Visual / Photography

Flog the Flock

Flog the Flock

Flog the Flock confronts herd mentalities embedded within contemporary sociopolitical discourse—particularly within segments of right-wing, flag-waving rhetoric that silence the rights and freedoms of others. Through a series of bold,…

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900 600 dissonance productions
STILLE STADT

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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5472 3078 dissonance productions
CORPORA-SCION

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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956 720 dissonance productions
FERO-CITY

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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960 540 dissonance productions
F * ART

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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1920 1080 dissonance productions
SEX TOY

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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1920 1080 dissonance productions
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

T(Ä/A)USCHEN is a photographic meditation on illusion, exchange, and the commodification of human life. Drawing on the subtle linguistic play between tauschen (to exchange) and täuschen (to deceive), the work…

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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