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Programmes > Source > Source x 3133, George Chua 7 October 2026 Source is a film, moving image, sound & music series by The Observatory. Source returns with a double bill. This edition of Source features 3133 (Eric Lee) presenting an expanded cinema performance excerpt of his latest film ‘Misinterpretations of an outbreak’ with Wu Junhan and Ruby Jayaseelan, and George Chua who will be presenting his multidisciplinary lecture performance work that engenders an ongoing investigation of Lucifer with ‘Lucifer: The Clarity of Doubt’. Misinterpretations of an outbreak (Expanded cinema version with Wu Junhan and Ruby Jayaseelan) by 3133 Misinterpretations of an outbreak utilises several filmmaking techniques and narrative tropes to understand Mass Psychogenic Illness (MPI) as a strategy of disruption in the factories of Singapore. The images conceived through this process are also derived from studies on productivity consciousness and its relationship to cleanliness, Confucianism and national values. At the core of this project is a letter addressed to a factory worker who was involved in an incident that occurred in January 1973. As the work progresses, initial attempts to make sense soon transform into gross misinterpretations that take shape in disruptive gestures. The practice of 3133 (Eric Lee) falls somewhere in between the cracks of visual art, performance and cinema. Inspired by notions of “troublemaking”, he tends to find joy in projects that feed these curiosities/impulses. Lucifer: The Clarity of Doubt by George Chua investigates what happens when a word becomes detached from its source and begins to generate meanings of its own. Moving between mistranslation, theology, cultural memory, and contemporary interpretation, the work follows the unstable afterlife of a word whose meanings have been repeatedly displaced, reconstructed, and made legible through systems of language. The performance unfolds as a non-linear narrative in which fragments, repetitions, sounds, gestures, and images intersect without resolving into a single account. The mistranslation becomes a point of departure for considering how narratives acquire agency: how a word can be detached from its source, circulated, reinterpreted, and eventually produce realities of its own. In this sense, Lucifer operates as a hyperstitional figure—not simply something that is true or false, but something whose circulation between language, belief, fiction, and history generates consequences. This becomes entangled with the artist’s own search for a language beyond fixed genres and categories, where meaning is continually produced and undone. Part performance lecture, part sonic and physical investigation, the work moves between spoken language, noise, electronic sound, and dance. Through this shifting structure, Lucifer becomes a device for investigating presence and absence, being and non-being, and the unstable systems through which things are named, organised, performed, and made real. George Chua is an artist based in Singapore working with sound and the body. His research-led practice inquires into systems of meaning-making through sound, movement, and performance, characterised by a resistance to categorisation. He is interested in how things become named, organised, performed, and made legible—and in what escapes these systems. His ongoing Lucifer project serves as a device for investigating the nature of presence and absence in performance, while examining the limits of the artist’s own systems of meaning-making in an attempt to trace the source of the investigation itself. 7 October 2026 at 8pm Blue Room, Filmhouse Golden Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road, #05-00, Singapore 199589 Tickets here. Supported by Filmhouse |
 
Illustration of Lucifer from ‘Satan Arousing the Rebel Angels’ by William Blake Image Credits to Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay Photo credit: Zachary Tang |