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This week A run through of the art events you should not miss in the coming week

Dean Kissick

WEDNESDAY

"You can build a house made with doorways to nowhere, stairways that lead to nothingness and windows that open to walls; only when the structure of the foundation is tampered with will you lose trust in the house."

The Pigeon Wing is underground, even by the standards of other South London artist-run spaces, and it's run out of a house... though not so much a house as an inhabited studio complex in the middle of nowhere. On Wednesday they have an opening for 'YOU CAN BUILD A HOUSE', by resident artists Scott Cowan, Paul Cowan and Katy Keefe. See The Pigeon Wing online.

"The imaging processes available to us in the contemporary world are at once both radical and yet highly direct."

The same evening brings an opening at Rokeby, 'The Earth Not A Globe II', curated by Dani Admiss and Dave Charlesworth. This ambitious group show features new artists for a new era: Paul B Davis, Tom Badley, Giles Bailey, Chris Collins, Neil Montier, Sean Raspet, Conrad Ventur and Laura White. The curators run the highly influential art blog vvork http://www.vvork.com/, and such online platforms will play an important role in deciding the future of art, so this show comes with great expectations! See Rokeby online.

THURSDAY

Thursday promises a funfair of joyous art for the recession. First up is Swallow Street, an amazing Mayfair project space for emerging artists programmed by omnipresent London super-curator Sarah McCrory (a very lovely lady). Brazilian artist Erika Verzutti has created several sculptures with a playful, casual and unfinished aesthetic, and Swallow Street is online.

The very same night, the final 4 guest projects open at Peckham multi-storey car park. I'd like to promote my show 'ONCE IN A LIFETIME/', with a theme of "play"... featuring Thomas Adank, Nathan Barlex, Gedvile Bunikyte, Lydia Corry, Nazareno Crea & Erol Gemma, Nicolas Deshayes, Samuel Fouracre, Ben Freeman, Sohrab Golsorkhi, Fraser Hamilton, Melissa Jordan, Melodie Mousset and Samuel Nias. Please visit the Facebook event.

And next door... 'Field Of Sets III - Compliment', an art theme park featuring Francis Thorburn-powered moon buggy rides around a sculpture garden by Dan Bristow, Richard Elliott, Luke Godfrey, Rhiannon Hunter, Melissa Jordan, Krister Klassman, Andy Mason, Nicole Morris, Georgia Rodger and Arthur Steward. See Field online.

FRIDAY

The week ends with 'Automatic', at Peckham's artist-run super-space auto italia south east, produced in conjunction with Dublin's Pallas Projects. This exhibition's curated by Chris Fite-Wassilak and Gavin Murphy, and features young artists from the (mostly) Irish scene: Karl Burke, Alicia Frankovich, Candice Jacobs, Gereon Krebber, Ruth Proctor, Linda Quinlan and Berndnaut Smilde. So visit auto italia online!

Tom Wright

THIS WEEK

The final coughs and splutterings of our swine flu summer may have kept you away from this artistic offering and its atmospheric underground setting. Fortunately, Surface/Space/Time at The Crypt Gallery in St. Pancras Church is open until September 9th. Featuring an eclectic mix of artists and mediums, the exhibition seek to plunder the depths of the open-ended subject matter. The hidden and labyrinthine quality of the space contextualises the work, which has an equally complex and explorative nature.

MONDAY

The Ben Uri Gallery in St. John's Wood has joined the pop-up band wagon with its Artist Without Studios exhibition. Ting-Ting Cheng, a photographer, Sophie Fishel, a sculptor, Benedict Goodwin, a painter and David J Huglin, an installation artist have been residents in pop-up studios in the gallery, whose walls will come down to reveal a group show of the work conceived over the period. Chosen from over 100 applicants, the four artists represent some of the most exciting up-and-coming talent.

WEDNESDAY

The quite exquisitely overly-designed 40 Winks Hotel in Stepney Green is clearing out its usual guest list of creative and fashion industry types to open its rooms to night of un-typical life drawing with Kink Ink. Art materials, wine and snacks are provided, whilst guests explore the hotel's glamourous environs, designed by David Carter and discover life models and performance artists casually draped and ready to be caught in charcoal. Oh, and the outfits are provided by lingerie specialists Bordello and the soundtrack by Daniel Pemberton.

FRIDAY

Last month, as part of the NEU! young artists exhibition platform, the artists Richard John Jones held a live film shoot and performance at Auto Italia South East. Now in its second part, the project PROH-SOH' PA-PEER - Part II, presents a video installation at [space], showing a condensed film of the original event. The project is a sustained and critical investigation on modern media and its all-too-easy ability to influence modern political, cultural and social issues. The exhibition's title is a phonetic play on the word 'prosopopoeia': a rhetorical device in which a speaker or writer communicates to an audience by speaking as another person or object.

If you missed part I and would rather just go for a drink, never fear because Canadian artist Dean Baldwin is on hand with his fully functional installation Mini-Bar. Baldwin has reconstructed the bar from his work at the Canadian Pavillion at this year's Venice Biennale. The genuine bar provides alcohol, music and space to socialise but all in a mini, Alice-in-Wonderland style environment.

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