EVENTO: Festival de artes visuales
TEMA: Conflict and Compassion
CURADOR: Alnoor Mitha, MIRIAD Research Fellow and Artistic Director of ATM

Asia Triennial Manchester 2014 (ATM14), the only Asian Art Triennial outside the Asia Pacific region, returns to Manchester for a third time on 27 September to 23 November 2014, with a vibrant and stimulating showcase of the foremost contemporary visual art from across the globe.

A major initiative of MIRIAD, Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University, Asia Triennial Manchester 2014 is a festival of visual culture that will feature a series of powerful exhibitions, commissions, and creative interventions by artists who live in, work in or address issues surrounding Asia.

Sited at IWM North (part of Imperial War Museums), Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art (CFCCA), Castlefield Gallery, Manchester Craft and Design Centre (MCDC), Touchstones Rochdale, Cornerhouse, Bury Art Museum, UHC (Ultimate Holding Company), The John Rylands Library, Manchester Cathedral, Museum of Science & Industry, National Football Museum and locations across Manchester Metropolitan University’s campus, the Triennial will present new site-specific work alongside existing pieces not seen before in the UK.

Taking as its theme Conflict and Compassion, ATM14 will investigate whether the role of the 21st century artist or curator may be, in part, to provide a voice for the unheard, a message to the dominant, or even to demonstrate some kind of sympathetic vision of values through the visual.

Curated by Alnoor Mitha, MIRIAD Research Fellow and Artistic Director of ATM, the exhibition at IWM North will present new as well as existing work that explores the theme and interacts internally and externally with the museum’s unique collections and its distinctive Daniel Libeskind designed building