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2023 Visual

Anal-acts of Kungfu-cius

ANAL-ACTS OF KUNGFU-CIUS is a pun on "Analects of Confucius" considered the core teachings of Confucius and locus of East Asian thought and morality, that originated China and spread to…

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2023 Installation

Tan Poetry 陳韻

Tang Poetry (唐詩) is considered the Golden Age of Chinese poetry. In this series of interventions, Stephen transliterates Tang into to his surname Tan 陳 - which has multiple meanings…

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2022 2023 Installation Music Visual

nūbēs obscura

Shortly before his two week backpacking traverse of Baffin Island in 2022, Stephen received the diagnosis his glaucoma had worsened rapidly and he had lost a significant chunk of his…

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2022 Events

In(tima) Moralia

An ongoing poetry series subtitled "reflections of shattered life" Stephen grew up queer, critical and creative in a repressive and conformist "meritocratic" Asian society, and eventually ended up living in…

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2022 Visual

W(rit)ing

False Infrared images of abstract aerial landscapes reminiscent of splashed ink, doodles, hatching on paper - as they are etched onto the surface of the earth. CREATED BY:

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2021 Events

Dolor

DOLOR (Drained of Color) are a series of haiku tweeted during the progression of clinical depression episode. To help others glimpse into the suffering, and how their well-meaning intentions can…

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2021 Film

Tan-Ka

TAN-KA plays on TAN (dialect pronunciation of Chen - Stephen's last name) and KA (Egyptian hieroglyph depicting "soul" or "spirit" of a person that survives the death of the body)…

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2021 Visual

deBorder

Abstract landscapes using splashed sumi and acrylic inks on xuan (rice paper) mounted on cotton rag paper - simultaneously playing on the french meaning "to spill" and the english context…

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2020 Installation Music

Music Boxed

Capturing the zeitgeist of confinement and tedium quarantine, Stephen transposes his musical compositions onto a programmable music box mechanism. manually marking out and punching out the notes onto the card…

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2020 Visual

E.Mo.

E. Mo. (Mountains) uses Expired paints to create Expressionist landscapes to evoke the places embargoed during quarantine. CREATED BY:

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2020 Visual

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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2020 Film

Co-videos

Capturing the zeitgeist of performance and mediation in isolation for each month in quarantine utilizing consumer webcams for motion capture; bringing together COVID anxiety, social media singing, quarantine, and animals…

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