Dean Kissick

MONDAY

The week begins with the first opening of ongoing exhibition 'This Is Why We Meet'; a collaboration between independent curators Pat And Trevor, advertising company Wieden+Kennedy, and the University of the Arts London. Performing "an investigation, showcase and celebration of collaborative working practice within the arts", Pat And Trevor have selected 4 students from each college to work together intensively for a one-week period prior to installation.

The project starts with Chelsea College of Art and Design students Kiwon Hong, Daniella Kemal, Hannah Newell and Grace Schofield, whose new and interactive artwork/invention will be exhibited within the Wieden+Kennedy window in East London. Kiwon Hong's multi-coloured cartoon-like machines were my personal highlight of the Chelsea degree show just passed, so it will be exciting to see the results of this collective experiment. For more information, and to view a live blog by the participating students, visit the project website.

THURSDAY

Then on Thursday, 'A Cinema' takes up temporary residence at The James Taylor Gallery in Hackney, combining an exhibition in the labyrinth of its auxiliary rooms with 2 film screenings. The visibly layered history of this monstrous warehouse complex invites filmmakers, artists and curators to interpret the space as a set to feed their own narratives, as well as revealing their differing perspectives and positions across the divide between mainstream and fine art film.

For the main show a makeshift movie theatre will be installed, featuring four up-and-coming artists whose work responds to cinema: Jon Garlick, Eugenia Ivanissevich, Sheena Macrae and Savvas Papasavva. I'd particularly recommend the deconstructionist art/music videos of Jon Garlick, who uses various techniques of re-appropriating and re-editing narrative films (often classic Shakespeare) to creating moving image collages of the real and the fantastical. Furthermore, the exhibition will be accompanied with a screening selected by Jonathan Entwistle, and 'ping pong present screen-play' by Marialaura Ghidini and Gaia Tedone. All details are available online.

FRIDAY

And the week ends with artist/curator Justin Jaeckle's 'Untitled (some kind of a bench mark)', the third commission for the facade of Auto Italia in Peckham. He plans to respond to the building with a series of gestures both practical and ephemeral, introducing elements such as a smokers' bench, a gilded doorway, an altered street lamp and geometric building-jewellery in a new topology of light, surface and underwhelming "mild spectacle".

According to the press release, "sculptural interventions extend the building's reach onto the street in a play of reflections and pools of colour... a slightly perplexed new kid on the block, with aspirations towards camaraderie and the aesthetic sublime." The full and unabridged text is available at auto-italia's website.