With Led Zeppelin’s reunion concert close at hand, Melbourne artists Ian Haig, Philip Samartzis and Darren Tofts explore the mythology of lead guitarist Jimmy Page's dabbling in the occult. ZOSO, an installation of sound, wall drawings and various mixed media addresses legends surrounding the rock star and his strong interest in the dark mysticism of Aleister Crowley, with both humour and a sharp aesthetic. - JD

Fictions, a group exhibition at Melbourne’s Seventh Gallery, tells several intriguing and intimate stories. Jackson Slattery presents two photo-realistic watercolours entitled ‘Mistakes We Wish We’d Made’, each resembling holiday photographs and inflicting a strange sense of déjà vu or familiarity upon the viewer. In the centre of the space is Andre Liew’s installation, a curious life-size model of a man either homeless or simply down on his luck, all ironically titled ‘A Shining Torch of Progress in the Temple of Humanity, IV’. Fictions is a wonderfully arranged show with a refreshing array of local artists. – JD

This week as the Fringe Festival begins, Melbournians will have their last chance to view works by New Yorker Roni Horn, in her large-scale exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. With a number of world renowned photographic sequences, Horn presents intriguing portraits of subjects ranging from family to French actress Isabelle Huppert, all exploring the intrinsic nature of what can (or can’t) be captured through portraiture. – JD

Hard working Melbourne art group DAMP, has turned to focus on the collective nature of their practice itself, with a new work currently exhibited at Uplands Gallery. Consisting of an over-scaled, ten foot high plinth, atop of which perch a circle of ten chairs, Untitled 2007 will function as a place for the artists to work and discuss ideas, all the while in plain view of gallery visitors. Truly an unusual insight into the curious goings-on of the DAMP gang. JD

Next week idiosyncratic idol of popular culture, Philip Brophy, will continue his iconoclastic investigations into the body, sex, sound and film with VOX, a multimedia installation at Melbourne’s Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces. In continuity with Brophy’s prolific cross-disciplinary output that has incorporated film, art, sound and cultural critique, VOX will address the contemporary ‘Romantic Comedy’ in a visceral and gender-bending manner. – JD

In Sonia Leber and David Chesworth’s Almost Always Everywhere Apparent, exhibition goers become overwhelmed by a sonorous and prison-like super sized structure. Within its walk-through environment, viewer/listeners are subjected to a surround soundtrack of grunts, groans, moans, utterances, cries and choral outbursts, all accumulating in what is indeed a compelling exploration of hierarchical systems and social control. – JD

‘Paper/Scissors/Rock’ presents a delightfully disparate investigation into the childhood game. Drawing together an array of interpretations from the playful to the political, West Space has selected several of Melbourne’s most prominent emerging artists to instigate a diverse dialogue that either borrows from or relates to the well-known pastime, whether it be the scissor and paper usage of Damiano Bertoli and Tony Garifalakis, or simple refernce like Ash Keating’s ‘Toxic Rocks (Beats both scissors and paper)’. Indeed a refreshing collection of quality contemporary artworks, ‘Paper/Scissors/Rock’ presents a fascinating range of subjective and unique ideas, all-the-while remaining true to its unifying theme. JD