Donald Eastwood

WEDNESDAY

Longtime bedfellows art and poetry come together for the A Foundation's Wednesday opening - Journeys With No Return at the A foundation is a show inspired by Nazim Hikmet's poetry anthology Journeys With No Return and drawing on its theme of Turkish Migration with relation to Contemporary Art.

Touring to Berlin and Istanbul afterwards, the artists on show are a welcome mix of artists from Germany, Great Britain and Turkey, and there is a conference with some good speakers at the Goethe-Institute later in the week (£20 a ticket!). The show website is here.

THURSDAY

Plenty to do on Thursday, unsurprisingly. The Barbican presents Architectural Playgrounds, an evening of live performance and immersive installations designed to play with the architecture of the gallery. Highlights should be Ian Giles's second work in the All Together Now series, Bee Emmott and Edward Fornieles:

"I lay next to her sleeping body, just about able to feel her through the sleeping bag. Pretending to sleep I moved against her. The distance covered was centimetres over many hours."

The full programme can be seen on the Barbican website here.

There are a few openings on Vyner Street as well, one interesting one looks to be Vegas Gallery's Peeping Tom, involving a more childlike and less perverted reading of the folk character:

"Peeping Tom was a late addition to the 11th century tale of Lady Godiva and her powerful husband, Leofric, Earl of Mercia. Peeping Tom was defined in the 17th century as "a curious prying fellow" and that definition is analogous with the idea of an artist today as someone who looks where others overlook or dismiss.The exhibition brings together many small works by various artists. Assembled together the works present a view into the multifarious interests of the artists involved - a spectacle for the scopophiliac."

There is a real shopping list of names involved, which you can browse, and find out more about the show here.

Lastly Peckham powerhouse Hannah Barry Gallery open their second show of the year this Thursday. Following Viktor Timofeev's Local Area Network(s), Green Hill Zone promises 'a vast, surprising installation' by Michael Allen and Tim Bouckley. Their website gives little further away, so I suppose we'll all have to go and see it instead. Hannah Barry website here.