Fabrica

The Otolith Group in conversation

Tracey — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:18:06 +0000

Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun of The Otolith Group gave a very insightful talk at the opening of their new exhibition here at Fabrica.

In conversation with Honor Harger (from Lighthouse) about I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another, the artists discussed the themes surrounding their work. An audio recording was made of the talk which you can hear here on this youtube clip – it’s 46 minutes long so make sure you are sitting comfortably.

Working With Diverse Audiences

Tracey — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:14:37 +0000

Fabrica offer a programme of events, workshops and activities devised to maximise accessability and inclusion for individuals regardless of their abilities or any other aspects of their lives which may prevent them from engaging with visual arts.

Entitled Working With Diverse Audiences there are a few activities scheduled during the forthcoming exhibition (Otilith Group – opening April 13th).

Second Sight, with Naomi Kendrick, is the first of these events. Second Sight is an event held, usually once, for each exhibition and is open to all and popular with visually impaired and blind participants. Second Sight is a tour and discussion that explores the exhibition from a multi-sensory perspective it is a Fabrica/Elephant partnership.

Free entry but please book in advance, see information on our events page

For more info see www.elephantproject.co.uk and Naomi’s blog: amultisensoryapproach.blogspot.com

Skate Arc

Tracey — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:40:44 +0000

Skate Arc is a project in development by artist Lulu Allison. Lulu is artist in residence based at Brighton Youth Centre, the project is a collaboration with Fabrica and Brighton Youth Centre

Redeveloping the Fabrica website

Laurence — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:01:11 +0000

Or do I mean re-imagining, or revamping, or reworking? In any case we’d like some help from you and to that end we’ve created a very short survey and we’d appreciate if you’d take the time to complete it. There are only 10 questions (and you don’t even have to answer the last one). Seriously though, we have a small amount of hard won money to do this and we want to make sure we do it right and create something that has genuine value for our audience. Your help would be much appreciated.

Click here to take survey

Thanks in advance.

Power of the Crowd – the presentations

Tracey — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:52:34 +0000

‘Power of the Crowd’ was an event organised by Fabrica in November 2011. Five guest speakers gave short presentations about what they thought was ‘Power of the crowd’

The event was filmed, and presented here using the speakers presentations along with the audio from the evening.

Ross Breadmore

John Drury

Donna Close

Philip Morgan

Natasha Thoday

Collective Joy and the Power of the Crowd

Guest Contributor — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:58:34 +0000

Fabrica recently commissioned John Drury and David Novelli from the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex to write a piece on the current thinking on crowd psychology and how it relates to the two film pieces in Gathering. You can download and read the piece here Collective joy and the power of the crowd

The Response Vol XI

Guest Contributor — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:58:55 +0000

In response to each exhibition, Fabrica volunteers produce a magazine of writing, drawing, painting and photography. The Response, Vol XI is out now featuring some amazing work around the themes of Gathering.

Pick up your copy now from gallery for only £2

Edited, designed and produced by
Dorian Vaughan and Margarita Mompeán López
Advisor to the project
Daniel Yáñez González-Irún

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

Freddie — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:21:19 +0000

In preparation for the forthcoming The Power of the Crowd event, check out William H. Whyte’s The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces documentary. A fascinating documentary from the late 1980s, which looks at how people inhabit urban spaces.

William H. Whyte – Social Life of Small Urban Places from Robin van Emden on Vimeo.

The Power of the Crowd is this coming Thursday 10 November, 7 – 9.30pm at Fabrica. For more information please click here

Melanie Manchot – Artist Talk

Freddie — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:45:46 +0000

On the 19 October Melanie Manchot came to Fabrica to talk about her work. In her illustrated presentation, Melanie elaborated on the ideas surrounding her current exhibition, Gathering. She talked about precusory photographic work made in Russia and Berlin, and illuminated the process of making Celebration (Cyprus Street) and Walk (Square). Here is a video recording of the event.

One Minute Manifestos

Guest Contributor — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:38:09 +0000

For this year’s White Night, we collecting One Minute Manifestos. Declare your intentions in under a minute for the chance for your manifesto to be broadcast outside of Fabrica this Saturday night. All manifestos will be collected at OneMinuteManifestos.wordpress.com.
Submit yours to fabricabrighton@gmail.com

To get your ideas flowing here is artist and Fabrica project manger, Jonathan Swain’s manifesto entitled ‘Ten principals of the Yoke for the contemporary user.’

1. The new age of the yoke is the era of the baroque or rococo: pure ornament.
2. Yokes are to be made from modern materials.
Out with wood, leather and metals. In with plastic gels, helium and foam.
3. Yokes can be inflated, or soft and deflated.
4. Yokes are not to be useful or convenient in any way.
5. They are not for carrying the shopping or to be used as a USB hub or as additional storage capacity.
6. Nor does a yoke offer sponsorship potential, or
7. should it be used as a fixture for lighting or signaling devices etc.
8. Yokes can offer neck relief
9. but Yokes are not forms of punishment or subjugation.
And finally
10. Most of all, Yokes are versatile, clean and fun.