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Preview of the week Shows, talks and performance nights this week, including Hannah Barry, Nettie Horn, Askew and ArtEvict

Rob Dingle

This weeks preview bring together a range of different exhibitions and events with something for everyone. From an event of eclectic films and performances (including work by a range of different emerging artists) to group shows and an entire evening of scheduled openings in Deptford.

THURSDAY

Start the weekend early by visiting an eclectic evening of film and performance organised by Askew and entitled The Garden of Desire. Held at The Castel on Commercial road and open for one night only the event includes works by over forty of the most exciting emerging artists.

FRIDAY

If you thought group shows were about bringing in to relation interesting juxtapositions or uncover symbiotic relationships between artists then think again. Another exhibition opening this evening is Curatorial Detritus at Pippy Houldsworth. Inculding works by London-based artists Kounosuke Kawakami, Kentaro Kobuke, and Tom Leighton these artists nonetheless succeed in an unlikely union.

Here again to signify the months is almost out, Deptford Last Fridays just got better with 'Police and Theives' at The old Police Station, 'Prognostic Bridgewell' at APT Gallery, Jack Duplock at The Agency and don't miss 'Print Now', an exhibition of 100 emerging artists at Bearspace. Click here for more information

SATURDAY

If you do one thing this weekend then make sure you visit Nettie Horn and catch there recent exhibition Sensescapes that closes today. Including work from Benoit Broisat, Laura Buckley, Ian Burns and Sinta Werner the exhibition deals with the notion of "sensescapes" - a sensory experience evoking the relation between space and senses, geography and mind.

SUNDAY

For anyone interested in anything to do with art then make sure to visit seventeen and see New Display Strategies present What's in it for me. New Display Strategies is a think-tank to generate creative strategies for exhibiting cultural artefacts in an age of academic and corporate collaboration Closing today the exhibition poses an alternative history of exhibitions, artefacts, artists, their public and 'the few that buy things'.

Donald Eastwood

THURSDAY

To begin the week, the private view of 'Everybody's Autobiography' opens at Hannah Barry Gallery this Thursday from 6.30pm to 9pm. There is, as always, plenty going on for Hannah later this year including her sculpture park and the American Abstract Painting show that follows this. Everybody's Autobiography' features mixed-media works by Oliver Eales, photographs by Oliver Griffin and paintings by Will Jarvis. It is open to the public from 26th to 18th April, website can be found here.

FRIDAY

Opening from 6pm at the James Taylor Gallery the following day is Displacements, where curators Juliette Rizzi and Elenor Clayton look to displace common semantics of the word itself. The show introduction concentrates on the act of moving from one place to another, rather than the scientific and political meanings of a large body pushing smaller parts out the way, and extends this to mental journeys and well as physical ones.

The show presents what looks to be an interesting selection of performance and site specific installation from Alexandra Hughes, Rinat Kotler, Kala Newman, Pietro Spoto, Carolina Vasquez and Carla Esperanza Tommasini/ Elisa D'Ippolito. For more information see their website here.

"Why do we recognise some things and not others? How does the power of attention work?"

Not recognising people and not giving anyone your full attention - two classic ailments of art show goers. Thankfully they have been recognised as such and given the attention they deserve by Nilli Lavie, specialist in psychology and brain sciences, philosopher Mike Martin, and artist Christopher Stevens, in a free talk at 176. The talk starts at 7pm and finishes at 9pm - go to their website to reserve your place here.

SATURDAY

From 7pm on Saturday comes the third installment of ArtEvict's live art events in derelict buildings and squats around London. This is what it is offers 'a ride through live art to contemporary dance via an encounter with ourselves and each other' in a disused asphalt factory in Bow, and offers quite a good description of quite a lot of performance or live art in their subtitle: 'a mélange of gawking self-awareness and spectacle.'

Learn more about the night and the ongoing monthly agenda at their website here.

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