Jazmine Deng is an early-career multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans performance, screen-based media, sculpture, assemblage, painting and installation. As a second-generation Chinese-Cambodian Australian, her practice is informed by cultural contradictions experienced as a child of migrants, living amidst late-state capitalism. Jazmine’s processes aim to foster a reciprocity between our bodies and what European dominant worldviews call the external world. Through her existing relationships, places and excess within the twenty-first century, she seeks to develop a process for making that is in relation with the world. She values investigative, curious and question-inducing approaches. Her process id informed by the ethical implications of colonial constructs.
She has recently undertaken a residency at the Mongolian International University in Ulaanbaatar (2024), was commissioned by the Adelaide Film Festival to develop a moving image for their Reflective Screen project (2024) and been commissioned by fineprint magazine for their online presentation PAUSE~PLAY (2023). Jazmine has exhibited across Adelaide at The Little Machine, FELTspace, Nexus Arts and The Kerry Packer Civic Centre and was the inaugural performer-in-residence for MUD: HUMUS.