ELIZABETH GABRIELLE LEE
Project
LocationFormatDate
TO DIE FORComing soon
HEADLESSMAH GenevePerformance11.04.26
sanctumDerivatives;T:>WorksPerformance24.03.26
TOTAL-PLEASURE-SUITEHothouseSymposium22.03.26
SYZ|GYRoom 526Rave21.03.26
TOTAL-PLEASURE-SUITENUS ArchitectureLecture10.03.26
CAN’T HELP ITAlkinoisLecture21.02.26
Tropic TemperLASELLE College of the ArtsLecture21.01.26
Tropic TemperLondon College of FashionLecture27.01.26
Endarkenment pt. 6London College of FashionVideo Essay27.11.25
Tropic TemperFAR—NEAREssay, Print20.11.25
TOTAL-PLEASURE-SUITESingapore BiennaleInstallation, Performance01.11.25
SURVIVING SOLAR VIOLENCEGlobal Cultural AllianceEssay, Print20.10.25
TropixBloc ProjectsLecture18.10.25
THAT’S HOTPARSE JournalVideo Essay, Conference14.11.25
Martial Angels,
Fatal & Fallen 5th EditionHong Kong UK Film FestivalFilm Programme, Workshop14.09.25
Tropic TemperSt. Moritz Film FestivalFilm Premiere22.09.25
Beyond Thermal NetworksHothouseFilm Screening, Listening Session21.06.25
Tropic TemperBiM MilanoFilm Premiere, Group Exhibition20.06.25
Tropic TemperV&A MuseumFilm Screening, Lecture10.05.25
Tropic TemperAksioma x VFX Film FestivalFilm Premiere16.05.25
THAT’S HOTLondon College of FashionSymposium
PARA DANCESQD.ZIPEssay05.02.25
DEMONS REVENGE,
Fatal & Fallen 4th EditionNguyen Art FoundationFilm Programme, Lecture Performance18.01.25
FEVER PITCHHothouse x OpensLecture, Symposium30.11.24
Tropic TemperSingapore International Film FestivalFilm Premiere01.12.24
HEADLESSFIRST IMPRESSIONSMAH GENEVEPERFORMANCE
Love messages, promises of money, and miraculous opportunities: part thriller, part digital romance, the performance sheds light on the mechanisms of seduction hidden behind these messages. Disposable phones, Telegram channels, and music made from notifications create an immersive experience at the heart of our hyperconnected world.With Alex Quicho
Wardrobe: boihugo & Natalie Mourtney
Sound: C3lina
Curation: Jade Barget
SANCTUMDERIVATIVES;TEL0GENESIST:>WORKSPERFORMANCE
Bussy Temple
arc.1_DISSOLUTION
Whiplashed by the multitudes of doom and dissolution, is finding sanctuary an impossibility? An odyssey into the netherzones, sanctumDerivatives; is a deconstructed opera for the end times, it blends oration, butoh performance, sound, meditation, moving image and spatial design.
Script & Narration: Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee
Butoh: Shairyfairy
Sound: Metamoksha
Costume: Michaela Davis Wong
Visual Mixing: Jo Ho
Photography: Nydia
TOTAL-PLEASURE-SUITEPURE INTENTIONSINGAPORE BIENNALE 2025INSTALLATION
TOTAL-PLEASURE-SUITE reimagines how desire operates within engineered environments shaped by safety, control, and knowability. It challenges the rhetoric of nature as pure and determined by the divine, instead proposing a feral transformation that emerges from entangled ecosystems and material excess. It explores the tension between nostalgia and novelty, between green-washed restoration and techno-futurism, advocating for forgotten pleasures that lie outside dominant narratives of progress.
Everyday objects are transmuted into tools of expression and rebellion, idols, signs of immanent pleasure that get animated by non-normative gestures to confront how desire is managed, repressed, or redirected in public space. It questions whether instincts are pure, or if they are enmeshed in a diffuse, messy, underground, one shaped by sensory and material excess, what the artist calls the “tropical gothic” – a space where flesh, long disciplined by invisible catechisms or any form of realism, reclaims its right to excess, interrupting the dominant systems of order.
primal instincts
Curated by Hothouse
School tables, tape, carabiners, cable ties, rubber tyres and diamanté strings
Creative Direction: Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee
Spatial structure design & construction bondage: Federico Ruberto
Fabrication: REKABUILDERS
Architectural support: Toh Eu Juin
BLASPHEMATICSPURE INTENTIONSINGAPORE BIENNALE 2025PERFORMANCE
Blasphematics is a performance that bears witness to the effect of TOTAL-PLEASURE-SUITE, placing matter above spirit, object above subject. Bodies are activated by the non-human agents of the installation, reversing the sacred order that typically positions humans as the animators of dead objects.
This is not performance about the installation—it is performance with the material parts of the suite. The installation itself performs through agents of a tropical gothic, while human bodies express something more primal, more corrupted. Power structures collapse as performers surrender agency to the objects around them, allowing themselves to be possessed rather than possessing. IT DOESN’T CARE
Curated by Hothouse
Performers: Josh Tirados & Jack
Sound design: GODKORINE
Director: Russel Morton
Cinematography: Damien Nah
Technical Support The Backstage Affair and Space Logic
TOTAL-PLEASURE-SUITEDRIVE(S) THROUGHHOTHOUSESYMPOSIUM
Singapore Biennale 2025
How does the Gothic live in Asia today? How has it been mutated by encounters with local ecosystems, cosmologies, and histories of modernity? Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee and cultural studies scholar Katarzyna Ancuta discuss the emergence, resonance, and urgency of distinctly Asian forms of the Gothic. If the Gothic has always been a mode for registering the repressed tensions of modernity, what can it reveal about our contemporary moment? Convened by Helios Singh Bajwa (The Opens) and Federico Ruberto (formAxioms / Hothouse)
Symposium participants: Minna Valjakka, Tini Aliman, Katarzyna Ancuta, Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
SYZ|GYROOM 526RAVE
Betwixt an amnesiac swamp and halcyon frontier, the crack starts to widen. As fragments decay an agent breaks into the core, triggering cascade failures. The suite awakens, uttering its final litany into noxious air.
Exit wounds, shards of remnant surrogates littered across the “world”. Eschatologists believe that [redacted] feeds pulsating antagonistic desire, subjugation of an archive of films documenting figments of endless [redacted] nomenclature. “The Serpent” — subservient, strangling anything standing in its way.With xtttt & Federico Ruberto
Set Design: dunia2dust
DJ Sets: Akesh, V&A, GODKORINE, Ambii
TOTAL-PLEASURE-SUITENATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPOREDEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURELECTURE
A lecture unpacking the conceptual framework behind TOTAL-PLEASURE-SUITE, via Bataille's discontinuous existence and base materialism. The installation reverses object-subject dynamics – bodies activated by materials rather than controlling them. Positioned in the gothic gap between flying (excellence) and falling (entropy), TPS operates as precarious prosthetic, refusing resolution while disrupting the built environment’s vectors of ‘Displace, Destroy, Replace’. With Federico Ruberto
TROPIC TEMPERFILM
Tropic Temper cracks open Singapore’s code as a site of a disciplined tropics and enters its environmental forgetting program realised via surveillant climatic infrastructures and extreme terraforming. Through the voices of Nancy, a Peranakan nyonya ghost and J.A.C.E., an omniscient intelligence of Holy Origin, the film surveys the city-country's last remaining mangroves at risk of being transformed connected e-gardens, while new energy and chemical processing islands rise out of the ocean. Within the smooth and all-sensing new nature where botanical prowess and technological spectacle collide, nymphs, attracted to the island's energy pools, visit to feed on the lingering underbelly of petrol-washed coral reefs and hollow karaoke lounges.
Director: Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee
Producer: Sophia Sim
Cinematographer: Russell Morton
Sound Design: Safuan Johari
Colour Grading: Eugene Seah
Wardrobe: Azura Lovisa
Performers: Sonia Kwek, Tan Xin Yen
Graphics: Darius Ou
CAN’T HELP ITI SECRETLY LOVE EVERYONEALKINOISLECTURE & PERFORMANCE
Obsession is the operating system. Mimicry is survival. If infatuation isn’t desire gone wrong, then what violences does the automaton par excellence bring today? A lecture and a performance drop takes on the derivatives of devotion: hoarding, bootlegging, tracking, stalking. An evening of looping gestures and automatic in response to the duo show, I secretly love everyone.
Lecture: Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee
Performance: Despina Saninda Crezia
THAT’S HOTLECTURE SERIES
A lecture series tracing heat as a semiotic, infrastructural and neurological force. From wasteland fits on Xiaohongshu to thirst trap algorithms, chromatophore-mimicking thermal fabrics to infrared internet transmissions – examining how we speak, sense and combust through rising temperatures and frazzled neural pathways in the Pyrocene.
PARSE Journal, Some Like It Hot Symposium
London College of Fashion, BUFF Summit
ENDARKENMENTLECTURE SERIES
Endarkenment is a lecture series and short videos mapping aesthetics emerging from system failures and affective despair. Semiotic research tracks unformalised communities that find luminosity in the abyss – from technopagans to guro kawa – who reject enlightenment mythology for fertile fecundity, productive glitches, unhinged love. A pantheon charting technological mysticism, weaponised cuteness, grotesque celebrations and ancient futures.
London College of Fashion, CODED RITUALS Summit
FATAL & FALLENFILM & PUBLIC PROGRAMME
Fatal & Fallen is a ever-expanding film programme examining the deadly, delinquent, and fallen woman across East Asian exploitation cinema – Japan's sexploitation films, Taiwan's Black Movies, Hong Kong's Girls with Guns, and South Korean hostess and thriller films from the 1970s to 2000s.
The programme folds in themes of revenge, environmental gothic, inhuman retribution, techno-mysticism, martial arts as bodily technology and the avenging female figure. Fatal & Fallen is mediated by lecture performances, workshops and panel discussions to locates critical and political knowledge within genres that are perverse, overlooked and viscerally alive – embracing social negativity as a site of inquiry.
Co-curated with Jade Barget
1st Edition: Asian Film Archive (2021)
2nd Edition: sinema transtopia (2022)
3rd Edition: Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (2024)
4th Edition: Nguyen Art Foundation (2025)
5th: Hong Kong UK Film Festival (2025)
BEYOND THERMAL NETWORKSFILM SCREENING
A lecture series tracing heat as a semiotic, infrastructural and neurological force. From wasteland fits on Xiaohongshu to thirst trap algorithms, chromatophore-mimicking thermal fabrics to infrared internet transmissions – examining how we speak, sense and combust through rising temperatures and frazzled neural pathways in the Pyrocene.
PARSE Journal, Some Like It Hot Symposium
London College of Fashion, BUFF Summit
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