Sidi Chen - 陈斯狄 | Queer Worlding & Body Archive

Ch. 11 Floorplan

Artist Talk/Project Rationale
Floorplan (What Lab - 3)
Floorplan (Shooting Gallery W45 Hastings - 5)
Window Plan (Shooting Gallery W45 Hastings)
Floorplan Collective Movement Instruction (Shooting Gallery Performance Series #10)
Floorplan (Hatch Art Gallery - 3)

Ch. 12 (Preface Research for MFA Project) The Oceans Beyond

The Floor Is Homeland
Anatomy of Nostalgia (The Crab Eater)
Dialogues with the Wind | 风之信
Patches of the Tides

Ch. 13 (MFA Research Project) Between the Shores

Mirage Raft (Dream Talking Oyster)
Sea Foam (Vessels of Breathing)
Pondering (Until It's Water on Both Sides)
Portals (To the Next Tide from the Other Sea)

Preface. Skin, Hair, Moles, and Bones

Body
Mind
Being
Installation View

Ch.1 Story/Line

Ticket Box (Reading Between Lines)
Man on the Edge Ascending Like Smog
Along the Road from Clouds into the Snow
Riding on the Tides to Lay My Eggs
Crossing the Fields to Find Seeds of Snow
The Fog Erases the Shape of My Breathe Away
Continental Connections (Deportation Wouldn't Take Me Home Either)
Traveller - Citizen of the Road
Words of the Trail (Jasper)
Words of Paddling (Yukon River)
Words of the Bike (Toronto Island)

Ch.2 A Room With A Tone

*Tell Me Your Survival Strategy (And She Spoke to Me Softly)
Reach
Domestic Disguise Of The Foreign Tongue
*Redemption On Laundry Day
*Tea Time (A Sedentary Sentence)
A Room With A Tone
What Lives In The Carpet (You Recognize Violence When You're Leaving One)
*Filth Extraction (I Don’t Have Other Time But This Life to Breathe)

Ch.3 We Came Across the River

Bertha
Bertha (post performance documentation)
We Came Across the River
Yukon Tracer
The Moment To Come
The Indigenous Land and the Visitor's Sand
"I Just Want To Be In Everything"

Ch.4 Love Love Love Me

With/Holding
Love Container
Replica Of Melancholy
Kisses
A Recipe for A Queer Relation
O RH POSITIVE (Good Citizen Certificate of A Queer Body)
(editing in progress) Love Love Love Me
(work in progress) Shoot Me X Times Until I fade
(work in progress) Today I Claim to Be A Refugee of Humanity/Today I Become A Refugee of Humanity
(work in progress) Annotated Playlist (Someone Somewhere Needed to Sing)

Ch.5 Blank Occupation

Exhibition Information
Stray Dogs Choke on the Collars
Imprisoned in the Block of My Own Building
Drowning in the Depth of My Ascending
Power Is Power's Demonstration, Terror Is Terror's Skeleton
My Skin Aches of the Befouled Colors
How Can I Resent My Misfortuned Homeland?
The Post-Structural Reality Is A Constructed Delusion
One's Life Pursuit Is What the City Consumes

Ch.6 Kelpie and Undine

*Returning Path
*Arethusa's Hide
*Scaling (Man On The Run)
Roosting Amongst Seagulls (with a Party and Tourists Thinking Getting Another Necklace)
Un-Resolved (The Permanent Freedom Won't Make Me Live Forever)
Un-Resolved (The Permanent Freedom Won't Make Me Live Forever) Post-performance Documentation
The Rover Between Fire and Shadows
*I Worship My Shadow and My Shadow Worships Me
*Transience (the Screaming Air and the Murmuring Ground)
*21 Breaths Till I Was Stopped by My Deeds, 40 Breaths Till I Returned to the Shore

Ch.7 The Names of Water (Me and My Relations in Travel Sizes)

Installation View

Ch.8 黑山白水/Black Mountain White Water

Where I am When I Am Walking Through the Mountains
Where I Am When I Fall as Rain
Where I Will Be When I Melt Away with the Snow

Ch.9 Maybe It's Us

Maybe They Weren't Born with It, Maybe It's Us (post performance photos)
Maybe They Weren't Born with It, Maybe It's Us (video 1)
Maybe They Weren't Born with It, Maybe It's Us (video 2)
Maybe They Were Taken Away, Maybe It's Us

Ch. 10 Midnight Temple

Midnight Temple

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