LAN Party, Two Queens, Leicester
Two Queens presents an exhibition influenced by LAN Parties – events established in the 90s by gaming communities, where a number of individuals temporarily come together to play multi-player video games simultaneously. Featuring sculpture, structural installation and video, the show explores social media interaction, offline collaboration and the networks that exist and facilitate practice between artists across regions.
Until 6 August www.2queens.com/exhibitions
Mark McGowan: Where’s Daddy’s Pig?, Trade, Nottingham
The superb Mark McGowan brings his satirical wit and charm to Trade, Nottingham with his latest solo exhibition. Featuring documentation of the performance ‘Where’s Daddy’s Pig’. On 24 April, on his hands and knees, Mark McGowan pushed a toy pig the 4.1 miles from Kings College Hospital in Camberwell Green (where he is currently receiving treatment for bowel cancer) to 10 Downing Street. The performance was in protest against the privatisation of the NHS. Arriving at 10 Downing Street he hand delivered his letter to “David Cameron and His Government”.
Until 3 August www.tradegallery.org
Like a Monkey with a Miniature Cymbal, Aid & Abet, Cambridge
Aid & Abet present Like a Monkey with a Miniature Cymbal, a large group exhibition of UK-based artists curated by Mermaid & Monster. Topics explored include obsessions, repetition, perseverance and the drive needed to carry on, as an artist, or in any walk of life. Artists include Thomas Goddard, Anton Goldenstein, S Mark Gubb, Pat Flynn, Neal Jones, Brendan Lancaster and Marion Piper.
Until 17 August aidandabet.co.uk
Walls Work, Embassy, Edinburgh
Kate V Robertson’s current project is a sensitive and intelligent exploration of substance, surface and encounter within the urban landscape. Her ongoing relationship with walls, and the barely-there-interventions subtly erode the solidity and perceived permanence of the architecture and monuments of the city, peeling back the city’s skin. Walls Work appears at a number of locations around Edinburgh’s Old Town, tracing a route from Embassy’s origins at East Crosscausewayside, via the Roxy, past the Parliament and over Calton Hill, to Broughton Street Lane.
Ongoing www.embassygallery.org/current/walls-work
ETHIRA, Arcadia Missa, London
This exhibition marks the launch of artist Amalia Ulman’s ETHIRA, a new mobile app for iPad and iPhone built in collaboration with developer Daniel Levitt. Contributors are invited to publicly post messages within 140 characters that immediately disappear from their own devices. Acting as a kind of anti-social, social network, all posts are anonymous with only geographical location linking back to the author. ETHIRA marks a new version of the expression-feedback exchange, reducing the personalisation of fast, text-based expression online. Presented alongside Ulman’s video and installation work.
Until 27 July arcadiamissa.com/index.php/exhibitsevents/ethira
Selection compiled by Jack Hutchinson
