BIO
Jasmine Liaw is an emerging interdisciplinary artist in contemporary dance performance, new media art, and experimental film. Bicoastal, she is based in so-called Toronto and Vancouver.
Evidenced in collaboration and community, her work leans into transcultural narratives intersecting her Hakka diaspora, and queer theories in temporality and ecology.
Liaw holds a certificate diploma with Distinction from the Conteur Academy in Toronto. She is a member and workshop facilitator of Dias:stories, a Toronto-based Southeast Asian research group. She is also a co-organizer of Shoes Off Collective, a pan-Asian emerging artist community.
She’s grateful to have presented her work and been in collaboration with artists across so-called Canada and internationally. Select presentations include Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, The Asian Arts & Culture Trust with Holt Renfrew, Northwest Film Forum, Gallery 44, Vector Festival, Pleasure Dome, Experimental Series - Salt Lake City, Light Moves Festival Ireland, Festival del cinema di Cefalù, MPCAS/Grunt Gallery, Images Festival and more. Select collaborations include adelheid dance projects, Ivetta Kang/Nuit Blanche 2024, Public Visualization Lab/Cornell University, Dias:stories, The Darlings, Aeris Körper, Arts Club, and more. With F-O-R-M Recorded Movement Society’s Technology & Interaction Program, she recently completed a two-year research exhibition project as their inaugural artist-in-residence. Liaw is a recipient of the 2023 Emerging Digital Artists Award presented by EQ Bank and Trinity Square Video for her experimental film work, xīn nī 廖芯妮.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Branching dance and new media landscapes, my practice investigates complexities of transcultural identity through sensorial task-based processes with the body. As a method to retracing oral histories and heritage, I choose to create relationships between the body and new media to unravel auto-ethnographic research. Paraphrasing the words of Immony Men, I view the body as a recorder, and at the same time, a record keeper. Motivated by the relationalities between humans, beyond-humans, and homeland, my practice explores the kinesthetic in-betweenness of bodies in motion through the topography of the body. Challenging the societal limited view of emerging female artists of colour working in dance-technology, my interests in unworlding offer sustainable methods of art-making by prioritizing somatic research and visceral body movement.
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