︎︎︎Asia Triennial Manchester 2025
Research Jam
27/10–31/10/2025
Research Jam
27/10–31/10/2025
HOME, Manchester
2 Tony Wilson Place Manchester
M15 4FN United Kingdom
With contributions by:
Jack BartleyTyuki Imamura
Victoria King
Alana Lake
Angie Chia-Lin Lee
Nicola Lewis-Dixon
Marie Reichel
Aymei Wang
Shuwen Wang
Bing-Chi Wu
Conny Zenk
Aligning with the Asia Triennial Manchester 2025 (ATM25), the Research Jam highlights the breadth and depth of practice-based research. It brings together visual, performance and sound art using participatory place and space-based interactive encounters to develop and share knowledge with an emphasis on making, experimentation, exchange, and collective inquiry.
Over the course of a year, the Research Jam has encouraged discursive doctoral research in the Arts and Humanities to build a sustained transnational collaboration. The outcomes reflect its open format and the intersections of cross-disciplinary work, with content organised into shifting categories that allow connections and overlaps to surface. Themes addressed in this year-long “jam” include animated matter; decolonial practice; acoustic territories; rupture; health and wellbeing; cross-cultural exchange; and digital transformation.
︎︎︎Talk and Workshop:
Surfaces—Forums for Discourse
28/10/25
Within Asia Triennal Manchester 2025 Research Jam at
HOME, Manchester
2 Tony Wilson Place Manchester
M15 4FN United Kingdom
This session combines completed project documentation with experimental methodology, offering insights for researchers interested in collaborative practices, interdisciplinary translation, and alternative approaches to knowledge production.Part 1 – Talk: Project Presentation ft. z.B.: Pilot
ft. z.B.: Pilot is the first phase of Marie's research projects that uses an artistic methodology to address creative blockages through collaborative media translation chains. The project creates networks between artists by circulating "unfinished works" through translation processes, where participants transform received materials into different media formats. Through documented studio visits and outcomes, the presentation examines how this approach produces collective knowledge and challenges conventional art-making practices. The documentation reveals how translation processes actively transform ideas through material engagement rather than simply transferring them.
Part 2 – Workshop: Manchester Surface Investigation
Participants engage in hands-on exploration of surfaces as "forums for discourse" through frottage techniques. The investigation focuses on Manchester's urban surfaces—inscriptions, institutional markers, wear patterns—using prepared cotton pieces and oil pastels. This practical session tests how surfaces function as sites where meaning emerges through media translation processes. The collective surface archive created will be put together to one piece and serves as a basis for discussion about collaboration, knowledge production, and the nature of surfaces that invite investigation.
- Materials are provided
- Please dress appropriately for weather conditions