal both the original context of Asco's production and its current place within a history of contemporary art practice in Los Angles and beyond. The evening will opens with a presentation by Rita Gonzalez, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angles County Museum of Art, and Co-Curator of the landmark 2011-12 survey of Asco's work, Elite of the Obscure. Asco member Harry Gamboa Jr. will then discuss the group?s formation, their strategic use of the photographic image, and the social dynamics involved in producing works in East LA in the period 1972-85.

Laura Bartlett Gallery, 4 Herald St, London, E2 6JT

Allison Katz: Regardless

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Bearing in mind the tensions between introverted and extroverted desires, and an attraction to the margins of narrative, Katz freely employs quotation and surprising combinations of colour and form.

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AE Harris, 110 Northwood Street, Birmingham. B31

Fierce Festival, Heather Cassils: Becoming an Image

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Before 'Becoming an Image' begins, the audience stands, at a respectful distance, in a circle around a human-sized obelisk of unfired clay. Its pitted surface is lit from above, and there's an atmosphere of, if not veneration, then certainly hushed, ritua

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Club PST, 71 Lombard St, Digbeth, Birmingham. B12 0QU

Fierce Festival, Club Fierce: xxx

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Fierce Festival is 15 this year: the precipice of the age of consent. When you're 15 you think that you've done your growing and you've done your learning and you just want to get on with being a grown up already and being able to do all those things that

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AE Harris, 110 Northwood Street, Birmingham. B31

Fierce Festival, Club Fierce: Eat My Noise

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Fierce's 15th anniversary programme is full of the doubt, wonder, enthusiasm and questioning that its teen-age demands. On the second night of Fierce 2013, two Club Fierce programmes are presented, both of them trembling with the uncertainty and the arrog

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mac Birmingham, Cannon Hill Rd, Birmingham B12 9QH

Fierce Festival, Brian Lobel: Fun with Cancer Patients

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At the age of 20, Brian Lobel was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Unsurprisingly, his illness changed the course of his life, leading ultimately to his decision to study performance and become an artist. Now 31, Lobel has frequently returned to cancer a

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Birmingham Ormiston Academy, 1 Grosvenor Street, Birmingham. B4 7QD

Fierce Festival, Atlanta Eke: Monster Body

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This body is shape-shifting; it leaks and dances to the tunes of Britney Spears; it hoola-hoops as if stuck in endless repetition. Sometimes, it gains an identity, although brief and uncertain. Review by Diana Damian

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