Lee Ingleton (b.1972) is a Sri Lankan-Australian composer and artist working in socially engaged arts and experimental, electronic musics. Recent performances include Electric Nights Festival, BuildUp and Fade TV in Athens Greece. Their new media A/V work Pick Up is included in Fu:Bar Glitch Art Festival in Zagreb Croatia. Recently commissioned by Sri Lanka’s ColomboScope Interdisciplinary Arts Festival, their composition You Will Never Travel (2021) is permanently hosted by the A Thousand Channels online radio project.
Lee’s collaborative work engages the social for community building, uncovering hidden histories and re-working historical amnesias of marginalisation guided by transfeminist and antiracist paradigms. Lee’s practice as a solo artist focuses on the use of personal experience to explore cultural practices and histories through performance scores, sound and interactive media. Lee’s debut EP, Dancing With Toots Benedicta, the outcome of a year-long Arts Council England grant, is out now on Bandcamp.
Recently situated in Greece, Lee established AveloSpace (since 2017), a LGBTQIA+ makerspace in downtown Athens; collaborated with the socially engaged art group Gender Panic (2018-19); and co-curated with Aphrodite* Film Festival (2018-19); Athens Museum of Queer Arts (2017-19); and Sound Acts Athens (2015-17). Previously, Lee collaborated extensively with cultural partners Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) & Electra, both based in London, producing workshops, Here Are Some Scores for You To Do (2014); symposia, Her Noise: Feminisms & the Sonic (2012); and performances Our Word Is Our Bond (2015) at Wysing Arts Centre; To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation (2012) Tate Modern; and Femifesto (2012) London ICA, among others. Lee has published in international journals Contemporary Music Review, Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, Reflections on Process in Sound, co-authored the SGFA Zine and is the author of www.feministfrequencies.org and curator and archivist of www.hernoise.org. Lee actively contributes to the international conference circuit with twenty-five major presentations to date and taught Sound Arts and Design at University of the Arts London (2011-17). Lee continues to hold an affiliate research position at CRiSAP in recognition of their contribution to sound and gender.
Lee holds a PhD in Music from City University London (2015); an MA in Public Art/Art in Public Space from RMIT Melbourne Australia (2007); and a BA (Hons) Sonic Arts from Middlesex University, London UK (2005).