Conflict & Compassion - Asia Triennial Manchester (ATM14)
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 222657
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
- Manchester, United Kingdom
- Brief description of type
- Curatorial project
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- September
- Year
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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B - Art & Performance
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘Conflict and Compassion’ was the third edition of the Asia Triennial Manchester (ATM14), a festival of visual culture outside the Asia Pacific region. The ATM14 included 54 artists from 12 countries across 14 venues and collaborated with sites and partners focusing on three main clusters in Imperial War Museum North (IWMN) at The Quays, Manchester city centre, Bury and Rochdale. As principal investigator and curator, Mitha commissioned novel works by eleven world-renowned artists. This research was underpinned by curatorial fieldwork with a flexible approach, drawing on multiple methodologies and discourses, investigating how artists responded to the provocation of ‘compassion’ in an era of global conflict. The curatorial premise responded to Manchester’s diverse communities who have lived there since the late nineteenth century. Manchester is the most polyglot of British cities with over 150 community languages spoken. Over the past three decades artists, curators and scholars have re-addressed the balance of cultural hegemony with significant curatorial narratives around race, identity and migration. Mitha’s curatorial vision was to continue with this thread of knowledge, bringing critical artistic engagement to the IWMN. This was a new pioneering curatorial framework: the first time contemporary Asian artists had been presented at the IWMN. Furthermore, the museum commemorated the WWI Centenary making the research timing poignant. Mitha selected artists from an interdisciplinary artistic field including installation, video, mixed media, miniature paintings, and photographic montage. He interviewed artists to ensure that each commissioned work was presented in a sympathetic space exploiting both the complexity of exterior as well as the interior space of IWMN. A symposium was held to elucidate further debates. Moreover, a specialist scholarly publication was produced and co-edited, with insights from key artists and academic scholars. The entire project brought a new artistic praxis of knowledge with noteworthy theories on conflict and compassion.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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