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Haroon Mirza Untitled, featuring untitled works by James Clarkson (2012) - Spike Island installation view

Cramming in the art before I have to go back to earning money. Thursday night: Rushed from a talk on Blast Theory by Gabriella Giannachi, Director of the Centre for Intermedia at the University of Exeter at Spacex to David Blandy's opening of Passage of the Soul at Exeter Phoenix.

Friday, off to Bristol to see the astonishing and charmingly geeky  /|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/| by Haroon Mirza at Spike Island. (May have more to say on this.) Also in the galleries, Suzanne Mooney's intriguing photographs The Edge of Collapse. 

Then up to the Arnolfini to see The Museum Show Part II - an interesting survey of artists' collecting strategies, and a chance encounter with a screening of Monica Ross' Acts of Memory 2009-2010, a timely commemoration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through individual acts of memorisation.

Blast Theory Bless Practice runs until 18th February 2012 at Spacex
David Blandy Passage of the Soul runs until 17th March 2012 at Exeter Phoenix
Haroon Mirza and Suzanne Mooney run until 25th March 2012 at Spike Island, Bristol
The Museum Show Part II runs until 19th February 2012 at Arnolfini, Bristol
Acts of Memory - http://www.actsofmemory.net/