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Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark

Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures

Exhbitionist 1205: Assembly
Jerwood Encounters: Assembly, London
Collaboration is the watchword in this show driven by digital technology. Jenny Hogarth and Kim Coleman will be making an installation from their video blog: a cacophonous mixture of footage including grids of windows on gleaming skyscrapers, the liquorice stripe of escalators, mosaic flooring and rainbows. Above, Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth, still from video at kimcolemanjennyhogarth.co.uk/blog. The Hut Project and Charlie Woolley also feature. At Jerwood Space, SE1, until 24 June 2012
Photograph: Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth
Exhbitionist 1205: Derby Soap Opera
Derby Soap Opera, Derby
Italian artist Marinella Senatore's Derby Soap Opera might sound like a community arts project, but it's much more ambitious. As part of 'one of the world's largest mass participation film projects' every citizen of Derby is invited to take part as actors, costume designers, lighting technicians, composers, makeup artists and co-directors. The outcome will be a 40-minute film. At QUAD until 8 July 2012
Photograph: Chris Seddon
Exhbitionist 1205: Eric Bainbridge
Eric Bainbridge, Walsall
Eric Bainbridge's art is one of disjointed fragments and thematic absurdities. The 40 small-scale collages shown here have a cheeky sense of fun, being sourced from glossy magazines. Bainbridge scissors his scrapbook fragments into suggestive blobs, glueing them back together like film stills from some semi-porn animation. Above, Eric Bainbridge, Untitled, 2010. At New Art Gallery until 21 July 2012
Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery
Exhbitionist 1205: Liliane Tomasko
Liliane Tomasko, Dublin
Liliane Tomasko's sensitively applied oil paintings appear like pictures of not much. Her subjects are as insubstantial as they come and pictured from once-removed perspectives. The titles, such as The Melting, 2012 (above), give little away. Yet although we may not know why the artist is so fascinated by such banalities, we are drawn in. At Kerlin Gallery, until 26 May 2012
Photograph: Etienne Frossard
Exhbitionist 1205: Norwich Festival
Norfolk & Norwich festival
This year's event will be something of a treasure hunt with artists in the city's nooks and crannies. Gregor Hylla's brilliantly hued paintings should balance Yelena Popova's bleached-out abstractions in an old office block. Above, Gregor Hylla, The Class of Prophecy Has Been Cancelled Due to Unforeseen Circumstances, 2009. At various venues until 26 May 2012
Photograph: PR
Exhbitionist 1205: Ross Chisholm
Ross Chisholm, London
In Ross Chisholm's latest works, thickly daubed streaks of pigment hint at distorted, cartoonish features. It's a mix of the comic and the sinister that's more George Condo than Joshua Reynolds. Above, Ross Chisholm, Dispersion, 2011. At IBID PROJECTS, N1, until 23 June 2012
Photograph: Cary Whittier
Exhbitionist 1205: Topophobia
Topophobia, Exeter
This group show takes a dark view of our sense of place. The obsessive detail of Anne Eggebert's pencil drawings of Google Earth images, for instance, taps into a growing culture of control and surveillance. More chilling perhaps is the feeling of isolation: a world of look, don't touch that's mirrored in Marja Helander's mysterious landscapes. Above, Marja Helander, Mount Palopää, Utsjoki, 2001. At Spacex, until 7 July 2012
Photograph: PR
Exhbitionist 1205: Flights of Fancy
Flights of Fancy, Knutsford
Each Tatton Park Biennial is given a theme; this year, it's dreams of flying. The artists invited include Hilary Jack (whose work is pictured above), Tessa Farmer, Olivier Grossetête and Juneau Projects. At Tatton Park, until 30 September 2012
Photograph: PR
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