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Jasmine Liaw

xīn nī 廖芯妮

Integrated Media
xīn nī 廖芯妮 is a film commissioned by RT Collective in partnership with Toronto Dance Theatre.

“xīn nī 廖芯妮 (“understanding you”) is an intimate auto-ethnographic portrait expressed through dance and digital technologies. Liaw engages in intergenerational conversations with her family and community to transform the linguistic divide between her Chinese name and its Hakka translation into a space for healing. Drawing on themes of decolonizing queerness to emphasize self-love and self-curiosity, the work explores both physical and technological attachments. Bodies made up of 3D-rendered cultural objects hold space for the stories of Liaw’s elders, while expanding the growing web of her ancestral knowledge. ”

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2025, Graduate Gallery, xīn nī 廖芯妮, curated by Kathleen Foran-Spragge
Toronto
2025, Ohio State University's Dance@30FPS International Program
Columbus, OH
2025, Reframe Film Festival
Peterborough, ON
2023, Emerging Digital Artist Award Exhibition at Trinity Square Video
Toronto
2023, Asian Arts & Culture Trust at HOLT RENFREW, xīn nī 廖芯妮, The Bitten Peach
Toronto
2023, Emerging Digital Artist Award (EDAA)
EQ Bank

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Jasmine Liaw

Interdisciplinary Media-Dance Artist

“Motivated by movement and relationalities between humans, beyond-humans, and homeland, my practice investigates ideas of kinesthetic in-betweenness through the topography of the body.”