2026

Clothing in layers, cardboard, scissors, markers and tape  1 the artist is seated on a couch or chair -( ideally a Georgian or Victorian style sitting room comfortable upholstered chair or chaise lounge )  2 Whilst providing a running commentary the artist slowly removes most of their clothes  leaving behind boys pants on bottom and breasts taped  these will not be removed

Passing Point 2: A solo performance proposal by Deej Fabyc
Passing Point 2 will interrogate the constructs of visibility and invisibility as they
relate to disability, chronic pain, and non-binary identity—examining the multiple,
simultaneous performances required of a body that passes.
At its core, the piece will be a striptease. But this will not be a revelation of the
erotic—it will be the slow, deliberate dismantling of the performance of normalcy.
Layer by layer, Fabyc will strip away the costuming of compliance: the clothes that
signal capacity, the posture held against pain, the gendered readability that allows a
body to move through the world without friction. Each removal will be an act of
exposure—and of risk.
Fabyc lives with invisible disability, chronic pain, and a non-binary identity that
shares a particular relationship to passing. None leave an outward trace the world is
trained to recognise. All demand a continuous negotiation with visibility: how much to
reveal, what to conceal, when passing offers protection and when it demands
erasure.
As each layer is removed, the audience will be tasked to participate in making visible
what the passing body conceals. Using skin-safe markers, audience members will be
called forward to mark directly onto Fabyc’s body the sites of pain they are told exist
there—building, collectively, a cartography of endurance on a body they were never
able to read before.
Passing Point will ask audiences to sit with what is finally exposed—not spectacle,
but endurance. Not titillation, but testimony.
Who gets to pass? At what cost? And what will remain when the performance is
finally, irreversibly, written on the body?

Photos taken by Boris Vasilev.

Performed at Sofia Underground Performance Art Festival 2026, curated by Synaesthesia Collective.

Deej also did another version of this performance at a small performance evening in Cologne. Deej performed on the same evening as Fritz Faust, Karen Meiner and Boris Nieslony.