Consumption – dissonance productions

COLORED BLIND

It began with a well-meaning, if misguided comment, from a White person that I should pursue a MFA to work towards Documenta and Biennale. "Your ideas will jump to a…

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2024 Generative / Interactive Music

LiebeBitchenLieder

LiebeBitchenLieder is a postcolonial song-cycle in the lieder (art song) tradition. The art song genre flourished during the Romantic era and was performed in the parlors frequented by the privileged…

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2018 Installation / Site Visual / Photography

Bleu

BLEU is Blue, BLEU is also a measure used in machine translation between languages. Blue is sex and seedy, blue is sad and depressed. Using digital false-color infrared photography, Stephen…

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2015 Film Music Visual / Photography

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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2015 Film

CONTENTUS

CONTENTUS takes its cue from the meanings of the (latin) word - to strain with exertion, to hold together; in which three parallel stories intersect in a contemporary allegory of…

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2015 Film

A MOOR

A MOOR – (or a “room” inverted) synthesizes the multiple meanings of securing, uncultivated land, and an ethnic population in its portraits of Caucasian sex tourists who blur into one another…

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2015 Film

IN DIFFERENCE

IN DIFFERENCE picks up the yearning for liberation of BLISSED in its exploration of its homophynic meanings of apathy and divergence. A conversation between a young banker with an older…

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2015 Events / Performance Installation / Site Writing

THE HARPY AND THE HARE

A political bedtime story. A fable for children and adults alike on preserving democratic rights and freedom of expression amidst the contemporary climate of oppression in North America. Inspired by…

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2013 Events / Performance Film Installation / Site Music Visual / Photography

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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2013 Film

TAKING STOCK

TAKING STOCK is an experimental short (despite playing as a conventional film) about taking stock of our influence on the environment through the exclusive use of stock footage (and music).…

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2013 Events / Performance Installation / Site Music

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 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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