Fabrica is a visual arts organisation based in a former Regency church in the heart of Brighton that commissions contemporary visual art installations specific to the building.
Kaarina Kaikkonen discusses her work and her process in this artist talk which took place at Fabrica, 24 April 2013.
Fabrica worked with Kaikkonen in collaboration with Brighton Festival to bring two major new site-specific works to Brighton and Hove, one piece for the gallery (The Blue Route) and the other at an outdoor location in the city (Time Passing By).
This co-commission by Fabrica and Brighton Festival is part of Out of the Blue, a collaborative project involving six organisations in Brighton & Hove and Amiens (France), funded by the Interreg IVa Channel programme of cross-border collaboration.
Joseph Young presentation during his Making Space programme at Fabrica, 2012.
For more information about Making Space see the Fabrica website: fabrica.org.uk
The Blue Route is a new installation by leading Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen commissioned with Brighton Festival for spring 2013.
This short film forms part of the gallery interpretation and details Kaarina's work and her approach to this exhibition. Fabrica co-director also gives some context to the commissioning of this piece.
The film was made by Ben Harding and Tom Thistlewaite and produced by Laurence Hill.
A trailer for the Fabrica spring show 2013 The Blue Route by Kaarina Kaikkonen. This is a new commission in partnership with Brighton Festival.
Work featured - Are we still going on? Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2012.
Film by Ben Harding
LCP Developing Local Audiences. Landscapes Cities People (LCP) was a three-year, collaborative project of exhibitions, conferences, audience development and education activities. It was European-funded by the Interreg IVA 2 Seas Mers Zeeën programme.
In this film five of the galleries discuss how they have developed specific audiences during the project.
Agents of Change was an event held at Fabrica, part of a series of events held during the exhibition The Beautiful Horizon. In this event five speakers were invited to make bite size presentations on how they have put their visions into practice, providing food for thought and a focus for informal debate.
David Sheppeard co-founded the PInk Fringe whilst continuing to make his own Arts Council funded theatre works. Tarik Elmoutawakil manages the Marlborough Theatre, a wonderful miniature proscenium arched theatre situated above the Marlborough pub on Princes Street, opposite the Royal Pavilion. The Marlborough is home to the Pink Fringe, producing Queer and LGBT performance events all year round.
www.pinkfringe.org.uk
Agents of Change was an event held at Fabrica, part of a series of events held during the exhibition The Beautiful Horizon. In this event five speakers were invited to make bite size presentations on how they have put their visions into practice, providing food for thought and a focus for informal debate.
Michael Taylor is in the final stages of a DPhil at the University of Sussex, researching how the different structures of social networks help or hinder the spread of an infectious agent such as a disease, information or a new idea. He is an active member of the not-for-profit organisation Positive Money, whose aim is to raise awareness about how the current financial, democratic, social and environmental crises we face today are in large part the result of a systemic failure of the way in which money is created in the first place.
Michael has written a critical text for Fabrica in relation to the current exhibition.
'This article considers how different economic and monetary policies can either widen or narrow the divide between the richest and poorest people. In particular, it considers the systemic failings of a debt-based money supply.' - the article can be downloaded from the Fabrica website.
www.fabrica.org.uk
This short film is a review of 'Going to See Culture Together' during 2012...
Going to See Culture Together is a regular event aimed at Older Audiences facilitated by Jonathan Quaterman.
Jonathon speaks to participants Blodwyn and Rita to discuss and review their experience of Going to See culture Together.
People were able to come together to visit various exhibitions throughout and outside of Brighton. They have been able to explore different forms of art and discuss their thoughts and opinions with others.
One event was held at Phoenix Brighton where Emilie Giles gave a talk to discuss the work of MzTek and their aim to encourage 'women to creatively explore computer arts and technology'. This was part of the Brighton Digital Festival.
Another event included a Greek lunch where the group had the opportunity to share a little something. This could have been a favourite poem, a good news story from 2012 or a drawing -- anything they felt like sharing.
Having a project such as this gives people the confidence to come out and see what they might not have seen had this project not been formed. It gives people the opportunity to really get stuck into an exhibition and explore it in their own way or together as a group.
For more info please visit: http://www.growingfabrica.org.uk/programme/gtsct/
For news and more from Fabrica please visit our website: http://fabrica.org.uk
Staff, volunteers and participants talk about the Growing an Older Audience project at Fabrica.
We find out why it's important to involve people from an older audience within the arts. How we do this, how we understand this group including their range of interests, life experience and what they want to be involved in.
There are lots of events put on through GOA. Photographer Elena Inga led a talk about her work and the group discussed expressing and exploring their thoughts on ageing. They were also given cameras so they could form their own mini project. Other events include unique drawing sessions led by artist Jane Fordham, these are held around the current exhibition and are a great way of letting members express themselves within the gallery space. Lunch and coffee meets are also put on as well as gallery visits, which really help bring the group together.
There is a great level of group learning and debate formed from events through this project. Fabrica continue to work with and alongside artists to create talks, events and trips so that the older generation are able to experience the arts.
For more info please visit: http://www.growingfabrica.org.uk/
For news and more from Fabrica please visit our website: http://fabrica.org.uk/
This is the first part of Julian's talk, filmed Monday 22 October 2012, at Fabrica.
Photographer Julian Germain talks about his own photographic practice.
The second part of Julians talk where he talked about the seventeen years of the No Olho da Rua project featured in The Beautiful Horizon is unavailable due to an unforeseen technical difficulty on the day of filming.
Agents of Change was an event held at Fabrica, part of a series of events held during the exhibition The Beautiful Horizon. In this event five speakers were invited to make bite size presentations on how they have put their visions into practice, providing food for thought and a focus for informal debate.
Warren Carter is the chair of The Bevendean co-op. "The Bevy" is an inititiave by a determined group of local residents to solve the fact that the 18000 people of Moulescoomb and Bevendean have spent 3 years without a pub in their area. Warren also runs the Moulescoomb Forest Garden Project, is a parent governor at Moulsecoomb Primary and director of East Brighton Trust.
www.seedybusiness.org
Agents of Change was an event held at Fabrica, part of a series of events held during the exhibition The Beautiful Horizon. In this event five speakers were invited to make bite size presentations on how they have put their visions into practice, providing food for thought and a focus for informal debate.
When her son left home, Jane Bom-Bane decided to live where she'd always wanted to live and do the things she'd always enjoyed doing most, all at the same time, in the same place -- and try to earn a living from it...
www.bom-banes.co.uk
Thursday 1 November, 7-9pm. Fabrica, UK
fabrica.org.uk
Agents of Change was an event held at Fabrica, part of a series of events held during the exhibition The Beautiful Horizon. In this event five speakers were invited to make bite size presentations on how they have put their visions into practice, providing food for thought and a focus for informal debate:
Dr. Bramwell is the creator of the successful Cheeky Guide series, founder and host of Brighton's Catalyst Club and singer-songwriter in the band Oddfellows Casino (Nightjar Records). His music and spoken word material have been featured on BBC radio 1, 3,4 and 6.
David has spoken at and hosted TEDx events, curated a tent at Port Eliot Festival and, together with fellow musician Eliza Skelton, entertained festival and cinema audiences with "Sing-along-a-Wickerman". His one-man show, the No9 Bus to Utopia was based on a year spent travelling round communities in Europe and America in search of a better life.
A lecture followed by discussion. Mark Sealy, Director of the photographic agency Autograph ABP, discusses the history and implications of using photography to represent unheard voices and as a tool for advocating social change. Mark explores the significance of the work in the No Olho da Rua project, and the Exhibition The Beautiful Horizon at Fabrica.
www.autograph-abp.co.uk
www.bpb.org.uk
www.fabrica.org.uk
This short film by Ben Harding accompanies Fabrica's autumn 2012 exhibition The Beautiful Horizon. The film features the artists central to the No Olho da Rua project from which the exhibition is drawn (Julian Germain, Patricia Azevedo, Murilo Godoy) and Celia Davies co-curator of the Brighton Photo Biennial of which the exhibition is a part.
In the film the artists talk about the development of the film and their relationship with the 'street kids' in Belo Horizonte with whom they made the work.
Fabrica has worked with basket maker Annemarie O'Sullivan for our summer exhibition. Cluster is a series of woven sculptural forms. In this film made by Ben Harding to accompany the exhibition Annemarie talks about the process of making the work, her inspirations and the value of working with Fabrica volunteers.
This updates the previous spring exhibition film with an interview with Richard Warburton of Invisible Flock, a catch up with artist in residence Maria Jastrzębska and some footage of Collective Spirit, the boat created by the Boat Project at Brighton Marina. Film by Ben Harding
Artist Annemarie O'Sullivan with volunteers Helen and Alison working on a piece for Fabrica's summer exhibition, Cluster.
Although they won't be hung in the exhibition, Annemarie suspends the pieces to work on them because gravity gives a bit of extra help when manipulating the sweet chestnut planks.
Richard from Invisible Flock talks about their recent project - Sea of Voices. Sea of Voices can be experienced until 27 May 2012. call into Fabrica gallery to collect a map, or download the app. For more information see the Fabrica website, http://fabrica.org.uk/exhibitions/invisible-flock/. This video is one of three filmed during their Talk at Blast Theory, Brighton 9 May 2012.
Ben from Invisible Flock talks about their recent project - Sea of Voices. Sea of Voices can be experienced until 27 May 2012. call into Fabrica gallery to collect a map, or download the app. For more information see the Fabrica website, http://fabrica.org.uk/exhibitions/invisible-flock/. This video is one of three filmed during their Talk at Blast Theory, Brighton 9 May 2012.
Victoria from Invisible Flock talks about their recent project - Sea of Voices. Sea of Voices can be experienced until 27 May 2012. call into Fabrica gallery to collect a map, or download the app. For more information see the Fabrica website, http://fabrica.org.uk/exhibitions/invisible-flock/. This video is one of three filmed during their Talk at Blast Theory, Brighton 9 May 2012.
Kaarina Kaikkonen - Artist Talk
Making Space with Joseph Young
The Blue Route - gallery film - spring 2013
Trailer Spring 2013 - The Blue Route by Kaarina Kaikkonen
LCP Developing Local Audiences H264
Agents of Change - Pink Fringe
Agents of Change - Michael Taylor
Going to See Culture Together - 2012
Growing an Older Audience - 2012
Agents of Change - Warren Carter
Agents of Change - Jane Bom-Bane
Agents of Change - David Bramwell
Afterimage: why representation matters - Mark Sealy
The Beautiful Horizon - gallery film
Annemarie O'Sullivan - Artist Talk
Cluster - Fabrica, Summer 2012 - Talking Point
Fabrica Spring 2012 exhibitions updated film
Creating work for summer 2012 exhibition at Fabrica
the Otolith Group in conversation
