Environment – dissonance productions

山水颂 Shan Shui

山水颂 (Odes to Shan Shui) draws directly from the tradition of shan shui painting—mountain and water as more than scenery, as cosmology and moral space. In classical scrolls, the human…

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2024 Visual / Photography

kampfUnkraut

kampfUnkraut (literally fighting weeds) is a visual exploration of resilience, adaptation, and overlooked forms of life that persist in the margins of social and economic systems. Using false-color infrared imagery,…

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2024 Generative / Interactive Music

Passages

Passages is a generative music and media work that emerges from landscape, time, and translation. At its heart are seven musical compositions born from the Inside Passage — the coastal…

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2024 Visual / Photography

soot(he)

soot(he) is a meditation on quiet presence and elemental landscape. Exploring the dichotomy of immigrant and indigenous culture, Stephen Chen develops his own ink brush / sumi painting style and…

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2022 2023 Installation / Site Music Visual / Photography Writing

nūbēs obscura

Shortly before his two week backpacking traverse of Baffin Island in 2022, Stephen received the diagnosis his glaucoma had worsened rapidly and he had lost a significant chunk of his…

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2022 Visual / Photography

W(rit)ing

W(rit)ing is a series of false-infrared aerial images that make the earth look like a sheet of paper. From above, landscapes start to resemble ink splashes, scribbles, cross-hatching, and casual…

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2021 Visual / Photography

deBorder

deBorder explores boundaries as unstable, permeable conditions rather than fixed lines. Abstract landscapes using splashed sumi and acrylic inks on xuan (rice paper) mounted on cotton rag paper - simultaneously…

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2020 Visual / Photography

E.Mo.

E.Mo. (Mountains) is a series shaped by distance—between the self and the natural world, between desire and access. Created during quarantine using expired paints, the work reflects an inability to…

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2018 Installation / Site Music Visual / Photography

Aye Few Clamored

An anagram and extension of WE’RE MADE OF CLAY, AYE FEW CLAMORED retraces the migrations and colonizations of Native Americans on the Colorado Plateau.

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2018 Installation / Site Music Visual / Photography Writing

we’re made of clay

WE'RE MADE OF CLAY alludes to common threads in creation myths and Native American ruins in the American Southwest. Like

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2017 Film Installation / Site Music Writing

Gone Dyke

GONE DYKE is a multi modal work of performance/poetry/music/photography/video that explores the queer in landscape, and the queer as landscape via the Klondike Gold Rush. At its core is an…

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2016 Events / Performance Film

Ballads 5 & 7

An anagram of "all bad", BALLAD is a series of short pieces that reflect on our fractured existence, trapped by contemporary circumstances. Continuing the socio-political aspect of

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