Exile

山水颂 Shan Shui
2026 Generative / Interactive Music

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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1536 1024 dissonance productions
In(tima) Moralia
2022 Writing

In(tima) Moralia

An ongoing poetry series subtitled "reflections of shattered life" Stephen grew up queer, critical and creative in a repressive and conformist "meritocratic" Asian society, and eventually ended up living in…

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450 300 dissonance productions
Lieder Ohne Kunst
2017 Music

Lieder Ohne Kunst

LIEDER OHNE KUNST (Songs Without Art) is a retrospective of the alt-Classical songs/cycles Stephen Chen had composed and performed as part of his subversive recital practice, whereby politics and performance art…

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1400 1400 dissonance productions
BLISSED
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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1280 720 dissonance productions
NORTH SOUTH
2013 Film Music

NORTH SOUTH

Reworking recently rediscovered lost 15-year old footage, NORTH SOUTH is a personal and political allegory of freedom and repression in Singapore. It draws an analogy between bipolar altered reality to…

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720 480 dissonance productions
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