This installation by the Hamburg-based duo, which they've called Seedbank for Treehouses, is a personal take on the archetypal architectural home of escapist dreaming. At Cube until 5 October 2011 Photograph: PR
Burr's sculptures use painted plywood, neon and mirrors to imitate cool modernist furniture design. His latest works strike a melancholy note, with rough grey blankets draping box panels to suggest churning abstracts or the creased, tossed sheets of restless nights. At Modern Art, 9 September to 1 October 2011 Photograph: PR
A still from Casting Jesus, 2011, Performance at Santo Spirito, Rome – the German artist's new film Casting Jesus promises a spiritual Stars in Their Eyes, with Vatican members judging who will make today's perfect Christ, as actors break bread or carry the cross. At Lisson Gallery from 7 September to 1 October 2011
Photograph: Luise Müller-Hofstede/Courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery
The tie-dye candy colours of Upritchard's rainbow-hued models – John, 2011 (pictured) – suggest rave-era new ageism, but the figures' hunched backs hint that reverie is no easy path to enlightenment. At Kate MacGarry from 7 September to 8 October 2011
Photograph: Courtesy Kate MacGarry, London
Four contemporary artists – Nicola Dale, Mike Gent, Alistair Owen and Paul Lewthwaite (pictured, Lewthwaite's Non-whaling Tools 1, 2 and 3) present art that looks useful but is utterly useless. At Bloc Projects until 17 September 2011
Photograph: Bloc Projects, Sheffield
Two artists whose work deals with ephemeral experience made semi-permanent by meticulous creative application. Kate Smith's drawings are shown alongside residue of her activity (pictured, Drawing Residues). The tubes contain graphite shavings, eraser rubbings and other incidental particles from drawing activities. At Derby Art Gallery until 30 October 2011 Photograph: PR
This 11-day retrospective of the cult film-maker's newly restored films boasts a talk with underground film great Jonas Mekas; an installation of slides created by Smith's collaborator John Vorn; and a performance by his friend and Warhol muse, Penny Arcade, inspired by their conversations prior to his untimely death in 1989. Above, Untitled, by Jack Smith, c1958-1962/2011. At ICA from 7 to 18 September 2011
Photograph: Estate of Jack Smith/Gladstone Gallery, New York
In the Barber's concert hall, Milroy stages a scene in which her works very nearly take on the role of actors. The audience is invited to witness these banner-like kimono paintings as if they are set in a tableau of petrified yet interacting protagonists. Above, Lisa Milroy, Working drawing for Act One, Seen Too (2011). At Barber Institute of Fine Arts from 6 to 18 September 2011 Photograph: PR
