Praxis – 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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2026 Generative / Interactive

Atomic Memory Auditor

Atomic Memory Auditor operates at the intersection of archival reconstruction and moral repair. It is both an instrument and an argument: an evidence-based counter-memory engine built from fragments of text,…

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2025 Generative / Interactive Music

Ai Chink

Ai Chink is a project that stages a collision between AI and the I Ching, the ancient Chinese Book of Changes. The title is intentionally abrasive: a linguistic short-circuit that…

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2025 Generative / Interactive Music

Died of Spurn

Died of Spurn is an interactive music project based on De Profundis, Oscar Wilde’s letter written while he was imprisoned in Reading Gaol. The title is an anagram of De…

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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 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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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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2024 Generative / Interactive Music

SatiricAI

SatiricAI investigates the potential of Generative AI for commentary and resistance by drawing upon the historical praxis of the satirical song, in response to SingAiBore), Stephen prompts LLM (Large Language…

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2024 Events / Performance Film Installation / Site

Look, I Bled, a Japanese Flag

Finds 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…

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2023 Events / Performance Installation / Site Visual / Photography

731 (死地酸位置)

Okunoshima 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…

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2023 Visual / Photography

Anal-acts of Kungfu-cius

ANAL-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…

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2023 Generative / Interactive

Tan Poetry 陳韻

Tang 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…

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