Faculty of Art

Integrated Media

Jasmine Liaw

vigor in a zipper

'vigor in a zipper' reimagines the associated binaries in technology and dance through queer theories; embracing concepts of failure as validation, creating room to let go of expectations towards the dancer’s body, and “unzipping” the body into the present moment. Abandoning ideas of concreteness, perfection, and quality, the film uses digital techniques to distort, erode, and mosh the body, illuminating the in-betweenness of transcultural identity. Redefining dance-technology collectively, twelve additional voices of other female, queer, non-binary artists, whose practices fall under technology and body, are interwoven in the film. Their voices and presence represent the extracted body and communal resonances through sound.

“Abandoning ideas of concreteness, perfection, and quality, the film uses digital techniques to distort, erode, and mosh the body, illuminating the in-betweenness of transcultural identity. Redefining dance-technology collectively, twelve additional voices of other female, queer, non-binary artists, whose practices fall under technology and body, are interwoven in the film. Their voices and presence represent the extracted body and communal resonances through sound.”