She rebuilt a terrace house into an aviary and dwelling for an animal rights activist, had soldiers appear at the Rijksakademie in antique costumes to breathe new life into the cavalry once billeted there and, for the Shanghai Biennial, reconstructed the journey across China of the famous communist Henk Sneevliet. Mieke van der Voort’s work is colourful and diverse, at once documentary and poetic, discerning and vague. Her newest project opens this month at Casco.

Strange things happen to a young German couple out and about in Berlin. Chairs spontaneously begin to move, a corpse’s eyes spring open. Judith Hopf uses the language of the horror genre in her documentary The Uninvited, to mock contemporary society’s obsession with safety.