ATM Symposium: Transvaluation

The Symposium which accompanies the sixth edition of Asia Triennial Manchester (ATM6) extends questions around ‘transvaluation’, the overarching curatorial framework established by the curatorial assembly. To transvalue means to transgress the logic of value and the systemic structures it legitimises. The triennial brings together a diverse body of works by more than 30 international practitioners, which commune in their creation of new ways to think about value, extending beyond economic value, efficiency and utility to establish new conceptions of social, sexual, ecological, indigenous and decolonial relations. The triennial also seeks to question and complicate the symbolic, cultural, political and poetic values associated with Asia today.

Manchester is an apt site for this edition’s critical inquiry. As one of the historical cradles of capitalism, industrial modernity and communism — the city in which Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously came together to theorise revolution — it holds symbolic weight in any reconsideration of value. Engels’ ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’ (1845) remains a powerful document testifying to industrial violence, urban transformation and social precarity. Informed by the climate catastrophe, the triennial further investigates how the conditions of the Anthropocene complicate the ways in which value is attributed and shared across human, animal, and non-human systems.

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME

The Symposium Programme will include a performance lecture by exhibiting artist Stephanie Misa, a roundtable with the ATM6 Curatorial Assembly members, a discussion with exhibiting artist Chia-Wei Hsu, and contirbutions from UK based experts on Asian art and culture. The Symposium Programme will end at 3pm for a curatorial tour of the exhibition. Please refer back to this page for updates.

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