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<\/a><\/p>\nDeej 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 \u2018schlock horror\u2019 permeates her oeuvre.\u00a0Current performance work is engaged with wicked embodied mapping of narratives of awkwardness, neurodiversity, ageing, loss, mental health and chronic illness. Fabyc has performed in museums, night clubs, and the street internationally since the 1980s. Fabyc has taught performance\/fine art in the HE sector, the prison system and community settings for 20 years. Deej is based in London where she is founding director of Elastic Residence, artist project space. She is a key figure in KISSS<\/a>, an international curatorium of artists working with issues of surveillance. And now part of FBI<\/a> with Penny Best and Danielle Imara. Recent performances have occurred in ‘How do I look’ with GraceGraceGrace at Guest Projects<\/a> London, Theatres of Contagion Conference<\/a> at Birkbeck London, and Collaborations with Annie Sprinkle<\/a>\u00a0 and Beth Stephens<\/a> in Documenta both in Athens and Kassel. Deej has held a one year residency bursary at Artsadmin, London and has completed residencies at Dartington School of Art, Devon, the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, and Rules and Regs, at A Space Gallery, Southampton. Significant performances include Details at L\u2019abracada Festival International d\u2019Art Contemporani, Castell de la Bisbal, Spain 2006; And She Watched, Trace Installation Artspace, Cardiff, 2005 and Kingsgate Gallery, London 2004; and in Don\u2019t Call it Performance, Centro de Arte Reina Sof\u00eda, Madrid and Centro Parraga, Murcia, Spain, 2003<\/p>\n In March 2020 Fabyc Moved to Ireland to establish an internationasl artist in residency programme in North Tipperary<\/p>\n live-art.ie<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n O.Pen Be\u2019s experience over more than 30 years both as a therapeutic practitioner and international Imara\u2019s recent work focuses on global collective live art ecoperformance Be-coming Tree<\/a>, and video documentation of moments between action, edited and looped to make choreographies that describe new meanings. Collaborative audio and video works with NY author Yolande Brener<\/a> form a body of work at Brenimara.com<\/a>. This includes Matters: A Rising<\/a>, featuring Black voices discussing the 2020 BLM protests. This has been published in New Feathers Anthology<\/i> and Placeholder<\/i>, Abstract<\/i> and Charge Magazines.<\/i><\/p>\n In 2019-20 Imara performed music-based live art at Duckie, Something Has to Happen Festival, Princess Julia Loves<\/i>, and Deep Trash.<\/i><\/p>\n From 2014\u201317 they created and toured socially engaged mixed-genre theatre works supported by Arts Council England dealing with their own and others\u2019 experiences around mental health issues and prison.<\/p>\n Their earlier career encompassed playing bass guitar in art bands such as Leigh Bowery\u2019s Minty,<\/i> The Off Set<\/i> and Aiden Shaw\u2019s Whatever<\/i>, solo cabaret and music-based live art work under the name Nina Silvert, (Nina Silvert\u2019s Milk,\u00a0<\/a>2009,\u00a0Nina Silvert\u2019s Tube<\/a> 2010,\u00a0Nina Silvert\u2019s Mad<\/a>, 2012) These were performed at venues such as ACTART<\/i>, The RVT<\/i>, Kashpoint <\/i>and Madame Jojo\u2019s<\/i>, with videos included in RADICALS #1<\/i> festival, Rotterdam and SoapArt,<\/i> London.<\/p>\n Imara is author of a memoir: CRACK<\/a><\/p>\n Links<\/p>\nB<\/h1>\n
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\nfacilitator of body-oriented arts enquiry feeds her return to embodied interactive performance.
\nWorked extensively within mental health and social care settings, and within private practice. Be\u2019s
\ncurrent work explores ongoing somatic and relational effects of pandemic and deforestation. Developing
\ntextural , photographic and video graphic work based on the moving body and environment.
\nCurrent performance work 2020\/21<\/strong>
\nDeveloping live streaming practice through Open Online Theatre<\/a> towards 2021 Festival. Live streamed
\npiece \u2018Touch Outlaws\u2019 focus on demonising, and sanitising of touch during pandemic.
\nPerformer and team member of global grassroots eco- action Be-coming Tree with seasonal live
\nstreamed hive events.
\nCurrent Video art 2020\/21:<\/strong>
\n\u2018Personal Protection\u2019 juxtaposing leak pads and sumo, premiered on distancework by Gracegracegrace
\n\u2018Ecosensual \u2018 video art premiered on Oyedrum Vol III Sex and accepted by global network devoted to
\nmoving image, held at Het Nieuwe Institute The One Minutes : Imagine the earth is your Lover
\nRelevant online articles:
\nBest, P. A. (2017). Meeting spaces: inter corporeal adventures International Art Therapy Conference
\nProceedings ATOL .8.1 , March 1, 2017
\nPrevious Site-specific performances 2014-18<\/strong>
\nHagit Yakira\u2019s if you keep on walking at Sadlers Wells and \u2018How do I look?\u201d Cabaret with Guest
\nProjects Gracegracegrace.eu ; For the Fallen WW1, Milton Keynes and Vaulted Sky, International
\nFestival Milton Keynes Seasons of women exhibition Bristol
\nLinks
\nInsta @o.pen.be
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