2013 – dissonance productions

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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2013 Film

OVER TIME | TIME OVER

An Asian executive-type is haunted by his lost self. An experimental reinterpretation of the Asian ghost horror genre as an allegory on labor and westernization.

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2013 Events / Performance Installation / Site Music

GEBROCHENGEL

In Frankfurt near St. Peter's church on Klaus-Mann-Platz, there is a memorial with an angel sculpture (aka Frankfurter Engel) for the homosexual men and women persecuted and murdered during the…

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2013 Events / Performance Music Visual / Photography

NO ROAD

NO ROAD forms the core of Stephen's triptych of guerrilla performance art pieces around monuments entitled FRANKFURTWERK comprising of NO ROAD,

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2013 Events / Performance Visual / Photography

MIKROÖKONOMIE

In front of the Frankfurt stock exchange are two statues symbolizing the rise and fall of stock prices and the economy, the bull and bear. The bronze was donated by…

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2013 Visual / Photography

T(Ä/A)USCHEN

Playing on the subtle difference in inflection between tauschen (exchange) and täuschen (deception), T(Ä/A)USCHEN comments on the deceptive veneer of commodification by interpolating the streetscapes and architecture of Frankfurt's red-light…

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