• Artist

    Amy Chan
  • Country

    Hong Kong
  • Work

    Immersive, Installation, Performance
  • What we do

    Tour- & production management
  • Website

    https://amychan-light.com/

Bio

Light artist, theatre practitioner, artistic director of Drama COLLABoratory and pathologist. Interest in expanding the notion of light in postdramatic theatre through the exploration of musicality, performativity and theatricality of light in performance and installation, and the in-betweens of light-music, performance-installation and arts-medicine. Lightscape (light and space) is the co-performer, protagonist and antagonist in her works. 

Her major works include the interdisciplinary museum theatre performance and installation project The Hong Kong Plague of 1894 (2014) , site-specific light installation-performance Morbid Anatomy (2016), solo light installation Memento Mori: Sonata for Light (2017), installation performances Things That Talk (2020) and Inter-Face (2021). Her online lecture performance Remembrance of Amnesia  (2020), reflecting on pandemic and memory in Hong Kong, was presented in My Documents | Share your screen! ,  the online performance series created and curated by Argentinian theatre maker Lola Arias, and streamed on the digital platforms of Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main, Kampnagel Hamburg and Münchner Kammerspiele of Germany, and Kaserne Basel of Switzerland. 

Amy crosses the borders between different media, disciplines and communities. She collaborates with artists of different disciplines, with focus in light-music collaborations. She works with acclaimed visual artists, composers and musicians including Ellen Pau, Rachel Cheung, Ken Ueno, Kathryn Smith, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble and The Up:Strike Project, in the productions co-presented by M+ and Art Basel, New Vision Arts Festival, Tai Kwun Prison Yard Festival, West Kowloon Freespace Jazz Fest and Sound Forms, among others, covering live video-light-sound performance, museum performance, contemporary music, classical music, electronic music and free improvisation. She is also the long-term artistic collaborator and tutor of St James Creation, the workshop and gallery under St James’ Settlement for artists of different abilities for more than 10 years.

For over two decades, she designed light for many theatre works, gallery and installations, including A Tree to be Found, the installation artwork in Para/Site in 2003, the award-winner of Hong Kong Arts Biennial 2003 and the collection of Hong Kong Museum of Art. As a performer, Amy collaborated with internationally renowned choreographers Xavier LeRoy and Scarlet Yu in their performative proposition Still in Hong Kong (2021), commissioned by Tai Kwun Contemporary. Her original autobiographical theatre performance Two girls from Ngau Tau Kok (as co-creator, co-director, performer and lighting designer) has re-run in various venues for 5 times throughout 9 years. The play was adapted into a graphic novel of the same title and an English radio play broadcasted in the Worldplay series 2003 of BBC world channel. The original Chinese script and the translated English script were published respectively.


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