Jia Qi Quek (b. 1996, Singapore) is an interdisciplinary artist and practice-based researcher. Working at the intersections of art, education and activism, her socially-engaged practice investigates how emancipatory forms of learning could emerge through experimental modes of storytelling – centring on the performative, relational and embodiment to align socially critical material with our capacity for care. Based between London and Singapore, Jia Qi has led communities to create participatory installations, public programmes, and collaborative performances across London, Amsterdam, New York, Berlin, Singapore and South Korea. Some venues include Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, CICA Museum, Raven Row, Framer Framed, The Yard Theatre, while extending her social interventions into public spaces like the streets, toilets, and libraries.

In 2017, she led Shifting Concretes, a workshop series as part of The Substation Discipline the City programme, which culminated in a public art intervention, Can we ‘Lepak’ better at Orchard Road? to reimagine urban spaces in Singapore. She also founded Your Familiar Stranger, a non-profit ‘story-walking’ initiative in local neighbourhoods of Singapore. Other collaborative projects she has led include BINDperformance at Asia-Art-Activism, Raven Row, Goodnight Stranger at Agora Affect Residency, Is this seat taken? outside the Whitney Museum, as part of her residency at School of Visual Arts in NYC, interdisciplinary symposium Conversations in Singapore History ’18, And Everything in Between and Oceans*A*Part in the UK, to activate new territories of reflection and social action. As the winner of the Social Art Award, awarded by The Institute for Art and Innovation e.V, her works have also been published in The Social Art Award 2017 – Invigorating the Rise of Social Art, INDIGO Mag and presented at King’s College London. Deepening her interest in cross-disciplinary and intergenerational collective social practices, she presently researches with Asia-Art-Activism, in residence at Raven Row; as well as Serpentine Education and Projects, at Serpentine Galleries, designing and evaluating community-centred public programmes to address social issues in London. She is also pursuing Fine Art and History of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London and developing an international Goldsmiths-LASALLE collaboration program on critical arts pedagogy with Dr Janna Graham, lead of Another Roadmap for Arts Education International Network. www.quekjiaqi.com