Reclamation – dissonance productions

Look, I Bled, a Japanese Flag

Finds commonality and critique in Shintoism and tourism in their ritualized behaviours, "right" order of doing things, and their performative role as superficial markers of being a "better" person. The…

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2023 Events / Performance Installation / Site Visual / Art / Photography

731 (死地酸位置)

Okunoshima is a small island located in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan in Hiroshima prefecture. The island was removed from maps when it served as a poison gas factory…

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2020 Visual / Art / Photography

PASCAL

PASCAL (People Against Skin Color And Love) is a pentaptych of fluid paintings that express the zeitgeist of current BLM (Black Lives Matter) struggle during Pride month - paralleling the…

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2019 Visual / Art / Photography

KunstFach

Playing off the homonymic puns of Kunst (art) and Fach (compartment) and German compound words, Stephen creates new German compound swear words pertinent to the experiences of contemporary life using…

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2018 Events / Performance Music Visual / Art / Photography

Aye Few Clamored

An anagram and extension of

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2018 Events / Performance Music

we’re made of clay

WE'RE MADE OF CLAY alludes to common threads in creation myths and Native American ruins in the American Southwest. Like

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2017 Film Installation / Site Music Visual / Art / Photography

Gone Dyke

GONE DYKE is a multi modal work of performance/poetry/music/photography/video that explores the queer in landscape, and the queer as landscape via the Klondike Gold Rush. At its core is an…

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2017 Film

Freudian Lip

While researching and putting together

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2017 Visual / Art / Photography

Screwed

SCREWED is a hybrid visual/performance piece that manifests and explores the intersectionality of the artist's personal and professional obstacles and disappointments.

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2016 Events / Performance Music

BROADS WAY

S(h)ifting through a century of song and significance. A performance piece that traverses and intertwines a century of Broadway songs and LGBT history which shifts the fey stereotype of gay…

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2015 Film Music

Psalms 63 & 69

In response to the "religious liberty" laws and in the grand tradition of the Christian zealots misquoting scripture to justify LGBT discrimination, Stephen Chen takes a leaf from their bible…

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2015 Visual / Art / Photography

Flog the Flock

Playing off the herd mentality of the type of christian, right-Wing, flag-waving discourse against the freedoms and rights of others. the artist creates a series of sassy quote posters to…

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