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Woodwalk

In Summer 2006, artist Jacques Nimki, created Woodlock a wild flower meadow in Fabrica. Nimki's work at Fabrica followed a 12-month residency at King's Wood in Kent hosted by Stour Valley Arts.
Within the context of this exhibition and residency an exchange project was initiated by Fabrica, Ceméa and Stour Valley Arts. Pupils from the Collège Jean Rostand, in Sains en Gohelle met their counterparts from the Towers School, Ashford, Kent in the forest at King's Wood, for a day of exploration, workshops and exchange. Woodwalk documents this project.
Since 1994, Stour Valley Arts has commissioned artists to make sculptures within the forest. Their use of natural materials means that the sculptures in King's Wood gradually change and will all, eventually, become part of the forest.
Bi-lingual French and English. Approx 9 minutes. Summer 2006.

Moloheya

The leaf vegetable moloheya is traditionally called the national dish of Egypt and is well known across the Middle East and Northern Africa. Mention moloheya to anyone from this region and it prompts fond memories and an outpouring of stories about home.
Using this common experience artists Haim Ben Shitrit and Jonathan Swain spent their month long residency at Fabrica cooking, eating, comparing recipes and sharing stories about this dish with Brighton & Hove residents from Syria, Palestine, Sudan and Egypt. They also introduced this highly nutritious food to other local people, a subtle, long term bid to extend Jamie Oliver's range of ingredients.
Haim Ben Shitrit is an installation artist who uses video. His work has been shown in galleries and at film festivals in France and Israel. Jonathan Swain instigates cross media events that tend to occur in irregular environments. He lives in Brighton.
This video was commissioned as part of Say AaH, a Brighton and Hove Council initiative that aims to stimulate debate around the role that arts can play in the health of individuals, communities and cities. Haim's flight and accommodation were funded by Bi-arts, an exchange project for Israeli and British artists. Approx 9 minutes. Summer 2006.

Drawing On...

Artist Mark Anstee creates monumental images, built up over time from small individually drawn motifs. His work is often conducted 'live' in galleries, sometimes over long periods. In May 2005 he created Overkill at CEMEA's Le 118 gallery, and in September the same year, created Early Redemption at Fabrica. Both works featured drawings of human forms and explored his ideas about memory and loss.
Drawing On… documents this new work of Mark Anstee and outlines some of the key areas of exchange between CEMEA and Fabrica. Principally, it shows the partners at work in developing educational and learning activities and describes how CEMEA methods are being employed to facilitate and enhance people's experience of contemporary art.
Bi-lingual French and English. Approx 7 mins. Winter 2005.

Fibi & Other Stories

In August 2005 Fabrica invited Haim Ben Shitrit to Brighton to develop ideas for new art works stemming from the multi-lingual approach of his video Fibi ­ Discussions with Abdel Wadoud. Haim is an installation artist who uses video. His work has been shown in galleries and at film festivals in France and Israel. This short film is a document of the method and outcome of his residency.
Approx 12 mins. Summer 2005.

Slideshow

Slideshow is a project that continues a collaboration between CEMEA and Fabrica that brings together young people, artists and animateurs in an exploration of contemporary art and photography.
Two groups of young people worked with photographers Danny Wilson in Brighton and Fabrice Dubreuil in Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon. They produced a body of photographs exploring their own environments and the slideshow on this DVD is their selected work.
The work is presented with a narration developed with the support of poet, Jackie Wills, or accompanied by their choice of music.
Bi-lingual French and English. Approx 14 mins. Autumn 2005. SOLD OUT

Nick and Me
 
Photographer Tommi Cahill was invited to be Artist in Residence at Fabrica during the exhibition Mother, Child & The Double by Heidi Tikka in the winter, 2004. This video documents her stay in Brighton as she explores new ideas for her work and prepares for an exhibition.
Approx 9 mins. Winter 2004.

Between Two Spaces

Between Two Spaces documents video artist Judith Josso's residency at Fabrica in September 2003, during the exhibition Bump by Assocreation, which she then continued at Espace Croise in France in October 2003, during an exhibition by Zineb Sedira and Zoulikha Bouabdellah.
Bi-lingual French and English. Approx 15 mins. Autumn 2003. SOLD OUT