At Champ Lacombe, London, a series of poems printed on chiffon lingers in the joy and violence of contemporary life

A group exhibition at Mazzoleni, London, captures the movement’s playful challenge to art world conventions

The performance art biennial returns to Birmingham, featuring works that challenge the body’s physical and conceptual boundaries

An exhibition of the artist’s new work at Cubitt in London raises ethical questions about documenting intimate moments and memories

The artist’s solo show at Rose Easton in London features Br’er Rabbit, who rummages through cultural ruins in search of something new

The AIDS Plays Project re-stages theatrical works by playwrights such as Charles Ludlam and Robert Chesley

From Greer Lankton to Cindy Sherman, Sam Moore looks at works that have subverted the doll’s sexless femininity

From balletic sculptures to cyborg imagery, a group show at Gathering, London, delves into the vulnerability of our bodies

Laura Poitras’s documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – released in the US this week – explores the artist’s defiance against injustice and erasure

Sam Moore profiles the shape-shifting gallery space in London that has become an imaginarium for ambitious early-career artists

At New Art Projects, London, the artist evokes visceral experiences of growing up queer in Britain under Section 28

Sam Moore selects their top picks – from William Brickel’s contorted bodies at The Artist Room to Garrett Pruter’s reimagining of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ at Trafalgar Avenue 

Two major exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Basel and Hayward Gallery unravel the artist’s vulnerabilities through text, textile and the human figure

Sam Moore looks at how the artist became yet another victim of Costume Institute Benefit’s appropriation problem

The artist’s solo show at London’s Ginny on Frederick creates a complex confrontation with fragmented, sexualized humanity

The performer’s recently reissued autobiography, Man Enough to Be a Woman, offers an unapologetic blueprint for gender non-conformity