![]() A few weeks later, the gruesome discovery of her body inside a water tank on the rooftop of the hotel. On the evening of January 31, the 21-year old Chinese Canadian vanished without a trace. 31, the last footage of the 21-year-old was captured inside an elevator by security cameras, which showed her looking worried or confused, and pressing. I seek to undermine the capitalist exploitation of her story, the casual misogyny of how she’s read, the reductive analysis of mental illness and spiritual realities to which people default so easily and readily when they aren’t willing to face the limits of what they cannot understand. On her Tumblr, Lam had written frequently about being frustrated by her mental illness, as well as her desire to travel and live a fulfilling life. She stopped in at the Cecil Hotel on her way to Santa Cruz, California. ![]() I seek to reclaim the inchoate intelligence in E.L.’s body, striving not to “solve” her, but to learn from her-to leave the viewer and myself more present in what cannot ever be known. Working like a somatic detective, choreographically and cinematographically, I have created a sequence of performances and videos that puts her physical knowledge at the center of any possible attempt to “understand” her unknowable experience. In response, I began memorizing her movement, second-by-second. However, as reported by the CBC, the coroner said a full. ![]() Mysteries and horror stories and even true crime narratives ultimately exist in our culture to reinforce dominant hegemonies: patriarchal order, threatened by chaos in its most monstrous forms, gets restored in the end. You can see all of this in the ways Elisa Lam was interpreted once she could no longer speak for herself. Her Tumblr and Blogspot accounts are said to have mentioned her struggles with her mental health and with anxiety and depression. Released by LAPD in the effort to identify Elisa Lam’s body, this footage went viral, triggered thousands of online conspiracy theories, transformed into exploitive schlock ( American Horror Story (Hotel), and Netflix’s In the Cecil Hotel). ![]() But her Tumblr is used in Crime Scene as a window into her travels, her mind, and her mental health prior to her death. A body of work in video and dance that explores the last known physical movements, captured by elevator surveillance, of a woman hours before her death in a downtown Los Angeles hotel water tank in 2013. Elisa Lam, a 21-year-old student from Vancouver. ![]()
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