inter-grit studios is an experimental collaboratory guided by Jasmine Liaw and Dino Hajdarovac.
Investigating kinesthetic in-betweenness, inter-grit collaborations seek to unravel intersectional performance-based projects guided by research, experimentation, and exchange.
Dino and Jasmine are interested in what is more than sound and body; what is in-between the grit? what is in-between temporalities? what is in-between what is vulnerable?
Thinking critically about how projects are “produced,” they are interested in patient, slow, intuitive ways of working to-gather.
"As inter-grit, this platform will be a place to share writing, audio-visual research, and interdisciplinary experiments! As inter-grit, we hold a simultaneous understanding for both place and thought with collaborators, while exploring queer, diasporic storytelling. As inter-grit, we intend to lean into the gaps,
non-linearity, and lowness - through filmmaking, live-performance, installation and embodied sound."
Together, they have shared their performance-based work across Canada. Select presentations including Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Toronto, F-O-R-M (Festival of Recorded Movement), Images Festival, Vector Festival with Interaccess, Xinema, Charles Street Video, RT Collective in partnership with Rhubarb Festival and Toronto Dance Theatre. Select international presentations include Dance at 30 FPS (USA), Experimental Series – Salt Lake City (EXPS/SLC) (USA), Local Sightings Film Festival with Northwest Film Forum (USA), Festival del Cinema di Cefalù (Italy), and Light Moves Film Festival (Ireland). In 2023, their film, xÄ«n nÄ« 廖芯妮 won the Emerging Digital Artists Award presented by EQ Bank & Trinity Square Video.
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Dino Hajdarovac is a multidisciplinary musician specializing in sound design/composition, music production and experimental research. He is known for the indie-soul band, mei anima. Dino is a graduate of Nimbus School of Recording & Media. When creating soundscapes, he is curious about bending sound languages into experiential paralinguistic communication art. Dino believes that sound is something more than just something you hear, and is passionate about how it holds visual meaning when experimenting with audio-visual interaction.
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