Jasmine Liaw
plastic climbs
Integrated Media
2023
assorted prints, video, clear laser and engraved acrylic
24"x48"
00:04:00 [hh:mm:ss]
plastic climbs is an intimate, gnomic video artwork that explores the complex intersectionalities felt within the artist’s Asian diasporic identity.
“I question my Asianness within the legacy of my Hakka Asian heritage and queerness, navigating cultural existence through dance-technology and reclaiming ideas of sensuality and delicacy through the ownership of my body. 'plastic climbs' embodies ideas of multiplicity, exposure and vulnerability through physical entanglements with transparent materials. This gesture of queering diasporic culture allows for intimate existence, sensorial experimentation and investigation into the phenomenological consciousness of displacement.”
