Talk #157
Asia Triennial Manchester
Tuesday 18 November 2025, 5.30pm
Poetry Library
Grosvenor East Building
Cavendish Street
Manchester
M15 6BG
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A video recording of this talk will be available from 18 December.
Since 2008, the Asia Triennial Manchester (ATM) has brought together international artists, audiences and institutions to celebrate Asia through different themes, and explore the complexity of the British Asian diaspora. The starting point of the sixth edition of the Asia Triennial Manchester (ATM6) is an urgent question: How can we reclaim value by withdrawing it from the reductive, quantifying interpretation of the omnipresent neoliberal paradigm, and develop a mode of speculation grounded in other forms of practical experimentation—experiments that, in turn, create space for qualifying new ways of thinking about value and measurement?
Through an experimental curatorial format, ATM6 has gathered ‘conveners’ to horizontally contribute ideas towards the framework of ‘transvaluation’. ATM6 has been led by Taiwanese based Hongjohn Lin alongside the conveners Sarah James, Henk Slager, Kaelen Lee, Miya Yoshida and Imamura Yasuka supported by Curatorial Research Fellow Vera Mey and Research Associate Clare Chun-yu Liu.
Hongjohn Lin who will lead this Bunker Talk is an artist, writer and curator who graduated from New York University in the Arts and Humanities with a PhD. He has participated in exhibitions including Taipei Biennial (2004), the Manchester Asia Triennial 2008, the Rotterdam Film Festival 2008, and the 2012 Taipei Biennial, Guangzhou Triennial (2015), and China Asia Biennial (2014). Lin was curator of the Taiwan Pavilion Atopia in the Venice Biennial 2007 and co-curator of 2010 Taipei Biennial (with Tirdad Zolghadr). His numerous curatorial projects include Taizhong’s The Good Place (2002) and Live Ammo (2012). He currently serves as Professor at the Taipei National University of the Arts. His writings can be found in Artco magazine, Yishu magazine, international journals, and publications of Art as a Thinking Process (2010), Artistic Research (2012), Experimental Aesthetic (2014), Altering Archive: The Politics of Memory in Sinophone Cinemas and Image Culture (2017). He wrote the Introductions for Chinese edition of Art Power by Boris Groys and Artificial Hells by Claire Bishop. His books in Chinese include Poetics of Curating (2018), Beyond the Boundary: Interdisciplinary Arts in Taiwan, Writings on Locality, Curating Subjects: Practices of Contemporary Exhibitions.
Find out more about Asia Triennial Manchester on the ATM website.
