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 lead organizer of Shoes Off Collective, a pan-Asian emerging artist community. In 2023, she received the Emerging Digital Artist Award for her experimental film work, xīn nī 廖芯妮.

 

She recently completed a two-year artist-in-residence with F-O-R-M Recorded Movement Society’s Technology & Interaction Program. Recent presentations include The Asian Arts & Culture Trust with Holt Renfrew and Urbanspace Gallery, Images Festival, Trinity Square Video, Gallery 44, Local Sightings Film Festival (Northwest Film Forum), Charles Street Video, XINEMA, Vector Festival (Interaccess), Pleasure Dome, MPCAS/Grunt Gallery, Rumble Theatre, Frog in Hand, and more.

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Various collaborations include adelheid dance projects, Arts Club, The Darlings, Public Visualization Lab, Renata Leitao/Cornell University, and Aeris Körper.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

Branching dance and new media landscapes, my practice investigates complexities of transcultural identity through sensorial task-based processes with the body. Reimagining entrenched production languages, I choose to create relationships between the body and new media to unravel visceral auto-ethnographic research. As a method to retracing oral histories and heritage, 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 unravels the inbetweeness of bodies in motion. 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 gutteral body movement.​

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CV upon request



 

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