Welcome to the Project Gallery — a living archive of experiments, performances and collaborations by The Bait Fridge. This space is not just a record of outcomes, but a collection of moments in process: the rehearsals that never quite ended, the improvisations that found new form, and the gatherings that grew into something more than planned. Each project tells a story of shared curiosity, of risk, and of the continuous reshaping of what art can be.
The Process as Practice
At the heart of The Bait Fridge is an evolving practice that values process over perfection. Every project begins with an invitation — a concept, a sound, a material, or simply a question — and expands through conversation and play. Artists, dancers, musicians, and makers step into the same room, sometimes knowing exactly what they want to build, sometimes with no plan at all. What matters most is the energy that develops in between.
In this gallery, we celebrate that process. What you see here are traces of time spent together: sketches, rehearsals, objects, installations, and performances. They are all fragments of larger experiments, captured in motion rather than frozen in final form.
Collaboration as Core
No single project within The Bait Fridge exists in isolation. Every work emerges through shared authorship. Collaboration is not an added layer — it is the foundation. Artists move between roles, building, composing, choreographing, documenting, and performing together. Each project asks its participants to trust the unknown, to listen deeply, and to respond in real time.
This openness allows The Bait Fridge to adapt to any environment. Whether performing in a gallery, a car park, a kitchen, or online, the group creates spaces for connection. The collective thrives on improvisation and community interaction, turning spectators into contributors and collaborators into co-authors.
Selected Projects
1. Wet Paint (2021)
A multi-sensory performance that grew from a week-long experiment in sound, color, and costume. Participants were invited to move through the space while paint was mixed live to the rhythm of improvised percussion. The project explored the tension between control and chaos, highlighting how new forms can emerge when structure dissolves.
2. Public Service (2020)
Developed during a digital residency, this work turned online communication into a medium of performance. Members of the collective shared scripted and unscripted messages through live streams, audio notes, and text fragments. The piece reflected on connection and isolation during a time when physical collaboration was impossible, transforming the act of digital exchange into a performative gesture.
3. Temporary Structures (2022)
An evolving installation built entirely from recycled materials collected from the community. Over the course of a month, visitors were invited to rearrange, rebuild, and reshape the work. It became a living sculpture, continually changing as people interacted with it. The project questioned authorship, permanence, and the idea of a finished artwork.
4. The Warm Room (2023)
A collaborative project between musicians, dancers, and visual artists exploring warmth as a social and emotional concept. The performance unfolded in a warehouse illuminated only by handmade lamps. Audience members were encouraged to bring blankets, join in slow movement, and share in a collective act of comfort.
5. Fridge Songs (Ongoing)
Part performance, part archive, Fridge Songs collects sound recordings, voice notes, and found audio from everyday environments. These fragments are reworked into layered compositions that accompany visual installations. The project continues to evolve as new material is gathered, emphasizing listening as a form of collaboration.
Documentation and Reflection
Each project leaves behind a trail of media: video, photography, costume, sculpture, text, and sound. These traces are not evidence of completion but reminders of experience. The Project Gallery functions as an open notebook, a way to think about making as a continuous process.
We approach documentation not as a static record but as another layer of performance. How a project is remembered is as important as how it was performed. Every image and sound becomes part of an ongoing dialogue, reinterpreted as new projects unfold.
Community and Participation
Many of The Bait Fridge’s projects invite participation beyond the collective. Workshops, open rehearsals, and collaborative events blur the boundaries between artist and audience. The aim is to create spaces of shared authorship where anyone can contribute an idea, gesture, or object.
By engaging with the wider community, the group hopes to make art more porous — something that happens in daily life, not apart from it. Whether through neighborhood collaborations, educational programs, or spontaneous pop-ups, the collective continues to explore how art can act as a form of hospitality.
A Living Archive
The Project Gallery is never complete. It grows and shifts as new works emerge and past ones are revisited. Projects are added, rearranged, or reinterpreted, just as the collective itself changes shape over time. This ongoing transformation reflects The Bait Fridge’s belief that nothing is static — not art, not process, not collaboration.
Visitors are encouraged to move through the gallery slowly, to linger with the details, and to consider the relationships between projects. The connections between works often appear in subtle ways — a shared gesture, a sound motif, a recurring texture. The more one looks, the more these connections unfold.
Future Directions
As The Bait Fridge continues to evolve, the Project Gallery will remain a site for exploration. Upcoming projects will expand into new formats — digital, site-specific, and immersive — while staying grounded in the collective’s central values: openness, experimentation, and care.
Future collaborations may include cross-disciplinary residencies, public art interventions, and community-based performances that respond to the changing environments in which we live and work. The gallery will continue to document these processes, offering glimpses into the making rather than polished outcomes.
Closing
The Project Gallery stands as both archive and invitation. It holds what has been made while asking what might come next. Each project is a conversation — between people, between materials, and between moments in time.
Through these gathered traces, The Bait Fridge continues to explore what it means to make art together: to share space, to improvise, to respond, and to keep things in motion.