Inexpressible

‘The most profound things are inexpressible’, Jenny Holzer, Truisms.

In today’s sociopolitical climate, it can be hard to navigate the constant stream of information and endless tidal waves of rhetoric and opinion available through digital media. How can we keep up with 24-hour news, discern fact from fiction, recognise echo chambers, resist indoctrination and avoid unwanted confrontation? How can we stay connected with our humanity and the world around us without becoming completely overwhelmed or desensitised, or without succumbing to the path of least resistance and saying nothing at all?

Sometimes words can feel inadequate. But for artists there have always existed other possibilities, other languages to express thoughts, feelings, truths, and falsehoods. Such modes of communication may succeed where other, more prescriptive ones fail.

For FaB26, Sightlines Projects invites artists who are interested in responding to the world we live in to submit short films of up to 10 minutes in duration (MP4 format) that reflect their views, thoughts or feelings in considered, non-prescriptive, experimental ways; to express what may feel inexpressible by other means for a curated film screening. In other words, to do what artists do and inject a note of reflection and optimism into the deluge.

Curated by Sightlines Projects (Roz Bonnet and Sarah Knight)

Sightlines Projects is a Bristol-based curatorial partnership formed by Roz Bonnet and Sarah Knight. Our intention is to offer a platform for experimentation to emerging and established artists across all mediums, and to collaborate with artists to push and develop curatorial strategies.

We have organised exhibitions in Bristol, Bath and London. We are interested in site-specific projects, immersive installations, film screenings and curated exhibitions in which dialogue is fostered between diverse works that respond to a loose, non-prescriptive theme, be it cultural, sociopolitical, or purely formal. We are keen to bring contemporary art out of traditional gallery spaces to reach new audiences.

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How to apply

Fringe Arts Bath Festival will take place 22 May to 6 June 2026

Submission deadline: Friday 10th April 2026 at 23h59 GMT

• Media accepted: Film - MP4 format

• Free submission. All are welcome to apply, of any age, status, and from anywhere in the world.

• If selected, we ask Artists for a £25 contribution (like crowdfunding) and to give some of their time, as we are all volunteers.
  Please read our FAQs here to find out more.

• See all 17 projects open to submissions on our home page: fringeartsbath.co.uk

To submit your work: please email the curator inexpressible@fringeartsbath.co.uk including:

• NB: please include the exhibition / project name in the email title.

• max 200 words about your work and how it fits the call-out (written, audio file, video or another way to suit you).

• some images of the work, or links to video / performance work (or existing work if it hasn’t been made yet).

• any relevant links, if you have them (though it’s not a requirement and Curators might not have the capacity to visit them all).

• of course please include any questions you have.

• you might not hear back from Curators until after the deadline, thank you for your patience.