Fringe Arts Bath (FaB)
FaB Festival 24 May - 9 June 2024

Call-out to Artists 2024

Fringe Arts Bath Festival 2024
24 May to 9 June


Now open: The CALL OUT TO ARTISTS FOR FAB FESTIVAL 2024

Deadline: 12 April at 23h59 GMT

Here you can read short descriptions of the 20+ exhibitions, projects and events FaB is supporting to become the Fringe Arts Bath Festival programme for 2024.

If you’d like to find out more, please click the link or image relating to any project. This will lead you to each individual project’s page with further info about:

  • the exhibition or project theme

  • the Curator/s

  • images that have inspired the Curators

  • information on how to apply

  • the type of media accepted

Read our full FAQs here for more details: fringeartsbath.co.uk/faq, and contact the FaB team if you have further questions: info@fringeartsbath.co.uk.


Health and other diseases by Bella Kerr

Deserters

What’s the relationship between illness and making? Does being one of the ‘unwell’, a ‘refusenik’, a ‘quiet-quitter’ engender different creative processes?
We are seeking artists and writers with substantial practices around this theme for a physical exhibition and an extended digital catalogue.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/deserters for full info.


GIRLS + GUTS

Let’s make a beribboned bloody mess.
Investigating the themes around girlhood and the body, GIRLS + GUTS will encompass the full spectrum of girlhood. It will reflect the perspectives of ex-girls of all ages, looking backwards, inwards, and forward.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/guts for full info.


Hell is

Some 80 years ago Sartre famously wrote ‘Hell is other people’. Using this as a jumping-off point, I invite interested artists to provide their interpretations of what their idea of hell is.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/hell for full info.


Pratfall curator Ellie Thompson

Pratfall

Exploring the concept of schadenfreude, which literally translates from German as ‘harm joy’, describing the delight one feels when witnessing another’s embarrassment or affliction. Is it an atypical, positive emotion? Should those who experience schadenfreude be chastised?
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/pratfall for full info.


Maja Irene Bolier, Did I Mention We Are At a Funeral

Seeing In The Dark

This call invites artist-filmmakers to submit films (of any genre) that explore the themes of loss and grieving creatively. The theme can be interpreted as loss of a loved one, partial loss of self, physically/ mentally, observing another’s loss, etc.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/seeing for full info.


Devanshi Rungta, The Personal Shrine Project

The Personal Shrine Project

Activating participants to share aspects of their stories through emotionally-significant-objects. Embracing the philosophy of museums, individuals become "mini-curators" of their experiences, connecting personal stories to broader cultural and social narratives; creating a living archive that celebrates and preserves memories across various mediums, from sculpture to poetry.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/shrine for full info.


Josie Purcell, part of the Harena Now series.

The Waters of Sulis & Beyond

Bath is inextricably linked to water. Humans are inextricably linked to water.
The Waters of Sulis and Beyond will examine the connections people have with the freshwater habitats where they live through abstract eco-photographic image-making.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/waters for full info.


Nigel Fryatt, untitled

alt_wilderness

An immersive collective art installation powered by the magic of emerging artists, digital projection, live performance and sound. alt_wilderness will transport your work into the digital coding space, to challenge the norms of gallery exhibitions, to play with artworks through a digital lens to explore new methods of immersive art and technology experience.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/alt for full info.


The Night Worker by Richard Waterton (2020)

Deep Time

An exhibition exploring time's profound layers—from everyday moments to geological epochs. This interdisciplinary journey through past, present, and future invites artists to contemplate the universal and timeless facets of the human experience.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/deep for full info.


Entrance of the Delta(s) exhibition, Gossip Collective 2022. Photo by Dasom Kim

Embodied Ecologies: Journeys of Resistance

This exhibition encourages experimental, experiential and collaborative practices, art works, pieces and installations. The artists involved will be creating a space that explores the co-creation of an ecofeminist ecology.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/embodied for full info.


Joseph Simons, GRIPE installation 2023

GRIPE: Bath's Tiny LoFi Indie Film Show 2024

Decades of classics existed before HD! So you don't need a 4k camera to make a great story or imagery! Make a movie, make it with a friend, make it with a field, it doesn't matter.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/gripe-2024 for full info.


Now and Then

Consider: Then and now / Before and after / Occasionally / Significant points of change / Departure (from to ?) / Journey / Chronicle of process or progress / Developments / Looking back from where I stand now / Shifting positions.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/then for full info.


Curators Wisterlitz

Risen

A space that explores technological, social, cultural and emotional aspects of humankind’s relationship with bread. We aim to stimulate curiosity and discussion about bread, food and the food system. Work in any medium welcome.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/risen for full info.


Laura Calvert, Tracey Said To.

Stepping Into Ourselves

Are you a later-in-life diagnosed/realised neurodivergent artist?! Through this lens, we invite you to explore the deeply individual, many-faceted inhabitation of identities, spaces, and communities. We are curious about navigation of the experiential landscape and the intersection of old and new ways of being.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/stepping for full info.


Who Cares?

Highlighting the integral role of care, who performs it, and the various shapes it can take. I invite artists with any form of caring responsibility to submit work that is inspired by or renders visible historically hidden caring duties to reimagine what a contemporary artist and caregiver looks like.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/who for full info.


Working with wild clay

Common Place – everywhere means something to someone

We will capture the spirit of place, in the historic parkland of the Bloomfield area of Bath.
Welcoming local artists and interested people to co-curate this project. Together we will create socially engaged research activities that explore new ways of experiencing familiar surroundings.
NB: participation starts from Feb 2024, please visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/place for full info.


Bath Tiny Galleries

We are looking for an artist to submit photos of their artwork to be displayed within our tiny galleries. This opportunity will be non-competitive and will be open to people of all abilities and ages, so whether you are a full-time artist or started doodling for fun a few weeks ago we would love to hear from you!
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/tiny for full info.


FALLACIOUS MEMORY

An opportunity for artists to explore, debate or tinker with our conception of “memory”. The exhibition will bring together multidisciplinary works which explore and question the shift of reality as we distort our memories to suit our desires.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/memory for full info.


Pedro Ramalho, Transcending Shadows 1

Fibromyalgia Perspectives

Calling all artists! Join us in a groundbreaking exhibition dedicated to raising awareness about fibromyalgia and celebrating the resilience and creativity of individuals facing this condition.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/fibro for full info.


Selected snaps from the FaB Photomarathon 2022

18th FaB Photomarathon

Saturday 4 May 2024. It’s a simple challenge: submit 20 photos, in response to 20 themes, taken in the right order over 10h. Far more than that, the FaB Photomarathon takes you on a psychogeographical ramble through the city of Bath, UK.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/photomarathon for full info.


Pillowtalk. Photo by Timo Kerber. Model Aweng Chuoi.

PILLOWTALK

Embrace your natural slutness, and take a rest. Leave the constant slog, the pointless endless cleaning, grab a pillowcase/cushion cover, and stitch your thoughts on REST… Nap, doze, siesta, catnap, snooze, kip, slumber, forty winks, shut-eye. Are you getting enough? If you are in menopause, of course you bloody aren’t…
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/pillowtalk for full info.


Emily Krainc, untitled

See. Hear. Speak.

This show invites artists to submit work that has been made using one of the VAK learning styles - Visual Auditory or Kinaesthetic.
The challenge is to create work that is either purely visual, explores sound or is about touch and what that would look, sound or feel like.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/speak for full info.


Sensory Fields

An opportunity for artists interested in sensor-based technologies to create an installation of interactive artworks that explores the relationships between art, people and spaces. Please submit one artwork and a brief description outlining your interest in the project.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/fields for full info.


Giulia Mattera, S☼ Ritual. Pollinaria. Photo Sabrina Caramanico.

Wilderness Commons

Looking for projects that explore alternative ways of connecting or engaging with nature and wilderness and/or address the disconnection from the natural world. This can be through active listening, ritual, or storytelling. Open to practitioners across art disciplines.
Visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/wilderness for full info.


Peta Lloyd, still from performance, A FaB Intervention 2016

Events

Inviting submissions for dance / performance / films / participatory / intervention and other time-based work for FaB’s live events program.
Max 200 words (written or audio file or short video) + images / video / sound / links via email to submissions@fringeartsbath.co.uk

Detouring the City 2022, photo by insta @ladygrimdark

Volunteers

Join the team! We're always looking for help, from regular festival production sessions year-round to festival set-up & take-down, behind-the-scenes tech, event stewards, invigilators, photographers, data collectors and other ad-hock help.
To find out more visit fringeartsbath.co.uk/support

Home and the Poetics of Space, FaB 2017

Groups & Collectives

Inviting artist groups & collectives with work of a high standard that they wish to show.
Send max 200 words (written or audio file or short video) + images / video / sound / links via email to submissions@fringeartsbath.co.uk


2024 poster design by Jessica Lock

ABOUT FAB

Fringe Arts Bath (FaB) aims to raise the profile of contemporary visual arts in Bath and beyond, providing early-career and emerging Curators and Artists with a platform for development as well as opportunities to test their ideas beyond the gallery-based arts scene.

FaB facilitates collaborative projects between Curators, Artists and commissioning bodies throughout the year, we are interested in hearing about new initiatives you might have.


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