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Megan Wakefield with highlights of what’s on in April around the UK and beyond.
Affect, read as the embodied connection we make with one another and with artworks, is the theme of the fifth Art Sheffield (6 March - 3 May, various locations). Taking George Perec's Life: A User's Manual as inspiration, artists are asked to place the value of interpersonal experience in a framework of economic and environmental crisis. Phil Collins, Katarina Seda, Becky Shaw, Ruth Ewan and others have created works for six local spaces, including the artist-run S1, Site and Bloc galleries as well as the public realm. 'Random Acts of Art' (6 March - 1 May, Spacex) keeps up the spirit of collaboration; a new wave of relational art is explored by Amy Feneck, Lady Lucy and Volkhardt Muller. All three artists respond directly to Exeter's West Quarter, working with residents there in a series of co-authored pieces. Following a period when works will be generated onsite - mobile portrait studio, performance to camera and research for a scripted piece - the gallery will open for public exhibition and artist-led events and a fabulous May Day tea party. Collaborating on an international scale, the artists at A-Foundation, Liverpool (9 April - 22 May) explore the gesture of exchange in...
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