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Art / Performance / 5 – 21 Dance / Exhibitions / October Film / Discussion / 2018 ATM Sixteen Days Fifteen Venues

HOME Gallery MMU Special Portico Library Tony Wilson Place 35 Greaves St Collections 57 Mosley St Oldham All Saints Library Manchester M15 4FN OL1 1TJ Manchester M2 3HY M15 6BH Manchester Craft 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 The Mosley St Museum Contemporary Victoria St Manchester Oxford Rd Manchester Manchester M2 3JL Manchester Central M3 1SX M13 9PL M2 3GX The Holden Gallery Manchester Alexandria Library 2 Hewitt St School of Art 247 Wilmslow Rd Manchester Manchester Manchester M15 4GB Metropolitan M14 5LW University, 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 , 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. , 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). 6 /10, 2 – 6pm

Performance

Popular music can act as a first step to exploring and developing a sense of collective identity.

The Time Machine uses these audio triggers via a juke box to capture and share collective memories.

ATM18 Events BIND

Performance

The Portico Library was established in 1806 and remains in its original purpose-built venue in the heart of . Its collection was compiled throughout the colonial period and reflects the complex relationships that developed between Asia and Britain throughout the 19th Century. Dancer, artist and curator Risa Takita Our mother has developed a new interactive performance through research and the women into the collection at the Library. Specially commissioned for ATM18, who fed us rice Risa’s new work raises questions about the meaning of identity, history and culture and draws Performance inspiration and insight from the Using film and performance, this library’s connections with the wider piece is about the respect the artists world over the last three centuries. feel towards the Thai women who Risa Takita at The Portico Library, 6/10, 1.30 – 3pm (ticketed) at The Portico Library, Takita Risa Image below: Risa Takita, by the artist brought them up with traditional Thai teachings and morals against a backdrop of Western culture.

Image above: by Joey Barlow Fa & Fon at HOME, 6/10 7pm & Fon Fa On Being

Saima Rashid at Alexandria Library, 6/10, 6 – 8pm

LAUNCH EVENT

Join the artist for the launch of her solo exhibition, recalling the Indo-Persian tradition of miniature painting (see exhibitions section).

ATM18 Events Tetsuo: Mirror project: The Iron Man Smoothing

Film (ATM18 Japanese film season) towards Utopia

Tsukamoto Shinya’s micro-budget Performance Tetsuo is one of the most influential Japanese films of all time. This Chinese artist Han Bing will guide screening will be introduced by a public procession though the city, Sharon Kinsella, author of Money, with participants wearing the flags

HOME, 9/10 6.30pm Schoolgirls, and Rebellion in of different nations, singing, reciting contemporary Japan and Adult and chanting words that they Manga: Culture and Power. identify with personally, but with their faces covered by mirror masks, so their identity is hidden. This procession asks us to consider who Collection has the right to claim membership of a given community and to what Tour & Introduction to the extent cultural difference must be Collection erased in order to belong. What is lost when our differences are Join artist Saima Rasheed to “smoothed” away, and can the explore the Portico Library’s result ever really be utopian? collection which was compiled during the colonial period and Join the procession by emailing us reflects the complex relationships as [email protected] that developed between Asia and All welcome! This work is supported Britain throughout the 19th century. by the Confucius Institute at The University of Manchester Han Bing; procession starting at Manchester Cathedral, 10/10, 3pm starting at Manchester Cathedral, procession Han Bing;

The Portico Library, 10/10, 1pm The Portico Library, Register online at www.asiatriennialmanchester.com Image below: Mirror project sketch by the artist

ATM18 Events Adventures in Super 8

Film (ATM18 Japanese film season)

A double bill of experimental works, including a challenging piece from maverick director Ishii Sogo, The Isolation of 1/880000, and early award-winning work from Tetsuo Creative director Tsukamoto Shinya, The HOME, 11/10, 8.40pm Adventure of Denchu-Kozo. Resistance: A zine-making Jai Chuhan workshop Gallery Oldham, 13/10, 2 - 4pm led by daikon* Artist Talk and Performance Workshop Jai Chuhan will be in conversation with art historian Dr Rina Arya, This workshop will explore Gallery Oldham curator Rebecca Hill how our creativity can be a tool and Alnoor Mitha, director of ATM18. for empowerment, education, and resistance, and how diasporic and marginalised people use creativity to navigate and reshape Performance societal norms. Materials provided, but feel free to also bring along and participatory photographs, drawings, poems etc. relating to your experiences HOME, Sunday 14 Oct, 12 – 4pm drawing of racialisation or living in the diaspora.

Jai Chuhan at HOME, 15/10, 5 – 7pm daikon* is a zine for sharing the intersectional experiences of Performance and Southeast and East Asian women, participatory drawing non-binary and trans people in Join the artist in capturing a dance the diaspora, working towards a performance by Bisakha Sarker, wider platform of solidarity. part of Remodel: Painting Studio. Image above: Daikon Zine Workshop

ATM18 Events Who do you Cold Fish think you are? HOME, 16/10, 8pm

Symposium Film (ATM18 Japanese film season)

What does it mean to be Asian Dir Sion Sono/JP 2010/146 mins/ today? How can we begin to define Japanese w/Eng subtitles. negotiate, negate or remodel the Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Denden, boundaries of this vast continent Asuka Kurosawa. in relation to identities and issues of gender, race, community, Influenced by real murders, ability, borders, conflicts or their Cold Fish is the bloody tale of a intersections? Why are Asian tropical fish shop owner whose narratives often excluded from simple life becomes entangled discussions on race? To what extent

The Whitworth, 16/10, 10 – 5pm The Whitworth, with a murderous rival. is migratory experience central to Asian identity? What are the myths surrounding Asian migration and how do they perpetuate pervasive Performance stereotypes? How far have we moved on from colonial terms such and participatory as, ‘near’, ‘middle’ and ‘far’ when we frame Asian identities in relation drawing with to Western geography? How are Southeast and East Asian women Jai Chuhan and non-binary people represented in conversations about race and feminism? HOME, 17/10, 5 – 7pm

Image below: Venuri Perera, image courtesy Performance and of the artist participatory drawing

Join the artist in capturing a live dance performance by Kali Chandrasegaram, part of Remodel: Painting Studio.

ATM18 Events OTO | ma | Dō / Life drawing the way of sound with Jai Chuhan and space HOME, 19/10, 5 – 7pm

Naomi Kashiwagi at Manchester Join the artist in capturing a life Cathedral, 19/10, 2 – 4pm model, part of Remodel: Painting Studio. Performance

An immersive ceremony of sound and space as an exploration and Desi GuitR: expression of the artist’s biracial heritage, an intrinsic fusion of two Reawakening cultures, British and Japanese. the lost sounds Hidden Stories of India zine-making Aziz Ibrahim at Bury Art Museum, 19/10, 7.30 – 9.30pm

Workshop (Part of the Hidden Performace Histories programme) Aziz Ibrahim has played with many Join us for an afternoon of making world-class artists, including the with Tender Hands Press creator Stone Roses. See him showcase Saffa Khan. This zine-making his experimental Desi GuitR digital workshop will explore the hidden project exploring the influence stories beneath female and non- of South Asian instruments and binary Asian voices, exploring ideas sounds on western popular music. of identity, belonging, displacement and acceptance through words and illustration. Anjum Malik will be poet in residence, sharing stories and portraits of the women she has been working with on ATM18’s Hidden Histories project. This workshop is a creative space for Friday 19 October, Partisan Collective, 2 – 6pm Partisan Collective, Friday 19 October, those of Asian descent that identify as female.

Image to the right: Lost in Transition by Saffa Khan ATM18 Events NA CL O

Romina de Novellis at Manchester Cathedral, 21/10, 1 – 4pm

Performance

The idea of Europe is under threat. With NA CL O, Romina De Novellis uses a torn European flag to literally wash the floor, metaphorically washing away the problems of the present and the past.

Image above: Courtesy of the artist Introduction to Indo-Persian Jai Chuhan

Miniature Painting HOME, Manchester, 21/10, 5 – 7pm

Performance + Talk Alexandria Library, 20/10, 12 – 5pm Jai Chuhan in conversation with Workshop Rina Arya and Adam Carr followed by Create your own miniature painting dancing by Bisakha Sarker and Kali with Saima Rasheed, using the Chandrasegaram, part of Remodel: traditional techniques (gouache and Painting Studio. gold leaf) employed by the artist. Image below: Kali Chandrasegaram taken by Simon Richardson Life drawing with Jai Chuhan

HOME, 20/10, 5 – 7pm

Join the artist in capturing a life model, part of Remodel: Painting Studio.

ATM18 Events ATM18 simply would not be possible without the extraordinary collective effort of all our partners across the city and indeed the world – our funders and venues, all the artists, curators, researchers, academics, volunteers and, of course, our audience.

Our thanks go out to all of you.

See you next time!

Festival Team

Artistic Director: Alnoor Mitha, MMU Production Director: Katie Popperwell Senior Communications Officer: Susan Ferguson Producers: Tom Emery, Anjum Malik, Jessica Spencer, Nuria Lopez Chair: Professor Sarah Perks, MMU Design: Instruct Studio

ATM18 Festival Team ATM18 is supported by Arts Council England, Manchester Metropolitan University, HOME, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, The Confucius Institute, the Korean Arts Council and the University of Creative Arts.