Wai-yee Mak
alias - Ann Mak / Mai-an
Born in Hong Kong.
I have been interested in applying
poetry with multi-media in my work. Most of my work
including installations, videos and stage designs are related to poetry. My vision is to exude
the charm of poetry for our utilitarian
life.
1 - Installation
2000
‘City Forest’ presented in the ‘Berlin in Hong Kong Festival’, organized by
Goethe-Institut
in Hong Kong
2001 ‘The
Encounter’ presented in ‘Art Windows – Art in Public Spaces’, organized
by Sabrina Fung Fine
Arts
2 - multi-media performance
1998 ‘Strange Stories from Liao Zhai’ - poetry reading, stage & video /
installation / performance / presented in the ‘Ghost Festival’ / organized by
Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin
/ 20 mins
2000 ‘Seltsame
Geschichten von Vogeln und Blumen’- poetry reading, stage & video
installation / presented in the ‘Berlin
in Hong Kong Festival’ / organized by
Goethe-Institut, Hong Kong / 35 mins
2002 ‘Lyrische Trilogie’- poetry reading, stage &
video installation / tour presentation
in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Cologne, Germany / organized by the House of Cultures
in Berlin / 40 mins
2004 ‘Süchinesische Elegien’ - poetry reading, stage & video installation / presented in
Internationally Literary and Aesthetic Symposium / organized by Bonn University
and the Art & Exhibition Hall of Deutschland, Germany / 30 mins
2006 ‘Das Lied vom langen Leid. Die Dichtung des chinesischen Mittelalters’ - poetry
reading, stage & video installation / Ghosts, monks, poets and soccer players. Chinese
middle ages presented through
language, music, religion and image. International
meeting of scholars and artists./ organized by The Art & Exhibition
Hall of Deutschland,
Germany / 1 hr 10 mins
2008 ‘The Yesterday and Tomorrow of Today’- poetry reading by 14 leadingpoets from
Mainland China, stage and image installation, music performance / presented in
International Poetry Night in Hong Kong, 2009 / organized by The Chinese University
of Hong Kong / 1 hr 30
mins
2009 ‘Another
Voice’ - poetry reading by 14 leading poets from different countries, stage
and image installation, music performance
/ presented in International Poetry Night
in Hong Kong, 2009 / organized by The Chinese University of Hong Kong / 1 hr
30 mins
2011 Shuntarō Tanikawa
from Japan - stage installation, music performance / presented in
international Poet in Hong Kong / organized by The Chinese
University of Hong Kong /
1 hour
2011 ‘Words & The World’ - poetry reading by 20 leading poets from different countries
and local poets, stage and image installation, music performance / presented in
International Poetry Night in Hong Kong, 2011 / organized by The Chinese University
of Hong Kong / 1 hr 30 mins
2011 Michael Palmer, Poet from USA, poetry reading, stage and image installation, music
performance / presented in International Poet in Hong Kong / organized by The Chinese
University of Hong Kong
2012 Adnois from Syria - stage and image installation, music performance / presented in
international Poet in Hong Kong / organized by The Chinese University of Hong Kong /
50 mins
2012 60 Anniversary of Alliance Française de Hong Kong / as Commissioned Artist / organized
by Alliance
Française de Hong Kong
2013 ‘Islands or Continents’ - poetry reading by 18 leading poets from different countries,
stage and image installation, music performance / presented by International Poetry
Night in Hong Kong, 2013 / organized by The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2013 ‘Islands or Continents’ - poetry reading by 6 leading poets from different countries,
stage and image installation,
music performance / presented by International Poetry
Night in Hong Kong / organized by archiposition.com / Shenzen, China
2013
‘Poetry on Tram’ – as visual director / presented in International Poet in Hong Kong
in associate with British Council Hong Kong / organized by The Chinese University
of
Hong Kong
2013 ‘The
Long Night of the Long Poem’ - poetry reading by 4 leading poets in China, stage
and image installation, music
performance presented by International Poetry Night in
Hong Kong / organized by Shantou University / Shantou, China
3 - Video Work
1998 ‘Strange Stories from Liao Zhai’ – a series of 6 video related to Hong Kong / presented
in the ‘Ghost Festival’ / organized by Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin / 20 mins
2002 ‘Lyrische Trilogie’: A series of 10 videos related to Hong Kong, Germany and
China / tour presentation in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Cologne, Germany / organized
by the House of Cultures
in Berlin / 20 mins
2004 ‘Der
Gesang des Wassergottes’: - A video related to ‘Li-sao’, an ancient Chinese
poem /review the deep
sorrow of solitude of a poet being exiled / presented in
Internationally Literary and Aesthetic Symposium / organized by
Bonn University
and the Art & Exhibition Hall of Deutschland, Germany / 30 mins
2008 ‘Eye’ –commission work for Peninsula Hotel Hong Kong / 53 sec
2012 ‘On Hong Kong’ - Different Dimension, the International Festival of Contemporary
Photography / documentary video of the opening ceremony and artists’ work from
Hong Kong / commissioned
by Hong Kong Arts Development Fund (Cultural Exchange
Project) / 25 mins
2013 Tomas Tranströmer, Poet from Sweden - poetry reading with image and piano /
presented in International
Poet in Hong Kong / organized by The Chinese University
of Hong Kong / 50 mins
2014 Yves
Bonnefoy, Poet from France - poetry reading with image / presented in
International Poet in Hong Kong in associate with Alliance Française de Hong Kong /
organized by The Chinese University of Hong Kong / 50 mins
4 – Art and Cultural Project Co-ordination
1998
Asia Photo Contest / Organized by Hong Kong Institute of Professional Photographers /
as Fund Raising Manager / Hong Kong
2000
Postcards from Prague – short stories with photography / as Project Manager and Chief
Editor / Published by Youth Bookstore / Sponsored by Hong Kong Arts Development
Council / Hong Kong
2000 Photography Workshop - social study through photography / organized
by
Lingnan University / as Project Planner / organized by The Lingnan University /
Hong Kong
2001 ‘East Meets West’ - commissioned installation artwork of Joseph Kosuth, New York
Conceptual Artist / as Researcher
and Coordinator / Hong Kong
2001 Visual Research Workshop - social study through drama, literature and photography /
as Project Planner / organized by The Lingnan University / Hong Kong
2012 ‘On Hong Kong – Group Show, Hong Kong Photography’
- Different Dimension,
the International Festival of Contemporary Photography / organized by Novosibirsk
State Art Museum /
as Project Manager and Coordinator / Novosibirsk, Russia
2012 ‘The Urbanites –Photo Album by Almond Chu’ / as Project Manager and Coordinator
/
Sponsored by Hong Kong Arts Development Council and K11 Art Foundation /
Published by MCCM Creations / Hong Kong
2013 ‘City Confusion I – Group Show, Hong Kong Photography’ - The 13th China Pingyao
International Photo Festival / as Invited Curator / Organized by the Government of
Shanxi Province / Pingyao Ancient City, Shanxi, China
2014 'Emotion Wind – Media artwork by Maurice Benayoun’ - Techfest 2014, IIT Bombay’s
Annual International Science
and Technology Festival / as Project Coordinator /
Organized by The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay / Bombay India
2014
‘At the Heart of Arts – Cross-disciplinary Art Showcase’ - 50th anniversary of The
French International School / as Curator and Project Planner / Collaboration
Art
Project of The French International School and Creative Media Centre, City
University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong
2014 ‘City Confusion II – Group Show, Hong Kong Photography’ - The 14th China
Pingyao International Photo Festival / as Invited Curator for Hong Kong
Photography / Organized by the Government of Shanxi Province / Pingyao
Ancient City, Shanxi, China
2008-Now
Committee Member of International Poetry Night in Hong Kong / organized by The
Chinese University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong
5 - Essay Writer
2000 Photography /Dialogue between Leung Ping Kwan & Wolfgang Kubin - beyond the
boundaries / published in Literature Century No.6, Hong Kong
2003 Wong Wo Bik : A
la lisère de la mémoire - Chinese essay & French translation by Gérard
Henry / published in Paroles
Magazine No. 187 by L’Alliance Française de Hong Kong /
page 34-35
2003 Leong Ka Tai, photographe - Chinese essay & French translation by Gérard Henry /
published in Paroles Magazine No. 187 by L’Alliance Française de Hong Kong
2003 Kacey Wong: Cité à derive - Chinese essay & French translation by Gérard Henry /
published in Paroles Magazine No. 188 by L’Alliance Française de Hong Kong /
page 24-25
2004 Essen in Shanghai - Essay in Chinese / published in Badge Magazine, Hong Kong
2005 Essen in Shanghai - German translation by Wolfgang Kubin / published in
Orientierungen, Zeitschrift zur Kultur Asiens no.1/2005, Germany /page 144-148
2012 Dialogue between Leung Ping Kwan & Wolfgang Kubin - beyond the boundaries /
re-published in Night Walk beyond the boundaries - Culture Workshop, Hong Kong
6 -
Review
2002 ‘Lyrische Trilogie’, Zu einer Arbeit der Hongkonger Künstlerin
Ann Mak by Wolfgang
Kubin / published in minima sinica 袖珍漢學, Zeitschrift zum chinesischen Geist
no. 2/2002, page 125-135, Germany
2004 ‘Floating Signs – Art as Lift, Life as Art in Contemporary Hong Kong’ by Wolfgang
Kubin, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
2004 ‘Floating Signs – Art as Lift, Life as Art in Contemporary Hong Kong’ by Wolfgang
Kubin, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Chinese Translation by
Zushe Wang / Asthetic Research Centre,
Shandong University
2005 ‘Der Gesang der Geister über dem Wasser’, Zur Möglichkeit
einer Ästhetik in
Ost und West by Wolfgang Kubin / published in minima sinica 袖珍漢學, Zeitschrift
zum chinesischen Geist no. 2/2005, page 52-55, Germany
2005 ‘Der Gesang der Geister über dem Wasser’, Zur Möglichkeit einer Ästhetik in
Ost und West by Wolfgang Kubin, Chinese Translation by Zhuofei Wang
2007 ‘Die Wärme meiner Kunst kommt wom Zuhören!’, Zu einer Performanz der
Hongkonger Künstlerin Ann Mak by Wolfgang Kubin / published in minima sinica
袖珍漢學, Zeitschrift
zum chinesischen Geist no. 1/2007, page 22-30, Germany
2011 ‘Poetry and Wine’
by Wolfgang Kubin, published in 聯合文學 no. 316, Taiwan
2013 Ann Mak, ‘Un tissage fluide et poétique d’images et de mots’ by Gérard Henry /
published in Paroles Magazine No. 239 by L’Alliance Française de Hong Kong /
page 24-25
2014
‘City Confusion II – Hong Kong Photography’, interview by Photo Dialogue, online
photo magazine in China, China
7 - Residency
2001
Artist-in-resident at Lingnan University, Hong Kong
2003 Guest Resident at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany
8 - Prize
2003
‘Lyrische Trilogie’: A series of 10 videos related to Hong Kong, Germany and
China / 4 videos were selected
by Zebra Poetry Film Award, Germany
2011 'Words & The World - International
poetry night of Hong Kong 2011' was awarded
the ‘Prize of Humanities 2011’ which
is organized by Southern Metropolis Daily,
Mainland China.
9
- Language
English & Mandarin (fluent), Cantonese (mother
tongue)