Jasmine Liaw is a queer emerging Chinese-Canadian interdisciplinary artist in dance performance, new media art, and experimental film. Bicoastal, she is based in so-called Toronto and Vancouver. Her practice explores the complexities of her contemporary views of Hakka diaspora, queerness, and environmental anxiety. She is the Artistic Associate of Chimerik 似不像 Collective, working in interdisciplinary research and creation, and a member of Shoes Off Collective, an emerging artist community centred within the Asian Diaspora. In 2020, she graduated with Distinction at the Conteur Academy in Toronto. Her recent collaborations and presentations include RT Collective Commission Film Program in partnership with Toronto Dance Theatre, in conjunction with Chimerik's project "Ritual Spective,” Frog in Hand's touring Full Body Exhibit, adelheid dance projects, Chimerik/Theatre Passe Muraille: Digital Creators Lab, Gallery TPW's The Parkettes Projects with Ronnie Clarke, Rumble Theatre, Dawson City International Film Festival, Florence Contemporary Art Gallery, and Quarantine Qapsule partnered with Emily Carr University Library, Lonely Artists Productions, and Myseum of Toronto. She is a 2022 Artworkx Toronto Spotlight Artist. Jasmine is the first Artist-in-Residence of F-O-R-M Recorded Movement Society's Technology and Interaction Program in partnership with Charles Street Video exploring her latest installation work, calling tidal.
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Jasmine Liaw (she/her) is an emerging Chinese-Canadian interdisciplinary artist based in so-called Vancouver and Toronto. Her practice focuses on the interconnections of conceptual realms of dance and digital/new media landscapes. She is the Artistic Associate of Chimerik 似不像 Collective, working in interdisciplinary research and creation.
Photo Credit: Laura Zeke Photography
Photo by Jasmine Liaw @shotlucid
Photo by Jasmine Liaw @shotlucid
Film still of her 2022 film, xīn nī 廖芯妮
Photo by Laura Zeke
Photo by Laura Zeke