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’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, xÄ«n nÄ« 廖芯妮.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
Interweaving 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. In 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. I am interested in translating the terrain of my ancestry, epigenetics, and linguistic displacement through transparent materials; light, glass, water as a strategy to visualize the complications of transcultural identity. 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. I look for non-linear, slow, collaborative, and intuitive forms of creation. As a practice of erosion, my work leans into the weight of displaced time as a circulatory offering of refusal towards dominant Western structures; developing an endurance for generative changes and knowledge(s).
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CV upon request
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