Tuesday 25 March (6 - 8pm)

@ Lisson, 52-54 Bell St., NW1 (020.7724.2739) Tube: Edgware Rd.

If you haven't been invited to Blinky's private view at the Serpentine then head over to the Lisson. Queens of the four screen video installation, and mistresses of those weird spaces we often try to avoid, Jane & Louise Wilson promise to keep us amused and bemused by their latest show. Having emerged out of the YBA scene with dignity and grace intact, the Wilson twins will once again try to charm us with quirky camera angles and jump-cuts. Their film Dreamtime will be shown along with new works such as Apollo Pavilion, a four-monitor installation which focuses on the decaying and haunting pavilion designed by the artist Victor Pasmore. Named after the first moon landing, and based in Peterlee (the Wilsons' hometown), this piece of extraordinary architectural design is now a source of alienation with the local community. Safe Light (Atmel), a photographic narrative, is a glimpse of the controlled, hyper-modern environment which manufactures advanced microchip technology -- a place in which the Wilsons' install their own brand of exquisitely executed chaos. (Show ends Sat 03/05.)

NB: Private view is Tue 25/03 from 6 - 8pm. Also opening is Jemima Stehli at the Lisson's other space at 29 Bell Street.

Tuesday 25 March (7:30pm - 12am)

@ 100 Club, 100 Oxford St., W10 (020.7636.0933) Tube: Tottenham Court Rd/Oxford Circus

Manitoba is a 24 year-old unpredictable Canadian electronic artist, Dan Snaith, and to promote the release of his second album, Up In Flames, he is debuting his new full live show at the 100 club. Combining live guitars and keyboards with laptop glitches and sampling, Snaith has moved on from his first release Start Breaking My Heart to create a psychedelic electronic masterpiece. Replacing his live laptop/DJ shows and now performing as a three-piece band featuring two drummers, glockenspiel, guitar, theremin, vocals and more, Snaith has created an album and live show drawing influences from the likes of My Bloody Valentine, The Beach Boys, Spaceman 3 and The Byrds. Complete with fully synched-up live visuals, this promises to be a truly mind-blowing, genuinely different and beautiful performance.

NB: Support comes from Capitol K's new band and DJ sets from Domino's Max Tundra and The Leaf Label's Tony Morley.

Wednesday 26 March (7:30pm)

@ Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, SE1 (020.7960.4203 or 4242) Tube: Embankment/Rail Waterloo

Acclaimed as both poet and biographer (his biography of Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize in 1993), Motion has been widely praised for his lyrical and personable writing. Born in London and educated at Oxford, he published his first collection of poetry in 1977. Eight years ago, he succeeded Malcom Bradbury as professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1998. Since then he has been responsible for composing poems for court and national occasions for the princely payment of an "annual terse of Canary wine" (although he famously prefers to quaff a daily cup of Lemsip to help him find his poetical muse). Here he will discuss his new novel The Invention of Dr Cake, and reflect on the continued inspiration of the Romantic period on his work.

Thursday 27 March (Daily 10am - 6pm; Fri & Sat until 10pm)

@ Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 (020.7887.8008) Tube: Southwark/Blackfriars

No one has changed the nature of Performance Art more than Matthew Barney and that edge of live art has, in recent years, taken on more and more theatrical forms making it harder to believe that it found its origins as an anti-institutional and anti-commercial gesture with humble Happenings in the sixties -- the performative qualities of art-making can however be traced from early rituals through Jackson Pollock's splat-slinging. Trouble with performance as a media is that, for years, its history depended on either true devotees who would criss-cross the globe to catch the latest act or good word-of-mouth. Like other media, the range of expression is as plentiful as its performers, from Joseph Beuys' performative lectures, to Chris Burden's Self-Flagellation, to Brian Catling's mumbles, to Ron Athey "gulp"! Know them? Well Tate Modern with the Live Art Development Agency are organizing four days of activities around just this: history, presentations, round tables, and of course, some performances. KultureFlash recommends bringing candles and threatening to get nekkid. Roll up the Sixties again!

NB: There will be talks on all aspects of the form as well as renowned performance historian RoseLee Goldberg's talk (Thu 27/03 at 6:30pm), East-Asian curator Yu Yeon Kim on contemporary performance in the East (Fri 28/03 at 7:30pm) and body-artist Marina Abramovic on her work (Sat 29/03 at 7:30pm). La Ribot, one of the performers this weekend, will also be the subject of a week's video screenings at the South London Gallery (26/03 to 06/04).

Thursday 27 March (7 - 10pm)

@ Westbourne Studios, 242 Acklam Rd., W10 (020.7575.3000) Tube: Westbourne Park

Graffiti has come a long way since the early days of tagging your name on a subway car, particularly the pioneering, 3D graf landscapes of Zeus taking the art one step further. MeWe, a creative production agency dedicated to developing graphic work across different media, presents Graffiti Landscapes by the prolific writer Zeus. Having studied at Chelsea College of Art & Design, Zeus has been involved in graffiti for over 20 years and has worked with the likes of Tim Westwood, Paul Oakenfold and Doug E Fresh. As well as having pieces displayed at the Victoria and Albert Streetstyle exhibition, Zeus has also been invited to Kensington Palace to educate Prince Charles ("Da Prince" to his crew) in the art of graffiti. Graffiti Landscapes, Zeus's debut solo exhibition, gives you the opportunity to see a unique collection of paintings and sculptures playing with both perspective and scale. Losing yourself in one of the bird's-eye view pieces or watching fish swim through a complex perspex graffiti tank, this exhibition is guaranteed to be a far cry from the styles that normally hit your eye on the streets. (Exhibition ends Thu 10/04)

NB: The opening party will be from 7pm to 10pm. Music supplied by Matt Smooth and Rob Mac from Hip-Hop club Scratch. All works will be for sale and limited edition (affordable) prints plus sculpture furniture will also be available.

Thursday 27 March (7:30pm)

@ Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, SW7 (020.7589.8212) Tube: South Kensington

For the third year running, the Royal Albert Hall and Teenage Cancer Trust are presenting a week of money raising music with indie favourites Supergrass, Ash, Richard Ashcroft, Coldplay and Noel Gallagher, joining the more matured Madness, Eric Clapton, Paul Weller, Aswad, Nigel Kennedy and TCT Patron Roger Daltrey. If we pick a night, let's pick Doves and Asian Dub Foundation on Thursday. ADF are the exceptional community-inspired group, with anti-racist, willfully aware lyrics over motley music, using ragga jungle and guitars plucked like sitars, inspired by diversity and not novelty. They've got the album Enemy of the Enemy out and this gig is part of a massive European tour. Now then, Doves (don't say "The" it makes Virgin tetchy), influenced heavily by come down Manchunian mornings, they're latest album The Last Broadcast was produced by the guys behind Happy Mondays and Primal Scream, but feel them make that Manchester twang twinkle and tingle.

NB: The acts play for free, so your money instead of keeping the housing market alive in Primrose Hill, goes to help the earlier diagnosis of cancer and increase expertise in care; the last two years raised £2 million. Saving lives still has to be the best hangover cure.

Thursday 27 March (8:30pm)

@ Renoir, Brunswick Square, WC1 (020.7837.8402) Tube: Russell Square

Through the raging currents of time and tide, St Petersburg's Hermitage Museum has navigated challenges in a manner akin to the fabled biblical Ark, preserving in its hold a precious collection of DNArt and mitochondrial memories. Now a modern-day Noah, Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Sokurov, more inspired by word-of-Godard than God, offers resplendent refuge from the flood of insipid plots and concepts that Hollywood would have us drown within. Sukorov's Russian Ark is a time-travelling work of spellbinding beauty, ambition and audacity. Shot on a single day, with a single camera running without interruption for ninety minutes, it proceeds through thirty-five rooms in one continuous, uninterrupted take. In doing so, it traverses not just a distance of four centuries, but renders time into "one present continual tense" as hundreds of characters, histories and emotions subtly overlap to form the fabric of collective memory. Watch and be mesmerised.

NB: This is an advance screening of the film -- opens on 04/04 at the Renoir and the Curzon Mayfair. This ticket includes a vodka reception before the screening. To book tickets please call 020.7845.4631 or email km@somerset-house.org.uk.

Thursday 27 March (9:30pm - 2am)

@ Plastic People, 147-149 Curtain Road, EC2 (020.7739.6471) Tube: Old Street

The sophomore outing of Big Dada's GOSH! brings UK beats, rhymes and life to Hoxton's favourite danceteria, Plastic People, this week. Special guests are leaders of the UK Hip-Hop new school New Flesh, bringing their own brand of Northern bouncement to this intimate basement. Their well-received 2002 album, Understanding, combined eclectic subject matter (ranging from the war in Sierra Leone to the Queen and her Corgis) with a wicked mash-up of musical influences including UK Garage, Dancehall, Funk, and Soul. Producer Part 2 will be on the wheels of steel, whilst Tostie Taylor and Juice Aleem are on mic duty. If you've been to Plastic People before you'll recall that there's no stage -- you'd better like your slang-spitting up close and personal -- overgrown rhyme cipher stylee. They'll be joined by resident MC Infinite Livez (former FKO Raw freestyle champion), and resident DJ Wayne Bennett (of Roots Manuva and Lotek HiFi fame), who'll be dropping a barrage of exclusive bootlegs and dubplates. Whether you like to pack gats in your Cadillac, or you'd rather stash books in your backpack, you know this is going to be real Hip-Hop -- and don't tell us you're getting enough of that.

NB: Free mix CD for first 50 people in.

Thursday 27 March (10:30pm)

@ On The Rocks, 25 Kingsland Rd., E2 Tube: Old St.

In the whirlwind of Brooklyn bands alluding to post-punk, the Prosaics stand out as ones to watch. A singular hybrid of Joy Division and The Misfits, the trio are fresh off an American tour where they opened for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Liars. Most critics can't help but note the band's cumulative cuteness factor, but don't be fooled: these young men are serious about sincere music and, despite the intensity of their stage performance, would cheerfully disclose their adulation for influences -- bands like The Smiths, Mission of Burma, Bikini Kill and Wire. Oh, and the track "Teeth" is a resounding hit at KF HQ.

NB: Tonight's gig is a part Sonic Mook... also palying are Lomax and License to Destroy. And, if you cannot catch the Prosaics at On the Rocks then you'll be able to hear them on Fri 28/03 @ the Dirty Water Club, on Mon 31/03 @ Metro, on Tue 01/04 @ Upstairs Garage and on Mon 07/04 @ Monarch.

Friday 28 March

@ Various cinemas across London

If we remember our school physics lessons correctly, Velocity equals Displacement over Time. Which means Personal Velocity is... three women trying to work out where the hell they're going. OK, so no neat maths then as the gals discover life and men require a lot of working out. Delia's man is abusive -- a bad thing, Greta's man is boring -- a bad thing and Paula's man is completely groovy -- also a bad thing (just go with it). Critics have jumped on the huge people who loom over director Rebecca Miller's life -- her father, her mother and her husband. However this is a small film produced on a tiny budget by New York based Indigent and shot, admittedly superbly, on cheap DV. Though there are moments of indulgence and the slightly awkward voice-over seems a left-over from the tales' short stories origin, the film still rightly won at Sundance 2002 with Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey and Fairuza Balk all giving highly enjoyable, moving performances. They're strong yet flawed; sometimes funny but all bravely confused. Yes, Miller seems well on her way to cracking the formula of good directing. Now what was the electro-magnetic spectrum again?

Friday 28 March (2:30pm; 4pm; 7pm & 8pm )

@ Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Rd., SW7 (020.7942.2000) Tube: South Kensington

If you want to inject a dose of sunshine into your life, Eley Kishimoto's prints will do just that. The British/ Japanese husband and wife duo will be celebrating their 10th anniversary with a Fashion in Motion event at the V&A. They were once the fashion insider's favourite, before becoming London's most feted Fashion Week designers. Then, they became better known for their freelance work for Vuitton and Prada, and their own prints could be bought from just a few arty retailers like Liberty. Today, not only do they consult for New Look on the high street, but their current collection for autumn/winter 2003 mixes art deco prints with a delicate touch, as well as a sensitively mixed block of colours that illustrates the root of their talent -- colour.

Friday 28 March (7pm)

@ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly

With Batman a decade gone, Spiderman and Daredevil hits, and Ang Lee's Hulk promising to smash, it's a KA-POW comic book dreamworld just now. All this due to Burton's Batman, really a result of Frank Miller's (Dark Knight Returns), Alan Moore's (From Hell and Watchmen) and Grant Morrison's genre-busting scripts. The simple issues of good/bad have long given way to a wide swathe of neurotic and psychotic drives -- after all what would push grown-educated folk to don spandex or leather to avenge crimes. Following his successes with Animal Man and Doom Patrol, as well as his own highly literate, eco-terrorists The Invisibles the Glasgow-based Morrison has spent the last year revamping New X-Men. Unlike the movie, these mutants are dealing with a far more complex gamut of human issues. Like Moore, Grant practices magic, writes plays, and has a screenplay in the offing... Here, he will be speaking about comic book affairs, so if you want to get a no-holds-barred view of Stantheman Lee's naughty, naughty offspring, this is the moment!

NB: Morrison also produces his very own music, and will be present two club nights (Fri 28/03 at 8:30pm) of his Beastocracy, this weekend being the corporate version. The ICA have helpfully suggested that attendees bring animal masks and suits. We suggest whips and tails!

Saturday 29 March (10am - 4pm)

@ Goethe Institut , 50 Princes Gate Exhibtion Rd., SW7 (020.7596.4000) Tube: South Kensington

Blinky Palermo (1943-77) was beaten to being the artworld's James Dean by Jackson Pollock, but why would you want to be James Dean when you already possess the best artistic moniker going. And, that alone is good enough reason to find out about his work. A student of Joseph Beuys -- who proportedly helped him pick his name, after the mobster who managed Sonny Liston -- Palermo was a prolific and innovative, post-war generation artist. Fellow students included Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke, like them he was much affected by the American art language crossing the Atlantic, and produced a range of objects including wall drawings, objects and paintings in response. Though minimal in appearance, they're experimental nature situates them far away from that Judd gang, so don't get confused... check into this heavy-hitter's symposium chaired by philosopher Peter Osborne (editor of Radical Philosophy), with Guggenheim curator Germano Celant, Blinky curator Gloria Moure, writer Anne Rorimer and Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich curator Dr. Bernhart Schwenk to engage that old braingym.

NB: The Blinky show opens this Wednesday (26/03) at the Serpentine and runs untils 18/05.

Saturday 29 March (9pm)

@ Brixton Academy, 211 Stockwell Rd., SW9 (020.7771.3000) Tube: Brixton

The Roots are a Hip-Hop outfit that have the ability to carry off a number of subtle variations on the rap theme; something that is quite hard to do in practice without making a rap motif stick out in a track like a sore thumb. The band achieves a solid live sound -- even on record -- sprinkled liberally with old-school instruments and tight vocal performances bordering on the evangelical. They manage to achieve a blend of Hip-Hop, Dub and the coarser side of Soul (that is to say, more Dr. Marten than stiletto) -- so this is definitely a gig for the more discerning of rap lovers who prefer the involvement of more music and less glam.

Sunday 30 March (Thu to Sun 11am - 6pm )

@ Interim Art, 21 Herald St., E2 (020.7729.4112) Tube: Bethnal Green

If Eva Hesse can be said to have turned the circle into the symbol of repetitive process in the '60s, British artist Ewan Gibbs takes this a step further, by translating meticulous formal documentation back into the realms of representation. Hundreds of tiny ink circles are hand drawn into the grid of a sheet of graph paper in shades of grey through to black. Up close, they appear as beautiful, abstracted gradations of grisaille tonality, yet at a distance, they are magically transformed into precise, immaculately detailed drawings of places. Gibbs' subject matter has always played to the quotidian depicting the interiors and facades of hotels drawn from holiday brochures interspersed with his own photographs. With his latest body of work, he focuses on tourist friendly perspectives of the city of London shot from the viewing platform of Sir Christopher Wren's Monument (built in 1666 as a tribute to the re-building of the city after the Great Fire of London). Here, Gibbs blurs the degrees of separation between reality and the constructed image. Views of the Thames, St. Paul's and Tower Bridge seem strangely frozen beneath the frame of their grid-like surface and are therefore suspended in time as images of quiet reflection.

NB: Show ends Sun 20/04.

Monday 31 March (6pm)

@ National Theatre, South Bank, SE1 (020 7452 3400) Tube: Embankment/Waterloo

Thelma Holt is the last word in theatrical Grand Dames. She's been on the scene for close to 50 years as a theatre producer. At age 76, Holt is still very much a cunning tour de force as well as being a rather fiercesome lady to boot! In this talkshow, Holt speaks to Yukio Ninagawa about his direction of Pericles, which will be running for ten performances at the Olivier (Fri 28/03 to Sat 05/04). The return of the Ninagawa Company is eagerly anticipated after the rapturous celebration that their work has previously provoked in the British Press. Ninagawa himself was particularly admired for the beauty and visual intensity of his direction in previous pieces such as Macbeth and Medea. This talk could be very interesting and not only because its subject will be Pericles, a play packed with desperation, incest and violence. There may well be a modicum of back-slapping going on as Holt is also Ninagawa's producer, but hopefully the result will be an illuminating insight into the processes behind a creative mind that has been described as "aching beautiful" and "genius."

Monday 31 March (7:30pm)

@ Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, SW7 (020.7589.8212) Tube: South Kensington

This lady made one of the most beautiful albums of the '90s (Central Reservation), winning a Mercury Music Prize nomination and a Brit, for her mantel and has guested for William Orbit and The Chemical Brothers. However, after last years slightly disappointing third album the 31st sees Beth Orton debut the Royal Albert Hall, and she is sure to be giving her all, bringing her own brand of laid-back space-folk with eagerly awaited new material. If you are not familiar with Orton, then expect a unique vocal-style spreading melancholic Norfolk honey and pretty honest words over a soothing blend of instruments, mixed with the unwired and unplugged. Chilled out, atmospheric and hopeful. Now that the evenings are lighter and the days warmer its a perfect night to welcome sunnier months.

Ends Saturday 29 March (Tue to Sat 10am - 6pm)

@ Inside the White Cube, 48 Hoxton Square, N1 (020.7930.5373) Tube: Old St.

Walking into this space, you are immediately thrown by the starkness of the blank wall before confronting Andreas Gursky's Greeley, a huge c-print of gridded, cattle yards with a wide-open landscape in the background. Though physically large, when the enormity of Gursky's vision hits you, it is simply breathtaking. This outdoor view provides stark contrast to the brightly clustered, colourful products filling the shelves of a Los Angeles 99 cent store. A pair of which -- though small -- adorns the near wall of the space, creating the inverse effect. Appropriate to the title of the project Antipodes, this work produces a parallel world, familiar yet anonymous. It is reality, but through the eyes of the artist it leaves the viewer feeling somewhat of an outsider.

NB: The exhibition is the sixth instalment of Louise Neri's year-long curatorial project Antipodes. Andreas Gursky's touring retrospective is also currently on view at SFMOMA.

Thursday 3 April (6:45pm)

@ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly

Any book that involves a dodgy, older man and a young girl sounds either, terribly interesting or vaguely decrepit, whereas in real life, it's just more likely to be decrepit. Yet the original beast -- yup -- Nabokov's Lolita is always trouble. After almost fifty years and two movies (Kubrick & Lyne), it still elicits controversy -- at least in our minds -- well that old man, young girl combination will always be taboo. However, the world has moved on since 1955, should we not grow better opinions of our literary masterpieces? Or perhaps we should just move on and decide that some are not as masterful. Well, writers Will Self and Jenny Diski are here at the ICA to discuss just this issue. On the legal front David Wilson, professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Central England, formerly a prison governor who set up the sex offender treatment programme at HMP Grendon, will offer more grounded ideas, while comedy writer David Quantick will spice up the mix. To supplement this, actor Alan Howard will be reading from the book. In the chair is Guardian columnist, Zoe Williams.

Ends Saturday 29 March (Mon to Fri 9am - 6pm; Sat 10am - 5pm)

@ Essor Gallery, 1 America St., SE1 (020.7928.3388) Tube: Southwark

It's a good week to look at bodies. Like Matthew Barney, Julian Hoeber is pushing performance into the grey area of video; and like all his generation, video is no longer about resistance to film and television, in fact it's as much about television as it is about life... after all some of us spend half our lives in front of it! Hoeber, who has invited his friends to help make this little film Killing Friends, is presenting not only this half-hour film, but all the props that went into making it and some documentation, so come see his blood-splattering machine. As much as it is about "the body" and its materiality, Hoeber is sufficiently Po-Mo in his inclusion of the "film crew" in his cut-aways, as well as his breathing, blinking corpses. Downstairs, he debuts a new piece that is, though involving a little blood, suitably domestic... it even involves singing! In comparison to Barney, Hoeber seems more "humble", and also in terms of pace and eccentricity, more watchable.

NB: As Sharon Essor is leaving the gallery, this will be the last show at the Essor Gallery before it changes its name to Union Projects. If you're catching this show at the end of the week make sure you catch Live Culture round the corner at Tate Modern.

Tuesday 1 April (7:30pm)

@ Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, SE1 (020.7960.4203 or 4242) Tube: Embankment/Rail Waterloo

Graham Swift once said he writes fiction because "one doesn't want to write fact." This sounds like a warning not to read too much of him into his books. He has also admitted in the past to hating the tedium of research, preferring instead to make things up. On the one hand this is lazy, on the other, it is a novelist doing his job; that is pulling tales from his unconscious without presuming to intervene. This evening's event offers you the chance to hear this Booker Prize winner (in 1996 for Last Orders) reading from his latest book, The Light of Day and talking about his approach to writing. Given his apparent belief in the Foucaultian death of the author, or call it Keats' Chameleon poet if you like, just don't expect him to reveal too much of himself.