QUEK JIA QI
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What do you not handle with care?

What do you not handle with care?

Site-specific Installation (artist handbound books)
& Ongoing Performance
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​Goldsmiths College Library 
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​​I asked 100 individuals what do they not handle with care.
Each participant’s individual story is handbound into book by the artist,
and silently slotted in between books in a public library as little ‘care packages’.

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What sort of knowledge deserves to be 'public knowledge'? In a today’s culture with elevated levels of anxiety and mental distress, care work and wellness is often being undermined, or commoditized. There is a slow violence in forgetting about care, and I want to bring this care to the forefront, by exploring together with my participants how can care be a methodology, rather than an afterthought. 

"Each book is so fragile and light, like a body on its own - a self-portrait preserving a precious piece of personality. There's something so beautiful about honouring someone's story  by handbinding it into a  book, and then being encountered in an unexpected impersonal, and usually stressful place like the library." 

  • ABOUT
  • WORK
    • RECENT WORKS
    • PUBLIC ART >
      • Can You Hear Me?
      • Kuti Kuti?
      • The Treehouse We Never Had
      • Waiting For
      • What do you not handle with care?
      • Shifting Concretes: Can We “Lepak” Better at Orchard Road?
      • 洗手 (Washing Hands)
    • INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS >
      • Stretch
      • Bind
      • Untitled (lost and maybe not always found)
      • Tree of Curiosities
      • Real-Doh Playroom
      • Real-Doh: Fun with Apologies
      • Real-Doh: Model Citizen
      • Real-Doh: Together, We Can Even This Out
      • 佳佳 Mama Shop
      • Fix-Aided
    • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT >
      • Mapping with Sounds
      • A Picnic In Apart
      • Field Trip to Redhill
      • Kopi & Myths
      • Goodnight Stranger
      • Your Familiar Stranger
    • COLLABORATIONS >
      • Conversations in Singapore History' 18
      • Oceans*A*Part
      • Dumplings & Dialogue
      • And Everything In Between
      • The Little Things Book
    • PERFORMANCES >
      • Is this seat taken?
      • Ghost to Ourselves
      • All The Things I Had To Say To You (Without You)
      • Grieving in New York City
      • Love Clinic
  • PRESS
  • CONTACT