Boundaries – Page 2 – dissonance productions

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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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

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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2014 Events / Performance Film Music

ANCESTRIES

An anagram of "resistance", ANCESTRIES is a layered piece that encodes the dialectics of colonialism, desexualization, desire, and resistance. An Asian is seduced by and in turn seduces a Caucasian…

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2014 Events / Performance Film Music

DELILAH JUKEBOX

DELILAH JUKEBOX (aka DJ) toys with the notion of loops, repetition, and dichotomy (like the A-B sides of a vinyl record). Delilah is not just a woman, she is the…

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2013 Film Music

MY WOUNDED HEAD

Taking it's title from Marc Chan's composition, MY WOUNDED HEAD is an experimental short that investigates issues of representation (and people's preconceived notions) and reflexivity. Marc's music, featured in the…

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2013 Visual / Photography

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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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 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 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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2013 Music

TRANS-PIRE

To mark the final four weeks of MURDER IN PASSING, Stephen researched and recorded a new song each week in the repertoire that brackets trans expression and representation.

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