Donald Eastwood

ONGOING

Running on from 15th January at Hannah Barry Gallery until 11th February is LOCAL_AREA_NETWORK[s], a solo show by Hunter College graduate Viktor Timofeev. The canvas and paper works describe highly enticing geometric abstractions and architectural vistas that really are as the press release states 'both utilitarian and surreal'. To find out more see the Hannah Barry website here.

WEDNESDAY

20 Hoxton Square Projects kick off the year on Wednesday night with the group show Kilimanjaro Magazine Edits: art, love and everyday life. It is curated by Olu Michael Odukoya, the founder and editor of the cutting-edge creative talent broadsheet, who has chosen photographers Henry Roy, Robi Rodriguez, Claudia Stockli, J H Engstrom and Lukas Wassman and sculptors Alex Hoda, Michael Samuels and Milton Marques to present works around themes of storytelling. Click here for the Kilimanjaro magazine website.

THURSDAY

Running back to back with the Kilimanjaro launch the night before, 20 Hoxton Square presents an evening of performance entitled Oral Tales for February's First Thursday. The evening shows three performances from Eloise Fornieles and Kate Hawkins, Amelia Whitelaw and Kirstie Macleod, last seen in Paradise Row's Frieze-week show Play.

The performances connect to Kilimanjaro's theme of storytelling through responses to source poetry, folk tales, fairy tales and gender narratives, including The Grandmother's Tale - the original Little Red Riding Hood story - and Emily Martin's 'The Egg and the Sperm: How science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles.' It is from 6-9pm upstairs at 20 Hoxton Square. Website here.

Also opening Thursday and running for the weekend in Kinetica Museum's second Kinetica Art Fair, presenting work from leading contemporary arts organisations and artists specialising in kinetic, electronic, robotic, light, sound, time-based and interdisciplinary new media art in the art fair context. This year a special feature exhibition will be dedicated to the pioneers and Masters of kinetic art, with pieces on loan from private collection as well as original interactive installations from the 1968 exhibition of cybernetic art, Cybernetic Serendipity. Website here.

And lastly for Thursday is the excellent Boo Saville's solo show, Totem, at Trolley Gallery: "Entitled 'Totem', this new body of work encapsulates the unifying anthropological and archeological aspects evident in her work, and her representation of the deceased captured through an exploration of various forms of mark-making, itself a reflection of human expression and representation..." Click here to read more.

FRIDAY

Two good-looking shows to end the week. Unfinished Business at the Waterside Project Space is a group show of works by Kevin Schmidt, Stian Adlandsvik, Kiera Blakey, Kama Sokolnicka, Leo Babsky, Robert Emmet Dunne and Pierre d'Alancaisez.

'Something is missing in this exhibition: it lacks a punchline. The works extend aesthetic and semiotic gestures - we feel that something is being given to us, but ultimately notice the messages are blanks, signs without words. The unattributed triumphs, the non-events, the bleak outlooks and the empty poetry all create expectations which we want to see fulfilled.' Read more here.

After that you should head to Wilkinson Gallery on Vyner Street for Simian Mobile Disco + Matthew Stone + Videoportraits - Live at 9pm. The evening includes a screening of Saam Farahmand's 20-minute film 'Study after Cruel Intentions' and his AV show 'VideoPortraits', a set by Simian Mobile Disco, and one by Photographer Matthew Stone. See their Facebook event here, with a trailer for VideoPortraits. Tickets can be bought here.