Deej Fabyc works with performance, installation, photography and video. Her work has for many years addressed the psychological dimensions of the personal and political experience of trauma. A sense or ambivalence and ‘schlock horror’ permeates her oeuvre.

Deej is based in London where she is founding director of Elastic Residence, artist project space. She is a key figure in KISSS, an international curatorium of artists working with issues of surveillance. Deej currently holds a residency bursary at Artsadmin, London and has recently completed residencies at Dartington School of Art, Devon, the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, and Rules and Regs,at A Space Gallery, Southampton during 2007. Recent significant performances include Details at L’abracada Festival International d’Art Contemporani, Castell de la Bisbal, Spain 2006; And She Watched, Trace Installation Artspace, Cardiff, 2005 and Kingsgate Gallery, London 2004; and in Don't Call it Performance, Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid and Centro Parraga, Murcia, Spain, 2003. Her work has been shown internationally both in museums and artist-run spaces for the past 15 years.

 

 

Deej Alison Fabyc

 

	Solo Exhibitions Since 1997
2008	Quiet Bells Sprung, Dartington Gallery Devon UK
2006	The Parlour Room-Keening After Things, Elastic Residence London
	We Can Work it Out, Gallery Barry Keldoulis Sydney Australia
2005	Handle on Nowhere, Gallery Barry Keldoulis Sydney Australia
	And she watched Trace Gallery, Cardiff (Wales)
2003	Cherry Ripe and other Complications, MOP Sydney Australia
2000	Deej Fabyc, Elastic gallery, Sydney
1999	Notes from Continuous Circumstance, Performance Space,
	Australian Perspecta "Living Here Now"
1998	Secondary Complications, William Mora Gallery Melbourne
	The white Room Strawberry Girl, Experimental Art Foundation
1997	Green Room /Arcadia, In Dialogue curated by Theo Tagelaars W139,
	Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
	Collaborations and Curatoriums
2004-Present	Co Director Elastic Residence Productions ltd, Not for Profit Gallery and Production Studio London UK
2005-Present	Co Convenor and initiator of KISSS The Kinship International Strategy on Surveullance and Suppression www.kisss.org.uk
2003	Call Call Me Now, with Elvis Richardson, Changing Channels Berlin
2002	Eye Witness Frenzy, Collaboration with Elvis Richardson under the pseudonyms 'Rich and Fabulous' The Physics Room NZ
2001	Details, performed in the Slovenian Pavilion - International Sex worker Forum Venice Biennale
2000-Present	Curation of two exhibitions at Elastic , Sydney, August 26, & Location and membership of Elastic Projects Sydney Australia
1998	The Caretakers Residence, Performance at The Bridge- Construction in Process, Melbourne. With Elvis Richardson.
	Group Exhibitions, Festivals & Performances
2008	Artists Rank at The Guy Hilton Gallery Presents Live on Stage
	Leaves Fall Yet They Return a ceremony The Gallery, Dartington
2007	Rules And Regs, A Space Gallery, Southampton
	Specter versus Rector, The Residence Gallery, London
2006	Making Love to your Ego Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (UK)
	Details, live work at L’Abracada, Gresol Festival International
	d’Art Contemporani Castell de la Bisbal, Spain
	For Matthew and Others, Cambelltown Arts Centre curated by Anne
	Loxley, Sydney, Australia
	Between the Sheets a TactileBosch project at Juno Records, Camden, London UK,
	Making Love to your Ego, curated by 'Another Product,' Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
2005	KISSS(Kinship International Strategy on Surveillance and
	Supression) Conical Inc, Fitzroy, VIC
	Pisstake,Live at KISSS Launch Whitechapel Art Gallery,London
	A Piece of Me, TactileBosch part of the Cardiff Contemporary
	The Shangri-La Collective, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila
	Elastic - an Archive Project, The Cross Art Projects, Sydney
2004	Don't Call it Performance/No lo llames performance Centro
	Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Spain
	Don't Call it Performance/No lo llames performance, El Museo
	del Barrio, NY,NY, USA.
	And she Watched, Kingsgate Gallery London
	Institute for physics Group Show, curated by Jill Rock London
	All for Love, Brompton Cemetery curated by Jill Rock London
	Muddy Love 2004, Ben Eastop/Anne Bean 6000 chairs event.
	Bile Story Act 2, 291 Gallery London
	Etak, curated by Joanna Callaghan at Elastic Residence
	Shangrilla Collective, organised by Maria Cruz video show at
	Artspace, Sydney touring to Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
	Elastic, Elastic Residence London, UK
2003	Don't Call it Performance/No lo llames performance Centro de
	Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. & Centro Parraga, Murcia, Spain
	New York Calling P.S.1 Studio project, Long Island City, NY USA
	The Shangri-la Collective Artspace, Sydney
	Call Call Me Now, with Elvis Richardson, Changing Channels Berlin
2002	The Difference Between You & Us, 5 years Gallery, London
	Attention Span, Freespace, Sydney, Australia
	Erskineville Bile Story, Performance Hard Times, Curated by
	Nick Tsoutas as a satellite event of the Sydney Biennale 2002
2001	Perfect Strangers, Curated by Blair French, Canberra
	Contemporary Art Space & CCP, Melbourne (2000) Australia
	Blondies and Brownies - weiß weiß bin ich auch curated by
	Rafael Von Uslar, Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, Germany
	Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Victoria, Australia
	Details performance in the Slovenian Pavilion - International Sex
	Worker Forum Venice Biennale Italy.
	Caravan – Freespace – Sydney Australia curated by Lisa Andrews
2000	Blondies and Brownies, curated by Rafeal Von Uslar,TORCH gallery,
	Amsterdam
	Starring Five Years, London (England)
	August 26, Curated by Deej Fabyc, Elastic gallery, Sydney
	Group Show, Elastic gallery, Sydney
1999	Exit/Action, performance, Performance Space, Sydney.
	Telling Tales, Curated by Peter Weibel, Jill Bennett, & Jackie Dunn, the Neue Gallery, Graz, Austria & Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney. (1998)
	Details, live symp. Trauma & Memory, Neue Gallery, Graz, Austria
	Sin- thetics, Curated by Lea Donnan, Herringbone gallery, Sydney
1998	Details, performance at Artspace Sydney
	The Caretakers Residence, Performance at The Bridge-
	Construction in Process, Melbourne. With Elvis Richardson.
	Every other day Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
	Private Parts MUMA - Monash University Museum of Art, Australia
	Edifying Sappho & Socrates, Curated by Rafael Von Uslar,
	Torch Gallery Amsterdam,& Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras
	Muddy Love, Telling Tales Exhibition at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery
1997	Dialogue, W139 Gallery, Amsterdam Netherlands
	Contempora 5, National Gallery of Victoria.
	Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney.
	Details, performance at the Artists Museum, Lodz, Poland
	Cry me a River, performance at Artspace, Sydney and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Awards & Residencies
2008	Artsadmin Residency Bursary 2007-8 London UK
2007	Cite Internationale Des Artes Paris France
	Rules And Regs, A Space Southampton UK
	Dartington College Residency Totnes Devon UK
2006	Australia Council – awarded to Elastic – to create online project
	Dev R Grant University of Wales Newport
2005	Trajectory Artist 2005/6 - Space/Artquest London UK
2004	Dev R Grant University of Wales Newport
2003	Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant
2002	Artist in Residence Artspace studio program Sydney
2001	Helen Lempiere National Sculpture award exhibition
2000	Australia Council New Work Grant– awarded to Elastic – to publish an
	artists book
1997	Residency W139 Artspace Amsterdam Netherlands
	Contempora 5 National Gallery of Victoria(Australian equivalent of the Turner prize)

 

 

 

Deej Alison Fabyc

BFA, Grad Dip(New Media/Performance), MFA
Education

2000 MFA College of Fine Arts UNSW Australia
2000 AFTRS/Metro Screen Live Web streaming course:- final cut pro, video web filming protocols and live coverage of the Indymedia festival in Newcastle, Australia
1999 AFTRS/Metro Screen Web streaming course including media cleaner, html, media 100, flash, dreamweaver, quicktime pro
1993 AFTRS/Metro Screen Video Production course
AFTRS= Australian Film Television Radio School
1991 Training Apple Centre: Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, Quark Xpress and Pagemaker
1990 Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts 4D and MultimediaCollege of Fine Arts UNSW
1988 Bachelor of Fine Arts Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia

Art Lecturing

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2006  We Can Work it Out, Gallery Barry Keldoulis Sydney Australia

2005 Handle on Nowhere, Gallery Barry Keldoulis Sydney Australia

2003 MOP Sydney Australia
2002 Eye Witness Frenzy, Collaboration with Elvis Richardson (NY,USA) under the psuedonyms "Rich and Faboulous" the Physics Room, New Zealand.
2000 Deej Fabyc, Elastic gallery, Sydney
1999 Notes from Continuous Circumstance, Performance Space, Part of Australian Perspecta 1999 "Living here now"
1998 Secondary Complications, William Mora Gallery Melbourne
The white room Strawberry Girl, Experimental Art Foundation,
1997 Green Room /Arcadia, W139 Artspace, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1995 The white room, Artspace Sydney
1994 This Rose is for Sale @ 200 Gertrude St, Contemporary Art Space Melbourne
1993 One for the Boys Panorama Center for Contemporary Art Melbourne a project of the fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial & The Performance Space, Sydney
1992 This Rose is for Sale Cite Internationale Des Arts, Paris Legge Gallery, Sydney(1993)
Admission- Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening Linden Gallery Melbourne &Legge Gallery Sydney (1991)
1990 L.N.F.M.B.F.W.T.M.E.- Regret Signal Box -Museum Station Sydney
Look not for meaning but for what that meaning excludes Legge Gallery

Selected Group Exhibitions

2004Don't Call it Performance Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo,Seville, Spain; Domus Artium 2002 (DA2) Salamanca, Spain; El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA.

2003 Don't Call it Performance, Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid;Centro Parraga, Murcia, Spain
New York Calling P.S.1 Australian Studio project, Long Island City, NY USA
Shangrilla video show at Artspace, Sydney
2002 5 years, 40 Underwood st, London
Attention Span, video show Freespace, Sydney
2001 Perfect Strangers, Curated by Blair French, Canberra Cont. Art Space & CCP, Melbourne (2000)
Caravan, freespace, Sydney
Helen Lempriere National sculpture Award Werribe Park Victoria
Blondies and Brownies, Curated by Rafeal Von Uslar, Aktionsforum Praterinsel München
2000 Performance Space, Sydney, a Biennale Satellite event
Blondies and Brownies, Curated by Rafeal Von Uslar,TORCH gallery, Amsterdam
Group Show, Elastic gallery, Sydney
August 26, Curated by Deej Fabyc, Elastic gallery, Sydney
Perfect Strangers, Curated by Blair French, CCP, Melbourne
1999 Sin- thetics Curated by Lea Donnan, Herringbone gallery, Sydney
Telling Tales, Curated by Peter Weibel, Jill Bennett, & Jackie Dunn, the Neue Gallery, Graz, Austria & Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney.(1998)
1998 Every Other Day, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Private Parts, Curated by Natalie King, Monash Gallery, Melbourne.
Telling Tales, Curated by Peter Weibel, Jill Bennett, & Jackie Dunn,
The Caretakers Residence ‘The Bridge’ construction in Process, Melbourne.
Edifying Sappho & Socrates, Curated by Rafeal Von Uslar ,Torch Gallery, & Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras
1997 Contempora 5, National Gallery of Victoria.
Helen Lempreier Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney.
1995 Legge gallery Legge Gallery, Redfern
Lather, Lizard lounge Sydney.
1994 Tempel der Luste, Berlin, Germany
Remain in Light Blaxland Gallery, Grace Brothers Sydney
Fresh Art SH Irving Gallery Sydney
True Stories Art Space Sydney
25 Years of Performance Art in Australia Touring exhibition
1993 VITAE RMIT Gallery Melbourne project 5th Australian Sculpture Triennial
Triennial Umbrella First draft West Sydney
1992 Thisness Legge Gallery Sydney
1991 The Portia Geach Memorial Art Award SH Irving Gallery Sydney
Works on Paper Legge Gallery 183 Regent Street, Redfern , Sydney Beauty and Beast The Tin Sheds, Sydney University,
Untitled The Performance Space, Redfern, Sydney Australia.

Performance & Time Based works

2002 Erskineville Bile Story, Performance as part of Hard Times, Curated by Nick Tsoutas as a satellite event of the Sydney Biennale 2002
2001 Daddy, Video 3 mins
We Can Work it Out digital video 1.15 minutes
Details performed in the Slovenian Pavilion - International Sex worker Forum Venice Biennale
2000 Rope, video Monologue 6 mins
Morning Sickness in the Snow- A tribute to Bruce Nauman Video 3 mins
Honey Bunny wow wow , Video 3 mins
1999 Details performance at symposium Trauma & Memory The Neue Gallery , Graz, Austria.
Exit/Action performance, Performance Space, Sydney.
1998 Details performance at Artspace Sydney
The Caretakers Residence, Performance at The Bridge- Construction in Process, Melbourne. In collaboration with Elvis Richardson.
Muddy Love at the Telling Tales Exhibition at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery
1997 Details performance at the Artists Museum, Lodz, Poland
Cry me a River, performance at Artspace, Sydney and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
1996 Mary Was seen Flying Over Kansas, Performance at Art Omi/ Hudson
N Y.USA
So Good, Performance/film screened at 100 Years of Cruelty the Artaud Conference, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
1995 Matinaze 95 Art Gallery of NSW 2 monitor installation
Chromashake performance at Artspace, Sydney
1994 Trick ii Tempel der Luste exhibition, Berlin, Germany
Sucking at the Sublime Installation Performance with Ivan Doughtey Gallery Sydney 25 years of Performance Art in Australia program
1993 Not Getting Any Performance at the Institute of Modern Art Brisbane
She Realized Performance at Panorama Center for Contemporary Art
Honey you...Performance at Ivan Doughtey Gallery & the Performance at the Performance Space

Artist Projects and Publications

2004 Elastic Residence Artist run space Opens in Fabycs Home
2003 Elastic collaborative Artist Book published Jully 2003
2001 ’Strawberry Girl, some projects by Deej Fabyc with essays by Alex Gawronski & Abby Mellick
2000 Curation of two exhibitions at Elastic, August 26, & Location and membership of Elastic Group
1997 Swirl, xy & Inertia, a series of print folios
1994 Sinistra Curated series of four mini shows in mini - space at Artspace
1993 And if she contacts me again she will know the meaning of the word pain, envelope set number three
1992 La Chatte, envelope set number two
1991 Admission envelope set number one

Awards & Residencies

2002 Artist in Residence Artspace studio program Sydney
2001 Helen Lempiere National Sculpture award exhibition
1997 Contempora 5 National Gallery of Victoria(Australian equivalent of the Turner prize)
1996 Artist in Residence Art Omi New York state
1995 Artist in Residence Artspace studio program Sydney
1992 Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council project grant for travel
1992 The Power Studio, Cite Internationale Des Arts,
Paris(resident May - October 1992)
1991 1st Prize OTC Technical and Computer Art prize
1988 1st Prize - Union Art Prize 1988 University of New
England - Northern Rivers
1985 1st Prize - National Women's Consultative Council Poster Design competition

Selected Reviews & catalogues

"No lo llames performance/ Don't Call it Performance"
exhibition catalogue by Domus Artium 2004 (DA2),
Salamanca and El Museo del Barrio, New York essays by Julián Zugazagoitia, Javier Panera, Paco Barragán, Coco Fusco and Roselee Goldberg 100pp, English/ Spanish)

Allen Christopher Sydney Morning Herald, 20.2.91
Bitske Maria Sculpture Magazine, Sept 2 2001 Vol 20 #7
Dunn Jackie Telling Tales, Telling Tales Catalogue, University of NSW,1998
Fenner Felicity Art & Australia Women Vol 32, No. 3,1995 New Girls article. pp
347 - 348
Fenner Felicity The Sydney Morning Herald, True Stories 1994 review
Gaserow Vera Zeit Magazin, NR 43 21.Oktober 1994,Bilder as dem Reich der Luste, pp 12-18
Gibson Jeff Art & Text, No 53,1996 Deej Fabyc by ,pp69 - 70
James Bruce Photofile 55 1998,Happy Snap,pp 2,3,22 & 23 including three full page photographs
James Bruce Sydney Morning Herald 11/9/99 Perspecta 99 Spectrum pg 12
Jillposters 150 Women Artists Globe Press,1984, picture and review
Jillposters LIP, 1983 - 1984
Johnson Anna Don’t Hate me because I’m Beautiful, White Room/ Strawberry girl, EAF, 1998
Johnson Anna The Sydney Morning Herald, Art beat, 10/11/95
Johnson Anna Vogue Australia, I Confess, June 1997.
King Natalie Private Parts,catalogue essay, Monash Uni. Gallery 1998
Lindsay Eloise Eyeline winter 1991 "Untitled ‘91", review
Loxly Anne Art & Australia Vol 32,No 2 Written on the Body, pp199- 200
Lynn Elwynn The Australian 1993 This Rose is for sale review 15 May
Melick Abby The White Room Artspace catalogue with interview 1995
Merten Margaret Like Magazine no 3, June 1997 Who is Deej Fabyc.
McKenzie Robyn The Age, 4 June 1997 Visual Art Contempora 5 pp C3
Reynolds Roque This Rose is for Sale 200 Gertrude St Catalogue Essay 1994
Reynolds Roque Eyeline Summer 93 This Rose is for sale Review
Saurin Jo Sydney Morning Herald, 23.1.91
Von Uslar,R Kunstforum issue No. 154, April - May 2001
Waterlowe N. 25 Years of Performance Art in Australia, Catalogue Essay,Ivan Dougherty gallery 1994
Waterlowe N. Foreword, Telling Tales Catalogue, University of NSW , 1998
Williams Cliff Agenda 22,1992 review Admission