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Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
2021, 08:00 minutes, colour
tapecode 2179.01
By placing automation within this simulated i̶d̶l̶e̶ garden it arises the complexity of what being human is in this electronic age. Learning, leisure and work share the same interchangeable framework in this post-truth dynamic where operations are engineered in an ambiguous way to praise & glorify the… ⊕
2024, 08:20 minutes
tapecode 302.03
Makeshift, spontaneous, and unconventional memorials randomly encountered throughout Toronto. Personal yet often activist in nature, many of these tributes document the passing of marginalized, murdered, and lesser-known individuals. Found in public spaces of civic sprawl, these sites were photographed and filmed between 2019… ⊕
Edited video from a live 4-hour public performance Public Disturbance where professional actors were hired to pose as couples and reenact various domestic based arguments from movie scripts in a public setting. The actual performance included three separate actor-couples each performing different fight scenes. In this video… ⊕
Rabid Beach is a hand-painted animated music video created by Jesi Jordan for the band Pig Pen, featuring 600 individually painted animation frames.
A feature length video mash-up consisting of 170 different sources taken from television during a 4-month period between April 1 & July 31, 2007. Installation components:4-channel video playing on CRT televisions in four furnished living rooms.