Vanessa is a director, curator and the founder of Scentory, which connects people through multi-sensorial art performances and visual exhibitions.

In 2022, she created Violet, a physical, music and visual performance that explores familial ties and memories at Soho House, Hong Kong. This was followed by the In Search of Palm Leaves series for Hong Kong Arts Centre, which marked the first of her walk-performance series that transformed the urbanscape into a mobile stage with multi-disciplinary elements. In 2023, Vanessa co-directed The Dreaming with Olivier Cong at The Box, West Kowloon. In January 2024, Vanessa presented a new walk-performance, Remember that we all are, at the Hong Kong Museum of Art to invite the audience to experience new ways of seeing in a museum. Vanessa debuted as a visual artist in the same year at the Festival of Decay exhibition, showcasing her scented installation piece Room of M.

Throughout the years, Vanessa has also collaborated with Singaporean author Daryl Qilin Yam, local author Hon Lai Chu and Taiwanese author Sharky Chen to create aromatic reading kits. Her latest reading kit is inspired by Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh's Fragrant Palm Leaves, acknowledged by Plum Village (Vietnam).

Sharky Chen is the founder of comma BOOKS, an independent publishing house in Taiwan. Known for his creativity and efficiency in the publishing industry, Sharky is currently the chairperson of the Indie Publishers Association of Taiwan, programme consultant of Da Ai Television’s Youth loves books, and the co-host of his podcast show “Reading Shalala” with Ariel Sha.

Sharky has written seven books, including Flying Kicks, Ugly Cries, White Nose Hair: First-Time Publisher Hits Big (Just kidding), Now and Then, Here and There and Skeleton in the Closet, which inspired Scentory’s show Awake Awhile. He has also translated the masterpieces of Ernest Hemingway and Carlos Bulosan.

Hong Kong-based singer-song writer and composer. After finishing his college studies in psychology, Cong has been working with varied forms of music and sound art, exploring the texture of sounds and often experiments with the use of minimal musical structures.

He has composed for the Hong Kong Ballet, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Shanghai Opera House, and has served as the music director for productions for West Kowloon Cultural district and Le French May Arts Festival. Cong has worked with the K11 Art Foundation on art installations, and collaborated on feature film works with directors such as Tian Zhuangzhuang and Ann Hui.

Lai participated in different art festivals including Theaterfestival Spielart 2023, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023, Hong Kong Dance Exchange 2022, TPAM 2020, Supercell 2019: Festival of Contemporary Dance Brisbane, Gothenburg Fringe Festival 2018, Stockholm Fringe Festival 2018 and Weiwuying Taiwan Dance Platform 2018. Lai Holds a BFA in Lighting Design from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She designed numerous shows for dance and theatre.

Yanki Tsz-long Lau graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with an MFA in Theatre and Entertainment Arts, majoring in contemporary design and technologies (specialising in spatial design). Previously, she graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a BA in Fashion and Textiles (specialising in intimate apparel).

She actively explores the possibilities of theatre arts, especially environmental theatre and experimental theatre. Her work covers drama, dance, multimedia art, installation art and exhibitions. Her major works include the set design for Lullaby, the spatial design for Stream of Béthanie, and the assistant set design for Out of Thin Air: Hong Kong Film Arts & Costumes Exhibition.

She loves the humanities, art, nature and storytelling.