Reflecting on 2024's economic downturn and ongoing struggles for employment after layoffs, Stephen finds a metaphor of such existence in the everyday environment. kampfUnkraut (fighting weeds) uses false-color infrared imagery…
read moreLiebeBitchenLieder 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…
read moreFinds commonality and critique in Shintoism and tourism in their ritualized behaviours, "right" order of doing things, and their performative role as superficial markers of being a "better" person. The…
read moreOkunoshima is a small island located in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan in Hiroshima prefecture. The island was removed from maps when it served as a poison gas factory…
read moreANAL-ACTS OF KUNGFU-CIUS is a pun on "Analects of Confucius" considered the core teachings of Confucius and locus of East Asian thought and morality, that originated China and spread to…
read moreTang Poetry (唐詩) is considered the Golden Age of Chinese poetry. In this series of interventions, Stephen transliterates Tang into to his surname Tan 陳 - which has multiple meanings…
read moreShortly 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…
read moreAn 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…
read moreA creative coding piece in which a RNN (Recurrent Neural Network) using LSTM (Long Short Term Memory) is trained on Trump’s tweets during his impeachment process
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