2015 – dissonance productions

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 / 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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2015 2017 Events / Performance Installation / Site Music

INTER-RUPTURE

INTER-RUPTURE is a hybrid installation/performance art piece that simultaneously manifests and ruptures rubrics of temporality, gender, mediation, westernization, and performer through the intersections of live performance, motion capture, projection and audience…

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2015 Film Music Visual / Photography

STILLE STADT

STILLE STADT (trans. Silent City) is an experimental feature which depicts the state of contemporary urbanity through an Everyman on the verge of a mid-life crisis, who goes through his…

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2015 Film

CONTENTUS

CONTENTUS takes its cue from the meanings of the (latin) word - to strain with exertion, to hold together; in which three parallel stories intersect in a contemporary allegory of…

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2015 Film

A MOOR

A MOOR – (or a “room” inverted) synthesizes the multiple meanings of securing, uncultivated land, and an ethnic population in its portraits of Caucasian sex tourists who blur into one another…

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2015 Film

BLISSED

BLISSED – (or “Bless Id”) continues the racial dynamics of A MOOR via the unspoken issue of LGBT domestic violence as allegory. Drawing inspiration from the claustrophobic tensions of Tennessee…

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2015 Film

IN DIFFERENCE

IN DIFFERENCE picks up the yearning for liberation of BLISSED in its exploration of its homophynic meanings of apathy and divergence. A conversation between a young banker with an older…

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2015 Events / Performance Installation / Site Writing

THE HARPY AND THE HARE

A political bedtime story. A fable for children and adults alike on preserving democratic rights and freedom of expression amidst the contemporary climate of oppression in North America. Inspired by…

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2015 2017 Events / Performance

CENSURED IN CANADA

CENSURED IN CANADA was originally launched in 2014 to create a space for Canadian-based artists & works marginalized and rejected by Canadian festivals and institutions – whether it was due…

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2015 Visual / Photography

CORPORA-SCION

Playing off the pun of corporation as corpora (work) - scion (slave). the artist draws from his own frustrations and experiences working in corporations to create a series of sassy quote posters…

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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2023 Events / Performance Film Installation / Site Music

VIDEO ART + ODDS & ENDS

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