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The week ahead Future Map 09, Art Barter, talks at the ICA, Tate Britain and 176 project space and shows at Josh......

Rob Dingle

MONDAY

What better way to start the week than by expelling a few sacred myths of our current generation. In tonight's talk at the ICA Slavoj Zizek discusses his new book 'First as Tragedy, Then as Farce', and examines one of the 'four horsemen of the apocalypse' - the threat of ecological catastrophe. Zizek's scepticism in the belief that we shouldn't mess around with nature, he posits, as the new opium of the masses and one of the most insidious and most conservative ideologies of our time. Talk chaired by James Harkin.

TUESDAY

Mid-week brings us to Future Map. Now entering its twelfth year Tuesday night's private view marks an end to this eagerly anticipated exhibition held at 20 Hoxton Square. Showcasing the brightest new talent from graduating students of this year's University of the Arts London, Future Map proves to be an alternative platform for launching artistic talent. Opening on the 25th November the exhibition runs until the 23rd December.

While at Hoxton Square why not afterwards turn your attention to the White Cube? Walk to the other end of the square and catch the opening of Damien Hirst's new solo show Nothing matters from Wednesday onwards.

FRIDAY

Begin the weekend with a series of late openings of all the most exciting galleries and art spaces in Deptford, including Utrophia, ARCH Gallery and Bearspace. One event launching this evening and looking likely to attract the crowds is Let Yourself Go at the Old Police Station. The exhibition is a site specific space transformation that creates a 'theatre' for physical interaction. 'A wall is built across the space using black elastic to form a woven pattern which can support the weight of a body thrown against it. The pattern of the wall is accentuated by theatrical lighting that projects shadows of the web across the space. The environment is completed by a DJ'd program of unrestrained music.'

SATURDAY

Don't let this last chance to see Polaroid at the Atlas Gallery slip away despite the efforts of the night before. The exhibition is timed to coincide with the with the use-by date of the final batch of Polaroid film ever made by the Polaroid Corporation. Photographers featured in the exhibition include Ansel Adams, David Bailey, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jim Goldberg, Andre Kertesz, Helmut Newton, Rankin and Andy Warhol alongside specially commissioned pieces by contemporary artist Marc Quinn (see the main picture above), pop artist Peter Blake. and Magnum photographer Elliot Erwitt.

Donald Eastwood

WEDNESDAY

At Trolley gallery with the private view on Wednesday from 6pm is Black Dog Yellow House, a group show curated by the painter Rachel Howard. The central theme of the show is endearingly personal: they are all artists, whose work has come to Howard's attention, and whom she admires. They also deal with literal or metaphorical aspects of the human condition, for which the shows title acts as a heralding call:

"Black Dog was Churchill's epithet for his recurring depression; Yellow House was home for three months to van Gogh and Gaugin in Arles, two relatively unknown artists painting, eating, talking, sleeping and drinking together ending in madness, mutilation and eventually suicide."

The artists involved are Matthew Burrows, Boo Saville, Colin Glen and Adam Dix, whose work you may also see this week in Future Map. Trolley Gallery's website is here.

THURSDAY

Not unusually, there is much to do this Thursday. Two talks to start with. The penultimate talk of the Pete and Repeat exhibition at 176 looks to be another gem: Art Critic and Sotheby's MA teacher Anthony Downey and Novelist Tom McCarthy, famed for his Tintin literary interpretation, soon-to-be-film novel Remainder and founding the International Necronautical Society, discuss repetition in art, philosophy and literature. It is free, but best to check availability - The 176 website is here.

Looking back to the turn of the century Avant Garde in a slightly different spirit to that of the International Necronautical Society, Tate Britain offers 'Don't look Back : Radical thinkers and the arts since 1909': "On the 100th anniversary of the Futurism Manifesto, join critical thinkers Terry Eagleton, Simon Critchley, Kate Soper, Eyal Weizman, and chair Alberto Toscano in exploring a century of radical thinking and the arts - and debating what lies ahead." It is not free - read more about it here.

Then there are three shows that look exciting: Both Ends Burning at WW Gallery, responding to ideas of dualism and polarity and including work by the star RCA sculptor Lucy May; interactive and kinetic installation from the young Spanish artist Belen Rodriguez Gonzalez in Mixtilinea at Josh Lilley gallery and, for a more establish art evening Mummery & Schnelle's Alexis Harding show looks at the bi-products of his well-known abstract expressionist practice.

FRIDAY

It is the opening of the free exchange show Art Barter at The Rag Factory. The central idea is that art can be exchanged for other things than money, and as such you can go along and submit something you would be prepared to give the artist in exchange for the work he submits. As well as this there will be no way of knowing which piece belongs to which artist, other than your crafty nose for stylistic giveaways, adding to the mystery micro-climate of subjective value.

There are some real stars, both established and on their way up, in this show, which you can glean from their flyer image above. See their website here.

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