NOW SHOWING #168: The week’s top exhibitions

Luca George, The Telfer Gallery, Glasgow
London-based artist Luca George presents a body of new work for his solo exhibition, ‘Memories Are Made Of This’. As a teenager, the artist was part of The Original Prankster Crew (The OPC), a successful breakdance group that took part in battles in the UK and USA. For the exhibition George has taken a collection of videos and photos of The OPC’s heyday, shared via Dropbox, to build a multi-media installation that questions the effect breakdancing has had on his life.
Until 16 October 2016. www.the-telfer.com

Philippe Parreno: Anywhen, Hyundai Commission, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
The second annual Hyundai Commission sees French artist Philippe Parreno collaborating with artists Liam Gillick, Tino Seghal and Isabel Lewis, along with the comedian and ventriloquist Nina Conti, to create an evolving audio-visual installation featuring film, ambient lighting and floating fish. The effect is calmly mysterious as shadows are cast and sounds reverberate around the configuration of horizontal and vertical acoustic panels suspended in this vast space.
Until 2 April 2017. www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern

Hedwig Houben, Spike Island, Bristol
For her exhibition ‘Others and I’, Dutch artist Hedwig Houben works with four guests at Spike Island – a visitor, a collector, a staff member and a studio artist – who take on the role of the ‘performer’ and activator in four separate performances using script and filmed art objects from existing works. With an interest in what happens to the work when it leaves the artist’s orbit and exists in isolation of its maker, Houben questions who is the most powerful: the artist, the art work or the spectator?
Until 11 December 2016. www.spikeisland.org.uk

THE INFINITE MIX, Hayward Gallery (offsite), The Store, London
Hayward Gallery’s only major off-site exhibition during its two-year refurbishment, ‘THE INFINITE MIX’ presents soulful and audacious audio-visual work from ten leading international artists including Martin Creed, Stan Douglas, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Elizabeth Price. The works mix conventions of documentary filmmaking with inventive approaches to layering images and sounds, exploring new possibilities for how the medium of video can engage us in the poetics as well as politics of music, performance and history.
Until 4 December 2016. www.theinfinitemix.com

Christian Falsnaes, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
‘First’ is a new work by Berlin-based artist Christian Falsnaes commissioned by Castlefield Gallery. Uniquely, the exhibition will see the gallery’s first visitor each day faced with the responsibility of creating content for the show, potentially resulting in an empty gallery for others. Falsnaes uses performance, painting, video and installation – as well as the audience – as chosen materials to produce situations in which participants are asked to become active agents in the creation of the work.
Until 6 November 2016. www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk

David Adamo and Rallou Panagiotou, Ibid Gallery, London
A two-person show by artists David Adamo (Berlin) and Rallou Panagioto (Glasgow), displaying a dense atmosphere of sculptural materials including cedar wood plinths, wax birds and ceramic hipbones, as well as reconstructed marble and metal cast ‘artefacts’. The exhibition reveals an idiosyncratic approach to the classical techniques of the art of memory – an amalgamation of spatial constructs where ‘things’ and abstract notions are situated in order to be memorised.
Until 5 November 2016. ibidgallery.com

Images:
1. Luca George, Memories Are Made Of This, 2016.
2. Installation view of Hyundai Commission 2016: Philippe Parreno: Anywhen, 2016. Photo: Tate Photography
3. David Adamo and Rallou Panagioto, installation view at Ibid Gallery London, 2016. Courtesy of artists and Ibid Gallery London.
4. Hedwig Houben, Five possible lectures on six possibilities for a sculpture, still performance lecture video, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Fons Welters.
5. Stan Douglas, Luanda-Kinshasa, 2013. © Courtesy the artist, David Zwirner, New York / London and Victoria Miro, London.
6. Christian Falsnaes, Justified Beliefs, 2016. Photo: Kostas Maros

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