Cheung Kai Fu
Cheung Kai-Fu began to lose sight at the age of 40, and now he has less than 0.1% of vision. He once worked as a carpenter but he laughed at himself that he had not yet completed his apprenticeship. He has participated in the “Touch Art Festival” for 5 years. He loves to let his imagination run wild, he is also passionate about collecting objects and remaking them into something useful or creative. In his free time, Cheung likes to create and feel life with his sense of touch.
Lo Keng Chi
Lo Keng Chi is a poet, an art curator, and he suffers from a rare disease. He sees only light and shadow and at the same time, is terrified of light and sound. His nerves have been overly sensitive for the past 20 years and he often suffers from severe tension and pain with no cause can be found. He has been the curator of the 6th and the 7thTouch Art Festival and is promoting Touch Art in both the able-bodied and disabled worlds so that more people can use their senses other than their eyes to feel and understand the world.
Yan Wai Lung
After retiring, Yan Wai-lung focused on seal engraving but began to practice seal script calligraphy because of sudden eye disease. He has participated in seal engraving and calligraphy exhibitions for 3 years. He likes collecting stamps and has participated in stamp exhibitions for 4 years.
Peter Chang
Peter Chang (nicknamed Thousand Year Old Egg) became blind due to a traffic accident around 1970. He has participated in the “Touch Art Festival” for the last 8 years; he is a big fan of this annual art festival. In the previous Touch Art Festivals, he created ceramic works with secondary school students and worked with artists to sculpt his mother's head. He likes eating tea eggs and likes practicing Tai Chi and learning physical dance.
Wong Chi Wai (Little Star)
Little Star was found to have hereditary fundus macular degeneration as a child and his current vision is about 0.5%. He has a strong interest in various art forms, including writing, touch art, storytelling, theater, and music. He is actively involved in multiple artistic activities, including art training workshops, performances, and exhibitions. He participated in the “Touch Art Festival” (2018-2020), “Cross All Borders: Hong Kong Festival Showcasing New Artists with Disabilities 2012”(in which he was given a merit award for youth), and the“10th Macau City Fringe Festival” (2010).
Chu Yin Woo Brian
Brian improvises with various percussion instruments, cassette feedback and found objects, and experiments with their sonorous properties. He attends to the echoes that resound from the surfaces of daily living, and the sonic relationships between objects and the spatial environment. Percussion, in which sound is produced by a collision between materials, is his visceral response to all of these. By performing under the name: 龢wo4, he explores a language which 'I' can articulate in the space he inhabits.
In 2018, Brian was one of the artists selected for the
Soundpocket artist supporting program. He participated and performed in the KLEX festival in Malaysia, 2019. Upon return from the festival, 2020 saw the recording and self-release of his first record 'Spiral'.
Chu Hoi Ding
Chu Hoi Ding was born in Hong Kong in 1994. She graduated from the Academy of Visual Art of Hong Kong Baptist University in 2017. Focusing on ceramics and raw clay creations, often combine mixed medium elements, like ready-made objects and images, with clay. Through the proposition of “destructive construction”, she meditates on daily lives and beings.
Jaffe
An artist born in the 80s, graduated from design, started with public space art as the starting point for his creation, believing that art can be used as a possibility to intervene in society, and feel that now doing philosophy, but only using literature and art as methodology. Now I am mainly engaged in various experiments in conceptual art, and I like to record and analyze the subtle relationships between things.
Kan Pui Yan
Yan KAN is a graphic designer, illustrator, and artist who is exploring more new possibilities in Hong Kong. The elements of her works mostly included layering of shapes, lines, images, colors, or stories. Besides, some of her works tend to look more child-like, which reflects her inner childhood world.
Lo Lai Lai Natalie
Lo Lai Lai Natalie was born in Hong Kong. She is a former travel journalist and as a learner at the collective organic farm Sangwoodgoon (Hong Kong) where she also explores a practice that seeks alternatives and autonomy as an artist and Hong-Konger. Lai Lai founded the Slow-so TV channel, with a focus on food, farming, fermentation, surveillance and meditation. Her artworks are mostly moving images, photography, mixed media and installation.