An Endless Meeting: 變 SLOW BURN

The show is named for a single character. 變 (biàn), the curators write, means weaving silk and words with folding hands, and slides between movement, chaos, uprising and change. Its emblem is the fènghuáng, the bigender bird of Chinese myth that guards the South and Fire.

Eight artists and collectives split across two rooms. Gallery One holds Cynthia Zhou, whose current paintings take on the cowboy myth and Chinese railroad workers, Zainab Zulfiqar, trained in manuscript painting in Lahore, plus Rah Gerg, Voyo Woo and Memphis-rooted MengCheng 梦城团 Collective. You then cross into the Black Box for Sarah Trad, sound sculptor Kat Nzingha and CAO Collective 离离草, the curators' own group.

Come for the range: installation, performance, video, sound and painting about grief and queer kinship. Entry is free, on Vox's third floor, Thursdays 4 to 6pm and Friday to Sunday 12 to 6pm until 15 November. First Friday on 6 November runs 6 to 10pm, with a 7pm performance directed by Rah Gerg.