麥海珊 anson mak 的網誌
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quite something happening in oct/nov.
besides the UK showcase (CUP magazine has an article on the showcases),
and the CD -- "going home (or not)
and the 1a space exhibition, currated by choi yan chi on kai tak river,
here is another event.
[20/20] 放映會 Video Screening
31st oct, at videotage, cattledepot
i really like the idea putting us (those who were born in the 60's and were 20 something in the 80's together with those who were born in the 80's and now in their 20's.
2009 拾月當代 – 宜家唔做等幾時
閉幕節目
日期: 2009年10月31日 (星期六)
時間: 下午7時45分至下午9時正
地點：錄映太奇（九龍土瓜灣馬頭角道63號牛棚藝術村1
藝術家：AMK、麥海珊、鄭智雄、蔡世豪、鮑藹倫、馮偉
策展人：蔡海盈
費用全免
more details here:
http://www.facebook.com/se
join us, it's a party!!!!
and except showing "goodbye", the MV i did for fanhunga, i will also show AMK" rare MV -- "girls who don't go home" by ernest fund back in 1996.
see you soon,
anson
besides the UK showcase (CUP magazine has an article on the showcases),
and the CD -- "going home (or not)
and the 1a space exhibition, currated by choi yan chi on kai tak river,
here is another event.
[20/20] 放映會 Video Screening
31st oct, at videotage, cattledepot
i really like the idea putting us (those who were born in the 60's and were 20 something in the 80's together with those who were born in the 80's and now in their 20's.
2009 拾月當代 – 宜家唔做等幾時
閉幕節目
日期: 2009年10月31日 (星期六)
時間: 下午7時45分至下午9時正
地點：錄映太奇（九龍土瓜灣馬頭角道63號牛棚藝術村1
藝術家：AMK、麥海珊、鄭智雄、蔡世豪、鮑藹倫、馮偉
策展人：蔡海盈
費用全免
more details here:
http://www.facebook.com/se
join us, it's a party!!!!
and except showing "goodbye", the MV i did for fanhunga, i will also show AMK" rare MV -- "girls who don't go home" by ernest fund back in 1996.
see you soon,
anson
Besides "going home (or not)", i also have a new sound installation work at 1a space. Sonic meditation Exercise II:Kai Tak River in GREEN - through the Kai Tak River.
Note details in the link. OPENING party at 10th oct 6pm, at 1 a space at cattle depot.
come and join us.
http://www.facebook.com/no
Note details in the link. OPENING party at 10th oct 6pm, at 1 a space at cattle depot.
come and join us.
http://www.facebook.com/no
Statement:
當我們張開耳朵，和對聲音空間敏感，我們領悟 。那，我們的腦袋開闊了，世界也就不一樣。
作為一個田野錄音的聲音藝術家，我一直希望有更多的推動
我們都習慣去「看」，視覺感知是主要的，而聽覺是次要的
聽覺上，啟德河的沿水道地區，涵蓋了綠化且安靜的中學校
這個作品嘗試去處理（領悟 ）聽覺方法，和聲音空間，尤其是就著香港十分普遍的交通
“When we have our ears open and are sensitive to sonic space, WE REALIZE. Our minds will be broadened, and hence the world will be different.”
As a phonographer, I always hope there is more effort paid to soundscape studies as part of urban design (public domain) and Hong Kong contemporary art. At a personal level, awareness of sonic qualities of space/place is also a culturally audible revisit to ourselves (private domain) as well as to our city, Hong Kong.
We are so used to seeing and visual perception is primary to ways of listening. The unseeable is very often ignored. For example, in the recent environmental assessment report written by “paid professionals” for the new railway system that will cut across our valuable farmland in western New Territories – issues of noise and underground water are not examined closely. Saving our farmlands is as important as restoring the Kai Tak River.
Areas along the Kai Tak River, audibly, range from green and quiet secondary schools’ campus environment to shockingly noisy roadside. Can the sounds of the river, pertinent to its spatial qualities (or can the spatial qualities be CHANGED if it is not good enough), help the community in any way by reducing noise pollution?
This work tries to deal with listening, and works around sonic space specifically regarding traffic noise/street noise, which endemic to Hong Kong. From the meditative set up and the medium specificity of the audio equipments that go together with the contrasting soundscape (traffic noise and running water sound of the river), I hope, more attention is given to our perception of sound as an essence of our way of thinking, as well as our way of living within a space which is to a large extent shaped by administrators, urban designers and architects.
"going home (or not)" 《番（唔番）屋企》 published by re-records, will hit the shelves on 9th oct. 2009
re-records facebook page on the CD
following are the points of distribution in hk:
lona records web store
zoo records
aco
mccm bookshop
kubrick (hk & bj)
also with be available in stores in japan/china, click here for details.
it is part of my research in Kwun Tong town centre since 2007. there are soundscape compositions and also soundwalk in kwun tong. PLUS a song, folk+soundscape that i collabrate with Square Fruit (ex-AMK).
i wrote a poem for this CD, also share with you.
《不是情歌，也不是勵志歌》
月華街公園什麼都有
因為
拍拍褲袋還摸到
低頻的自由
手巾包著
高音的回憶
抹一次汗就著色
木長凳的年輪
想像時間停頓
在
陽光與鳥兒之間
在
微溫與歌唱之間
不應該是笑容嗎？
那麼多樹蔭
前面馬路沒有天使
來了很多無辜靈魂
總是被
仇恨
或瘋狂
或瘋狂的恐懼
或瘋狂的消費
一一征服
大廈牆上的橫額都卡住了
平和的心與憤怒的手同行
本來就是修行
跟他走過這裡
那麼多年前了
走過好幾次吧
其實
來不及記憶便已忘記
對面的華都餐廳
去過好多次吧
只剩下見鬼的生鏽招牌
老街坊說
官塘的招牌要亮燈的
店鋪才真的在
或者說還在
2009年
其實
來不及記憶便已忘記
月華街公園
坐過幾回吧
親吻過吧
愛做過吧
其實
都已忘記
還愛公園吧
這
不是情歌，也不是勵志歌
再拍拍褲袋
是跟褲一起到洗衣機遊玩過的匿名紙巾
他們說:「喜帖街不只是情歌」
唔……
靠在公仔箱
那算是什麼？
市建局發展局呵呵呵
街道消失焙乾麥當奴送貨
ＥＰＳ焗製「買」出綠色廣播
喜帖街坊見過了麼
要嫁要娶開個價囉
給妳一個家番叮虛擬幸福
離「這不是情歌」
還有好很遠囉
其實
香港只有情歌
和勵志歌其實
只有兩個選擇就是選擇其實
一直都是香港高密度的荒涼
忘記情歌，也忘記勵志歌
在語言被炒燶和蒸發之前
市場，去死吧！
時光機回贈幾口清新空氣
信用卡認真優惠做個按揭
還有沒有
不是門高狗大的豪情貴宅
給妳一個家
其實
月華街公園什麼都有
忘記不是情歌，也忘記不是勵志歌
因為
拍拍褲袋還摸到
混了音的自己
手巾包著
崎嶇的聲境
從不需要洗滌
木長凳的年輪
刻鏤生活尊嚴
基本的
在
微風與呼吸之間
在
您與我之間
不應該是笑聲嗎？
那麼多樹
啊，還有隻小貓兒……
– 麥海珊香港23/07/2009
re-records facebook page on the CD
following are the points of distribution in hk:
lona records web store
zoo records
aco
mccm bookshop
kubrick (hk & bj)
also with be available in stores in japan/china, click here for details.
it is part of my research in Kwun Tong town centre since 2007. there are soundscape compositions and also soundwalk in kwun tong. PLUS a song, folk+soundscape that i collabrate with Square Fruit (ex-AMK).
i wrote a poem for this CD, also share with you.
《不是情歌，也不是勵志歌》
月華街公園什麼都有
因為
拍拍褲袋還摸到
低頻的自由
手巾包著
高音的回憶
抹一次汗就著色
木長凳的年輪
想像時間停頓
在
陽光與鳥兒之間
在
微溫與歌唱之間
不應該是笑容嗎？
那麼多樹蔭
前面馬路沒有天使
來了很多無辜靈魂
總是被
仇恨
或瘋狂
或瘋狂的恐懼
或瘋狂的消費
一一征服
大廈牆上的橫額都卡住了
平和的心與憤怒的手同行
本來就是修行
跟他走過這裡
那麼多年前了
走過好幾次吧
其實
來不及記憶便已忘記
對面的華都餐廳
去過好多次吧
只剩下見鬼的生鏽招牌
老街坊說
官塘的招牌要亮燈的
店鋪才真的在
或者說還在
2009年
其實
來不及記憶便已忘記
月華街公園
坐過幾回吧
親吻過吧
愛做過吧
其實
都已忘記
還愛公園吧
這
不是情歌，也不是勵志歌
再拍拍褲袋
是跟褲一起到洗衣機遊玩過的匿名紙巾
他們說:「喜帖街不只是情歌」
唔……
靠在公仔箱
那算是什麼？
市建局發展局呵呵呵
街道消失焙乾麥當奴送貨
ＥＰＳ焗製「買」出綠色廣播
喜帖街坊見過了麼
要嫁要娶開個價囉
給妳一個家番叮虛擬幸福
離「這不是情歌」
還有好很遠囉
其實
香港只有情歌
和勵志歌其實
只有兩個選擇就是選擇其實
一直都是香港高密度的荒涼
忘記情歌，也忘記勵志歌
在語言被炒燶和蒸發之前
市場，去死吧！
時光機回贈幾口清新空氣
信用卡認真優惠做個按揭
還有沒有
不是門高狗大的豪情貴宅
給妳一個家
其實
月華街公園什麼都有
忘記不是情歌，也忘記不是勵志歌
因為
拍拍褲袋還摸到
混了音的自己
手巾包著
崎嶇的聲境
從不需要洗滌
木長凳的年輪
刻鏤生活尊嚴
基本的
在
微風與呼吸之間
在
您與我之間
不應該是笑聲嗎？
那麼多樹
啊，還有隻小貓兒……
– 麥海珊香港23/07/2009
my two works will be shown in Canada and UK in sept/oct/nov
in late sept, "goodbye" will be shown in a programme titled Urbanity
at CSFI (The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers ), Calgary, Canada.
info at the web site.
http://www.csif.org/urbani
in oct-nov, "goodbye" and "invisble bodies (& so the cities)" will be shown in a programme titled: Visible Secrets: Hong Kong Women Filmmakers, at CornerHouse, Manchester, UK.
programme leaflet here: http://www.aahsun.com/CH_V
in late sept, "goodbye" will be shown in a programme titled Urbanity
at CSFI (The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers ), Calgary, Canada.
info at the web site.
http://www.csif.org/urbani
in oct-nov, "goodbye" and "invisble bodies (& so the cities)" will be shown in a programme titled: Visible Secrets: Hong Kong Women Filmmakers, at CornerHouse, Manchester, UK.
programme leaflet here: http://www.aahsun.com/CH_V
Re Records is a record label initiated by experimental electro-acoustic duo No One Pulse from Hong Kong. With Re, we don't solely aim to be an outlet for releasing self initiated or other affiliated projects, but also for artists and releases we deem interesting. Other than standard releases, our catalogue includes:
Doc: Documentary/Documents on archiving art related projects, exhibtions, and installations.
On: On Location, an attempt to focus on field recordings and other site specific recordings.
http://www.facebook.com/ev
MY NEW CD WILL BE RELEASED BY RE-RECORDS, send you updates soon in mid aug.
Doc: Documentary/Documents on archiving art related projects, exhibtions, and installations.
On: On Location, an attempt to focus on field recordings and other site specific recordings.
http://www.facebook.com/ev
MY NEW CD WILL BE RELEASED BY RE-RECORDS, send you updates soon in mid aug.
每日雜誌A19 1 . 星島日報
2009-05-27城市脈搏
超八短片永留觀塘鬼節
浸會大學視覺藝術院講師麥海珊，運用她擅長的超八菲林和
自出娘胎已在觀塘的麥海珊，在這裏度過了十五年的青歲月
「我們展開了兩年，已累積百多份作品，包括影像、硬照和
奪國際電影 節最佳聲效獎
在浸大傳理學院修讀電影電視的麥海珊，畢業後發現主流電
麥海珊一直對用超八菲林拍攝情有獨鍾，她愛超八拍出來的
無對白音樂 採用實地錄 音
「細個時覺得鬼節好好玩，可以去夜街、睇人燒衣、玩火、
除了鬼節，她也拍觀塘的巷仔、小販區、樓梯鋪，「觀塘是
2009-05-27城市脈搏
超八短片永留觀塘鬼節
浸會大學視覺藝術院講師麥海珊，運用她擅長的超八菲林和
自出娘胎已在觀塘的麥海珊，在這裏度過了十五年的青歲月
「我們展開了兩年，已累積百多份作品，包括影像、硬照和
奪國際電影 節最佳聲效獎
在浸大傳理學院修讀電影電視的麥海珊，畢業後發現主流電
麥海珊一直對用超八菲林拍攝情有獨鍾，她愛超八拍出來的
無對白音樂 採用實地錄 音
「細個時覺得鬼節好好玩，可以去夜街、睇人燒衣、玩火、
除了鬼節，她也拍觀塘的巷仔、小販區、樓梯鋪，「觀塘是
i share with prize with sound designer -- Yammie Chan :-)
在由各國提交的六十個作品當中，《邊個驚鬼！？》在劍橋
與一般的電影聲音設計不同，這個作品運用了田野錄音和聲
Among 60 works from all over the world in the competition section, "Who's Afraid of Ghost!?" won the Best Sound Prize at Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival.
By applying the idea of phonography sound art and techniques of sound walk to collect audio ethnographic materials on ghost festival in Kwun Tong (east of Hong Kong), it breaks away from conventional sound design which stresses dialogue as main narrative element and music as emotion enhancer. This also renders the poetic moving images in this experimental documentary rooted in the unique soundscape of ghost festival.
http://www.cambridge-super
在由各國提交的六十個作品當中，《邊個驚鬼！？》在劍橋
與一般的電影聲音設計不同，這個作品運用了田野錄音和聲
Among 60 works from all over the world in the competition section, "Who's Afraid of Ghost!?" won the Best Sound Prize at Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival.
By applying the idea of phonography sound art and techniques of sound walk to collect audio ethnographic materials on ghost festival in Kwun Tong (east of Hong Kong), it breaks away from conventional sound design which stresses dialogue as main narrative element and music as emotion enhancer. This also renders the poetic moving images in this experimental documentary rooted in the unique soundscape of ghost festival.
http://www.cambridge-super
朋友們 (**eng version below),
我們很開心，可以把「我們的地圖﹣﹣官塘的文化與歷史」http://www.kwuntongculture
作初部的發放。我們已做了兩年，也會一直做下去，至少十
有些朋友或者已經知道，官觀將會進行香港有史以來最大型
就是以文字和資訊為主的，那會是很有意義的事。現在，經
簡短介紹一下，這是一個關於觀塘文化的網站，支緩不同的
聲音、相片和活動影像；資料庫儲存了參與者的不同風格／
2.0平台如facebook, myspace 等與他人分享。此外，來訪者也可以玩「混合影音」，或者
如果您是不太習慣在多行道和非線性的互動網站探險的話，
在這個作品，我有兩個角色 -- 計劃總監和參與者。
這是一篇以計劃總監身分，寫關於這個計劃的概念和實踐的
http://www.kwuntongculture
作為其中一個參與者，我已有64個條目/作品在內，而至
我們歡迎對官塘和這個計劃有興趣的朋友加入，因為資源有
我們也用了「共享創意」（Creative Commons) 的授權方法處理版權和流通作品。希望為網上媒體作品的分
我們正在改善資料庫版面的設計... 事情，都是會一直做下去...
請廣傳、在條目留意見、或直接寫意見給我。
多謝。
祝身心健康！
晨
麥海珊
==========================
dear friends,
we are happy to soft-launch this project -- A Map Of Our Own – Kwun Tong Culture and Histories. we have been working on it for 2 years and will go on for another 12 years.
http://www.kwuntongculture
as some of you may know, Kwun Tong town centre will experience the largest urban renewal plan in Hong Kong. 2 years ago, i thought, it might be good to have an interactive web site, that are of moving image, photography and sound creative works, while our sister blog, "living in kwuntong" (http://kwuntong.wordpress.
briefly, this project is a database driven website, a participatory,
interactive and locative archive on Kwun Tong culture. it supports
multiple contributors and various types of media works (sound, still image and moving image). visitors can interact with this archive in various ways including search on map/time line/ categories; sharing of media works in other web 2.0 platforms; audio-visual mix and rendering of itineraries for Kwun Tong walk.
if you are not familiar with multi-trajectories and non-linearity of
interactive web site, here is a visitors guide for your reference.
http://www.kwuntongculture
i have two roles in this project -- project director and one of the
contributors.
as a contributor, i have 64 posts/works on the web site. and until
today, there are 125 works from 16 contributors. we will go on upload creative media works especially before the town centre is gone. this is an open platform and how the site will become depends on the ways contributors use it. definitely, we welcome others who are interested in Kwun Tong culture and history. if you are interested to join us, pls let me know.
furthermore, we use hong kong creative commons license for
authorization of copyrights and distribution of media works. we hope this project can also serves as an experiment of allowing others to use some of our works tagged by share-alike license for creative works.
we are still re-working on the design of the archive page... and more refinements are coming... and our work continues...
please spread the news, leave messages at individual posts' comment field, or write to me directly on any suggestion and comment.
thanks very much.
best,
anson
我們很開心，可以把「我們的地圖﹣﹣官塘的文化與歷史」http://www.kwuntongculture
作初部的發放。我們已做了兩年，也會一直做下去，至少十
有些朋友或者已經知道，官觀將會進行香港有史以來最大型
就是以文字和資訊為主的，那會是很有意義的事。現在，經
簡短介紹一下，這是一個關於觀塘文化的網站，支緩不同的
聲音、相片和活動影像；資料庫儲存了參與者的不同風格／
2.0平台如facebook, myspace 等與他人分享。此外，來訪者也可以玩「混合影音」，或者
如果您是不太習慣在多行道和非線性的互動網站探險的話，
在這個作品，我有兩個角色 -- 計劃總監和參與者。
這是一篇以計劃總監身分，寫關於這個計劃的概念和實踐的
http://www.kwuntongculture
作為其中一個參與者，我已有64個條目/作品在內，而至
我們歡迎對官塘和這個計劃有興趣的朋友加入，因為資源有
我們也用了「共享創意」（Creative Commons) 的授權方法處理版權和流通作品。希望為網上媒體作品的分
我們正在改善資料庫版面的設計... 事情，都是會一直做下去...
請廣傳、在條目留意見、或直接寫意見給我。
多謝。
祝身心健康！
晨
麥海珊
==========================
dear friends,
we are happy to soft-launch this project -- A Map Of Our Own – Kwun Tong Culture and Histories. we have been working on it for 2 years and will go on for another 12 years.
http://www.kwuntongculture
as some of you may know, Kwun Tong town centre will experience the largest urban renewal plan in Hong Kong. 2 years ago, i thought, it might be good to have an interactive web site, that are of moving image, photography and sound creative works, while our sister blog, "living in kwuntong" (http://kwuntong.wordpress.
briefly, this project is a database driven website, a participatory,
interactive and locative archive on Kwun Tong culture. it supports
multiple contributors and various types of media works (sound, still image and moving image). visitors can interact with this archive in various ways including search on map/time line/ categories; sharing of media works in other web 2.0 platforms; audio-visual mix and rendering of itineraries for Kwun Tong walk.
if you are not familiar with multi-trajectories and non-linearity of
interactive web site, here is a visitors guide for your reference.
http://www.kwuntongculture
i have two roles in this project -- project director and one of the
contributors.
as a contributor, i have 64 posts/works on the web site. and until
today, there are 125 works from 16 contributors. we will go on upload creative media works especially before the town centre is gone. this is an open platform and how the site will become depends on the ways contributors use it. definitely, we welcome others who are interested in Kwun Tong culture and history. if you are interested to join us, pls let me know.
furthermore, we use hong kong creative commons license for
authorization of copyrights and distribution of media works. we hope this project can also serves as an experiment of allowing others to use some of our works tagged by share-alike license for creative works.
we are still re-working on the design of the archive page... and more refinements are coming... and our work continues...
please spread the news, leave messages at individual posts' comment field, or write to me directly on any suggestion and comment.
thanks very much.
best,
anson
1) "One-way Street On A Turntable" will be screened in Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, in Beijing
http://www.iberiart.org/
Presented by: Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Chinese Independent Film Archive (CIFA), International Art and Culture Foundation of Spain
Co-organized by: Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Forum (YUNFEST), Fanhall Studio, Li Xianting's Film Fund, Beijing Indie Workshop, China Independent Film Festival (CIFF)，Caochangdi Workstation, Film Festival Cinema Digital Seoul ( CinDi ), Xstream Pictures
note title of programme --
What Has Been Happening Here?——The Inaugural Exhibition of Chinese Independent Film Archive
http://www.iberiart.org/ex
my film will be shown under this prog:
Film Festival Cinema Digital Seoul ( CinDi ) Touring Show-Beijing have selected a number of films from CinDi's competitive entries in the 2007 and 2008 festivals with the hope to increase mutual understanding among young Asian filmmakers.
2) "Who's Afraid Of Ghost!?" (my new short film) will be premiered at Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival 2009
http://www.cambridge-super
the short film will be shown in the competition programme I, at 7pm on 29th of April.
Synopsis:
Through re-exploring Ghost Festival, a Chinese tradition, this experimental documentary expresses the artist’s revisits to childhood experience and her present concern of urban re-development plan to the old community -- Kwun Tong (district in the east of Hong Kong). An auto-ethnography fabricated by poetic moving images and experimental soundscape design.
Artist’s words:
In Chinese tradition, the seventh month of the Lunar calendar is called Ghost month in which spirits and ghosts will come out from the lower realm. Heaven, Hell and the realm of the living are open.
As a child living in Kwun Tong (a district in the east of Hong Kong) in the 1970's, Ghost Festival meant food and play, fun and a night out... and today, I am afraid...
This film was shot in Aug 2008 at Kwun Tong, my home town, where urban renewal plan will take place soon, from 2009 to 2020. I wonder, will the tradition continue after the old community turning into super high-rise and huge shopping malls?!
Ghost Festival, traditionally stresses the good will to pay tribute to ancestors, to histories, to help the poor and save all from suffering.
...the good will, and compassion of the Buddha...
Who's afraid of ghosts now; and what will be the good will… when the community is about to experience drastic changes…
「聲音‧香港‧站」
開幕酒會：二零零九年二月六日(星期五)，晚上七時正
展覽日期：二零零九年二月七日至四月三日
參展藝術家： Vito Acconci、John Levack Drever、許方華、許敖山、林欣傑、梁志和、羅潤庭
策展人: Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya 展覽顧問: 黎肖嫻、楊陽
Hong Kong Sound Station
Opening: Friday 6 February, 2009; 7 pm
Exhibition: 7 February to 3 April 2009
Participating artists: Vito Acconci, John Levack Drever, Phoebe Hui, Steve Hui, Keith Lam, Leung Chi Wo, Edwin Lo, Anson Mak, Cedric Maridet, Kingsley Ng, Kurt Schwitters
Curator: Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya
Project consultants: Linda Lai, Yeung Yang
eng press release
http://www.para-site.org.h
新聞稿
http://www.para-site.org.h
info of my work:
Title: Count, Down To Yu Man Square 前倒後數裕民坊
Artist: Anson Mak 麥海珊
Year: 2009
Place: Hong Kong
Format: 48kHz 16bit Stereo
Duration: 12 min 50 sec
Synopsis:
Count, Down To Yu Man Square 前倒後數裕民坊
At new year’s eve, hawkers selling noodles, soup, fish balls, bbq, worked over night in Yu Man Square. The street stalls form vital part in the cultural mapping of local old community.
Before the new year countdown, Yu Man Square was the regular main street of Kwun Tong. Amazingly after the countdown, and out of my expectation, people rushing down to the streets from AMP, the new shopping mall that had changed Kwun Tong’s fate.
The largest Hong Kong urban renewal plan will be happening in the area. People have started to count down also for Kwun Tong culture that lives only in its space.
Recently I have been thinking, countdown is like a deadline. And important countdown implies huge changes before and after that very deadline. Such as the end of June in 1997. The sound of that countdown never fades in my history, as in HK history.
Using the countdown recorded at Chater Garden in Central in 1997, and mixing it with the 2009 Yu Man Square soundscape, I simply, and humbly, hope to light up a new year wish that huge change ahead (after any deadline), whatever it is, will be of justice and people can live in harmony with compassion.
And if street culture really needs to be faded… may harmony and compassion help us to re-build…
anson
jan 2009
開幕酒會：二零零九年二月六日(星期五)，晚上七時正
展覽日期：二零零九年二月七日至四月三日
參展藝術家： Vito Acconci、John Levack Drever、許方華、許敖山、林欣傑、梁志和、羅潤庭
策展人: Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya 展覽顧問: 黎肖嫻、楊陽
Hong Kong Sound Station
Opening: Friday 6 February, 2009; 7 pm
Exhibition: 7 February to 3 April 2009
Participating artists: Vito Acconci, John Levack Drever, Phoebe Hui, Steve Hui, Keith Lam, Leung Chi Wo, Edwin Lo, Anson Mak, Cedric Maridet, Kingsley Ng, Kurt Schwitters
Curator: Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya
Project consultants: Linda Lai, Yeung Yang
eng press release
http://www.para-site.org.h
新聞稿
http://www.para-site.org.h
info of my work:
Title: Count, Down To Yu Man Square 前倒後數裕民坊
Artist: Anson Mak 麥海珊
Year: 2009
Place: Hong Kong
Format: 48kHz 16bit Stereo
Duration: 12 min 50 sec
Synopsis:
Count, Down To Yu Man Square 前倒後數裕民坊
At new year’s eve, hawkers selling noodles, soup, fish balls, bbq, worked over night in Yu Man Square. The street stalls form vital part in the cultural mapping of local old community.
Before the new year countdown, Yu Man Square was the regular main street of Kwun Tong. Amazingly after the countdown, and out of my expectation, people rushing down to the streets from AMP, the new shopping mall that had changed Kwun Tong’s fate.
The largest Hong Kong urban renewal plan will be happening in the area. People have started to count down also for Kwun Tong culture that lives only in its space.
Recently I have been thinking, countdown is like a deadline. And important countdown implies huge changes before and after that very deadline. Such as the end of June in 1997. The sound of that countdown never fades in my history, as in HK history.
Using the countdown recorded at Chater Garden in Central in 1997, and mixing it with the 2009 Yu Man Square soundscape, I simply, and humbly, hope to light up a new year wish that huge change ahead (after any deadline), whatever it is, will be of justice and people can live in harmony with compassion.
And if street culture really needs to be faded… may harmony and compassion help us to re-build…
anson
jan 2009