ATM 6 Convenors
Reframed as convenors, ATM’s curators foster a model rooted in shared thinking, experimentation, and international dialogue.
Curatorial Assembly
Hongjohn Lin
Hongjohn Lin is an Taiwan-based artist, writer and curator. Lin has a PhD in Arts and Humanities from the New York University. He has participated in exhibitions including Taipei Biennial (2004, 2012), Manchester Asian Triennial (2008), Rotterdam Film Festival (2008), China Asia Biennial (2014), and Guangzhou Triennial (2015). Lin was curator of the Taiwan Pavilion Atopia, Venice Biennale (2007), co-curator of Taipei Biennial (with Tirdad Zolghadr, 2010). He curated public art project in Wanhua District, To the Ordinary
People and the exhibition Immemory in Keelung Museum. Lin is a Professor at the Taipei National University of the Arts. His writings can be found in international magazines, journals, and publications. He wrote the Introductions for Chinese edition of Art Power (Boris Groys) and Artificial Hells (Claire Bishop), and his publications in Chinese most notably Poetics of Curating (2018). He is the editor-in-chief of the online journal
Curatography; and appointed as Visiting Professor of Curatorial Research at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Henk Slager
Henk Slager has played a significant role in the development of the emerging field of Artistic Research over the past twenty years. He achieves this through various professorships (Uniarts Helsinki, Nottingham Trent University, HKU Utrecht), exhibition projects (Shanghai Biennale, Guangzhou Triennial, Kuandu Biennial, Tbilisi Triennial, Research Pavilion Venice Biennale, Bucharest Biennale), networks (co-initiated European
Artistic Research Network (EARN), and publications (MaHKUscript, Journal of Fine Art Research; the leading monograph The Pleasure of Research (2015). Slager is an Artistic Research Advisor for the European Research Council (ERC) in Brussels and is currently involved in the Asia Triennial Manchester as an Honorary Professor of Curatorial Research at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Miya Yoshida
Miya Yoshida is a curator, writer and cultural practitioner. She is a Professor and Head of Artistic Research PhD Program in Art at University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria. Based on her artistic research, she develops ‘theory and practice’ in diverse forms and formats.
She received her PhD in Philosophy in Arts, at Malmö Art Academy, Lund University, Sweden. Her recent curatorial projects include: Listening to the Stones (Kunsthaus Dresden, 2021-22), annual exhibition project, Sharing as Caring No. 1–7 (Heidelberger Kunstverein, 2012–2018, after the butcher, Berlin 2022), Each Line Is A Crime (Archive Kabinett, Berlin, 2018) and Labour of Love, Revisited: Amateurism in the Age of Digital Net (Arko Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea, 2011). Yoshida’s writings and publications are exemplified in Reformulating the architectures in exhibitions (Exhibition Amnesia, Curatography Issue.10, 2023), Listening to the Stones (Kunsthaus Dresden, 2023), Towards (Im)Measurability of Art and Life (Archive Books, Berlin 2018), and others. She is currently appointed as Visiting Professor of Artistic Research at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Kalen Lee
Kalen Wing Ki Lee is an independent curator, artist and researcher based in London and Hong Kong. His recent artistic and research interests include protest culture and disobedient imageries, queer politics and curatorial practice, and personal work troubled by emotional migration. He founded LOVE in 2021 to support public appearance of queer
and queer-friendly artists and/to our communities. Lee was formerly the Associate Dean, School of Creative Arts, and Acting Director, Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University; and was engaged in the management board of the Shared Campus project to
promote transcultural and international pedagogy, research and production established by world leading art academies in the UK, Europe, Asia, and Australia. With Jennifer Dorothy Lee, they are co-editing Long March to Care, an in depth companion volume in arts and activism in contemporary Sinophone.
Yusaku Imamura
Yusaku Imamura is an architect, curator, producer, and educator, serving as Vice President and Professor of Global Art Practice at Tokyo University of the Arts. He was founding director of Tokyo Wonder Site and Special Counsellor for Cultural Policy to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, where he helped establish Arts Council Tokyo and launch initiatives including Festival/Tokyo and Roppongi Art Night. Imamura has advised institutions worldwide, including Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Tensta Konsthall (Sweden), and PMQ (Hong Kong). He also directs the Center for Curatorial Studies at Tokyo University of the Arts, overseeing international collaborations such as the Inter-University Exchange Project.
Sarah James
Sarah E. James is Professor of Visual Culture at Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. An art historian, critic and occasional curator, her research focuses on contemporary art, photography, and the visual cultures of the Cold War. She has authored two monographs including ‘Common Ground: German Photographic Cultures Across the Iron Curtain’ (Yale, 2013) and ‘Paper Revolutions: An Invisible Avant-Garde’ (MIT, 2022). James curated ‘The Turner Prize 2022’, at Tate Liverpool, and co-curated ‘Anti-Social Art: Experimental Practices in Late East Germany’ (2022). She has published over 90 reviews and essays in the international art press, and has collaborated on international research projects with institutions including MoMA, Reina Sofia, and HKW Berlin. Her new book project explores ‘Art in an Age of Disaster’.
Anna Bergqvist
Anna Bergqvist is Reader in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University and Director of the Values-Based Theory Network at St Catherine’s Collaborating Centre for Values-Based Practice, University of Oxford. Her principal research interests are metaethics and aesthetics, creative health and the philosophy of psychiatry and medicine. She is editor of Philosophy and Museums (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Evaluative Perception (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Lived Experience in Philosophy and Mental Health (Cambridge University Press, 2023). She has also published extensively on objectivity and value across a range of disciplines. She is currently preparing a monograph on narrative particularism and the nature of the self, alongside two academic handbooks, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Public Mental Health (Oxford University Press) and A Handbook of Phenomenology, Values-based Practice and Shared Decision-Making in Personalised Mental Health Care with Springer Nature.
Exhibition Team
Clare Chun-yu Liu
Dr Clare Chun-yu Liu is a UK-based Taiwanese artist filmmaker and researcher. Clare is interested in reviewing history in relation to diasporic experience and postcolonial thinking. In her practice, she explores oral history and lived experience in the form of fiction and nonfiction to challenge the grand narratives. Clare holds a practice-based fine art PhD from Manchester School of Art. Funded by the Vice-Chancellor Scholarship, her doctoral research reinterprets English chinoiserie from a postcolonial and personal/Taiwanese perspective through fiction filmmaking.
Vera Mey
Dr Vera Mey is an art historian and independent curator. She was awarded her PhD from SOAS, University of London. Most recently, she was Co-Artistic Director of the Busan Biennale 2024. Mey co-founded the scholarly journal ‘Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia’(National University of Singapore Press) and was part of the research colloquium ‘The Color Curtain and the Promise of Bandung’ organised by the Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule, Frankfurt, and the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California. She was on the founding curatorial team of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, where she led the Residencies Programme. More recently, as an independent curator, she has co-curated and curated exhibitions in Bangkok, Berlin, New Zealand, Paris, Phnom Penh, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo.
Angie Chia-Lin Lee
Angie Chia-Lin Lee is an independent curator based in Taipei. She graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University and the Institute of Contemporary Art & Social Thoughts at the China Academy of Art. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Fine Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts. Her research focuses on the culture, media, and art developed and created in the digital era. Lee is the founder of ZIMU CULTURE, a studio dedicated to producing contemporary art exhibitions and publishing books.