Inviting Artists and Creatives to be part of FaB Festival 2017

Call-out for FaB Festival 2017 Fri 26 May - Sun 11 June We invite Artists and Creatives to respond to the 24 exhibition & event proposals below. Please see individual call-out blog pages for further information. FaB also invites Collectives and Groups to submit exhibition proposals. A little bit about FaB FaB is Bath’s only annual visual arts festival. We actively promote and celebrate contemporary art, showcasing early career artists and curators, and those who find it difficult to break into (or prefer to operate outside of) the gallery based art scene. Non-profit and entirely run by volunteers, FaB Festival occupies ‘alternative’ exhibition spaces, from empty shops to street corners.

A FaB Intervention: Material Responses A multi-modal exhibition consisting of a performance event to take place over the opening weekend of FaB, and a static exhibition to run for the duration of the Fringe Arts Bath festival fringeartsbath.co.uk/intervention intervention@fringeartsbath.co.uk The Bath Open Art Prize 2017   Artists in all mediums are invited to enter the Bath Open Art prize, now in its 6th year. Selected works will be exhibited at 44AD Artspace during FaB17. £20 per submission, deadline 28th April 2017. fringeartsbath.co.uk/bathopen bathopen@fringeartsbath.co.uk Bathtime Solo performer seeks members of the public to throw water at her. A variety of implements, and water, will be provided. fringeartsbath.co.uk/bathtime bathtime@fringeartsbath.co.uk between Performance work that deals with moments of tension and or change (possibly metaphysical, emotional, numerical, change and the body etc.); that shows a concern with limited time and a consciousness of the temporal nature of performance art. fringeartsbath.co.uk/between between@fringeartsbath.co.uk Diegetic Life: Ghosts of the Putative The word diegetic refers to the realities that are portrayed on screens. With lives increasingly dominated by screens, what is the reality that we are now living in and what is it likely to become? Works welcome in any medium. fringeartsbath.co.uk/diegetic diegetic@fringeartsbath.co.uk Dreaming in Full Calling all artists who investigate interdisciplinary possibilities between 'visual art' and 'theatre'. Immersive, extravagant, emotional, and dramatic - works that stretch the boundaries, rethink the definitions, and create experiences that spill over the expected between these two disciplines are welcome fringeartsbath.co.uk/dreaming dreaming@fringeartsbath.co.uk Embodied Cartographies "Walking... is how the body measures itself against the earth" Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking. An inter-disciplinary series of events and exhibition focussing on walking as praxis, mark-making, language, performance, choreography, philosophy, wayfinding...  fringeartsbath.co.uk/cartographies cartographies@fringeartsbath.co.uk FaB Art Market 04/06/17 Calling contemporary artists, crafts-people and makers to exhibit and sell work at our outdoor market. Welcoming diverse, innovative, fresh artworks with a relaxed Sunday vibe and street performers. £20 per stall, no deadline: fringeartsbath.co.uk/artmarket FaB Photomarathon 29/04/17 You have 20 themes to illustrate, in the right order, in 10 hours. Do you accept the challenge? Open to all who like taking photographs, the results will be exhibited during FaB 2017. £10 entry/£5 conc. For info and to register: fringeartsbath.co.uk/photomarathon Flux Sightlines Projects invites artists of all disciplines to consider our relationship with an ever-changing world. Using 'flux' as an open-ended departure point, socio-political or technological change, shifting perspectives or the transformative nature of materials might be explored. fringeartsbath.co.uk/flux flux@fringeartsbath.co.uk From Artist's to Child's Hand   Looking for original illustrations from published books (hard copies or e-books) created in classic mediums such as painting, drawing, ink, collage etc. The exhibition aims to show that books (children's picture books in particular) are collections of works of art.  fringeartsbath.co.uk/artistchild artistchild@fringeartsbath.co.uk Gender Fluid A contemporary theme designed to provoke exploration about gender identity. Gender fluidity empowers one to identify as male, female, neutrois or any other non-binary identity. Be brave, be different, we are interested in exhibiting work that challenges convention.  fringeartsbath.co.uk/genderfluid genderfluid@fringeartsbath.co.uk Lost Library A celebration of the sharing of text, using statistics of UK population’s interaction with libraries. Calling for participants to put on a suit and join in the race to update library statistics before the day is out. fringeartsbath.co.uk/lostlibrary lostlibrary@fringeartsbath.co.uk The Obsessive Compulsive Practice Looking for artists of any discipline who compile, repeat, collect, hoard, fixate, assemble, submerge or observe obsessive compulsive behaviour. fringeartsbath.co.uk/obsessive obsessive@fringeartsbath.co.uk On the tip of my tongue  Explore the conversations we struggle to have and the things that we never say. We would like to invite: people living in Bath to offer their home as a exhibition space Artists to ‘take over’ a house and work with the residents to create an installation fringeartsbath.co.uk/tongue tongue@fringeartsbath.co.uk Other People Have a Nationality A project about the feeling of home. 'Other people have a nationality‘ will try to explain how those places form, based on two open calls: one for art work, one for your personal answer to the question: 'What is home?‘ fringeartsbath.co.uk/nationality nationality@fringeartsbath.co.uk Primordial Soup This exhibition will bring together artists whose work considers how humans and other species relate to water. I am particularly interested in how these relationships are considered critically – from an ecological, political and historical perspective. fringeartsbath.co.uk/primordial primordial@fringeartsbath.co.uk Projected Histories   How can art that is created or presented digitally teach us more about the world we live in? What is the material of the digital? We are seeking artists who actively (critically or otherwise) engage with the lineage of digitally displayed art. fringeartsbath.co.uk/projectedhistories projectedhistories@fringeartsbath.co.uk Proposals for the Public Proposals for the Public invites artists to propose small acts or interventions into people’s everyday lives. 50 word submission, no charge for this show. fringeartsbath.co.uk/proposals proposals@fringeartsbath.co.uk Refuge: in search of safety We all need to feel safe. Facing loneliness, persecution, abuse, homelessness, war, stress or uncertainty, human beings are united by the need to seek refuge. This project explores what seeking, finding, giving or losing a place of safety really means fringeartsbath.co.uk/refuge refuge@fringeartsbath.co.uk The Press Room The Press Room seeks print-based artists for experimental live artwork inspired by propaganda, underground and anarchist presses. In this era of increasing digital surveillance and data collection could non-digital, ephemeral distribution of ideas become revolutionary again? fringeartsbath.co.uk/pressroom pressroom@fringeartsbath.co.uk Submissions from Groups and Collectives Inviting artist groups & collectives with work of a high standard that they wish to show. Submit up to 500 words with images of the work (or past works if it’s a new project). fringeartsbath.co.uk/groupscollectives submissions@fringeartsbath.co.uk Volunteers Join the team: weekly sessions to work on festival production, festival set-up & take-down, event stewards, invigilators, photographers, data collectors and other ad-hock help. fringeartsbath.co.uk/volunteer volunteer@fringeartsbath.co.uk Writer / Journalist in Residence FaB are looking for a writer to join the FaB team to document the festival, present Curators and their projects, provide content for the FaB online blog and FaB newspaper. fringeartsbath.co.uk/writer scarlett@fringeartsbath.co.uk How do I apply? It is free to submit proposals (unless otherwise stated). If you are selected there is a £20 admin charge per artist, per show. Email submissions: to the exhibition’s email address, see above. Please submit up to 500 words and accompanying images. NB: files to be saved as a single PDF or Word doc including your name as part of every file title (BloggsJ.pdf for example). Postal submissions: please include a SAE if you would like your work returned, and send entries to: (Project Title), Fringe Arts Bath, 103 Walcot Street, Bath BA1 5BW Submission deadline is 27th March 2017 unless otherwise specified.