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What would the essence of longevity smell like? Perfumer Yosh Han and artist Billy Ola Hutchinson explore this concept through a 'scented ! 包 (hong bao) experience.’ Enveloping memories, hopes and optimism for the future through scent.

Yosh Han 范芳子 is the founder YOSH olfactory sense. She is a Perfumer, Level 1 Sommelier, a Judge for the 2020 Institute for Art and Olfaction awards and former tasting judge for the International Chocolate Salon in San Francisco. While she loves to teach and speak about these subjects, she enjoys creative collaborations with other artists in these fields including The Art of Bloom, an immersive exhibition held for 6 weeks in Long Beach. Yosh is currently a Creative in Residence at The Battery in San Francisco and Creative Director of Scent Trunk, a perfume publishing company, that produces monthly Original Editions with new perfumers each month. Yosh is the producer of Scent Festival, an annual digital event celebrating olfaction and the senses. Scent Festival is also a platform for supporting BIPOC scent artists and is currently sponsoring a petition to reclassify "oriental" in the fragrance industry. The next festival theme is Intersectionality & Perfumery. As an entrepreneur with over 25 years experience in the Flavor and Fragrance industries, Yosh serves on the Advisory Board for other beauty and beverage brands. Retailers and clients include Barneys New York, Liberty London, Saks Fifth Ave Dubai, Isetan Tokyo, and Anthropologie, CIA Napa, UC Berkeley, Four Seasons HK, Campari, Pernod Ricard, SoHo House, and others. She is currently on PBS HUMAN The World Within available to view on Netflix. Yosh has also been featured in Vanity Fair, Vogue, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Vice, Dwell, Flaunt and others.

Billy Ola Hutchinson is a San Francisco-based interdisciplinary artist inspired by beauty in its many forms. Primarily a calligrapher for social occasions and a lettering instructor at San Francisco Center for the Book, Billy also engages her art and fashion design background to expound on all manner of beauty. A BFA graduate of San Francisco Art Institute, Billy translates studied subjects—painting, drawing, collage, digital media, photography, and art history—into current and ongoing projects. Billy’s mission: to combine all areas of interest into an ephemeral experience— because a curious and creative mind is never bored.

Laura Hyunjhee Kim’s Cosmocrane (2022), presented by KADIST San Francisco and CMAC, is a site-specific performance that pulsates with the past and present memories embedded within San Francisco’s oldest alleyway. A narrow pathway tucked in the north-south heart of Chinatown, Ross Alley wore many faces and was worn by many phases. It has been given many names and its notorious fame precedes its reputation as a destination. To this day, the hyper-local portal is enriched by its history and culture that ebbs and flows with the vibrancy of its people throughout the day. Ross Alley will be activated as a site that poetically quilts fleeting history-making experiences, chance-encounters, and temporal moments of noticing. Languaging through birds as graceful messengers of wisdom and speaking through the mystical symbolism of cranes, the real-time experience gestures to a being-togetherness through healing, harmonizing, and balancing in-between nuanced architectures of intimacy or in-to-me-see. Kim attempts to blur the continuum of everyday art, life, and storytelling into a (a)synchronous dialogue between her life-as-lived body and those of residents/bypassers that coexist in a shared time and space. The performance will occur twice, each that responds to the (in)visibility afforded by the amount of natural light.

Laura Hyunjhee Kim is a multimedia artist who reimagines on/offline (non)human interactions and feelosophical experiences of the body. Kim centers the body as a thinking-through-making medium and performs moments of incomprehension: when language loses its coherence, necessitates absurd leaps in logic, and reroutes into intuitive and improvisational sense-making forms of expression. As an avid cross-disciplinary pollinator, collaborator, and storyteller, her ongoing projects thematically focus on blobology, feelolosophy, pigeonology, networked and digital technologies. In 2020, Kim received the Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award and the Black Cube Video Art Award. She is the author of “Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs” (The Accomplices / Civil Coping Mechanisms) and coauthor of “Remixing Persona” (Open Humanities Press). She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and PhD in Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance (IAWP) from the University of Colorado Boulder. Kim is an Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts in Global Performance Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas and lives in the company of neighboring squirrels, birds, and wild rabbits.