Artists

Chan Mei Tong is an individual among anyone else, each with unique abilities and preferences. She prefers a vegetarian lifestyle and avoids meat; she is adept at intuitive dancing but struggles with counting beats and memorizing routines. Graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Humanities, she is currently a freelancer—teaching yoga, reading and writing, dancing, working as a life drawing model, and practicing performance art.

Born and raised in Hong Kong in 1990, she went through the local mainstream colonial and post-colonial education system. Claiming mastery over neither Chinese nor English, she thinks through her body, believing that expressions truly close to the heart are instinctive, perceptual, and prior to language. Her artistic practice stems from the body, actively exploring somatic movements and live presence that turn inward, trace back to origins, and unite body and mind. She regularly practices yoga and Tai Chi Dao Yin, with a profound passion for Butoh.

She has participated in various roles within mixed-ability and disability arts, including serving as a somatic art instructor, choreographer, and art project curator in special schools; a teaching artist and research assistant in disability art performance and research initiatives exploring disability art aesthetics; and a committee member for the diverse-ability and mental health film section of the Hong Kong Social Movement Film Festival.

She is the founder of the mobile yoga studio "if yoga," aiming to popularize Somatic Movement Practice and implement mind-body philosophical education grounded in lived experience.

Recently, she partnered with local performing artist Frieda Luk to launch two artistic practices and research projects: "Bonding," a socially engaged art research project that intervenes in daily life through Somatic Practice and improvisation scores to study the "un-everydayness of daily life"; and an action painting research project investigating the Synchronicity between body and materials. She deeply believes that "being present is arrival."

Pui Pui Ip is captivated by the inherent power radiating from words, leading her to instinctively channel her artistic creations into text-based forms. Since childhood, she has developed a habit of observing others in conversation, repeatedly savoring those moments to deeply feel and connect with that person's "soul."

At the same time, she carries a unique cultural identity—as a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults). If you want to learn Hong Kong-style family sign language, she is ready to teach!

Jessica Chiu (Ah Chi) has been passionately drawn to painting since childhood. She graduated with a Diploma in Design from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and later traveled to London in 2015 to attend a painting course at the Slade School of Fine Art. She discovered sand animation in 2010 and is currently a full-time sand artist and art instructor.

Ah Chi responds to the people and events she encounters in daily life through diverse artistic mediums. Her two-dimensional paintings primarily utilize acrylics, showcasing an eclectic style that is light, dynamic, and vividly colorful. Through her use of vibrant hues and lines, she expresses the fluid transformations of life while exploring the relationships and narratives between the environment and human existence.

Her sand art creations seamlessly blend elements of music and moving images, conceiving series after series of light-and-shadow stories centered on various compelling themes.

Nora Fong lost her hearing at birth due to congenital rubella syndrome. She began exploring drawing during her secondary school years and later aspired to become a comic artist. She graduated from the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE), where she studied graphic design. Following her graduation, she continued creating comics and launched her Facebook page "My Silent World" in 2012 to share her illustrations and comic works with the public.

In 2010, her work as a screenwriter and director for the short film The Minority of Minorities won third prize in the short film competition at the 1st Hong Kong International Deaf Film Festival.
In 2019, she was honored with the Merit Award in the "Youth Artist" (Open Category) at the 7th Youth Arts Festival.