Jonathan Meese, Vanessa Billy and Briggait open studios – This Week in Scottish Art

Jonathan Meese – the provocative German painter who responded to our interview questions this month with a handwritten 13-page response – has arrived in Glasgow. As you read this, he is putting together the installation that will become “Pump up the Vampire, Pump up the Vampire, Pump up the Vampire, Smell”, his show at the Glue Factory. If he isn't doing that, he may be sleeping – it's his favourite sport. Either way, the show previews this Friday, officially opens this Saturday, and continues throughout the month.

That’s one possible Friday night. Another option is Raydale Dower's performance at 7pm in the Tramway. Dower works with exciting sound installations – for example, in “Piano Drop” he created a surround sound installation from recordings of a piano dropped from the ceiling. On Friday there will be a live performance of a “spatial electronic composition” based on a recording a ball bearing in a metal bowl.

Still on Friday night, but heading east to David Dale Gallery in Bridgeton, Alex Impey’s new exhibition previews from 7pm. Impey’s unflashy work in sculpture, drawing and text doesn't shy away from conceptual complexities – check it out on Friday, or every Saturday until 15 Nov.

At this stage Edinburgh dwellers may feel left out, but don't. At Collective Gallery, Zurich-based artist Vanessa Billy presents her debut Scottish solo show “Sustain, Sustain”. In her work, Billy considers the abuse of natural resources by industrial bodies. To do so, she incorporates into her sculptures familiar and throwaway objects like vaseline, light bulbs and vitamins. This recent body of work will preview on Friday – it'll be open to visitors until 21 Dec.

But what is there to do until this (very busy) Friday? Well, it's the final week of an exhibition of Good Press, the print shop inside Glasgow's Mono cafe bar and next door to Monorail record shop – it's in the back left-hand corner.

Nearby, there’s still a full suite of exhibitions in The Modern Institutes (Osborne Street and Aird’s Lane), as well as over at Kendall Koppe and Mary Mary. And on Wednesday, to coincide with Gregor Wright’s new exhibition “Dinosaur Expert, I’m Feeling Lucky", Wright hosts a free screening of Bernard Tavernier’s 1980 Glasgow-shot sci-fi thriller Death Watch.

In Edinburgh's Reid Concert Hall on Saturday, there’s an Alt-W funded event, an organisation promoting experimental uses of technology in artwork both as medium and message. In this latest event in Edinburgh, there will be a live audiovisual peformance work that acts as a “Requiem for Edward Snowden”, concerning the actions and decisions of the NSA-whistleblower.

Then for the most exciting event of the next week: on Saturday and Sunday this week, the Briggait Studios will be open to the public. As well as being able to roam around freely, there will be a programme of activities hosted by Briggait-based artists. Coming from their Anna Lobner exchange, Glasgow-based Hardeep Pandal and Dusseldorf artist Kai Richter will each present solo-exhibitions.

There’s also a performance by David Sherry on Saturday from 2pm, and life drawing classes with artist Graham McGivern on Sunday. The Wasps studios in Edinburgh on Albion Road will also be open and presenting an exhibition of work by their artists in Studio 109 on the first floor.

As one last recommendation, recent Glasgow MFA grad Carla Novi will put on a performance with Bangladeshi garment worker Dilora Begum, who survived one of the worst factory disasters in recent history in Rana Plaza. Novi herself had visited the factory shortly before its collapse as part of an artists’ workshop. The performance will follow the screening of a documentary as part of Document, the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. Sun 12 Oct, 4pm.