Jacina Leong

Dr Jacina Leong 梁玉明 is an artist-curator, researcher and educator working across cultural, educational and social impact contexts. Her practice examines how cultural organisations facilitate gathering in response to crisis while interrogating the systemic conditions that shape arts and cultural work. Drawing on 18 years of experience in organisational leadership, transdisciplinary research, and socially engaged creative practice, she addresses social infrastructure and infrastructural critique; the entanglement of climate crisis, burnout, and arts labour; and the politics and ethics of care. She is also concerned with what it means to sustain practice, and toward what end, often thinking with meridians, breath, and composting as metaphor, method, and ethic.

Jacina is currently a Research Fellow (School of Education) at RMIT University on the ARC Discovery Project Making Histories: Young People as Visual Historians of Changing Cities. She lectures in contemporary art theory in the School of Art, chairs the School of Art Industry Advisory Committee, and is co-author of the forthcoming book Museums and Digital Social Futures: Audience Experiences in Everyday Life (Routledge). She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) and a Master’s by Research from QUT, and a PhD from RMIT University.