_{I pay my respects to the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, Turrbal and Yuggera Peoples, their Ancestors and Elders, on whose unceded lands my practice has unfolded. I recognise the care, knowledge and community that First Nations People have nurtured across generations, lands and waterways, and continue to sustain today. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land. Pay the rent.}

Dr Jacina Leong 梁玉明 is an artist-curator, educator and researcher working across cultural, educational and social impact contexts. Informed by 18 years of experience, including organisational leadership, creative research and socially engaged practice, her work examines how cultural organisations facilitate gathering in response to crisis, while interrogating the systemic conditions that shape arts and cultural work. This includes a focus on public pedagogies, 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.

Selected Work.

Jacina is currently a Research Fellow at RMIT University on the ARC Discovery Project Making Histories: Young People as Visual Historians of Changing Cities. She lectures in contemporary art practice and research methods in the School of Art, chairs the School of Art Industry Advisory Committee, and is lead 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.

Selected Partnerships and Collaborators.

Jacina lives in Narrm/Melbourne with her effervescent dog, Soda. Her ancestry connects her to Guangdong, Hong Kong, Puglia, England, and Ireland. These intersecting lineages shape, in part, how she sees the world, and the response-abilities she brings to her practice as an artist-curator, educator and researcher.

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