Fabrica

Fabrica Projects

Alongside our exhibition programme, Fabrica works on projects that are an essential part of the organisation and what we do. However, often these projects don’t have a direct public outcome and although the work will impact on the way we do things, the way that we engage with our audience, the way we present our work or the types of audiences that we attract, these things are indirect, usually there’s no exhibition or meeting that we can invite people to.

One of the motivations for redesigning our website was to give these kinds of projects the attention that they deserve. This is often challenging and interesting work that demands a wider audience for both the process of the work and for any outcomes. It also gives our audience another way of seeing behind the scenes, of seeing what is a pretty large part of the puzzle that makes up Fabrica, and ultimately because we’re proud of the work that we do, often with marginalised groups and the contribution that makes to the health and wellbeing of the city and beyond.

Artist-in-Residence

Brighton Youth Centre and Fabrica have collaborated to offer an artist in residence position based at Brighton Youth Centre. The selected artist is Lulu Allison who has been in post since November 2011 and will end her residency in June 2012. You can follow Lulu’s progress on her blog luckylulu9000.wordpress.com. Part of Lulu’s remit has been to work with the Youth Centre and engage young people with her work. Lulu has been inspired by skate culture and developed the project Skate Arc. Skate Arc is a temporary skate park installed in Fabrica, used to create material for a project to be developed over the next few months.

Lulu’s aim is to bring together the two organisations and allow young people a way in which to engage with a contemporary art space. There will be a talk by Lulu in the next few months describing how she has developed her practice within the residency. Find out more about Lulu’s work through her website: www.luckylulu.co.uk

Brighton Digital Festival

Throughout September 2011 Fabrica was a participant in Brighton Digital Festival.
We hosted a series of events on the ever growing relationship between digital media and the arts

To watch the talks again please visit our Brighton Digital Festival Page

Brighton Digital Festival was a is season of exhibitions, performances, meet-ups, workshops and outdoor events that melds Brighton’s big-ticket digital conferences into a month of the fabulous, the futuristic and the unfathomable.

BrightonDigitalFestival.co.uk
Follow on Twitter: @DigitalBrighton

Other Major Projects

Permeate – a project around addressing the lack of diversity within visual arts organisations in the South East

Rendezvous – a project based on engaging an older, 70+ audience with contemporary visual art.

Landscape, Cities, People – a three year cross-border collaborative project with partners in the UK, France and Belgium.

Please follow the links above or on the sidebar to the left to find out more about each of these projects.