Call out to Curators for FaB Festival 2022
Do you have an idea for an exhibition, performance, intervention or event? Tell us about it.
FaB is offering aspiring Curators the opportunity to devise and organise a show as part of Fringe Arts Bath Festival, 27 May - 12 June 2022.
Deadline Sunday 26 September 2021
Performance by Peta Lloyd for CARU, part of A FaB Intervention, Fringe Arts Bath 2016
Fringe Arts Bath (FaB) is a test-bed for the new, wonderful and sometimes odd. We invite fresh and challenging concepts and encourage you to think outside the box!
FaB Curators' shows can include: performance, intervention, installation, multi-media and video work, photography, drawing, painting, sculpture and all disciplines in between.
FaB is totally open, anyone can apply, with any level of experience: students, graduates, artists, local, national, international.
Curating a show for FaB is a great chance to gain experience in this competitive field, to realise your own exhibition or event, to make new contacts and network. In past years FaB has initiated exchanges between artists and curators from London, Brighton, Manchester, Swansea, Oxford, Bath, Hungary, Poland, Canada and beyond.
Get in touch and tell us about your idea: submit a proposal of approx. 500 words detailing the underpinning themes with supporting images and your CV. You can submit as a PDF, a Powerpoint, a video, an audio file, or by post. If another format suits you better, let us know. Email to submissions@fringeartsbath.co.uk or post to Fringe Arts Bath, 103 Walcot Street, Bath BA1 5BW
Left, image © Nathan Down, untitled, part of Timeframe, curated by Melissa Wraxall for FaB 2016
Right, image © Tupper, Prosthesis, part of Prosthetic Impulse, curated by Jack Parrott and Kate Parrott for FaB 2015
The FaB committee will let you know which proposals they have selected (or not) by 11 October, and there will be a Curators’ meeting later that month for those selected to tell us more about their ideas and find out more about FaB. After this your show will be advertised in FaB's call out to artists in spring 2022.
FaB will offer you admin support, practical advice through regular meetings, mentoring from past curators, exhibition space advertising. You’ll need to promote your own call-out and exhibition, write some blog updates and post on social media, we’ll support you with this too.
FaB Festival has seen visitor numbers break 8,500 in recent years, with up to 26 exhibitions and 60+ events housed in 12 venues and around Bath's city streets.
Bath is located in the South West of England with good transport links, has a thriving art scene and plays host to many international festivals throughout the year; FaB is the only visual arts extravaganza!
Please be aware FaB cannot offer funding at this time, but can cover some expenses agreed in advance. We are a volunteer-run, non-profit registered company.
We look forward to discovering your ideas and to working with you towards FaB Festival 2022.
Thanks, Team FaB.