jaziimun

Jasmine Gui is a Singaporean-born interdisciplinary artist, editor, and occasional translator who lives and works in Tkaronto.
She currently works as a programmer and grant writer at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival.
She is the founder of Project 40 Collective, an interdisciplinary artist collective, and 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.
She also runs Teh People Studio, does experimental paper arts as one half of the creative duo, jabs.
She did her MA in English, Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto, and is the author of two chapbooks, If A Carp Dreams of The Milky Way (2019) and boke (2017).

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Silk / 一絲

A Visual Poem Collaboration with Lucy Lu

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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...

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Record: Golden State

Turns out Cali glow is a real thing, but California mythology is exactly that – mythology. I went to visit some of my extended fam in-laws over the December...