{{Short description|Zimbabwean artist, art critic, gallerist, writer, curator and educator}} {{Infobox person | name = Laiwan | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1961}} | birth_place = Harare, Zimbabwe | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Artist, writer, educator, curator, gallerist | known_for = Cultural criticism, activism, participatory projects | education = Emily Carr University of Art and Design <br /> Simon Fraser University | website = http://www.laiwanette.net/ }} '''Laiwan''' (born 1961) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, gallerist, activist, and educator. Her wide-ranging artistic practice is based in poetics and philosophy.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=http://canadianart.ca/reviews/da-bao-takeout-varley/|title=(Da bao)(Takeout): Good to Go – Canadian Art|work=Canadian Art|access-date=2017-03-18|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sitefactory.ca/calendar/2016/3/20/june|title=Unconventional Art Practices: An Evening of Artist Talks|website=SiteFactory|language=en-US|access-date=2017-03-18|archive-date=2018-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180306142225/http://www.sitefactory.ca/calendar/2016/3/20/june|url-status=dead}}</ref> She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
==Biography== Laiwan was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1961 of Toisan Chinese descent.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=2023-06-13 |title=Laiwan and Hazel Meyer receive 2023 VIVA Awards, while Daina Augaitis wins Alvin Balkind Curator’s Prize |url=https://www.createastir.ca/articles/viva-awards-alvin-balkind-curator-prize-2023 |access-date=2026-03-10 |website=Stir |language=en-US}}</ref> Her family emigrated to Canada in 1977 to leave the war in apartheid Rhodesia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Laiwan {{!}} Artspeak |url=https://artspeak.ca/laiwan/ |access-date=2024-02-02 |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-02-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202194552/https://artspeak.ca/laiwan/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> She graduated with a diploma from Emily Carr College of Art and Design (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design) in 1983.<ref>{{Cite web |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |last3= |date=2023-08-01 |title=Laiwan Wins 2023 VIVA Award for the Visual Arts |url=https://www.ecuad.ca/news/2023/laiwan-wins-2023-viva-award-for-the-visual-arts |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=www.ecuad.ca |language=en}}</ref> In 1999, she received a Master of Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LAIWAN, busy SCA alumni |url=https://www.sfu.ca/content/sfu/sca/events---news/news/laiwan--busy-sca-alumni.html |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=www.sfu.ca |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Laiwan » Authors » Talonbooks |url=https://talonbooks.com/authors/laiwan |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=talonbooks.com}}</ref>
In 1983, Laiwan founded Or Gallery, while Arni Haraldsson, Petra Watson, Lori Hinton, Michelle Normoyle, and Ken Lum were the founders of the Or Gallery Society, established under the Society Act in 1984.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ArcPost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres |url=https://arcpost.ca/articles/or-gallery#:~:text=The%20Or%20Gallery%20was%20founded,the%20Society%20Act%20in%201984. |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=arcpost.ca}}</ref> As the founder, her intent was to dispel myths about the impossibility of founding and operating a gallery, particularly for women.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Williams|first1=Carol|title=Vancouver Anthology, Stan Douglas, ed.|date=2011|publisher=Talonbooks/Or Gallery|location=Vancouver|isbn=978-0-88922-614-2|pages=209}}</ref> She was chair of the grunt gallery board of directors from 2010 to 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://grunt.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Annual-Report-2013-2014-Web-Version.pdf|title=grunt gallery Annual Report, 2013–2014|publisher=grunt gallery, Vancouver|access-date=March 18, 2017|archive-date=December 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220095538/http://grunt.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Annual-Report-2013-2014-Web-Version.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://grunt.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gruntgallery-annual-report-2011_2012-web.pdf|title=grunt gallery Annual Report 2011–2012|publisher=grunt gallery, Vancouver|access-date=March 18, 2017|archive-date=March 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319113256/http://grunt.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gruntgallery-annual-report-2011_2012-web.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
From 2001 to 2022, Laiwan taught in the Master of Fine Arts Interdisciplinary Arts program at Goddard College in Washington state.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.goddard.edu/people/laiwan/|title=Laiwan – Goddard College|work=Goddard College|access-date=2017-03-18|language=en-US|archive-date=2017-03-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319111525/https://www.goddard.edu/people/laiwan/|url-status=dead}}</ref> She currently works in the Vancouver Park Board's Decolonization, Arts and Culture Department.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=Laiwan: Traces, Erasures, Resists |publisher=Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery |year=2024 |isbn=9780888654946 |editor-last=Kazymerchyk |editor-first=Amy |location=Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |pages= |language=English}}</ref>
== Artistic practice == Laiwan's socially, culturally, and environmentally engaged practice includes performance, photography, drawing, installation, audio, video, writing, research, memes, web projects, mapping, and interactive public art projects.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":0" /> She has been investigating colonialism since the 1980s, with an emphasis on decoloniality.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite book|last1=Hogbin|first1=Stephen|title=Political Landscape Introduction|date=1989|publisher=Tom Tomson Memorial Art Gallery|location=Owen Sound, Ontario|isbn=0-929021-04-5|page=15}}</ref> She explores concepts of presence by way of bodily, emotional intelligence, and spatial politics located in the environment.<ref name=":4" /> Her more recent work addresses biodiversity, human impacts on ecosystems, and our relationships with non-human species.<ref name=":4" />
Laiwan has been awarded numerous prizes, including a 2023 VIVA Award, 2021 Emily Award from Emily Carr University, 2021 BC Arts Council Visual Arts Award, 2020 Canada Council Research and Creation Award, and the 2008 Vancouver Queer Media Artist Award.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |last3= |date=2021-05-13 |title=Attending to Small Marvels with Interdisciplinary Artist Laiwan |url=https://www.ecuad.ca/news/2021/attending-to-small-marvels-with-interdisciplinary-artist-laiwan |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=www.ecuad.ca |language=en}}</ref> She has received commissions from the City of Vancouver's Public Art Program, Vancouver Heritage Foundation, and Burnaby Art Gallery.<ref name=":0" /> From 2017 to 2018, she had a residency with the University of British Columbia's Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.<ref name=":0" />
Her work is held in the Vancouver Art Gallery, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, and other private collections, while her time-based work is available from VIVO Media Arts Centre in Vancouver and V-Tape in Toronto.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Collections |url=https://collection.belkin.ubc.ca/Search/objects/key/8438d449c40d535de893502e7ef8be20/facet/catalogue_facet/id/493/view/images}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.videoout.ca/catalog/automatopoeia|title=Automatopoeia {{!}} Video Out – Vancouver, British Columbia|website=www.videoout.ca|language=en|access-date=2017-03-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.videoout.ca/catalog/remotely-touch|title=Video Out Catalog – "Remotely In Touch" by Laiwan|website=www.videoout.ca|language=en|access-date=2017-03-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=5670|title=Video {{!}} Vtape|website=www.vtape.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-03-18}}</ref>
== Select artworks == ''Travels in China, 1985'' is a 1986 work consisting of hundreds of 35 mm colour slides taken during Laiwan's first trip to China at the age of 24.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Kazymerchyk |first=Amy |title=Laiwan: Traces, Erasures, Resists |publisher=Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery |year=2024 |isbn=9780888654946 |editor-last=Kazymerchyk |editor-first=Amy |location=Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |pages=39-53 |language=English |chapter=Thought, Outside: How the Works in Traces, Erasures, Resists Think}}</ref> Created in collaboration with Nina Skogster, a Helsinki-based artist, they retraced the path of Laiwan's own migration via an east to west railway route.<ref name=":1" /> The curious and fleeting candid images produced during this unplanned journey depict people, architecture, activities, and exchanges. Laiwan was an outsider in China, travelling without proficiency in the local language and little knowledge of family relations remaining in the country.<ref name=":1" /> This stood in contrast to her experiences in Canada where she is perceived as only Chinese or those in Zimbabwe, where despite being born and raised there, is not visibly native.<ref name=":1" />
In Laiwan's 1986 slide sequence work, ''The Mesmerization of Language: The Language of Mesmerization'', she deals with language as a structure which has a life independent of its conveyed meaning.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pakasaar |first1=Helga |title=Broken Muse |date=1986 |publisher=Vancouver Art Gallery |location=Vancouver |isbn=0-920095-59-3 |pages=5}}</ref> There are three parts to this artwork.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.belkin.ubc.ca/_archived/mesmerization/notes.htm|title=The Language of Mesmerization / The Mesmerization of Language|website=www.belkin.ubc.ca|access-date=2017-03-18}}</ref> Part One, titled "OBSESSION: POSSESSION" shows the poem Sappho 31 in both the original Greek and as an English translation. Part Two is titled "SPELL," wherein Laiwan translates the Christian prayer Our Father from sign language into words, deconstructing and breaking apart the text, phrase by phrase, word by word, and letter by letter. "Untitled," the Part Three of the project, moves from language into images of landscapes.<ref name=":2" />
In her 1996 to present project ''dotting like flatheads: this is the English I learn,'' Laiwan uses correction fluid to redact the text in a Chinese-English dictionary she found in a former dumpsite on the current site of the Strathcona Community Gardens, leaving behind poetic fragments.<ref name=":0" /> These types of dictionaries were beloved by her family and are symbolic of the social and perceptual translation her family endured as Chinese natives living in apartheid Rhodesia.<ref name=":0" /> This series is a continuation of Laiwan's ongoing interventions of indexes and glossaries. In its most recent iteration, 2021's ''AGILE''—commissioned for the fiftieth anniversary of the ''Capilano Review,'' each page represents a letter to form words while highlighting the discordance between perception and expression.<ref name=":0" />
In 2016, as part of the City of Vancouver's Public Art Program, the ''Coastal City'' series, Laiwan displayed the work ''Barnacle City'', which was projected on various buildings throughout downtown Vancouver.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.straight.com/arts/717276/works-laiwan-and-ryan-peter-part-vancouvers-latest-coastal-city-public-art-installations|title=Works by Laiwan and Ryan Peter part of Vancouver's latest Coastal City public art installations|date=2016-06-14|website=Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly|language=en|access-date=2019-03-09}}</ref> In 2018, Laiwan started the ''Mobile Barnacle City Live/Work Studio'', an installation created in the SiteFactory bus, which was a part of Emily Carr University's ''Living Labs Ten Different Things'' project series. ''Mobile Barnacle City'' was installed in various locations around Chinatown in Vancouver. The project also involved T'uy'tanat-Cease Wyss and Anne Riley.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sitefactory.ca/calendar/2018/4/8/laiwan-mobile-barnacle-city|title=Laiwan: Mobile Barnacle City|website=SiteFactory|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-09}}{{Dead link|date=June 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://research.ecuad.ca/livinglabs/projects/ten-different-things/|title=Projects / Ten Different Things {{!}} 2017 – 2018|access-date=2019-03-09|archive-date=2024-08-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240814131230/https://research.ecuad.ca/livinglabs/projects/ten-different-things/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Select exhibitions ==
=== Solo exhibitions === *''Laiwan: Traces, Erasures, Resists'', Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2022<ref>{{Cite web |title=Laiwan: Traces, Erasures, Resists |url=https://belkin.ubc.ca/exhibitions/laiwan-traces-erasures-resists/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Wadsley |first=Helena |date=2022-02-07 |title=Laiwan |url=https://www.gallerieswest.ca/api/content/758838a0-7c87-11ec-a06a-12f1225286c6/ |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=Galleries West |language=en-ca}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title="Traces, Erasures, Resists" — Laiwan |url=https://cmagazine.com/articles/traces-erasures-resists-laiwan |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=“Traces, Erasures, Resists” — Laiwan |language=en}}</ref> *''How Water Remembers'', Massy Arts, Vancouver, 2021<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gallery Exhibition / "How Water Remembers" by Laiwan – Massy Arts |url=https://massyarts.com/event/gallery-exhibition-how-water-remembers-by-laiwan/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |language=en-US}}</ref> *''Maple Tree Spiral: the pedagogy of a tree in the city,'' Artspeak, Vancouver, 2019<ref name=":0" /> *''Fountain: the origin or source of anything'', The WALL at the CBC Plaza, commissioned by the Vancouver Heritage Foundation, 2014<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/projects/the-wall/ |title=Vancouver Heritage Foundation Projects: The WALL |website=Vancouver Heritage Foundation |access-date=March 18, 2017}}</ref> *''Laiwan: Loose Work'', Or Gallery<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.orgallery.org/loose-work|title=Or Gallery Exhibition: "Loose Work"|access-date=March 18, 2017|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031458/http://www.orgallery.org/loose-work|url-status=dead}}</ref> and at On Main, Vancouver, 2008<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://onmaingallery.com/news/2008/08/11/laiwan-loose-work/|title=News : On Main Gallery|last=Gallery|first=On Main|website=onmaingallery.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-03-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319113908/http://onmaingallery.com/news/2008/08/11/laiwan-loose-work/|archive-date=2017-03-19|url-status=dead}}</ref> *''Duet: Étude For Solitudes'', YYZ Artist's Outlet / Images Festival, Toronto, 2006<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.yyzartistsoutlet.org/2006/03/laiwan-duet-etude-for-solitudes/|title=Laiwan: Duet: Etude for Solitudes|date=2006-03-11|work=YYZ|access-date=2017-03-18|language=en-US|archive-date=2017-03-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319111714/http://www.yyzartistsoutlet.org/2006/03/laiwan-duet-etude-for-solitudes/|url-status=dead}}</ref> *''Quartet for the Year 4698 or 5760: Improvisation for 4 Film Projectors'', with Lori Freedman, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, 2002<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://openspace.ca/programming/quartet-year-4698-or-5760-improvisation-four-projectors|title=Quartet for the Year 4698 or 5760: improvisation for four projectors {{!}} Open Space|website=openspace.ca|language=en|access-date=2017-03-18|archive-date=2017-03-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319112626/http://openspace.ca/programming/quartet-year-4698-or-5760-improvisation-four-projectors|url-status=dead}}</ref> *''Small, Medium and Not Large: Books and Collages 1982 to Present,'' grunt gallery, Vancouver, 1996 and articule, Montreal, 1997<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Grunt Gallery |url=https://archives.grunt.ca/Ban/verify |access-date=2026-03-03 |website=archives.grunt.ca |language=en}}</ref> *''CAVE / CAVEAT,'' Or Gallery, Vancouver, 1982
=== Group exhibitions === *''Urban Screen'', with ''PANDEMIA — the movie'', Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver, 2021-2022<ref>{{Cite web |title=Laiwan: PANDEMIA — The Movie |url=https://libby.ecuad.ca/events/2021/laiwan-pandemia.html |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=libby.ecuad.ca}}</ref> *''Thought, outside'', curated by Amy Kazymerchyk, Western Front, Vancouver, 2020<ref>{{Cite web |title="Thought, outside" group exhibition at the Western Front — L A I W A N |url=https://www.laiwanette.net/news/2020/11/24/thought-outside-group-exhibition-at-the-western-front |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=L A I W A N |date=24 November 2020 |language=en-US}}</ref> *''Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT,'' curated by Lorna Brown, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2018<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://belkin.ubc.ca/current/beginning-with-the-seventies-glut|title=Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery {{!}} Beginning with the Seventies GLUT|website=belkin.ubc.ca|access-date=2018-03-10}}</ref> *''Through A Window: Visual Art and SFU 1965–2015''; SFU Galleries, Vancouver and Burnaby, 2015<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sfu.ca/galleries/sfu-gallery/current.html|title=Through a Window: Visual Art and SFU 1965–2015 – SFU Galleries – Simon Fraser University|access-date=2017-03-18|archive-date=2017-03-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319112848/http://www.sfu.ca/galleries/sfu-gallery/current.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> *''Da Bao: Take Out'', Plug In ICA, Winnipeg<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://plugin.org/exhibitions/2013/da-baotakeout|title=(Da bao)(Takeout) {{!}} Plug In ICA|website=plugin.org|language=en|access-date=2017-03-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319113537/https://plugin.org/exhibitions/2013/da-baotakeout|archive-date=2017-03-19|url-status=dead}}</ref> and Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, 2013<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.surrey.ca/culture-recreation/17362.aspx|title=City of Surrey: (Da bao)(Takeout)|last=|first=|website=www.surrey.ca|language=|access-date=2017-03-18|archive-date=2017-03-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319195718/http://www.surrey.ca/culture-recreation/17362.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> *''Da Bao: Take Out'', curated by Shannon Anderson / Doug Lewis, Varley Art Gallery, Markham, Mississauga Art Gallery, 2012<ref name=":3" /> *''c.1983: Parts 1&2'', curated by Helga Pakasaar, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, 2012<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://presentationhousegallery.org/exhibition/c-1983/|title=C.1983 – Presentation House Gallery|website=presentationhousegallery.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-03-18|date=2011-12-23}}</ref> *''Everything Everyday'', curated by Bruce Grenville, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2010<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_everything_everyday.html|title=Vancouver Art Gallery|website=www.vanartgallery.bc.ca|access-date=2017-03-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190226162208/http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_everything_everyday.html|archive-date=2019-02-26|url-status=dead}}</ref> *''How Soon Is Now: Contemporary Art from Here,'' curated by Kathleen Ritter, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2009<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ahva.ubc.ca/events/event/how-soon-is-now-contemporary-art-from-here/|title=HOW SOON IS NOW: Contemporary Art from Here {{!}} AHVA – The Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory|website=ahva.ubc.ca|language=en-US|access-date=2017-03-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_how_soon_is_now.html|title=Vancouver Art Gallery|website=www.vanartgallery.bc.ca|access-date=2017-03-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802071451/https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_how_soon_is_now.html|archive-date=2018-08-02|url-status=dead}}</ref> *''Limits of Tolerance: Re-framing Multicultural State Policy'', Centre A Gallery, Vancouver, 2007<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://e-artexte.ca/20189/|title=Limits of Tolerance : Re-framing Multicultural State Policy|last=Park|first=Liz|date=2007-01-01|website=|publisher=Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art |language=|access-date=2017-03-18|isbn=9780973271171}}</ref> *''Group Search: Art in the Library'', Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, 2007<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://othersights.ca/laiwan-call-numbers-the-library-recordings/|title=Laiwan: Call Numbers – The Library Recordings – other sights|website=othersights.ca|language=en-US|access-date=2017-03-18}}</ref> *''rapture: rupture'', Artspeak, Vancouver, 1999<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artspeak.ca/laiwan/|title=Laiwan {{!}} Artspeak|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-09|archive-date=2021-06-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210618182441/https://artspeak.ca/laiwan/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Curatorial work == Laiwan was co-founder and co-curator of the 1988 First Vancouver Lesbian Film Festival at Vancouver East Cinema, presented by the Vancouver Lesbian Network.<ref name=":0" /> In 1993, she curated the exhibition ''Making Out: Women on the Verge of Revolution in the Mango Swamp of Enchantment'' at Pitt Gallery.<ref name=":0" /> She was co-programmer of ''Ten Years of Local Lesbian Short Film'' in the Out On Screen Queer Film and Video Festival in 1998.<ref name=":0" /> In 2014, Laiwan curated ''Queering the International'', an exhibition part of the Queer Arts Festival, which took place at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre and examined issues of sexual identity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.straight.com/arts/696156/queering-international-speaks-love-hate-around-world|title=Queering the International speaks to love, hate around the world|date=2014-07-30|website=Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly|language=en|access-date=2019-03-09}}</ref>
== Editorial projects == With Arni Haraldsson, Laiwan founded and edited ''Woo'' (later ''The Paper'') at Emily Carr College of Art and Design from November 1980 to April 1981.<ref name=":0" /> From 1987 to 1998, she was a contributor and collective member of ''Angles'' magazine. In 1990, Laiwan co-founded ZWICCT: Zimbabwean Women in Contemporary Culture Trust (later WICCSA: Women in Contemporary Culture Southern Africa).<ref name=":0" /> She created a zine for queer women of colour entitled ''Zine but not Herd'' from 1993 to 1994, was co-editor of the artist-run centre Western Front's ''Front Magazine'' from 1994 to 1997, and was production coordinator and contributor of ''Kinesis: News about Women That's Not in the Dailies'' from 1995 to 1998.<ref name=":0" />
== Select Bibliography ==
=== Publications by Laiwan === *''TENDER: Selected Poems,'' Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2020<ref>{{Cite web |title=TENDER » Books » Talonbooks |url=https://talonbooks.com/books/tender |access-date=2026-03-05 |website=talonbooks.com}}</ref>
=== Writing by Laiwan === *"LUNG: Towards Embodying" in ''DAMP: Contemporary Vancouver Media Arts,'' Anvil Press, Vancouver, 2008 <ref>{{Cite book|title=DAMP: Contemporary Vancouver Media Art|last=Laiwan|publisher=Anvil Press|year=2008|isbn=978-1895636895|location=Vancouver|pages=112–113|chapter=LUNG: toward embodying}}</ref> *"Ed Pien: Drawing Hauntology" feature article in ''Canadian Art,'' Summer 2007, Vol. 24 #2 <ref>{{Cite news|url=http://canadianart.ca/features/ed-pien/|title=Ed Pien: Drawing Hauntology – Canadian Art|work=Canadian Art|access-date=2017-03-18|language=en-US}}</ref>
=== Exhibition Catalogues === *Amy Kazymerchyk, ''Laiwan: Traces, Erasures, Resists,'' exhibition catalogue, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2024<ref>{{Cite web |title=Belkin Art Gallery Bookstore |url=https://belkin.ubc.ca/product/laiwan/}}</ref> *Kathleen Ritter, ''How soon is now'', exhibition catalogue, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2009 *Liz Park, ''Limits of Tolerance: Re-framing Multicultural State Policy'', exhibition catalogue, Centre A, 2007 *Laiwan: Distance of Distinct Vision, exhibition catalogue, Western Front, Vancouver, 1992<ref>{{Cite web |title=WESTERN FRONT – Publications |url=https://westernfront.ca/pages/publications |access-date=2026-03-05 |website=westernfront.ca |language=en}}</ref>
=== Reviews of Laiwan's Work === *''Queer Art Speaks to love, hate around world'' by Robin Laurence, ''The Georgia Straight,'' July 31-August 7, 2014 Volume 48, number 2432 *''QAF extending its reach, draws top talent'' by Dana Gee, ''The Province'', July 22, 2014 *''Digital Art Reflections & 10 Seconds in Time ask audiences to stop and consider'' by Robin Laurence, ''The Georgia Straight'', August 21, 2012, pg. 33
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