Join MOCA in welcoming contemporary dance artist Jasmine Liaw, for a site-specific performance in dialogue with Tishan Hsu’s, Interface Remix. The performance, titled skin maps, investigates the topography of kinaesthetic response, interweaving paralinguistic communication pathways within a multi-channel soundscape. Composed by mapping the terrain of Hsu’s work, Liaw creates a multi-sensory language of sound and movement. Embodying shifts linking human and technological landscapes, skin maps unravels, wrings, and fragments visceral temporalities of in-betweenness.
Liaw’s work leans into complicated and intimate narratives that intersect her interdisciplinary practice in contemporary dance performance, new media, and film with her Hakka-Chinese diaspora and queerness. As a method of retracing oral histories and heritage, she views the body both as a recorder and record keeper.
This performance is part of MOCA’s Free Friday Nights. Free tickets can be obtained ahead of time or at the door. Book in advance to reserve your spot!
About Jasmine Liaw
Jasmine Liaw is an emerging interdisciplinary artist working in contemporary dance performance, new media art, and experimental film. Her practice explores the complexities of her transcultural identity.
Liaw holds a Certificate Diploma with Distinction from the Conteur Academy in Toronto and recently completed a two-year artist-in-residence with F-O-R-M Recorded Movement Society’s Technology & Interaction Program. Recent presentations include Images Festival, The Asian Arts & Culture Trust with Holt Renfrew and Urbanspace Gallery, Gallery 44, Northwest Film Forum, Charles Street Video, XINEMA, Vector Festival, Pleasure Dome, MPCAS/Grunt Gallery, and more. In 2023, she received the Emerging Digital Artist Award, presented by EQ Bank and Trinity Square Video for her experimental film work, xīn nī 廖芯妮.
