jaziimun | interdisciplinary artist | arts programmer | publisher

Jasmine Gui is a Singaporean-born interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Tkaronto.

Programming:
She currently works as a programmer and grant writer at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival.

Archives:
She is the co-founder of TACLA, an Asian Canadian archival initiative. Her work is grounded in interdisciplinary grassroots communities, and explores intersectional histories, counter-archivals, translations, traversals, and grief.

Art:
She runs Teh People Studio and San Press, and does experimental paper arts as one half of the creative duo, jabs. She is the author of two chapbooks, If A Carp Dreams of The Milky Way (2019) and boke (2017)

Journey:
She did her MA in English, Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto.

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and so i was. and after the rooms were unlocked and the books had been deciphered, i wanted to love me too. and so i became a question. stepped...

Portfolio

Silk / 一絲

A Visual Poem Collaboration with Lucy Lu

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28.

so I crushed my chest into rubble, waited on the moonlight to soften the ruin.

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Record: A Page From Time

This makes me think about my hand, which although relatively fair for a Southeast Asian, is definitely not a white hand. Then I think of all the nonwhite hands...

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Record: The Gorge And Its Skins

Over the last three years I’ve become increasingly attracted to earthy palettes and the kind of details they offer. Recently, our family took a short excursion to the Elora...

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Record: Langkawi

Looking for a place to go on a short family vacation in Asia is about predicting the rain. That’s how we ended up foregoing a trip near my mother’s...

Silk / 一絲

A Visual Poem Collaboration with Lucy Lu

by jasmine

September 30, 2018

jabs – Sp l it

Sp l it is a jabs collab that happened from Sept 17 - Sept 30 at Artscape Gibraltar Point...

by jasmine

September 29, 2018

jabs – Sp l it [Video Documentation]

Video of paper pulling methods exploration

by jasmine

Wheel Intensive #1 [Clay]

A few favourite pieces from my first round of intensive wheel throwing sessions. :)

by jasmine

January 22, 2018

Balance [Self-Portraiture]

by jasmine

January 21, 2018

Decay Bowl Series [Clay]

The decay bowl series is an early ceramic experimental project I did, trying to simultaneously become familiar with hand-building...

by jasmine