Risen
The call-out to Artists:
Risen is a collection of works that explore bread. Why bread? Because it is everyday and ordinary, it is full of rich symbolism, it is intertwined with innovation, revolt and revolution and it is illustrative of our modern food system. Bread is food and food is bread.
Domestication of grain for bread has shaped our civilizations and our landscape for millennia.
Bread is baked into language and ingrained into spirituality. It had been embroiled in politics and invoked in uprisings.
Today, the Chorleywood industrial bread creates plentiful, reassuringly fluffy white loaves and allows us to rely on domestically produced wheat. But had industrialisation led to us wasting almost 900,000 tonnes of bread a year? Or the situation where, after 14,000 years of eating bread as a staple, 1 in 10 of us now avoid it due to gluten intolerance?
Bread has been a subject, material and inspiration for many artists including Salvador Dali, Jasper Johns, Sarah Lucas, Marc Quinn, Gavin Turk, Antony Gormley, Ester Choi, Kate Jenkins, Manami Sasaki, Milena Korolczuk, Yukiko Morita and Terézia Krnáčová.
Join us at Risen to contemplate more bread-inspired art, pique your curiosity and have a conversation about bread, food and our food system.
Curated by Wisterlitz
We are Wisterlitz, a collaboration between artists Liz Lister and Rebecca Hurwitz. We have been making work together since 2015, inspired by taking a feminist angle on the customs and outputs of science and technology.
Our practice centres on creating opportunities for audiences to encounter ideas, engage with alternative perspectives and participate in playful critique of priorities and assumptions. We are developing an approach based on the concept of dialogic space, which we define as the practice of creating spaces that contain objects, ideas and people in open, shared dialogue with each other.
Curators Liz Lister and Rebecca Hurwitz, collaborating as Wisterlitz
Submission deadline: Friday 12th April at 23h59 GMT
Media accepted: All media.
Free submission. All are welcome to apply, of any age, status, and from anywhere in the world.
If selected, we ask Artists for a £22 contribution (like crowdfunding) and/or to give some of their time, as we are all volunteers. Please read our FAQs here to find out more.
See all 20 projects open to submissions on our home page: fringeartsbath.co.uk
Fringe Arts Bath Festival will take place 24 May to 9 June 2024
To submit your work: please email the Curator risen@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.