Culture Diary w/c 09-06-2014

What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK…

Tuesday — Oberhausen on Tour: Artist Film and Video 2013 6.20pm @ Cornerhouse, Manchester — £8/6

Showing as part of Oberhausen Short Film Festival on Tour — ‘representing the diversity and visual impact of current short film production worldwide’ — tonight screens artist films exploring themes of representation and transnationality. Includes Toxic Camera by Jane & Louise Wilson, Kirik Beyaz Laleler (Off-White Tulips) by Aykan SafoÄŸlou (winner of the Grand Prize), and Nation Estate by Larissa Sansour (part of FACT’s current exhibition).

PICK OF THE WEEK: Wednesday — An Evening With Viv Albertine 7pm @ Waterstones, Liverpool One — £5

All round punk heroine Viv Albertine presents her “strident, uncertain, compelling” (the Guardian) new memoir, covering the time she formed The Flowers of Romance with Sid Vicious, to rampaging with all girl gang and punk pioneers The Slits (main image, second left). In conversation with Roger Hill, expect loads of sex, fashion, drugs and tour anecdotes.

Thursday — Jim Lambie: Answering Machine 11am-6pm @ Sadie Coles, London — FREE

Turner Prize nominee (2005) and Glasgow School of Art graduate Jim Lambie is well known for elaborate, huge and glossy installations using ordinary coloured vinyl tape. Expect this solo show — coinciding with a big retrospective at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery later on this month — to make ‘its magic with relatively humble materials’, as he always does.

Create Salford 2014 5.30pm-late @ MediaCityUK, Salford — FREE

This year’s University of Salford degree shows are open for just three days; featuring different events for the general public, the creative industry and students, expect exhibitions from graduating artists, live music, fashion shows, industry workshops and awards ceremonies.

Artist Talk: Yan Preston 6-7.30pm @ Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool — FREE, Booking Required

Contemporary photographer Yan Preston talks about her project Mother River (for which she won the Format Reviewers Choice Award and The Clifton Cameras Award) — photographing the 4,000 mile long Yangtze River, every 100 kilometres. Observing visual, geographic changes, in addition to ‘what makes China ‘Chinese’ at the beginning of the 21st century’, it’s a good opportunity to see the gallery’s current exhibition on Liverpool’s Chinatown.

Friday — Manchester Metropolitan University and UCLan Degree Shows 5.30 til late — FREE

Two showcases for North-West visual artists graduating this year on the same night, expect an eclectic mix of sculpture, installation, painting, film and drawing by young, emerging makers. See our Class of 2014 article; students to look out for at MMU are Elizabeth Flanagan-McCormick and Matt Mullins, and at UCLan, Inga Lineviciute (chosen for the 2014 Bloomberg New Contemporaries) and Matthew Lee. On until 21/25 June.

Saturday — Mistaken For Strangers Plus Satellite Q&A 6.30pm @ FACT, Liverpool — £9.50/7.50

How would you feel if your brother was a rock star? Asked to be a roadie on The National’s world tour in 2010 by lead singer — and brother — Matt Berninger, Tom Berninger attempts to document not only the experience but his dysfunctional and uneasy sibling relationship. The result? The doc has been hailed by Michael Moore as “one of the best documentaries about a band that I’ve ever seen”.

Sunday — Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival Family Day from 12 noon @ Sefton Park Palm House, Liverpool — FREE

The last event for this year’s LAAF, expect live music from Oud player Attab Haddad (who has worked with Juan Martin, Cerys Matthews, Max Baillie), electronica and world music fusion from Simona Abdallah, African and Arabic classical from Karama, and traditional dance, as well as market stalls and plenty of food.