Gender – dissonance productions

Tan-Ka

TAN-KA plays on TAN (dialect pronunciation of Chen - Stephen's last name) and KA (Egyptian hieroglyph depicting "soul" or "spirit" of a person that survives the death of the body)…

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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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2015 2017 Events / Performance Installation / Site Music

INTER-RUPTURE

INTER-RUPTURE is a hybrid installation/performance art piece that simultaneously manifests and ruptures rubrics of temporality, gender, mediation, westernization, and performer through the intersections of live performance, motion capture, projection and audience…

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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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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 2014 Installation / Site Visual / Photography

FERO-CITY

FERO-CITY is a photo series/installation dealing with the resurgence of anti-LGBT hate crimes in North America, particularly in NYC. The title plays on the meanings of fero as iron, and…

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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 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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