JENNIE MARYTAI LIU

SHEETS

Awareness of survival under a sublimated will/drive/career to the constant needs of two children under 3 and the illness and grief of a planet that presses up against my weakest, lamest parts. Attention and aestheticization of subjectivity demands new reason-- I’m pausing to find it-- and I know this pause is privilege. Blooming into the resistance of functionality, what I overlooked, was silent about. I’m hiding until I trust myself enough to be accountable on a platform, sick of fronting/wearing a mask. I’d like to be more naked. Sheets feel like heaven.

Jennie MaryTai Liu is an artist engaged with bodies across disciplines of choreography, video, and writing. Her work has been commissioned by the Los Angeles CountyMuseum of Art, Human Resources LA, The Mistake Room, Bushwick Starr, Live ArtsExchange, the former Dance Theater Workshop, Prelude Festival, HERE Arts Center, and Incubator Arts Center. She is currently organizing an exhibition produced by Pieter funded in part by the Mike Kelley Foundation which engages artists from a range of disciplines to respond to the history of early modern dance in Los Angeles. She has been a resident artist at Headlands Center for the Arts, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Bogliasco Foundation, Yaddo Arts Colony, EMPAC, and BrooklynArts Exchange, and has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant, MAP Fund, Jerome Foundation, and Center for Cultural Innovation. She co-founded and edited riting.org, an experiment in writing that engages with performance being made now in LA. She also regularly collaborates as a performer with Big Dance Theater, Adam Linder, and Poor Dog Group. BFA in Theater, Experimental Theater Wing, NYU; MFA in Dance, Hollins University.

@jenniemarytail / @layladylay.co