Guest Lecture : An Anatomy of Well Wishes by Chong Lii

In this lecture, Chong Lii shared their practice of combining narrative filmmaking with installations that have recently been doubling up as live film sets. With a focus on docufiction, metatheatre and social technologies, the session explored Chong's ongoing fascination with (mis)understanding textures of dissociated psyches and landscapes. 

This was part of the programme series 𝙼𝙸𝚂𝙱𝙴𝙷𝙰𝚅𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙴𝚂—curated by Hothouse, supported by the National Arts Council’s Arts x Tech Lab initiative.

About Misbehaving Machines

Misbehaving Machines invites the public into a shared study of how machines behave – thorugh movement, sound and code – unfolding across lectures, listening sessions and workshops that explore how systems operate, interact and respond. Rooted in curiosity, experimentation and collective learning, the series examines the evolving human-machine relationship through art and technology.

About the Artist

Chong Lii is a filmmaker and visual artist who explores the possibility of merging or levelling disparate spaces, objects, people, and images. Employing strategies of entanglement and the abject, Chong’s practice simultaneously critiques and revels within the realm of the moving image.