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2015 Visual / Photography

CORPORA-SCION

Corpora-Scion critically inhabits the linguistic and psychological topography of corporate culture. The title plays on corpora (work) and scion (slave), signaling how ostensibly aspirational corporate structures can entrap competence within…

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2014 Events / Performance Film Music

ANCESTRIES

An anagram of "resistance", ANCESTRIES is a layered piece that encodes the dialectics of colonialism, desexualization, desire, and resistance. An Asian is seduced by and in turn seduces a Caucasian…

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2014 Film

SPANKIN

Two men in a coffee shop communicate their desires publicly yet silently when they are interrupted by a third. An anagram of "napkins", SPANKIN transposes the gay hanky code of…

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2014 Film Music

Ballads 1,2,3,4

An anagram of "all bad", BALLAD is a series of short pieces that reflect on our fractured existence, trapped by contemporary circumstances. Unheard voices are sung, fragile selves exposed, and…

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2014 Events / Performance Film Music

DELILAH JUKEBOX

DELILAH JUKEBOX (aka DJ) toys with the notion of loops, repetition, and dichotomy (like the A-B sides of a vinyl record). Delilah is not just a woman, she is the…

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2013 2014 Installation / Site Visual / Photography

FERO-CITY

FERO-CITY is a photo series/installation dealing with the resurgence of anti-LGBT hate crimes in North America, particularly in NYC. The title plays on the meanings of fero as iron, and…

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2013 Events / Performance Film Installation / Site Music Visual / Photography

F * ART

A meta-project counterposed to the general dross of art academia, "community", criticism and the reified and commoditized big "avant-garde" art events of 2013 in Toronto (the indulgent twee tableaux of…

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2013 Film Music

MY WOUNDED HEAD

Taking it's title from Marc Chan's composition, MY WOUNDED HEAD is an experimental short that investigates issues of representation (and people's preconceived notions) and reflexivity. Marc's music, featured in the…

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2013 Visual / Photography

SEX TOY

Inspired by an action figure Stephen found in a Dollar store that was decorated with all sorts of "macho" gear (e.g handcuffs, leather, mask, straps, etc.) which blurred the distinction…

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2013 Film

TAKING STOCK

TAKING STOCK is an experimental short (despite playing as a conventional film) about taking stock of our influence on the environment through the exclusive use of stock footage (and music).…

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2013 Events / Performance Installation / Site Music

DEALT

DEALT is an endurance operatic political performance installation piece which collides Carmen with corporatism and commentary to illustrate the impacts and suffering from the collusion of politics and corporations. During…

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2013 Events / Performance Music Visual / Photography

FOSCA FUGUE

In 1994, Stephen Sondheim's musical Passion opened and was savaged by theatregoers who were repulsed by the characterization of Fosca, an invalid woman who suffers from convulsive fits, and her…

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