Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester Metropolitan Arts&Humanities, of Art,Faculty of ManchesterSchool by Produced Art / Performance / 5 – 21 Dance / Exhibitions / October Film / Discussion / 2018 ATM Sixteen Days Fifteen Venues HOME Gallery Oldham MMU Special Portico Library Tony Wilson Place 35 Greaves St Collections 57 Mosley St Manchester Oldham All Saints Library Manchester M15 4FN OL1 1TJ Manchester M2 3HY M15 6BH Manchester Craft Bury Art Museum Partisan Collective and Design Centre & Sculpture Centre The Whitworth 19 Cheetham 17 Oak St Moss St, Bury Oxford Rd Hill Rd Manchester BL9 0DR Manchester Manchester M4 5JD M15 6ER M4 4FY Manchester Manchester Art Gallery Manchester The Manchester Cathedral Mosley St Museum Contemporary Victoria St Manchester Oxford Rd Manchester Manchester M2 3JL Manchester Central M3 1SX M13 9PL M2 3GX The Holden Gallery Castlefield Gallery Manchester Alexandria Library 2 Hewitt St School of Art 247 Wilmslow Rd Manchester Manchester Manchester M15 4GB Metropolitan M14 5LW University, Gallery Oldham Grosvenor Building 35 Greaves St Cavendish St Oldham Manchester OL1 1TJ M15 6BR Asia Triennial Manchester is supported by @triennialmcr #ATM18 Arts Council England and project partners: www.asiatriennialmanchester.com Welcome to the fourth and the disputed concept of Asia itself, intersect with the present cultural edition of Asia Triennial preoccupation with identity, organised Manchester, Europe’s only around dialectics of gender and Triennial dedicated to sexuality; community and migration; technology and humanity. contemporary visual art on the theme of Asia. With a focus on commissioning young and mid-career artists to explore Asia Triennial Manchester was founded socially engaged, participatory artistic in 2004 as a festival that celebrates practice, ATM18’s diverse programme Manchester’s diverse communities of exhibitions, performance, talks, and explores cultural, artistic and screenings, workshops and discussions political debates of the 21st Century. ranges from a radical feminist response Our festival community has grown to European exotic fantasies of South over the years to include partners all East Asia, to a spectacular public over Greater Manchester, and it is with procession that invites us to explore great pride and pleasure that we present how communities evolve through the programme for ATM18, extending shared rituals, and includes a one-day special thanks to our partner venues symposium at The Whitworth, for those and supporters, to whom we are who want to explore the themes of the greatly indebted. festival in more depth. The central concern of ATM18 is We look forward to seeing you at ATM18! one of identity. Our provocation for Alnoor Mitha FRSA this edition, Who do you think you are? is a reframing of the ambiguous Senior Research Fellow, MMU and impossible demand so often Artistic Director, Asia Triennial encountered by people of colour in Manchester a post-industrial, multi-cultural city in the UK, where are you from? The question invites artists to interrogate how narratives around Asian identities, The Faery Trails Inspired by the fantasy artwork of Arthur Rackham, the early films of the Lumière Brothers and responding to the absence of non-white bodies in the history of art, Lucas Chih-Peng Kao’s Faery Trails create a magical site-specific experience reinterpreting traditional Western folklore and bringing the faeries to life. Bury Sculpture Centre will become both gallery and studio as Lucas creates a new series of films with local performers, showcased alongside his previous works exploring movement, identity and desire. Costume design by IF YOU ARE scenographer Mona Kastell. NOT A BIRD Lucas Chih-Peng Kao is a Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, 6/10 – 23/2/19 Centre, Bury Art Museum & Sculpture multidisciplinary artist and award Who do you think you are? is a winning short filmmaker born in fundamental question that enables Taiwan who lives and works in a multiplicity of voices and marks a the U.K. discourse in perception. This group Image below: Lucas Chih-Peng Kao show, featuring work by Korean artists Jimok CHOI, IM Heung-soon and Hyungkoo LEE, and curated by Jung Me CHAI, investigates and brings into question the subjective concepts of the unfixed and a Holden Gallery, 8/10 – 19/10 – 8/10 Gallery, Holden multiplicity (cultural, social & political) of self. To speculate and question about being a bird may appear paradoxical and absurd. But this attempt enables us to explore boundaries and give rise to transformation in different states of selves. What would you do if you were a bird? Image above: Still from Ryohaeng by IM Heung-soon ATM18 Exhibitions Hidden Heroes SUBI A collaborative residency between Sam Buckley, Insook Choi, visual artist Amina Ansari and Joe Hartley, Eunji Briller Kim, poet and scriptwriter Anjum Malik Eunmi Kim, John Powell-Jones, celebrating the ‘hidden heroes’ Hyun Min Shin, Gae-Hwa Lim, amongst the new arrivals in Gyung-Kyun Shin. Manchester; mothers, daughters, wives, women who have travelled This group exhibition features and have stories to tell. Amina traditional ceramics alongside works paints portraits of selected groups which explore the materiality of clay, of women while Anjum creates work including ceramic costumes, film, flowing from conversations in a and sound. Visitors to the gallery are variety of languages, focusing on 14/9 – 4/11 Castlefield Gallery, invited to make and add their own socially engaged performance and clay objects to the exhibition. Manchester Museum, 12/10 – 21/10 participatory art forms, engaging in the full diversity of Manchester through creative writing. The project SUBI will be produced during the first week of the festival, and exhibited in the second week as a multimedia Manchester Art Gallery, installation. 14/9 - 1/11 Image below: Benazir Bhutto by Amina Ansari, 2018 Highlights from the Korean ceramics collection including a rare 500 year- old iron painted dragon jar. A Journey Home Manchester Craft & Design Centre (In partnership with Castlefield Gallery and Manchester Art Gallery), 13/9 – 17/11 In her first UK solo show, Eunmi Kim explores what it means to be Korean, what traditional Korean art is, and why people admire its broad outlines, randomised spontaneity, asymmetry and intuitive finishing. ATM18 Exhibitions Record of the earth and sun / Anicca Kosuke Iizawa’s large scale pencil drawings show the faces of elderly agricultural workers from Japan. The artist uses this monumental scale to examine the On Being people and their lived experience in intricate detail. They are exhibited here alongside Yuka Otani’s Alexandria Library, 6/10 – 21/10 Buddhas, cast from hard candy which melts and crystallises, Saima Rasheed’s practice has its quietly and gradually transforming roots in the Indo-Persian tradition throughout the exhibition. of miniature painting. Her deeply personal work draws on her own Manchester Cathedral, 6/10 – 21/10 Manchester Cathedral, remembered experiences of the constrictive conditions placed Refuge on girls. Image above: Walk to School by Saima Rashid Gallery Oldham, 15/9 - 24/11 The paintings of Indian born Hidden Stories: British artist Jai Chuhan feature an isolated figure in a room-like Suitcases space, as an arena for exploring existential themes of refuge, love, conflict, birth and death. Imagine you had to leave? What would you take in your suitcase? Image below: Jai Chuhan, Refugee Girls, 2016 Through the eyes and words of primary school students working with poet and scriptwriter Anjum Malik and artist Emma Martin, we explore stories of leaving, arriving, prized possessions, new starts, the past and the future on maps, tracks, roads, flight paths across oceans and through streets. The Atrium, MMU, 10/10, 1 – 3pm The Atrium, ATM18 Exhibitions ATM18 at OPENING WEEKEND The Manchester Where are you Contemporary really from? Manchester Central, 12/10 – 14/10 Artist panel at HOME, 5/10, 5pm TALK The ATM18 stand at Manchester’s critically engaged art fair features Thai-born artists Fa and Fon Watkins, work by past, present and future Manchester-based illustrator Stanley Triennial artists including Saima Chow and writer and performer Anjum Rasheed, Halima Cassell, Alnoor Malik discuss their practice with Mitha, Naomi Kashiwagi, Jasmir Skinder Hundal, Director of New Art Creed, Kundan Mondal and Exchange, Nottingham. Priyantha Udagedara. Register online at homemcr.org Remodel: KOMA Painting Studio Masumi Saito at HOME, HOME, Manchester, 15/10 – 21/10 5/10, 6.30pm In parallel with her show at Gallery Performance Oldham, Jai Chuhan will create an Through a participatory performance immersive studio space suffused in where the audience is triggered to colour and sound in HOME’s gallery, reflect on notions of physicality and where over the week she will create identity, Japanese artist Masumi an evolving painting series. Saito presents subversive elements that allow her to alter the role Audiences are invited to drop in of audience. to paint, draw and engage with the artist, and attend a series of Image below: ‘In Praise of Shadow’ 2016. special events through the week Koya Yamashiro (see the ATM calendar). ATM18 Exhibitions ATM18 Events The day after the day before I sinned Qasim Riza Shaheen at HOME, 5/10, 7.15pm The Last Performance Poignantly adorned and costumed, Known Pose five brides wait, for rites of passage. Using live and audio soundtracks, Talk Qasim’s five brides-in-waiting lip sync and gesture through archetypes Book launch and conversation of longing and desire. with the artist Qasim Riza Shaheen, Sarah Perks, Artistic Director (visual art) HOME, Manchester and co-editors of The Last Known Launch of Pose, Mary Ann Hushlak and Monica B Pearl. The Faery Trails 6/10, 4pm St, 70 Oxford Image above: Still from Two letters and a postscript, 2017 by Qasim Riza Shaheen Lucas Chih-Peng Kao at Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, 6/10, 2 - 4 pm The Time Join the artist and creative team for an artist talk and tour to Machine celebrate the launch of this magical site-specific experience (see William Titley at HOME, exhibition section for details).