Deej Fabyc mothers Beuys

This one is just being a bit playful this where I am at now the project will develop further over Autumn


Well here is the sculpture in development as a mighty fine portrait


Doesn't he look forlorn?
Looking at this image led me to create a life sized rendition of Mr Beuys with which to play out a series of motherly vignettes .... Stay tuned for the film the photos and the performance

CAT HOUSE CAMP

Go to Flickr to see more photos by Hugo Glendinning from Cat House Camp




Photo by Hugo Glendinning

Well most of May was taken up with building this project at Artsadmin..... More photos soon!!

DEEJ FABYC
Cat House Camp

Toynbee Studios, London
27 May - 31 May 2008

Venue Information:
T 020 7650 2350

Performance and Installation 27 May 2008 6pm-8.30pm
Installation only 28-31 May 2008 1-6pm

The performance on 27 May is free but spaces are limited – please RSVP to advisoryservice@artsadmin.co.uk.

Deej Fabyc with Oreet Ashery, Andy Warhol, Hugo Glendinning, Sarah Pucill, Kim Fielding, Adam Fearon & special guests.

For some time Deej Fabyc has been working on a new transnational large-scale installation, film & performance project, in association with her Artsadmin Residency Bursary.

This project developed from the starting point of looking at the Shooting paintings and the film Daddy by Niki De Saint Phalle. During May 2008 she will build a circular hut inside the Fire Room at Toynbee Studios, made out of recycled materials, and in particular, water bottles, to test some of the ideas in the larger project. She will invite significant female live artists, including Oreet Ashery, to present their own work in tableau on the evening of the 27th of May, in tandem with the documentation of the event in an intrusive collaborative fashion by renowned photographers Kim Fielding & Hugo Glendinning and film maker Sarah Pucill and video artist Adam Fearon.

Inside the hut, Fabyc will be sleeping, but you have to work to find a way in. Andy Warhol's Sleep (loaned by MOMA NYC) will be projected on the side of the Hut. Fabyc is quoting herself stealing a Warhol idea in Paris 15 years ago; before she had ever seen even a still of the film.

Artists RanK* at the Sun and Doves

Artists RanK*

A lecture performance by Deej Fabyc

It does not matter whom I talk to in London at private views, everyone has an opinion often a very strong opinion about the Artfacts Web site. This is the international site that has worked out a ranking system for artists via verifiable web presence in group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Some artists are very annoyed that they cannot seem to get their exhibitions listed, some are just annoyed at their “rank” and others profess to wish to be deleted from the system. Many are uncomfortable with the whole notion of ranking and the fact that It seems like if you are represented by a gallery that pays to be on the site you are more likely to get your shows listed. The curators I have spoken to have all said that they use Artfacts as a research tool sometimes. I first became aware of the site when an exhibition I was in, in Germany in the year 2001 was listed on the site. I am the 9743 artist to have been listed on this site, which is now up to over 185,035 artists represented by at least one exhibition. When I first saw Artfacts it was not ranked, it was just that those artists who were more represented in the International exhibition circuit had more shows on their CV’s. At that time the site was not Web 2 enabled and one had to rely on the busy archivists at Artfacts finding your show.

Now more than 114,000 artists are ranked on the site however the ranking is not that simple as the 114,000 artists are all ”ranked’ at 50,000 or below with sometimes up to 100 artists occupying the same place value, if they all have previously had no rating and have all been entered at once in the same show. 

It is of course an interactive system and as I run an internationally based not for profit, project space called Elastic Residence in London as well as having curated a few other exhibitions over the years I have been in a position to really test out how the system works and watch those artists whom I have worked with CV’s change overnight sometimes from having had no visibility on the site at all. When the system is so seemingly random and flawed both by the site methodologies and the often poor archiving of even major museum shows why bother getting in a stew about it? Treat it as a game over which you have some control in the user defined content.

For my Performance in Mark McGowan’s (Rank 13594)  The Guy Hilton Gallery Presents, Live on Stage  at the Sun and Doves in South London on the 18th of April I will be humorously colliding Artfacts with Facebook or Stalkbook as it is now known, another Web 2 phenomenon

Home Front

Woman with Opera Glasses 1898 American Optical Company Archive of the Museum of Vision

Home Front: For my second project in development for my Artsadmin Residency Bursary, I am making a bleeding building. To be developed as a live event and as a film project presented on location in the Fair English Countryside and viewed from a distance by a distinguished audience/participants holding opera glasses to their faces in order to see the violent spectacle.

Stakehead

Well I was in at studio 5 at Artsadmin working today on the artefacts for the "Eyes Looking at You" performance in development for my Artsadmin bursary. Bobby Baker was working on her next event in the Fire Room next door. The sound track she was working with was causing me a lot of anxiety ... I guess that means that the work will be very powerful, I hope to see it next week. Made some adjustments to my own work...see photos above & below.

SAY IT

Am off to throw rotten tomatoes at a wall in a gallery in North London....

Climate for Change is organised by Mark Hammond.




Circle Community Projects are hosting the project in their 40, 000 sq ft space, opposite Camden Art Centre (in the old Alan Day Mercedes Dealership building).
(photo Paul Sakoilsky)
Did the deed and had a good chat with Paul Sakoilsky where inevitably Hermann Nitsch a (favourite subject of his) came up in the discussion. He also made some kind suggestions about tomato hurling techniques.

The Tomato Conspiracy

Score
1 female performer
1 female “tomato hoody” costume
1 box of ripe tomatoes
3 union jack darts
6 red buckets
shredded newspaper
coffee grounds
human hair
worms from compost

Dartington Residency

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In April 2007 I spent nearly four weeks around Dartington College responding to the site and producing new medium format photo works. The entire time was imbued with the prickling coldness created by the fact that my curious, fierce, dreadfully posh and much loved Aunt was dying. She died on the last day of the Residency in her home town for most of her life, Chichester.

This led me to develop a new performance work inspired by her life and my grief at Rules and Regs in Southampton.

In March 2008 I will be presenting a new work at Dartington College developing further concepts dealing with the nature of funerals and other ways of letting go of loved ones. I will also be showing the photographs I made last April as light boxes in the Gallery.




Press release:

Quiet Bells Sprung.
An exhibition by Deej Fabyc

Curated by Lindsay Hughes

13 – 21 March 2008.

Preview: Thursday 13 March 6pm – 8pm.
Performance 20 March 1 pm at The Gallery forecourt

For more than twenty years Deej Fabyc, has worked solo and collectively using live art/performance combined with digital media, drawing, sculpture and photography, exhibiting widely in Europe and United States. More recently she has exhibited at Castlefield Gallery in Manchester and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. Having spent a number of years in Australia and now based in London, Fabyc is director and founder of artist run space Elastic Residence, Whitechapel, London.

Continuing the artist’s residency programme at The Gallery, Dartington College of Arts, Fabyc spent four weeks on the site exploring her working processes in April 2007. Work produced will form her first solo photographic exhibition at The Gallery. Fabyc has utilised the landscape as a site for reflection, where she will present new medium format photographs, made in the grounds of Dartington Estate, looking at myths of the woods and family relations.

Leaves Fall Yet They Return

A ceremony with Deej Fabyc in collaboration with some local heroes

A performance will take place at the end of the exhibition, which has been developed in response to the fact that a family member died whilst she was at the residency. Fabyc is asking the public to come forward with personal stories of their bereavement from which she will make medals created to have personal significance to each receiver.

A ceremony in collaboration with some local heroes.
Have you lost a child, a brother or sister, parent, close friend or lover?
Artist Deej Fabyc would like to give you a medal for your experience of loss. She would interview you for half an hour in confidence and develop a personalised medal for you that recognises the important memories you have of the loved one. You would need to be prepared to come to an intimate award ceremony at the Gallery at Dartington college of Arts on the 20th of March at 1pm in order to receive your award. It is suggested that you may need to have been bereaved for more than a year, but that is your decision.

The Medals

Medal In Memory of John

Jack Russell Terrier

Brown Paisley on his Chair

A crucifix

A Pipe

A Bottle or Two

The Expression: "Said The Actress to the Bishop"

Medal In Memory of Dave RJ

A Book

a Globe

Musical Notations

a Football

The Expression: " Equal Rights for All"

Medal in Memory of Jean

A Star Pincushion

A Silver Salt Cellar

A Quill Pen for Poetry

A Cameo Broach

Some Toy Animal Eyes

The Expression " Give us a Butchers"

Medal in Memory of Ursula

A car

toys and games

writing a quill pen

a glass raised

yellow Kitchen table and xw golf 

Travel

Amnesty Logo

The Expression: "Look I'm Doing the Ton!!"

Medal in Memory of Margaret and Harry

Black and Gold

Poetry quills

Sea and Fishing- a life ring

Pears 

Pine Cones

Flowers

The Bible

Baking

Wild Wallpaper

The Gallery, Dartington Hall Estate.Totnes. TQ9 6EJ. Tel: 44(0) 1803 862224