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What's on this week Talks at the David Roberts Foundation and Natiional Portrait gallery, shows at ICA, Tate, Auto-Italia and two new...

Donald Eastwood

THURSDAY

It has been a while since we've looked in at what is happening at The David Roberts Foundation and this Thursday's screening and talk are definitely worth a look. Susan MacWilliam, Northern Ireland's representative at this year's Venice Biennale, provides the inaugural screening of her work 'Some Ghosts', which looks into the fringe discipline of Psychical Research, focusing on a week spent with Dr. William G Roll, who has spent the large part of his life investigation Out of Body Experience, Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis, Extrasensory Perception, haunting and poltergeist activity.

It, and two more upcoming talks at the foundation, are presented by the young artist, curator, writer group Five Storey Projects, who you might remember from Matter of Time at James Taylor Gallery and you can read about here. It starts at 6.30pm, click here for details.

Meanwhile the National Portrait Gallery hosts a conversation between Bonnie Greer and Faisal Abdu'Allah, who with the 'Chasing Mirrors Collective' a group of young people from Arabic speaking communities in Brent, Barnet and Ealing, is currently exhibiting in the gallery. Greer, who has exploded since mothering the angry adolescent Nick Griffin on Question Time, will lead the discussion on identity, culture and Britishness in less loaded circumstances. There is an entry fee, see the website here.

Those wanting an exhibition on Thursday should head to My Kingdom, a pop-up show by Space In Between at 90 De Beauvoir Road off the Kingsland Rd . The collective of three curators founded earlier this year to bring artistic talent to the fore and have a good set of artists involved including: Luke Montgomery, Nick Roberts, Kazimierz Jankowski, Helen Carmel Benigson, Ben Jeans Houghton, Thomas Webb and Xavier Poultney. The Space in Between website is here.

FRIDAY

Returning to these shores after their Berlin show 'Britain is Rubbish', Decima team up with Jackie Clark to present What Happens After the Ball? at exciting new venue behind the Ritz. It only runs for the weekend and you MUST rsvp to attend (by legal requirement), but it is as they say on their facebook page, 'an art show not to be missed nor sniffed at.':

"What happens after the ball?
That's what I want to know.
In the one step they all hold you so near
and whisper things that a girl shouldn't hear.

But in the two step
They have a new step
that isn't in the dance at all."

SATURDAY

Auto-Italia hosts a pairing up of artists chosen by Peckham artist-led project Lucky PDF and writers from th-rough.eu in open-ended discussion and co-operative production. This first public introduction to the project, which begins at 2pm, will show initial products of two collaborations constructing a scale model of the entire project. Auto-Italia website is here.

Rob Dingle

TUESDAY

If you haven't already seen it one of the main exhibitions to catch before it closes on January 10th is John Baldessari at Tate Modern. The exhibition is curated as a chronological survey highlighting Baldessari's influence not only on the general development of conceptual art but also on later generations of artists.

THURSDAY

It's hard to believe a month has past since we were here last, but sure enough it has and this month's First Thursday's signals not only the beginning of a new month, but also the last chance of 2009 to get out and see what's new and what's coming to end before the new year.

One exhibition that's opening this evening is Gordon Cheung at ROOM. Cheung's laser etchings consist of hallucinogenic visions inspired by a wide range of sources from science fiction, 18th century romantic painting, zombie films, cartoons and current affairs.

Another exhibition that isn't opening, but certainly worth a visit is Re-imagining October at Calvert 22. This is Calvert's third exhibition and is curated by Mark Nash and Isaac Julien. The exhibition takes as its starting point two very different films both entitled 'October'. The first is by Derek Jarman and the second by Abderrahmane Sissako's. Nash and Julien take these two films as Re Imagining October's beginning in order to reflect on work that 'explores and/or is caught up in the historic legacy of the Soviet Union, socially, politically and creatively'.

Across town at the ICA is For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there. Opening this evening the exhibition takes as its premise that confusion lies at the heart of wisdom and presents works from a host of international artists.

FRIDAY

This month's Late at Tate, curated by the live art and performance company Home Live Art, Extraordinary Voices brings together a series of artists, performers and choirs, who explore the voice as an instrument of extraordinary physical and cultural resonance. Expect spectacular performances from Mikhail Karikis, members of The Shout, The London Bulgarian Choir and Georgian Maspindzeli choir. Plus live sets from Afro Urban DJ Afrogroov, busking from Geoff Fazan and the chance to become part of The Funk Chorus and The Feral Choir.

SATURDAY

Saturday afternoon's talk marks an end of the series of artists talk that have accompanied the exhibition Pete and Repeatat 176. At 3pm this afternoon Giorgio Sadotti talks about his work.

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