Deej Fabyc

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rdf:langString Deej Fabyc is an Australian/British artist who works with what they call a "forenzic biographical" type of art, with works in performance, performance installation, combined with drawing, video, photography and objects. Their work takes up the personal is political as read and does not differentiate between art and life. They have exhibited throughout Europe, the United States and Australia since 1982. Living in London, England since 2001, and is currently an associate lecturer at Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture & Design, London Metropolitan University. Fabyc's work has been shown internationally in museums, galleries and artist-run spaces for the past 35 years. This body of work addresses the psychological dimensions of the personal and political experience of trauma, a sense of provisional and lo-fi is characteristic of their work. Fabyc is also Founding Director of Elastic Residence in East London. The name "Fabyc" is an acronym meaning "Family By Choice", and they have used this name since they were nineteen because it is a gender neutral name "Deej has a highly collaborative practice and has been a founding member of several collaborative projects including the underground feminist art collective JILLPOSTERS in Melbourne in the 1980s, and Elastic ARI Sydney 2000-2001 Elastic Residence, a London ARI 2004-11 of KISSS, an international curatorium of artists working with issues of surveillance. Since 2018 Deej has been Chair of FBI, a feminist network of artists planning work for 2019".