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Building on the thermal urgencies explored in THAT'S HOT, this lecture considers the construction of a tropical identity in the Southeast Asian region. Through a visual survey of #tropiclikeitshot is Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee’s an ongoing documentation of a semiotics of hotness, visual research that has informed the development of her artist film, Tropic Temper (2024). Drawing across media studies, consumer products, architecture and interior design, we explore how Southeast Asia has historically constructed its tropical identity amid colonial legacies and contemporary climate interventions. As temperatures rise and atmospheric technologies proliferate, how does the vernacular of heat translate across cultural, technological, and ecological domains? This talk interrogates the thermal politics of paradise, examining how ‘tropicality’ becomes both brand and burden in an era of planetary heating.
Artist Bio
Elizabeth is an artist, educator and research director whose practice negotiates post-tropical environments, psychic rupture, and the neo-gothic. Through new media, oration and public programming, she examines how excess and desire operate through obscured infrastructures and phenomena that shape prosaic experiences.
She has exhibited work at V&A Museum, Singapore International Film Festival, Aksioma x VFX, Rockbund Art Museum, Asian Film Archive, Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute, Nguyen Art Foundation, DECK, Jimei x Arles, Sinema Transtopia.
She is an Associate Lecturer at the School of Media and Communication in London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.
@elizabethglee
elizabethgabriellelee.com
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