Capturing the zeitgeist of performance and mediation in isolation for each month in quarantine utilizing consumer webcams for motion capture; bringing together COVID anxiety, social media singing, quarantine, and animals roaming empty streets.


March 2020 – Erbarme Dich (J.S. Bach)

April 2020 – Solitary Hotel (Samuel Barber)

May 13th 2020 (original All Saints Day) – Allerseelen (Richard Strauss)

June 18th 2020 (eve of Juneteenth) – La Anunciacion excerpt (John Adams)

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dissonance productions

Started by trans-discplinary art-ivist Stephen Chen to consolidate his recent work; as well as facilitate collaboration with others. Stephen’s oeuvre is often allegorical as well as simultaneously deconstruct and hybridize the very forms he works in. Disdaining academic and esoteric expressions, as well as institutional conventions and practices, Stephen explores complex ideas and issues immanent in his works through experiments in form and technique.

dissonance productions