Activation durational performance research from Liaw's recent residency at AADK Spain (in the salt mines of Salinas del Curro), curated by Raegan Truax.

This project navigates the hard place within the body, imprinting between what is physical and the difficult, unravelling of inter-heritage. This project uses duration as a mode of arrival, where Liaw slowly sitting with the gaps of her Hakka language: speaking her father's native tongue for the first time. Switching between "ngung tee" and "lun tee" Liaw puts herself into strenuous positions in the space of her "hard place." Moving between what is physically hard, rough, sharp to what is emotionally, mentally difficult, Liaw moves with instead of against her "hard place." 

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On-site research: view here!​

Activation documented by Laura Turpin

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​Upcoming: to name language (in the hard place): An Ongoing Performance-as-Research as part of InterAccess Toronto Media Arts Prize finalist programming

February 19th, 6:30pm-8pm, 2026

32 Lisgar Street, Toronto, ON, M6J 0C7

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This project is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts
and InterAccess Toronto

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