dissonance productions – Page 7 – art for awareness, advocacy, & action

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

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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2013 Installation / Site Visual / Photography

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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2013 Events / Performance Installation / Site Music

INTERIOR SONGS

INTERIOR SONGS is a hybrid performance/installation piece that explores the dynamics of trace, space, introspection and observation through allegorical set pieces that regress through history. Like

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2013 Events / Performance Music

LOON SONGS

LOON SONGS updates the Romantic song cycle trope of the wayfarer into a contemporary context, tracing a day in the life of a backpacker arising in the morning chill to…

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2013 Film Music Visual / Photography

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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2013 Events / Performance Installation / Site Music Visual / Photography

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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