Tiong Ang & Company

(Andreea David, Kexin Hong, Ingrid Sanghee Edwards, Diego Ferrari, Li Xiangdong, Jan Yongdeok Lim, Changli Cui Luo, Andrés Novo, Heekyung Ryu and Xue Wang Sophia)

About the artist

Tiong Ang (born Surabaya, 1961; Netherlands, 1966) is an artist who works with painting, video and installation. His work focuses on the gaze of public and private consciousness, shrouded by the haze of ambivalent political and ethical values. Recently, he has developed community-based research projects consisting of performances, experimental films, and public interventions that explore hidden memories and cultural amnesia.

Work being shown at ATM

Name: ERASE (Rrrrhythms) (2025)

Location: The Holden Gallery

Media: 15 independent channels with unsynchonised video of original footage, performance on 4 Nov by the collective, newsroom.

Description: ERASE (rrrhythms) is a video installation and collective performance in three parts: solidarity, idiorrhythm, and dissolution. The solidarity stage features an anticipatory presence in the entire building of the School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University as part of the official inauguration of ATM6. This procession involves walking collectively from gallery to gallery, using corridors and stairs as our stage. The final stage is the arrival at the installation component of the work, which ‘initiates’ the work and its exhibition. This is conceived as an ever-changing, multi-screen newsroom at the Holden Gallery: a fifteen-channel display showing images in simultaneous and serendipitous juxtaposition. Through images of earlier performances by Tiong Ang & Company in ‘unprescribed’ conditions, the display represents multiple perspectives from the Netherlands, Romania, and Indonesia, as well as new voices from ‘alternative’ China.