Victoria Miro (Mayfair) London, 13 November – 16 January 2016
The second of two Kara Walker solo shows at Victoria Miro, this exhibition presents a selection of drawings and models made in preparation for a production of the Bellini opera, Norma, which the American artist directed and art directed this summer. The opera was originally set in Roman Gaul, but Walker relocated the action to an unnamed west or central African country under brutal European colonial rule in the 19th century. Walker’s pastel and watercolour sketches are striking, skillful and politically charged, offering a fascinating insight into the creative process behind the theatre production.

East Gallery at NUA, Norwich (a Hayward Touring exhibition from Southbank Centre, London), 10 November – 9 January 2016
Born just on the cusp of the twentieth century, Lucy Schwob had a strikingly modern vision, anticipating the work of Cindy Sherman and many other contemporary artists and writers. Adopting the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1917, the artist created extraordinary Surrealism-influenced self-portraits in which she adopted multiple androgynous, otherworldly personas. She used her chosen medium – silvery black-and-white photography – to blur the boundaries between male and female, self and other. Sadly, few of Cahun’s negatives survive today, as she was forced to flee France when the Nazis invaded and much of her work was destroyed. This exhibition includes 42 contemporary giclee prints made from scans of the original works.

The Vinyl Factory Space at Brewer Street Car Park, London, 11 November – 6 December 2015
After being shown in museums and galleries in New York, Bilbao and Boston, Ragnar Kjartansson’s The Visitors is now coming to The Vinyl Factory Space at Brewer Street Carpark in London. The multi-channel audio-visual work is spread across nine-screens, each showing individual musicians in separate rooms in a bohemian mansion, all playing along to the same song. Wherever it’s been screened, the work has been very popular – so why not see for yourself what all the fuss is about?

Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, 11 November – 3 January 2016
As the dark winter nights are drawing in, the lights at Waddesdon Manor are turning on. For the final part of his residency with the Rothschild Foundation, installation artist Bruce Munro has created …–…SOS, a new piece of audio-visual light art inspired by Morse code communication. Glowing tents guide visitors around the nocturnal wooded landscape. Other illuminated artworks on view at Waddesdon include a light show by Woodroffe Bassett design and Joanna Vasconcelos’s Lafite - two illuminated 10 metre high candlesticks made from 574 wine bottles.

Lisson Gallery, London, 13 November – 9 January 2016
Often cited as one of the most influential multimedia artists of her generation, Susan Hiller works with cultural artefacts, using them to explore our collective experiences of unconscious and paranormal phenomena: dreams, memories and visions. This Lisson Gallery exhibition is the artist’s first solo show in London since her major Tate retrospective in 2011, and features a broad range of work including early pieces such as Painting Blocks (1970-84) – sculptural objects made from cut up paintings – and new works like On the Edge (2015), 482 postcards depicting 219 locations on the edges of Britain.

Anna Coatman (@AnnaCoatman) is Assistant Editor of RA Magazine.