EVENT DESCRIPTION
“No Such Person” is the last exhibition in the WMA “Home” series, examining how our sense of home anchors memory and shapes identity. Through a deeply personal lens, Anson Mak—who has relocated 32 times throughout her life—employs autoethnography to re-visit her artist archive of video works, music, and writings. In the newly commissioned works, Mak investigates her longstanding interests and concerns surrounding identity, memory, and cultural belonging. Curator Chloe Chow approaches the exhibition as a researcher, and analyses how Mak’s intimate first-person perspective illuminates a broader narrative of social transformation. Through this exercise, Mak’s personal odyssey becomes a window into examining a vast array of collective experience of sex/gender movement, community rebuilding, mental health issues, and displacement.
ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER
Dr. Anson Hoi-shan MAK is a moving image and sound artist whose work spans various mediums, including single-channel film/video, phonography sound art, sound design, and web-based projects. With a keen interest in experimental ethnography, essay film and analogue media, in particular super 8 film, her creative practice reflects a deep engagement with diverse and cultural narratives. Her works are part of the collection at M+ Museum and have been shown at numerous film festivals and exhibitions in Hong Kong and internationally, including the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Busan International Film festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, etc. Recently, she has completed a teachers’ training in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Life (MBCT-L) from the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation, UK.
