jotta attended the opening of United Visual Artists latest public light spectacular, which takes residence in the dark and spooky boiler room of the Wapping Project (a former water station in east London). A collaboration with Opera North and Mira Calix, the installation is an immersive, mesmerising and unexpectedly beautiful kinetic performance. Watch the video here.

Kinetic landscapes of beautifully phased movements of weather: Maayke Shurer’s video work manipulates layers of aquaria, in which wool and fabric float and spiral, merged together by the camera into a 2D composition. The realism of the work is impressive; as Maayke describes, a background in biology has endowed her with a powerful environmental edge.

Dublin collective Synth Eastwood are doing the rounds at the moment, and deservedly so. During Stag & Dagger Glasgow this Saturday they will be presenting the amazing Info Processor, aka Hugh Cooney’s one-man instant artwork machine. They will also become a roaming photo studio. jotta find out that, “from the smallest to the biggest task it’s all collaborative.”

Once a high-end department store, the Peckham Palais’ second incarnation was an R&B club, 15 years later it’s been given the royal make-over and handed to two of South London’s finest young curators. Joe of Pat And Trevor and Oliver Hogan of LuckyPDF; both lynchpins of the thriving South London art community, tell jotta about their summer palace in Peckham.

As part of the Kinoteka festival, a cool and incendiary mix of Polish arts combined at the Barbican with jazz, animation and high-end musical composition. jotta attended the world premiere of the Quay Brothers new film and Tomasz Stanko’s stellar, cinema-inspired jazz concert.