Bristol Old Vic, King St, Bristol, BS1 4ED
The Record is 61 minutes in which 45 local people perform a series of choreographed movements on the vast empty stage of Bristol Old Vic. They are here because they responded to an open call for participants. None of them had met prior to arriving at the theatre for opening night. Review by Andy Field.
Centro de Arte Andaluz Contemporáneo (CAAC) and Sala de Exposiciones Santa Inés, Seville
One way to approach the recent body of work from Leonor Serrano Rivas is to understand it as a deconstruction of sorts of what would make a theatrical event. The Spanish artist has presented three key elements of a theatre play – the stage, the costumes and the backdrop – across two venues. Text by Lorena Muñoz-Alonso.
Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park, London SW11 4NJ
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Pilvi Takala's ‘The Committee’ is a charming and timely exhibition that comments on the value of creativity for children, the opportunities it affords them and, significantly, is told from their perspective. Bobby Jewell reviews
l'étrangère, 44A Charlotte Rd, London EC2A 3PD
There is something about the acidic, mashed up retro-modernism of this joint exhibition by David Ben White and Karen Tang that seems to resonate with the current spate of 1980s nostalgia. Review by Piers Masterson
Hannah Barry Gallery, 4 Holly Grove, Peckham, London SE15 5DF
Encountering Mohammed Qasim Ashfaq’s work, ‘Black Sun’, is as much a lesson on the poetics of architecture as it is a visual experience. Review by Joan Lee
Turf Projects, Keeley Road, Croydon, London, CR0 1TF
Agnes Calf presents a new body of gold-tinted work at Turf Projects providing a setting for an exploration of an artwork’s apparent mutism in the face of perception, archivism and interpretation.
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Witte de Withstraat 50 - 3012 BR Rotterdam
Prouvost’s installation transforms the ground floor of Witte de With into a sodden sub-aqueous bar. Combining sculpture, video and sound, the form of a mundane high street commercial space is defamiliarized. Here language is as slippery as a squid, function as deceitful as fiction.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
The exhibition 'alien matter' aims to examine new relationships between man and machine through the work of thirty artists brought together around four thematic focal points: artificial intelligence, plastics, infrastructure and the internet of things. Review by Anaïs Castro.
Bodega, 167 Rivington Street, Lower Level East, New York
Today there are many critical voices calling for America to look carefully at the political landscape of Europe in the interwar years. Hannah Black’s second solo exhibition in America, ‘Soc or Barb,’ uses an abridged citation of the communist philosopher and activist Rosa Luxemburg to remind her audience of a previous political precipice, the failed 1918 German Revolution. Review by Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe.
Bosse & Baum, 133 Copeland Road, SE15 3SN
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Betsy Porritt reviews Candida Powell-Williams' exhibition 'The Vernacular History of the Golden Rhubarb', finding a condensing of history into a singular moment.
narrative projects, 110 New Cavendish Street, Fitzrovia, London W1W 6XR
Mahmoud Bakhshi's exhibition addresses the violence of Iran's 1979 revolution, and as the title, ‘The Unity of Time and Place’, suggests, the past inhabits the present too. Review by Henry Broome
IMT Gallery, 2, 210 Cambridge Heath Rd, London E2 9NQ
The walls of the gallery have been spray painted to resemble some kind of toxic sky, with poisonous greens and billowing hues of black and purple. It creates a trail of changing colours like some kind of Romantic painter’s nightmare, through to its charred end. Review by Theo Turpin
