The starting point of the sixth edition of the Asia Triennial Manchester (ATM6) is an urgent question: How can we reclaim value by withdrawing it from the reductive, quantifying interpretation of the omnipresent neoliberal paradigm, and develop a mode of speculation grounded in other forms of practical experimentation—experiments that, in turn, create space for qualifying new ways of thinking about value and measurement?
To take back value is to revalue value—beyond normativity and standardized measurement. The first task of transvaluation is to uncouple value from quantification in ways that affirm an ecology of qualitatively different capacities. This framing of transvaluation draws from both post-Marxist critique and ecological thinking, recognizing that value has long been constructed by dominant power structures and often defined in anthropocentric terms. The current condition of the Anthropocene further complicates how value is attributed and distributed across human and non-human divisions. This demands a head-on engagement with what we know as economy—the management of the household. Value, and credit alike, is, too valuable to be left to those who own power.
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