ASIA TRIENNIAL MANCHESTER
This project invites leading artists from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, to develop new work critically in response to this era of unprecedented social, ideological and cultural transformations in ‘harmony’, through their individual memories, personal reflections and imaginations. The exhibitions were staged from 26 September to 23 November 2014, at multiple venues across Manchester, including the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA), the ArtWork, the John Rylands Library, Manchester Cathedral, the National Football Museum and the Museum of Science and Industry.
BEYOND THE ART SPACE
This project aimed to develop artistic and curatorial practice beyond conventional art museum and gallery spaces.
The majority of the work was commissioned from China, and produced for and installed transculturally at site-specific western working venues with their existing historical, cultural and religious connotations. These venues include a library (Wang Yuyang, Young), a football museum (Yang, Liu Jianhua), a cathedral (Zheng) and outdoor spaces, such as the world’s oldest inter-city railway station (Luxury Logico), with their existing historical, cultural and religious connotations. This project questioned and re-defined the conventional ‘display of art’, and interrogated the distance between art and life. It brought to the audience not only the latest development of Chinese contemporary art, but also an understanding of recent socio-political changes in China within a global context.
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