Sam Thorne

Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander creates works influenced by ideas of home, travel, translation and transience

Moot, Nottingham, UK

Antony and the Johnsons (Rough Trade, 2009)

Sound and form: grasshoppers, vocal canons and communicating with the dead

Simon Critchley (Granta, London, 2008)

Publishing as an act of performance; the materiality of language

Tate St Ives, UK

DJ Zeus, Consume Music, 2002/2008

Curated by the critic and art historian Richard Cork, ‘A Life of Their Own’ at The Castle Arts, Lismore, comprises works by nine emerging British sculptors

Anarchic urbanism; pigeons, song and dance

Volume I: 50 Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum (Dust-to-Digital, 2007)

Three women are in the running for this year’s prize, which will be awarded in December to a British-based artist under 50

Part 2: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues: 1970–6 (Soundway, 2008)

The Showroom, London, UK