Through a poetic lens, vigor in a zipper expands our understanding of time displacement within interdisciplinary practices of dance-technology. The project provides an alternative perspective from utopic world-making strategies by investigating the present, complex, and vulnerable experiences that are often threaded within diaspora, institutional training, and epigenetic trauma. The film reveals that these gaps in time offer a place to listen deeply to the gritty rhythms of slow, intuitive practice as basic human needs. Liaw repositions time displacement as an act of erosion and transition, retracing how this change in perspective creates room for relief apart from the rapid societal agenda. 

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written and directed by Jasmine Liaw
sound design: Dino Hajdarovac
camera: Dino Hajdarovac, Jasmine Liaw

voices featured by
Aliyah Aziz
Aysia Tse
Casey Mecija
Clarke Blair
Dedra McDermott
Dee Dee Decay
Heidi Strauss

Jasmine Liaw
Jessica Mak
Lilian Leung
Lou Davis
Sophia Mai Wolfe
Vanka Salim

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sourced sound by:
Khanyisa Twala @learnerhuman
"my creativity does not belong to me"

october 1, 2023

Jack Halberstam lecture
at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"an aesthetics of collapse"
October 25, 2021

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Screening World Premiere: Fluxus Film Festival co-presented with Factory Media Centre, September 22nd, 2-4pm, 2024
at Lyons Family Studio in L.R. Wilson Hall - McMaster School of the Arts, Hamilton, ON

Performances:
Premiere: United Contemporary, November 30th, 3-4pm, 2024

Curated by Ryan Van der Hout

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Recently:
Asian Arts & Culture Trust co-presented with Hart House (University of Toronto), April 26th, 8pm, 2025

Commission

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Asian Arts & Culture Trust co-presented with Stackt Market, Toronto, ON, May 17th, 9pm, 2025 

Commission

Performed by inter-grit studios
 

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This project research is published by Kronoscope: Journal for the Study of Time
Edited by Emily DiCarlo

Read here

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