Birmingham, UK
'Welcome to Berlin! Walk through this famously divided city and journey into the depths of the human heart. Visit the Berlin Wall, the Brandenburg Gate and the notorious site of Hitler's bunker. Hear stories of tragedy and lost love. Your experienced and
Birmingham Central Library, Paradise Forum Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3HJ
This intimate scenario for one audience member at a time is inspired by Ray Bradbury's sci-fi novel Fahrenheit 451. Here books are forbidden and burnt. Review by Diana Damian.
Moseley Friends Institute, 220 Moseley Road, Birmingham, West Midlands, B12 0DG
Bring us the troubles of the world, this city's crises and the hope in your hearts. Uninvited Guests are in town. We call on the people to gather with us, to read the day's newspapers together, to speak and to listen. Review by Diana Damian
St Philip's Square, outside Birmingham Cathedral, Birmingham B£ 2QB
Solo, collective and multi-lingual recitations from memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HS
Dachshund U.N. is both a joyful and chaotic experiment, and a meditation on the utopian aspirations of the Commission on Human Rights, and our capacity as humans to imagine and achieve a universal system of justice.
AE Harris, 110 Northwood Street, Birmingham
A new piece of high-impact choreography in the former metal works @AE Harris, devised with local participants. 'The subjects of each dance are the movements themselves. Dance is to be performed and perceived primarily on a physical level.
mac, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, B12 9QH
Cupid is a participatory performance installation that invokes Cupid's most famous actions: shooting at hearts with bows and arrows. But it is also a show that asks: which paths have we taken to get to this point' Until 8th April. Review by Andy Field
Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
Since the 1970s, Lis Rhodes has been making radical and experimental films that challenge the viewer to reconsider film as a medium of communication and presentation of image, language, and sound.
Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerpen, Tulpstraat 79, BE-2060 Antwerp
The artists' collective Magicgruppe Kulturobjekt collects materials from a variety of contexts, taken from both formal and functional relationships, and restages them as a spatial narrative. Review by Marianne Van Boxelaere
Curating Contemporary Art Course, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
This exhibition brings together practices that revisit the idea of RITUAL as a catalyst for transformative experience; a notion explored in the work of Lygia Clark ('I manipulate the rite without the myth'). Review by Max J Liu
CIRCA Site, Stephenson Works, South Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3PE
'The Persuaders' is Benedict Drew's latest work commissioned by CIRCA Projects as part of AV Festival 12: As Slow As Possible. Conceived in response to the theme of AV12 'The Persuaders' is an immersive, strange and hypnagogic solo show which deliberately
Metro Picture Gallery, 519 West 24th Street New York, NY 10001
When a homeowner hides the extra house key under a fake rock in their garden, they are not being tricky - they are conforming to the standard plan b. When the key is lost, use the other one...
