Jazmine Deng is a performer and artist practicing on Kaurna Country (Tarndanya/Adelaide Plains). She works across performance, collaboration, video, installation, sculpture, movement, painting and writing.

Her work is rooted in sociology and metaphysical concepts. She seeks to interrogate the materially made spaces, excess and ideals of the twenty first century, as a means to uncover what we are, and what we can do now.

Jazmine’s work emerges out of existing sites, sounds and stories from our present situation. She seeks to disrupt the ideology of the ‘real world’, most notably presented through the lens of capitalism, mass media and a Eurocentric dominated world view. Her work attempts to expose our endurance for empathy and compassion, and permeate our perceived boundaries between ourselves and what we deem the ‘external world’.

Her philosophy to making is responsive, interventional, improvisational, vulnerable and satirical. The majority of her work has drawn inspiration from her existing relationship to family and her experiences as a second generation Chinese Australian. Her process is a metaphor for the agency we hold as people. She recognises the rigidity to making within an arts world context and its links to an individualist dogma.

Jazmine has performed alongside an ensemble for Tina Stefanou’s Dance The War of Proximity as part of the Adelaide Biennale (2024), been the recipient of the Mud: Humus performance residency (2022), exhibited at The Little Machine (2023), FELTspace (2022) and Nexus Arts gallery (2022). She has been commissioned by fineprint magazine for pause~play (2023) and Adelaide Central School of Art and the Adelaide Film Festival for the Reflective screen commission (2024). Jazmine has been mentored by Virginia Barratt and is currently being mentored by Tim Gruchy.

She would like to acknowledge that she lives, works and creates on the traditional lands of the Kaurna people. She pays her respects to all Elders past, present and emerging and recognises that this land was stolen. The Aboriginal people have built life, art, stories and traditions across the lands, skies and waters for over 60,000 years. This always ways and always will be the lands of the Aboriginal people.