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This Week A look at the week ahead as our summer begins to drift away...

Heather Iqbal

CONTINUING THIS WEEK

If you need a little music in your life, David Byrne is probably the man. "Playing the Building" will be at the Round House in Chalk Farm till the 31st. Roundhouse was originally constructed in 1846 as a steam engine shed, and was later converted into a performance space for musicians. Now Bryne has transformed it so that it is a playable instrument. Metal beams and pipes make whistling noises while iron pillars vibrate and rumble when blown.

MONDAY

If you want to escape the bubble but can't travel too far, shoot down to Mayfair to see Cross-section, a group show by six Hampshire artists. Presenting their new work in their first london show, Cross-section is a mixture of ceramics, painting, drawing, textiles, jewellery and digital art. The private view is tonight at 54 The Gallery and the show is open Tuesday to Sunday, 11-5pm.

WEDNESDAY

This week brings Erbossyn Meldibekov's much anticipated show at Rossi and Rossi. Adapting its title from Foucault's seminal text, 'The (Dis) Order of Things' is a play on the social, cultural, economic and political upheavels in the post-Soviet landscape of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, which obtained its independence in 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Central to Meldibekov's practice is his examination of these tensions by adopting a variety of personalities ranging from epic Mongol warrior to shaman or political prisoner, to challenge and provoke regimented systems of order within Central Asia and beyond. Accompanying the exhibition will be a catalogue with a preface by Fabio Rossi, a cutorial essay by Sara Raza, and an interview between Valeria Ibraeva (Director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Kazakhstan) and Erbossyn Meldibekov. So there's no reason not to go really. The private view is on Wednesday from 6.30-8.30pm.

THURSDAY

Laboratory at Jerwood (Southwark) will continue till the 31st, so don't fear if you've missed it. A closing party will be held on Thursday to celebrate the one month period of art production and experimentation on site at the Jerwood Space gallery. It explores the processes involved in making, curating, documenting and exhibiting art. Steven Eastwood (film maker), Jock Mooney (sculptor), and Mia Taylor (painter) set out to answer the question: If we were to hand over one of three of the galleries at Jerwood Space for one month what would you do with it? Punch here for further details.

Dean Kissick

THURSDAY

"In order to live at sea, we're pioneering an entirely new form of marine architecture. Open_Sailing acts like a globally-concious superorganism, a cluster of intelligent units that can react to their environment, change shape and reconfigure themselves... Where is the safest location on earth? How can we live at sea? How can we create a life saving floating self-righting architecture? How can we produce reliable renewable energy? What will we eat? What will the politico social organization be made of? How will we entertain ourselves?"

I've blogged about Open_Sailing before, but their ambitious project to build International_Ocean_Station_1, a utopian floating city comparable to Kevin Costner's 'Waterworld', is truly amazing... although I was slightly disillusioned when my friend suggested that they could realise almost all of their ideas by simply buying a boat! Anyway, they'll be speaking at the Barbican on Thursday evening (£5 tickets) as part of 'Radical Nature'. Extraordinary examples of architecture designed for and inspired by the sea will be explained by Cesar Harada (a 2009 graduate of the brilliantly trippy Design Interactions MA at the Royal College) and other team members, alongside Ari Speinhoff who worked with visionary architect Wolf Hilbertz on his Biorock coral structures. Open_Sailing have a fascinating blog and details of the talk are available on the Barbican website.

FRIDAY

'Perfect Answers for Perfect Questions' is a group show of painting and sculpture by recent graduates at Factory Projects, a new artist-run project space in the Perfume Factory studios in Acton. The exhibition's open from Friday to Sunday, and well worth a look if you're in the area. It features James Bowyer, Alex Crocker, Sara Gillies, David Harrison, Ian Law (pictured), Ryan Mosley, Robert Philips, Benjamin Senior, Ross Taylor, Jack Vickridge, George Young and Madalina Zaharia, and all works are shown on 6 low plinths or propped up... so the exhibition is horizontally orientated across the floor, rather than vertically hung upon the walls, and it looks really nice. Please visit the Facebook event here.

And finally from Friday onwards OffModern presents 'SOUTH EAST IN EAST' at Brick Lane's Vibe Bar, a cross-disciplinary festival of art and music. Alongside an impressive selection of up-and-coming bands and DJs there'll be a week-long arts exhibition by South London art collectives OffModern, The Sunday Painter and (best of all) LuckyPDF... so it's a little different from your average night out, and promises to be really good. Tickets are £7, and you can visit the official website here.

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