Sidi Chen - 陈 斯狄 | Queer Worlding & Body Archive

Alley-Writing

 

The city squeezes me into an alley.

 

Outcasted,

 

I am exposed in my own privacy.

 

 

In the history book where lies construct,

 

my accent is a part of my truth-writing.

 

 

"Sherry Ann Come Home"

 

(2019.06.04)

1. Ch. 11 Floorplan
1. Artist Talk/Project Rationale
2. Floorplan (What Lab - 3)
3. Floorplan (Shooting Gallery W45 Hastings - 5)
4. A Window with A View
5. Floorplan Collective Movement Instruction (Shooting Gallery Performance Series #10)
6. Floorplan (Hatch Art Gallery - 3)
2. Ch. 12 (Preface Research for MFA Project) The Oceans Beyond
1. The Floor Is Homeland
2. Anatomy of Nostalgia (The Crab Eater)
3. Dialogues with the Wind | 风之信
4. Patches of the Tides
3. Ch. 13 (MFA Research Project) Between the Shores
1. Mirage Raft (Dream Talking Oyster)
2. Sea Foam (Vessels of Breathing)
3. Pondering (Until It's Water on Both Sides)
4. Portals (To the Next Tide from the Other Sea)
4. Preface. Skin, Hair, Moles, and Bones
1. Body
2. Mind
3. Being
4. Installation View
5. Ch.1 Story/Line
1. Ticket Box (Reading Between Lines)
2. Man on the Edge Ascending Like Smog
3. Along the Road from Clouds into the Snow
4. Riding on the Tides to Lay My Eggs
5. Crossing the Fields to Find Seeds of Snow
6. The Fog Erases the Shape of My Breathe Away
7. Continental Connections (Deportation Wouldn't Take Me Home Either)
8. Traveller - Citizen of the Road
9. Words of the Trail (Jasper)
10. Words of Paddling (Yukon River)
11. Words of the Bike (Toronto Island)
6. Ch.2 A Room With A Tone
1. *Tell Me Your Survival Strategy (And She Spoke to Me Softly)
2. Reach
3. Domestic Disguise Of The Foreign Tongue
4. *Redemption On Laundry Day
5. *Tea Time (A Sedentary Sentence)
6. A Room With A Tone
7. What Lives In The Carpet (You Recognize Violence When You're Leaving One)
8. *Filth Extraction (I Don’t Have Other Time But This Life to Breathe)
7. Ch.3 We Came Across the River
1. Bertha
2. Bertha (post performance documentation)
3. We Came Across the River
4. Yukon Tracer
5. The Moment To Come
6. The Indigenous Land and the Visitor's Sand
7. "I Just Want To Be In Everything"
8. Ch.4 Love Love Love Me
1. With/Holding
2. Love Container
3. Replica Of Melancholy
4. Kisses
5. A Recipe for A Queer Relation
6. O RH POSITIVE (Good Citizen Certificate of A Queer Body)
7. (editing in progress) Love Love Love Me
8. (work in progress) Shoot Me X Times Until I fade
9. (work in progress) Today I Claim to Be A Refugee of Humanity/Today I Become A Refugee of Humanity
10. (work in progress) Annotated Playlist (Someone Somewhere Needed to Sing)
9. Ch.5 Blank Occupation
1. Exhibition Information
2. Stray Dogs Choke on the Collars
3. Imprisoned in the Block of My Own Building
4. Drowning in the Depth of My Ascending
5. Power Is Power's Demonstration, Terror Is Terror's Skeleton
6. My Skin Aches of the Befouled Colors
7. How Can I Resent My Misfortuned Homeland?
8. The Post-Structural Reality Is A Constructed Delusion
9. One's Life Pursuit Is What the City Consumes
10. Ch.6 Kelpie and Undine
1. *Returning Path
2. *Arethusa's Hide
3. *Scaling (Man On The Run)
4. Roosting Amongst Seagulls (with a Party and Tourists Thinking Getting Another Necklace)
5. Un-Resolved (The Permanent Freedom Won't Make Me Live Forever)
6. Un-Resolved (The Permanent Freedom Won't Make Me Live Forever) Post-performance Documentation
7. The Rover Between Fire and Shadows
8. *I Worship My Shadow and My Shadow Worships Me
9. *Transience (the Screaming Air and the Murmuring Ground)
10. *21 Breaths Till I Was Stopped by My Deeds, 40 Breaths Till I Returned to the Shore
11. Ch.7 The Names of Water (Me and My Relations in Travel Sizes)
1. Installation View
12. Ch.8 黑山白水/Black Mountain White Water
1. Where I am When I Am Walking Through the Mountains
2. Where I Am When I Fall as Rain
3. Where I Will Be When I Melt Away with the Snow
13. Ch.9 Maybe It's Us
1. Maybe They Weren't Born with It, Maybe It's Us (post performance photos)
2. Maybe They Weren't Born with It, Maybe It's Us (video 1)
3. Maybe They Weren't Born with It, Maybe It's Us (video 2)
4. Maybe They Were Taken Away, Maybe It's Us
14. Ch. 10 Midnight Temple
1. Midnight Temple
15. Other Work & Sale's Info
1. Painting & Drawing
2. Photography
3. Sculpture
4. Print
16. News & Reviews
17. CV
18. Biography
19. Let's Chat :D
20. Research Resource
1. Alberta
2. British Columbia
3. Nova Scotia
4. Ontario
5. Québec
6. Yukon Territory
21. Poem & Prose
1. Would You Listen to My Confession?
2. Next Stop
3. 99:59:59
4. 胃 / Stomach
5. Juxtapositional
6. Six Hours of Darkness Is Not the Whole Night
7. Symbols and Metaphors and Representations
8. New Page
9. A Self-Identified Chipper
10. Alley-Writing
11. Dresses of Homeland / 故土的衣装
12. Love Love Love Me
13. A Solo Pageant
14. Mountain Rains
15. 某某/Someone
16. My Road
17. A Beast, A Goddess, And A Poet On A Boat
18. [Unwillingly Titled]
19. I Can' Write The River Into One Line Of Poetry And Claim It Mine
20. Building A House Where They Call Home And I Will Flee
21. Good Morning - The Reason Why My Neighbors Can't See My Body And My Lovers Can't See My Eyes
22. A Long Poem
23. Dusk upon
24. Mountains
25. Traveller / Muscle Memories
26. Moon Of The Day
27. War Consultant
28. Traveller
29. Annotated Playlist
30. Post-Farewell
31. Traveller
32. Abby Bus And Others
33. Gusts Of Wind
34. Fruits And Leaves
35. Traveller
36. Epitath
37. Traveller
38. Redemption On Laundry Day
39. Departure
40. Destiny
22. Curated Collection (coming soon)
1. Print Matters Library
2. Words on the Street
23. *: work includes nudity