About

Jennifer Laiwint (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and DJ whose work spans video, movement, drawing, and performance. Her research-driven practice examines the emotional and political dimensions of personal transformation, concealment, and recovery, often through embodied experimentation. Through a blend of narrative and documentary strategies, she investigates the cultural and psychosocial forces that compel us to mask, alter, or lose the self.

Across projects, Jennifer, along with the performers she works with, often adopts fictional personas, such as self-help authors or “manosphere” gurus, to investigate the complex interplay between sincerity and self-invention, aspiration and coercion. These staged identities allow her to explore how performance can both expose and obscure the forces that shape who we are, and who we’re expected to become. Recent projects have explored parasocial relationships, post-injury healing, and the aesthetics of control, using improvisation and physical prompts as generative tools.

Jennifer has developed projects at the Banff Centre, Toronto Dance Theatre, and NARS Foundation, and presented at Western Front, SummerWorks, the Art Gallery of Mississauga, and the plumb. She previously served on the Board of Directors at Pleasure Dome and is currently completing her MFA in Film at York University.