Before 12pm, Visual art, Performance art

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Cultural Hijack: CONTRAvention

Conference about the relationship between art and activism.

RIBA, London W1B

Sat 25 May

£40 (£25; low income/unwaged £15) / 020 7580 5533

The FAIR Project

Masters of Contemporary Art students from Edinburgh College of Art are the helm of this year's FAIR, which sees the gallery handed over to six groups, each charged with interpreting the concept of 'fair'. The result is a programme of music, comedy, film, performance, exhibition and installation that plays out over three…

Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

Sat 25 May

Free / 0131 650 2210

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Artists Film International

Three contemporary film pieces exploring the different approaches to performance and bodily presence. Featuring work from the artists Neha Choksi, Kaia Hugin and Alix Pearlstein.

Whitechapel Gallery, London E1

Sat 25 May

Free / 020 7522 7888

  • 11:00 – 18:00

Sun 26 May

Free / 020 7522 7888

  • 11:00 – 18:00

Tue 28 May

Free / 020 7522 7888

  • 11:00 – 18:00
…and 23 more dates until 23 Jun

BMW Tate Live 2013

A series of innovative contemporary live performances and events including live web broadcasts and in-gallery performances, created by a variety of artists in a variety of styles and media.

Tate Modern, London SE1

Sat 25 May

Free / 020 7887 8888

  • 10:00 – 22:00

Mon 27 May

Free / 020 7887 8888

  • 10:00 – 18:00

Tue 28 May

Free / 020 7887 8888

  • 10:00 – 18:00
…and 186 more dates until 31 Dec

a book is a performance

Group exhibition showcasing the performative aspect of artists' books, with work by Christian Boltanski, Nina Chua, Thomas A Clark, Marcus Coates, Cullinan Richards, Helen Douglas, Alec Finlay, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Richard Hamilton, Sharon Kivland, Li Yuan-chia, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, Simon Morris, Yoko Ono, Hans…

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee

Sat 25 May

Centrespace

Free / 01382 345330

  • 12:00 – 16:00

Sun 26 May

Centrespace

Free / 01382 345330

  • 12:00 – 16:00
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The Bride And The Bachelors: Duchamp With Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg And Johns

Around 90 works highlighting the influence of Marcel Duchamp on American artists, composers and choreographers, including a mise-en-scene performance installation devised by Philippe Parreno.

Barbican Centre, London EC2Y

Sat 25 May

Art Gallery

£12; £10 adv (£8; £7 adv; Children £7 ages 13-17; Children £6 adv, ages 13-17) / 020 7638 8891

  • 11:00 – 20:00

Sun 26 May

Art Gallery

£12; £10 adv (£8; £7 adv; Children £7 ages 13-17; Children £6 adv, ages 13-17) / 020 7638 8891

  • 11:00 – 20:00

Mon 27 May

Art Gallery

£12; £10 adv (£8; £7 adv; Children £7 ages 13-17; Children £6 adv, ages 13-17) / 020 7638 8891

  • 11:00 – 20:00
…and 13 more dates until 9 Jun

David Sherry: Humanist Cumulative

New drawings, sculptures and images from the artist whose work investigates codes of everyday behaviour in often very entertaining ways.

Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow

Sat 25 May

Free / 0796 806 6708

  • 12:00 – 16:00

Tue 28 May

Free / 0796 806 6708

  • 10:00 – 14:00

Wed 29 May

Free / 0796 806 6708

  • 10:00 – 14:00
…and 13 more dates until 15 Jun

GARAGE

GARAGE presents new works and collaborations by artists created during a series of micro-residencies in this unique project space which comprises three garages and a garden. The artists exhibiting include Ailie Rutherford, Ary D Cahyono, Belinda Gilbert Scott, Bob Moyler, Christine Hilditch, David MacDiarmid, Emma…

GARAGE, Edinburgh

Sat 3 Aug

Free / 07917 668044

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 12:00 – 16:00

Sun 4 Aug

Free / 07917 668044

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 12:00 – 16:00

Sat 10 Aug

Free / 07917 668044

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 12:00 – 16:00
…and 3 more dates until 18 Aug

Heavy Plant Crossing

A participatory walking performance by artist Julia Barton, who leads a mechanical creation, made from recycled objects, on a plant-finding expedition.

National Trust: Wallington House And Grounds, Morpeth

Fri 21 Jun

Free, plus admission £10.30, child £5.15, family £25.75 / 01670 773600

  • 11:00 – 15:00

Sat 22 Jun

Free, plus admission £10.30, child £5.15, family £25.75 / 01670 773600

  • 11:00 – 15:00

Hijack: Ets-beest

This one’s for 2-4year olds to Hijack! Ets-beest is a performance for and with an early-year’s audience. It takes place around and across a large sheet of paper and literally translates as ‘etching beast’. The show is a coming together of dance, drawing and music where the boundaries between the young audience and…

Komedia, Brighton

Fri 31 May

£7 (£6) / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

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Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane

In the year he represents the UK at the Venice Biennale, Jeremy Deller and his long-standing collaborator, Alan Kane will exhibit at Jupiter Artland. Since their early collaborative show at the infamous London nightclub Stringfellow’s in 1995 to ‘Folk Archive’ (2007), their acclaimed and unique celebration of British…

Jupiter Artland, Wilkieston

Sat 3 Aug

£8.50 (£4.50) / 01506 889900

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sun 4 Aug

£8.50 (£4.50) / 01506 889900

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Mon 5 Aug

£8.50 (£4.50) / 01506 889900

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 24 more dates until 15 Sep

Jonathan Baldock: A Strange Cross Between A Butcher's Shop And A Nightclub

A sculptural installation of felt, knitted and ceramic sculptures, corn dolly masks and wall prints, exploring themes of ritual and the carnivalesque, culminating in a performance using the objects and costumes from the exhibition.

Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge

Sun 26 May

Free / 01954 718881

  • 12:00 – 17:00

Mon 27 May

Free / 01954 718881

  • 12:00 – 17:00

Tue 28 May

Free / 01954 718881

  • 12:00 – 17:00
…and 40 more dates until 7 Jul

Lovely Sky (Participatory Imagineering)

For the duration of the festival, artist Lucy Pawlak will adopt the role of Producer for a narrative feature film. The resulting work will be designed and directed in collaboration with a writing team of imagineers and advisors made up of visitors to the gallery and invited experts. Through constant brainstorming, hot…

Rhubaba Gallery & Studio, Edinburgh

Thu 1 Aug

Free

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 12:00 – 18:00

Fri 2 Aug

Free

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 12:00 – 18:00

Sat 3 Aug

Free

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 12:00 – 18:00
…and 17 more dates until 1 Sep

Low Profile: Against All Odds

Art pranksters Low Profile, aka Rachel Dobbs and Hannah Jones, deck the Exeter Phoenix in positivity in an effort to buck up the artgoer and, possibly, themselves.

Exeter Phoenix

Sat 25 May

Phoenix Gallery

Free / 01392 667080

  • 10:00 – 17:30

Mon 27 May

Phoenix Gallery

Free / 01392 667080

  • 10:00 – 17:30

Tue 28 May

Phoenix Gallery

Free / 01392 667080

  • 10:00 – 17:30
…and 34 more dates until 6 Jul

Manchester School of Art Degree Show

Work by final year students at the Manchester School of Art.

Manchester Metropolitan University

Sat 15 Jun

Free / 0161 247 2000

  • 10:00 – 16:00

Sun 16 Jun

Free / 0161 247 2000

  • 10:00 – 16:00

Mon 17 Jun

Free / 0161 247 2000

  • 10:00 – 18:00
…and 2 more dates until 19 Jun back to top

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy: Werk Is Free / Be Free! May Day

Paintings, films, ceramics and music exploring the issue of workers' rights. Opening with a performance in which the artist is joined by music producer SOPHIE.

Outpost Gallery, Norwich

Sat 25 May

Free / 01603 766400

  • 12:00 – 18:00

Sun 26 May

Free / 01603 766400

  • 12:00 – 18:00

Oil City

A site-specific, immersive performance by Platform, exploring the dark underbelly of London's oil economy.

Toynbee Studios, London E1

Mon 10 Jun

£5 / 020 7650 2350

  • 09:00

Tue 11 Jun

£5 / 020 7650 2350

  • 09:00

Wed 12 Jun

£5 / 020 7650 2350

  • 09:00
…and 7 more dates until 21 Jun

Peter Liversidge: doppelgänger

Peter Liversidge's exhibition for the festival unpicks the powerful and strange story of Ein Handschuh, a suite of etchings from 1881 by the Austrian Symbolist Max Klinger. Klinger's ten prints tell the story of a lost glove, dropped by a beautiful, rollerskating woman, and picked up by the artist, in whose imagination…

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

Thu 1 Aug

Free / 0131 556 4441

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 18:00

Fri 2 Aug

Free / 0131 556 4441

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 18:00

Sat 3 Aug

Free / 0131 556 4441

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 18:00
…and 52 more dates until 28 Sep

PRODUCT

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop will present new works from three different strands of its residency and curatorial programmes during the festival. A solo show by Kate Owens will present an ambitious new installation and live public performance, the basis of which is a script adapted from a children’s book first published…

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

Sat 3 Aug

Free / 0131 551 4490

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 11:00 – 17:00

Mon 5 Aug

Free / 0131 551 4490

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 11:00 – 17:00

Tue 6 Aug

Free / 0131 551 4490

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 11:00 – 17:00
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Shaun Gladwell: Cycles of Radical Will

Adapting its title from Susan Sontag's fiery essay collection Styles of Radical Will, this latest exhibition by the Australian artist is his largest in the UK to date. In Mini Ramp Intersection, a skate ramp installed on the roof of the building encourages users either to joust with each other or to avoid colliding.

De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea

Sat 25 May

Free / 01424 229111

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sun 26 May

Free / 01424 229111

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Mon 27 May

Free / 01424 229111

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 27 more dates until 23 Jun

Summer 2013

Tate St Ives presents its summer season of modern British art.

Tate St Ives

Sat 25 May

£7 (£4.50; Children, students & members free) / 01736 796226

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sun 26 May

£7 (£4.50; Children, students & members free) / 01736 796226

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Mon 27 May

£7 (£4.50; Children, students & members free) / 01736 796226

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 125 more dates until 29 Sep

Takesada Matsutani: A Matrix

Abstract paintings and mixed-media works by the Osaka-born, Paris-based artist and second-generation member of the influential, post-war, Japanese Gutai Art Association. Including a performance of Stream, London, Hauser & Wirth.

Hauser & Wirth, London W1S

Sat 25 May

Free / 020 7287 2300

  • 10:00 – 18:00

Tue 28 May

Free / 020 7287 2300

  • 10:00 – 18:00

Wed 29 May

Free / 020 7287 2300

  • 10:00 – 18:00
…and 43 more dates until 27 Jul

Transmitted Live: Nam June Paik Resounds

No other artist has had greater influence on the use of technology in art than Nam June Paik; he prophesied changes that would shape the contemporary world, exemplified in his pioneering ideas, 'Participation TV', 'Random Access Information' and 'Video Commune'. 'Transmitted Live: Nam June Paik Resounds' celebrates the…

Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

Fri 9 Aug

Free / 0131 650 2210

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sat 10 Aug

Free / 0131 650 2210

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sun 11 Aug

Free / 0131 650 2210

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 55 more dates until 19 Oct

Where Do We Draw the Line?

Movement and drama workshop exploring freedom of expression and censorship.

The Victoria, London E8

Mon 27 May

£3 / 020 8123 6043

  • 11:00 – 16:00