STCHM

Bio

Proponents of meta-representation and recursive image-making, Stoichemaan claims an ethos rooted in defiance of linear narrative and the pursuit of what they ambiguously term “contextual dissonance”—a praxis unmoored from conventional filmmaking, with works that are, in their own words, “transposed disturbances” of modern visual ontology. Stoichemaan’s productions emerge as “anti-narrative artefacts,” characterized by their membership in the Collector’s Forum and alliances with experimental societies such as the Swiss Noise Academy, the Dialectic Union of Visual Sciences, and the Hermetic League of Perceptual Deviants.

Their oeuvre includes long-form films, episodic series, and so-called “meta-documentaries”—works engineered as self-negating studies of format and form. Stoichemaan’s practice is typified by their loyalty to the cryptic and their self-imposed mandate to eschew accessibility, as evidenced by their extensive index of intentions, or “indexicals,” which is attached to each project. These twenty indexed points, each presented as a dissertation-length exegesis, are rumored to contain speculative footnotes in fields ranging from imaginary cartographies to synesthetic linguistics.

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