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Subject: NEXT MAB FILM EXERCISE // THURSDAY 18 FEB // MARIE-ANNE MCQUAY
Hi MAB FILM EXERCISE FANS!
Put the next MAB FILM EXERCISE in your diary - THURSDAY 18 FEBRUARY curated by the fabulous Marie-Anne McQuay, curator at Spike Island in Bristol.
Marie-Anne McQuay presents… Involuntary Reception Kristin Lucas, Branda Miller, Craig Mulholland, Charlie Tweed
18.30hrs THURSDAY 18 FEBRUARY Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA FREE but booking recommended (0117 917 2300)
For the third MAB Film Exercise, Media Art Bath is pleased to announce that Marie-Anne McQuay (Curator at Spike Island) will present a series of video transmissions from Utopia’s shadow world: the contemporary technocratic Dystopia.
Dystopia is the utopia you must be careful not to wish for (Michael S. Roth)
The work in Involuntary Reception highlights a variety of dystopias in which bureaucratic, scientific, economic and environmental systems mesh together, asking to whom have we surrendered control and in whose name?
DON’T MISS IT!!! IT’S FREE!! AT ARNOLFINI.
See you there!
MAB
Next years dates are
Bath’s Fringe Visual Arts Festival - Friday May 28 to Sunday June 13, 2010
FRINGE ARTS BATH CALL FOR INTEREST 2010
FAB is Bath’s only visual arts festival and we are looking for new projects and new people for 2010. Our dates for next year’s festival are confirmed as Friday May 28th to Sunday June 13th. We actively promote and celebrate contemporary art in the Bath area and beyond, 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. FAB frequently uses “alternative”, temporary exhibition spaces - anything from street corners, shops and shopping centres to front rooms and cafés. We are a not for profit organisation and receive little funding, relying on enthusiastic volunteers to enable us to put on each year’s programme of shows and events.
Our call out for 2010 includes
1. Open invite for group shows- Exhibition/Event
2. FAB art fair- Event makers/crafts /selling
3. The annual FAB photo-marathon- Event/Exhibition
4. Committee selected show- photography/multi-media/film/installation
5. Falling/Fooling – performance/multi-media/film/installation/makers
6. Here Today Gone Tomorrow - all media welcome
7. The Romanian spirit and culture- performance all media
8. The Fab Book project
9. Open call Film/Photography/Video works/Performance Art
1. Performance, intervention, installation, multi-media and video work through to photography, drawing, painting and sculpture (and all spaces in between).
We are taking submissions from artist groups who have work of a high standard that they wish to show.
Please provide us with a statement of no more than 500 words and examples of work (or past works if it’s a new project).
email us with FAB group shows in the subject and / or send the proposal to the address below. fringeartsbath@ymail.com
2. The FAB Art Fair
The art fair is now an annual feature on our calender, we are inviting all makers artists print makers of all types to come along to take a pitch in a central location in Bath. The Fair show have a contemporary vibe selling original items, there will be a small fee to cover your pitch.
Please send details and images of your work through post or email with FAB Art Fair in the subject to register your interest
There is no deadline for this opportunity
3. The Bath Photomarathon 2010
That’s right, it’s back , building on the success of last year’s event the challenge is laid down again! You have 10 hours and a 24 frame of film to complete this marathon of photography, the results will be exhibited during the FAB fortnight.
So join us on a psychogeographical ramble through the streets of Bath, this is open to any one who likes taking photographs: professional, amateur, young or old. Do it in a group or alone, it’s up to you. You need to be in Bath on the day, but it’s open to people outside the city. Last year we had people from Brighton, Poland and Wales.
This year’s date is 1st May 2010, 10am start
There is a £7 per film admin fee to cover costs (for £7 you get a film and processing ready for exhibition)
please register your interest via email now !! bathphotomarathon@gmail.com
There is no deadline for this opportunity
4. FAB committee selected show
Fringe arts bath would like to invite artists working in film/photography/multimedia to submit proposals for new location responsive works, for exhibition.
This is project is intended to make new investigation of the city of Bath, perhaps relieving a unknown side to the city. The exhibition should be engaging showcasing a verity of new media approaches and a provide spring board for debate.
please send a proposal and images of past works to the fab email with the subject show or by post fringeartsbath@ymail.com
5. ‘Falling/Fooling’
Pea and Pea collaborations will curate an accessible, site-specific space that exhibits multi media, video, installation and performance under the umbrella of ‘Falling/Fooling’ for FAB 2010!
We are currently looking for artists/makers/performers to submit work and collaborate on this exhibition. This is open to everybody; please do get in touch if you have any ideas!
Please send us a proposal, no longer than 500 words, of your idea for this project including images of past work and/or a link to an online portfolio, blog or website
Please put Falling in the subject of your email or postal submission
6. Here today gone tomorrow
You are invited to submit work of any media in response to the title
Here today gone tomorrow
this could be a new project or existing work that may fit the theme
please send a artist statement and 4 images of your work (past work if your prosing a new project)
put Here today in the subject of your email or postal submission
7. The Romanian spirit and culture-Livia Stoica
I would like to curate a cultural event promoting Romania, which combines street acts/performances, such as live Romanian music/dances and free tasting of Romanian cuisine, with a visual art exhibition.
The exhibition will focus on the progress of Romania, more specifically on the identity of the Romanian people and how this got fragmented over time.
It will be divided in four main sections, each focusing on significant elements of the Romanian mentality. These are:
1. Little Paris- focus on the period 1920s-1940s: la belle époque
2. The Golden Age- focus on the communist period
3. The Land of Dada- focus on contemporary Romania (present tradition/folklore versus innovation)
4. What if…? - focus on famous Romanian inventions (how people take things as granted; questioning what our lives would be like without certain objects)
The exhibition will also explore the relationship between various modes through which one can express art, however focusing on conceptual art/non-traditional media. As a result, a wide range of mediums will be used: photography, random objects, lighting installation, acting (costumed people, living statues/frozen mime/tableau).
Please email with examples of work and proposals to get involved with the project this is an open call out to all artists
put Livia in the subject of your email or postal submission
8. FAB 2010 book
FAB 2010 book
Contributions are invited towards a compilation and book project celebrating FAB in 2010. Curated by the FAB committee the book will be finished around Aug/Sept. ‘10 and will include details from the 2010 festival. We would like anyone and everyone to be involved.
So if you have worked with us in the past or not, upload your images; photos; drawings; writing; critical review; fonts; posters; art; etc. to our server here: http://www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/a-fab-2010-book/
Or by email to fringeartsbath@ymail.com
There is no deadline for this opportunity
9. OPEN CALL OUT
Are you a performance artist or do you have a film you would like to show ? 2010 will see the return of the FAB social, a night of curated chaos featuring the best
performance, short films, projection and intervention
if your interested send us details of what you would like to do the floor is yours !!
There is no deadline for this opportunity
email with social in the subject
How to apply
read the requirements after each call out it is free to submit work and proposals, if you are selected then there will be a £5 administration charge, this will go towards publicity and other cost incurred during the festival. we are a voluntary not for profit organisation, and a company limited by guarantee.
and use this email for all submissions fringeartsbath@ymail.com
send images as .Jpg and text as Word or PDF files
or send your submission by post please make sure you included an SAE if you would like your work back
by post :-
(project title)
Fringe Arts Bath (FAB)
103 Walcot St,
Bath BA1 5BW
ph. 07967745351
The deadline will be Friday 20th of February 2010
for all projects unless specified
next years dates are Friday May 28 to Sunday June 13, 2010
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