Praxis – dissonance productions

2020 Visual

PASCAL

PASCAL (People Against Skin Color And Love) is a pentaptych of fluid paintings that express the zeitgeist of current BLM (Black Lives Matter) struggle during Pride month - paralleling the…

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Aye Few Clamored

An anagram and extension of

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2018 Events Music

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 Music Visual

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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2017 Installation Visual

TO Canada with love

Canada's sesquicentennial (150th) has largely been the typical excess of

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2017 Film

Freudian Lip

While researching and putting together

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2017 Visual

Screwed

SCREWED is a hybrid visual/performance piece that manifests and explores the intersectionality of the artist's personal and professional obstacles and disappointments.

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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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2017 Visual

Performing Art

PERFORMING ART blurs the boundaries between the Art Object and the Process of Art; bracketing the fetish of documentation and the "iconic moment" in performance art, as well as subverting…

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2016 Events Music

BROADS WAY

S(h)ifting through a century of song and significance. A performance piece that traverses and intertwines a century of Broadway songs and LGBT history which shifts the fey stereotype of gay…

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2015 Film Music

Psalms 63 & 69

In response to the "religious liberty" laws and in the grand tradition of the Christian zealots misquoting scripture to justify LGBT discrimination, Stephen Chen takes a leaf from their bible…

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2015 Visual

Flog the Flock

Playing off the herd mentality of the type of christian, right-Wing, flag-waving discourse against the freedoms and rights of others. the artist creates a series of sassy quote posters to…

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