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Quest or QuESt
Live Creatives Show
Make Sure You’re Alone
Beyond a Chamber
Doctrines
Pale State
 Blue Trapezium
 Control

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CHONG LII

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PAST ︎

2023 | Not Housed: History of Experimental Cinema in Singapore - Aliwal Arts Centre / Screening and Exhibition (30 Nov 2023 – 10 Dec 2023) / screening: Beyond a Chamber that Externalises All The Time, or Séance

2022 | Love Casts Shadows: A Net, A Work, A Show - hoppla.id / Online screening: LCS: The Backside

2022 | In Suspension - Hothouse - Aliwal Arts Centre / Screening: LCS: The Backside
2021 | Live Creatives Show - Supernormal, Singapore / an exhibition with Zhiyi Cao

2021 | Painting with Light Film Festival (Special Focus Section) - National Gallery Singapore / screening: Quest or Quest

2020-2021 | Time Passes - National Gallery Singapore / video installation: Blue Trapezium

2021 | Deep Field Cinema - Hothouse - Currency x INTER—MISSION studio, Aliwal Arts Centre / installation: Beyond a Chamber that Externalises All The Time, or Séance

2020-2021 | Viscous Fairy Grottoes: Arcades Project - soft/WALL/studs / video installation

2020 | Intermedia @ Hothouse - Currency x INTER—MISSION studio, Aliwal Arts Centre / presentation: Make Sure You’re Alone While Playing This Game
2020 | Undescribed #5 - DECK, Singapore  / video installation: Beyond a Chamber that Externalises All The Time, or Séance + Control

2020 | The Open Workshop - Supernormal, Singapore / Exposed film set: Live Creatives Show [WORK-IN-PROGRESS]

2019 | Singapore Shorts ’19 (ENCORE) - The Oldham Theatre, Singapore
/ screening: Beyond a Chamber that Externalises All The Time, or Séance
2019 | Singapore Shorts ’19 - The Oldham Theatre, Singapore
/ screening: Beyond a Chamber that Externalises All The Time, or Séance
2019 | Graduation Show - Gerrit Rietveld Academie - Amsterdam, Netherlands
/ video installation: Beyond a Chamber that Externalises All The Time, or Séance

2019 | The Facade and Two Chimneys - The Gym, Gerrit Rietveld Academie - Amsterdam, Netherlands
/ screening: Doctrines
2019 | Wildness: Eye on Art Research Labs - EYE Filmmuseum - Amsterdam, Netherlands
/ screening: Doctrines
︎ Nominated for ‘Best Original Work’ prize

2018 | The Virtuosic Image - VIVO Media Arts Centre - Vancouver, Canada
/ screening: Control
2018 | Athens Digital Art Festival: Singularity Now - Megaron Theater - Athens, Greece
/ screening: Control
2018 | Bed Soars or When You Finally Realise the Plot - Cultureel Centrum Fijnhout - Amsterdam
/ video installation: Pale State
2018 | The Auction of Values - The Gym, Gerrit Rietveld Academie - Amsterdam, Netherlands
/ video installation: Pale State
2018 | Beam Me Up Gerrit! - Paradiso - Amsterdam, Netherlands
/ screening: Pale State
2018 | Nausicaa #19 - Langestraat 17, Amsterdam, Netherlands
/ screening: Pale State
2017 | What is Happening to Our Brain? - Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
/ screening & video installation: Blue Trapezium
2017 | Time Is the Fire In Which We Burn - SSBA Salon Culturele Deeltjesversneller van de Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
/ installation: Broken Piano Triptych
2017 | Redolent Waves - New People Cinema - San Francisco, CA, USA
/ screening: Control
2017 | Rebirth - Cultuurspinnerij De Vasim - Nijmegen, Netherlands
/ screening: Control, Blue Trapezium

2015 | Singapore Short Film Awards - The Projector, Singapore
/ screening: Not in Anymore

2010 | Olympus Pen EP-1 Press Launch & Exhibition - Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
/ selected photography shot on EP-1

2009 | Abstractus - 8Q Gallery 1.1 - Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
/ selected installation
2009 | In Between - Gallery Pluto - POMO - Singapore
/ selected installation

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES ︎

2020 | Hothouse - Currency x INTER—MISSION Studio Residency, Singapore

2020 | Objectifs Studio Residency, Singapore

2015 - 2019 | Media Education Scholarship [Full], Singapore

PROGRAMMING / CURATORIAL ︎
2018 | Almost Horror - Rietveld Pavilion - Amsterdam, Netherlands
[October - December]
︎ Film Programmer
2018 | Y.8 Storytelling Conference - Cinema LAB111 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
[24 - 26 April]
︎ Co-Programmer & Moderator
2018 | Light Conversations with Hans Muller, Simone Bennett, Martin Grootenboer, & Carlijn Fransen - MuseumNacht: Beam Me Up Gerrit! - Amsterdam, Netherlands [3 November]
︎ Co-Programmer & Moderator

2017 | Public Review - Gerrit Rietveld Academie - Amsterdam, Netherlands
[9 June]
︎ Curatorial

2016 | VAV Film Festival - Gerrit Rietveld Academie - Amsterdam, Netherlands [29 November - 2 December]
︎ Co-Programming
PUBLICATIONS & TEXTS ︎
2022 | Love Casts Shadows: A Net, A Work, A Show (published on hoppla.id)
︎ Essay inspired by Live Creatives Show; written by Soh Kay Min 

2022 | In Suspension (published by Hothouse)
︎ Interview and images

2021 | Deep Field Cinema (published by Hothouse)
︎ Interview and images

2021 | Moments of Cuteness Zine presented by LCS 
︎ Co-editor and writer

2020 | Art Must Go On (published by Singapore Art Museum)
︎ Interview and images

2019 | Mynah Magazine Issue #3
︎ Designer, art editor

2018 | “Pale State: Directed by Chong Lii”

︎ Text and design by Aleksandra Kwiatkowska

2018 | Mynah Magazine Issue #2
︎ Designer, art editor

2016 | AADNABAPO (After a While Nathalie Almost Becomes a Precious Object)
Zine for “Bots, Bodies, Beasts—The art of being Humble”, Rietveld Uncut 2016
︎ Contributed and edited creative writing section