Visual / Photography

FOSCA FUGUE

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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2592 1936 dissonance productions
NO ROAD

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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900 606 dissonance productions
MIKROÖKONOMIE

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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900 502 dissonance productions
T(Ä/A)USCHEN

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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700 467 dissonance productions
BOUNDED NATURE

BOUNDED NATURE

BOUNDED NATURE is a photographic series and installation that investigates the dialectic and tension between the natural and the man-made in urban environments; how nature is contained, pruned, and rendered…

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800 600 dissonance productions
STILLE.D

STILLE.D

STILLE.D is a meditation on Walter Benjamin's concepts of ruin (as nostalgia, regret, decay, loss), as well as the paradox of the bourgeois interior constituting both refuge and amplification of…

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1280 720 dissonance productions
THE SCHOOLING OF DESIRE

THE SCHOOLING OF DESIRE

A piece exploiting the repetition of an action and the repetition of an aria to explore the rubric of discipline (e.g. school, spinster teacher, schooled voice i.e. operatic singing, etc.),…

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2560 1440 dissonance productions
PACED

PACED

PACED is an experimental hybrid "tone-poem" short that explores the different dimensions of pace (as speed, as measure, as rubric for containment) in the city through time lapse, montage, and…

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1280 720 dissonance productions