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The Forked Forest Path: Response Magazine Open Call

The Response is a print and digital magazine created by Fabrica volunteers in response to our main exhibition programme. As we prepare to reopen with Olafur Eliasson’s The Forked Forest Path we are calling for submissions for our next Response Magazine:

We are inviting submissions that:

Are an exploration of lost and found landscapes
Convey your own personal experiences of exploring and losing yourself in nature
Incorporate woodland materials or traditional woodland craft
Explore immersive or sensory experiences in relation to woodland
Investigate how it feels and what it means to be lost and/or found

The Forked Forest Path at Fabrica will take the visitor on a journey through the gallery space, interacting with the natural world. Led by a trail that entices visitors into a dense thicket you will be immersed in an installation filled with branches, saplings and thinnings, combined with a strong, earthy smell reminiscent of a forest floor that enfolds viewers in the sights, scents and textures of a wood in winter.

The Forked Forest Path evokes a strong sense of ‘the woods’ and our relationship to this aspect of nature and human folklore. And, as in so many fairy tales, a fork in the path hints of peril or happy endings. Which way will you choose?

This issue of the Response Magazine will examine how woodland can evoke reactions as polarised as wonder and terror, by encouraging submissions that consider how we might lose and/or find ourselves in nature. This magazine will also aim to explore the lost and found relationships between humans and woodland.

We welcome submissions in any forms of media that comment on the themes tackled by Fabrica’s Spring exhibition and uses art practice as:

An opportunity to explore the properties and qualities of different foraged materials
An exploration of our relationship with woodland in both a historical and contemporary context
A vehicle for discussion around what it means to be lost and/or found

Deadline for Submissions: 22:00 Sunday 16th May 2021

Please make sure emailed files are less than 5MB (otherwise please Wetransfer to response@fabrica.org.uk. Submitted images must be at least 300 ppi and emails should be titled with your full name in order to credit your work appropriately. Please also include your website or Instagram handle if you wish.

Please note you can submit as many different types of work that meet the open call’s requirements.

If you have any other queries please email Petra: petra.giffard@fabrica.org.uk

Take a look at some previous Response Magazines on our website: fabrica.org.uk/the-response-magazine

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(re)OPEN CALL: Response Magazine

In light of the recent lockdown restrictions, the Response Magazine team have decided to re-open the open Call for the Earthworks Response Magazine: THE FABRIC OF US

We are incredibly pleased to have received 46 submissions so far! So thank you to everyone who has contributed so far. Our new plan is to share some of these exciting submissions on social media in the coming weeks – and to have the final printed version of the Response in the gallery by early December!

So if you would still like to submit something in ANY creative media (Fine Art, Photography, Printmaking, Mixed Media, Written, Moving Image based, etc, etc) then please do join in by emailing your submissions to us before 10pm on Sunday 22nd Nov 2020.

For further guidance and information about the open call for the current Response Magazine, please click here

We look forward to the next batch of submissions, and we look forward to seeing everyone soon!

Stay safe everyone,

The Response Team

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Earthworks Response Magazine: The Fabric of Us

AN OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FROM OUR FABRICA VOLUNTEERS

DEADLINE: 22:00 MONDAY 2ND NOVEMBER 2020

The Response is a print and digital magazine created by Fabrica volunteers in response to the current exhibition. The publication is a reflection of the creative talent of the many volunteers working within gallery and is bursting with ideas, reflections and propositions.

Earthworks by Semiconductor is an extraordinary animated moving image and sound installation depicting the phenomena of landscape formation, compressing hundreds of thousands of years of geological time into less than twelve minutes.

Masses of colourful layers are animated by the soundscapes of earthquake, volcanic, glacial and human activity, recorded as seismic waves, which form spectacular fluctuating marbled waveforms across a 20 metre screen that zig-zags through the space taking over the entire gallery.

As our anxiety about coronavirus and the ensuing economic crisis mount, the consequences of climate change, loss of biodiversity, waste, pollution and unfettered use of the earth’s resources remain a clear and present danger. Earthworks makes tangible the immense natural forces captured by seismic data and tackles the way in which geological and human processes are inextricably linked in the Anthropocene.

This issue of the Response Magazine will address our complicated relationship with the everyday materials that surround us, by encouraging submissions that explore both the natural and synthetic materials that we all come into contact with every day. This magazine aims to explore both the physical and metaphysical properties and aspects of our environment and how we utilise, consume and interact with the materials and resources around us.

We welcome submissions in any forms of media that comment on the themes tackled by Fabrica’s Autumn exhibition and uses art practice as:

An opportunity to explore the properties and qualities of different materials
A political & socio economic critique of economic materialism and extraction
A vehicle for questioning our impact on the planet and whether there is still time to restore and repair

Deadline for Submissions: 22:00 Monday 2nd November 2020

Please make sure emailed files are less than 5MB (otherwise please Wetransfer) to response@fabrica.org.uk. Submitted images must be at least 300 ppi and emails should be titled with your full name in order to credit your work appropriately

Please note you can submit as many different types of work that meet the open call’s requirements.