fractured dust; do islands fall or fly?
fractured dust; do islands fall or fly?

Mixed Media

fractured dust; do islands fall or fly?

'fractured dust; do islands fall or fly?' reflects on the impermanence through the skin of layered acrylic and transparent film.

liaw 廖
liaw 廖

Installation

liaw 廖

Created within Immony Men's Special Topics course, Asian Diasporic Media Praxis course, Where We Live is an exhibition that includes works by grad and undergrad students at OCAD University. As a group, we explored various themes related to gestures... More

pendulum series
pendulum series

Integrated Media

pendulum series

Evidenced in collaboration, Shoes Off Collective (SOC) curates deciphering as material, an interdisciplinary exhibition that weaves movement and texture to compost fixed logics of entrenched ideology. Plural and complex relations are translated... More

plastic climbs
plastic climbs

Integrated Media

plastic climbs

plastic climbs is an intimate, gnomic video artwork that explores the complex intersectionalities felt within the artist’s Asian diasporic identity.

skin maps
skin maps

Performance

skin maps

A site-specific performance in dialogue with Tishan Hsu’s first Canadian exhibition, Interface Remix at MOCA Toronto. Curated by Erin Storus.

skin maps
skin maps

Integrated Media

skin maps

Commissioned by RT Collective, Jasmine Liaw's performance of 'skin maps' is transformed into an experimental dance-media film.

to name language
to name language

Integrated Media

to name language

'to name language' is an experimental dance-technology installation made up of hanging engraved acrylic and mapped video projection to recreate my Hakka-Chinese given name, Liaw Xīn Nī 廖芯妮.

vigor in a zipper
vigor in a zipper

Integrated Media

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... More

vigor in a zipper
vigor in a zipper

Performance

vigor in a zipper

Activating gallery and community spaces, 'vigor in a zipper' is a dance-media performance, exploring paralinguistic somatics. Through movement and physicality, Liaw will create an interwoven dialogue with the imagery and artworks, externalizing the... More

xīn nī 廖芯妮
xīn nī 廖芯妮

Integrated Media

xīn nī 廖芯妮

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

Work by

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.”