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This week What to go out and do this week including two screenings, a performance and a talk as well as......

Heather Iqbal

Continuing this week is DRENCH/ABSORB, a show which obtains and demands the viewer's full attention with its diversity in medium. This is at the Oblong Gallery till the 30th August. It is curated by Amelia Francis and Simone Wallace, and features artists Cos Ahmet, Charlie Duck, and Rhiannon Fraser, among others.

TUESDAY

To start your week with a little something romantic, head to Auto Italia South East for the opening of their CLOSED FOREVER show. The venue will be converted into a derelict cinema where the artworks of Jesse Jones, Catalina Niculescu and Elizabeth Price will be screened alongside feature films they have recommended, such as "Coventry Cathedral" (1958) by Dudley Shaw Ashton and Playtime" (1967) by Jacques Tati. The preview and special screening is on Tuesday, but it is open daily thereafter till the 30th August from 12-6pm.

WEDNESDAY

No need to mourn if you are not away in some far distant place holidaying this week My Sojourn between two worlds presents a focus on Omiata's experience as an artist "comparing two worlds, where I come from and where I am presently, taking into account the difference between the two worlds, in terms of way of life, environment, landscapes, people."

Olwagbenga Omiata graduated as a sculptor from the Obafemi Awolowo University in 2005 and presently works as a painter, sculptor and graphic artist (book illustration). Omiata has had five group exhibitions since graduating in Nigeria and has participated in two open exhibitions in London. This is the first solo exhibition for this artist, so check it out from Wednesday, or see the private view on Friday night.

Another form of escapism comes in the form of show Scambled Eggs...continued starting on Wednesday and continuing till the 23rd at The Empire on Vyner Street. Look back at a different time, relatively unmarred by economic collapse, at this show which presents the works of artists previously on display at the boiler house, Brick Lane, as part of Free Range Degree Shows back in July 2009. Featuring: Millie Jackson, Ailsa Hotson, Alex Clare, Alexandria DaSilva, Lois Oakes, Lucy Carter, Marta Holla, Ruby Manson, Rob Reed, Lee Sullivan.

THURSDAY

Visit The Foundry to experience "Is it Possible?" an essentially open mic-piano night, featuring the works of Meiko Kokuta, Stephanie Busson and Sabine Jamme alongside. This officially opens on the 18th, but the opening and starting performances take place on the 20th so don't miss out.

Donald Eastwood

WEDNESDAY

It's sort of hot at last, in an English type of a way, so why not indulge your synesthetic side by cooling off at a 'high summer meditation on the eternally coolest of colours', the White Show at PM Gallery & House (If you haven't heard of the venue, like me, you can find out that it is Ealing's flagship cultural venue here). Is the art any good? Yes, it is all white - drawn as it is exclusively from art council collection and including a host of recognisable names. Such a simple and open theme does also seem very interesting, promising consideration of questions like around purity, space and spirituality, race and class, absence, invisibility and light and shadow.

THURSDAY

A show and a talk on Thursday. Studio 1.1's private view of a group show called The Life of Signs runs from 6-9pm. The intro on the website quotes twice from one of the great (post) post-modern semiologists Jean Baudrillard, the second time like this: 'It could seem an affectation, in the circumstances, not to quote from Baudrillard: "Each image must take something away from the reality of the world".' I have never been quite sure what is or isn't a sign, much like many people are unsure what is or isn't art, so perhaps this show will allow people like me to examine our uncertainty.

Over on the other side of town, at the Louise T Blouin institute, Jeremy Morrison, Director of 20th Century Design at Sotheby's, will give a lecture that promises to examine the currency of Design Art in the London market as part of their Design High exhibition that ends shortly. This incorporates tracking the rise of the hybrid 'Design Art' (any piece of art that also efficiently performs a function or anything functional that is also art?) from humble objects to wondrous investment commodities. There cannot be many better authorities on the topic and it promises to be very interesting, though costs £5/£3 conc. Book by phone or email here.

SATURDAY

A screening and a performance on Saturday to finish a well balanced weekly preview. The excellent Savoy Café will be showing The UK premiere of Guggenheim Fellow Kalup Linzy's new film. "Keys to Our Heart", a John Waters-esque melodrama that first showed at the New Orleans Biennial. KEN offers a performance that incorporates elements of lecture, storytelling, movement and singing from another American debutante in the UK, Aurora Tabar. find out more about it here.

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