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This week This weeks talks, shows and events to do with contemporary art

Rob Dingle

As we enter mid March and the evenings begin to slowly draw out once again, this weeks preview proves to bring together a varied assortment of exhibitions and talks. The week consists of artists curating group shows, highly anticipated large scale exhibitions and artist run spaces operating on a shoe string budget.

MONDAY

If you havn't managed to see For the Sake of the Image curated by Suki Chan at Jerwood Space, then tonight is the last chance. Go along between 6 - 8pm and hear curator and artist Suki Chan in conversation with exhibiting artists Asnat Austerlitz, Richard Bevan, Juan Fontanive, Paul O'Kane and Dan Walwin. Discussion chaired by Sarah Williams.

If you were also caught unaware of today being 'International Women's Day' then opening this evening to mark the occasion is At Home an exhibition of seven artists work exploring ideas of the domestic at Rollo Contemporary. Artists include: Karla Black, Natalie Gale, Paula Rae Gibson, Sarah Lederman, Agatha A. Nitecka, Angela Reilly and Michelle Souter.

WEDNESDAY

Having opened last week now the crowds have past why not go and see for yourself what all the fuss is about and visit Richard Hamilton at the Serpentine Gallery. This major exhibition will reassess the nature of the British artist's pioneering contribution, focusing on Hamilton's political works.

SATURDAY

If you have not done so already take this weekend as an opportunity to see A K Dolven at Wilkinson before it closes tomorrow. Showing two major works, 'the day the sky became my ground', a 16mm film and a video installation entitled 'ahead' with a third 'Self portrait Berlin February 1989 - Lofoten august 2009', the exhibition explores the poetic relationship to the particular environments behind Dolven's work.

SUNDAY

Opening with an exhibition towards the end of last year ShopAt34 is a new artist run space occupying an old Edwardian shop at 34 Great Queen Street, Covent Garden. Closing today Say What What Way is a group exhibition bringing together a number of artists from London and Glasgow to examine the different languages of painting.

Louise Collins

ONGOING

If you are looking for shows to see this week, why not visit Chiaharu Shiota's One Place at The Haunch of Venison: her first UK solo exhibition, which includes a major installation made from over 400 found windows from East Berlin, where the artist lives and works.

Or, get down to Alison Jacques to see the Ana Mendieta show Silueta and Silence, the first solo UK exhibition of the Cuban-born artist's work. "It is this sense of magic, knowledge and power, found in primitive art, that influences my personal attitude to art-making.I have been working out in nature, exploring the relationship between myself, the earth, and art.Through my art, I want to express the immediacy of life and the eternity of nature." Ana Mendieta, 1978. Go here for more.

MONDAY

Tonight at 7pm Raven Row hosts a screening of the seminal political film Night Cleaners, created in 1975 by Berwick St Film Collective. The first in a new series of screenings, Visions, Divisions and Revisions: Political Film and Film Theory in the 1970s and 80s, which is revisiting the idea of film as a political practice, this event will also include a discussion with original collective member Humphry Trevelyan. Booking essential, more here.

Also tonight at 7pm is Destruction in Art: a panel discussion at South London Gallery. With Michael Landy, Gustav Metzger (artist) and Dr. Justin Hoffmann, (Director Kunstverein Wolfsburg, writer and art critic) and chaired by SLG Director, Margot Heller. Click for details.

THURSDAY

Chris Stephens, curator of Tate Britain's current Henry Moore exhibition, talks today at 1pm, on the artist's work in the context of twentieth-century history. Tickets are £5: go here for info and booking.

SATURDAY

This afternoon it's Lucky Dragons at Auto-Italia, a communal music experiment from Los Angeles based artists Fischbeck and Rara. Live performances involve participation between audience and band and aim to generate equal power-sharing situations and tonight they will perform their ongoing project 'Making a Baby', a piece which involves sound production by creating human circuits through touch. Check the event page now.

The last performance of WARNINGS is tonight at 7:15pm in The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church: 'a live-art piece about reading and being read to; an immersive night of theatre about guilt, loneliness and the ghost stories of M.R. James.' Promises ghosts, demands sensible shoes. What could be better? More here.

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