Ian Giles: We Are Temporary Structures

We Are Temporary Structures from Ian Giles on Vimeo.

Mother's Tankstation, 41-42 Watling Street, Ushers Island, Dublin 8, Ireland,  8 May 2013

Nina Canell: O Little Drops

Nina Canell's understated work "belies its richly diverse content" - O Little Drops is reviewed by John Gayer.

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The Secret Life of Things, live from Nottingham Contemporary


Mike Jay will discuss the case of James Tilly Matthews, an “incurable lunatic” confined to Bedlam in 1797. Matthews insisted his mind was being controlled by a machine. He is regarded as the first person to present clear symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia, and the Air Loom was an example of paranoid delusion now known as “the influencing machine.” What seems to be delusion, might alternatively be understood as a heightened ability to read technological change. Author, historian and curator Mike Jay has written widely on the cultural history of drugs, and psychiatry.

Maureen Paley, 21 Herald Street, London E2 6JT,  7 May 2013

Anne Hardy

Anne Hardy is known for her orchestrated, ambiguous photographic interiors. For the first time, she constructs her stages in the gallery itself. Review by Tim Walsh.

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Carroll / Fletcher, 56 - 57 Eastcastle St, London W1W 8EQ,  6 May 2013

Brand Innovations for Ubiquitous Authorship

Stolen and curated by Eva and Franco Mattes, reviewed by Kathryn Lloyd.

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THE SHELL - Madeleine Botet de Lacaze

THE SHELL - Madeleine Botet de Lacaze (Argentina) from Pacitti Company on Vimeo.

The Laing Art Gallery, New Bridge Street, NE1 8AG, Newcastle,  3 May 2013

Nick Kennedy: Timecasting

"The Line, however light, or uncertain it may be, always refers to a force, to a direction; it is an energon, a labour which reveals, which makes legible the trace of its pulsion and its expenditure. The line is a visible action." - Roland Barthes. Rebecca Travis reviews the exhibition.

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Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, Margate, Kent CT9 1HG,  2 May 2013

Rosa Barba: Subject to Constant Change

Rosa Barba's celebrated exhibition closes soon. Francesca Laura Cavallo discusses the artist's work along with her selection of perspective drawings by JMW Turner, also on show at Turner Contemporary.

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BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead, NE8 3BA,  1 May 2013

David Maljkovic: Sources in the Air

"For the artist, ‘Sources in the Air’ - an overview of his practice from the past decade - represents not a collection of works, but a new work in itself." Review by Chloe Reith.

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Artangel commission: various London venues,  30 Apr 2013

Oreet Ashery: Party for Freedom

Party for Freedom - an itinerant work that combines live performance with moving-image and an original album soundtrack - launches tomorrow with Artangel. Ruth Hogan spoke to artist Oreet Ashery about the project.

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Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX,  29 Apr 2013

Cara Tolmie: Pley

The role of context and subjectivity in our creation of meaning is explored in Tolmie's work, which grants visitors only partial access to the conversations and events the artist alludes to. Review by Phil Owen.

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Emma Bennett & Antonia Barnett-McIntosh: Accent, live from Arnolfini, Bristol, 7:30pm



Using extensive transcriptions, close listening and improvisatory techniques, Accent is a duet, conversation and mutual impersonation by Antonia, a composer and Emma, a performer.

This performance is a loose reconstruction, a formal experiment, a stupid game in which Emma and Antonia attempt to impersonate one another’s voices (accents, vocal tones, intonation, sentences). They imitate imitations, talk about talking, and mispronounce words. They hear themselves again, filtered through one another. Sometimes personal, sometimes cultural. And sometimes just like music.