Alecia Neo: ramah-tamah

Alecia NEO develops long-term projects that involve collaborative partnerships with individuals, communities and networks. Her socially engaged practice unfolds primarily through photography, video, and participatory workshops that address modes of radical hospitality, reciprocity, caregiving, and wellbeing to explore issues of identity and the search for self. Her recent projects include Care Index, an experimental platform that collects and features diverse practices of care performed by people from all walks of life. Care Index was initiated in December 2020 as part of the larger artistic research project on care practices, building on a previous collaborative project Between Earth and Sky, which was developed with a group of caregivers in Singapore. She is the co-founder of Brack, a platform for socially engaged art, and Ubah Rumah Residency in Bintan. Alecia was the recipient of the Young Artist Award in 2016.