Karen Mirza & Brad Butler: Deep State
Deep State is new 45-minute film by Karen Mirza & Brad Butler that has been scripted in collaboration with author China Miéville. Screenings in November/December across the UK - see www.fvu.co.uk for details. Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella. Funded by Arts Council England and London Councils. Courtesy of Waterside Contemporary, London.

Institute of Contemporary Arts The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH

Bjarne Melgaard: A House to Die In

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A House to Die In is New York based Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard's first solo exhibition in the UK. The Lower and Upper Galleries feature two of his collaborative projects, which investigate the dynamics of creative and collaborative relationships. Re

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The Drawing Room, Tannery Arts, 12 Rich Estate, Crimscott Street, London SE1 5TE

Paul Sietsema

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Drawing Room presents the first major exhibition by Paul Sietsema in the UK. The exhibition includes new, previously unseen works. Review by Rachel Guthrie

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Bagwag Contemporary Foundation, Franz Josefs Kai 3, 1010 Wien

Katie Paterson: Inside This Desert

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Katie Paterson strives to communicate unimaginably large or distant occurrences in nature or the universe, transforming them through the medium of everyday objects or materials and reducing them to a human scale.

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Regenerate Art. Led by Benedict Seymour 
Seymour was amongst the first to review Francis Upritchard?s work in the context of the Bart Wells Institute - an artist run space in a Hackney squat, founded by Upritchard and Luke Gottelier in 2001. This discussion around regeneration and gentrification will draw on films made with The London Particular.

David Roberts Art Foundation, Symes Mews, London NW1 7JE

A House of Leaves

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Inaugurating their new premises, A Houses of Leaves, references a work by American novelist Mark Z. Danielewski in which different storylines, told in different styles, intertwine. Review by Emily Burns

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The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, London NW6 5BA

Lindsay Seers: Nowhere Less Now

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Conceived specially for an arresting 19th century corrugated iron chapel in Kilburn, known locally as The Tin Tabernacle, Nowhere Less Now is an ambitious new installation by British artist Lindsay Seers. Review by Tim Walsh

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Jonas Mekas: As I was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall Street, London SE11 5RH

Lana Lin

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Since the early 1990s, Lin has developed a rich body of film and video work dealing with processes of identification and the politics of translation. Review by Yvette Greslé

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SWG3 Gallery, 100 Eastvale Place, Glasgow

Owen Piper: The Quid

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'All about everything... and a little bit more' was the slogan of The Quid, an encyclopedia published annually from 1963. At the time it was the most popular encyclopedic reference work in France. From the price of a kilogramme of potatoes in the north of

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Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Nyhavn 2, 1051 Copenhagen K, Denmark

Ruth Ewan

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This autumn Charlottenborg presents an exhibition by Scottish artist Ruth Ewan, a project exploring the utopian power of music. One major element is a unique archive of contemporary musical instruments, to which the artist is inviting members of the publi

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