Jane Jin Kaisen

Jane Jin Kaisen is a visual artist, filmmaker, and Professor at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Spanning video installation, narrative experimental film, photographic installation, performance and text, Jane’s artistic practice is informed by extensive interdisciplinary research, creative collaborations, and engagement with diverse communities. She is known for her visually striking, multilayered, performative, poetic, and multi-voiced feminist works through which past and present are brought into relation.

Engaging topics such as memory, migration, borders, and translation, she activates the field where lived experience and embodied knowledge intersect with larger political histories. Her work also focuses on nature and island spaces, cosmologies, re-framings of myths, and engagement with ritual and spiritual practices. Working from the thresholds of mediums and forms, disciplines and sensibilities, her works destabilize linear conceptions of time and hierarchies of knowledge. Negotiating and mediating the means of representation, resistance, and recognition, she is invested in contouring alternative genealogies and sites of collective emergence.