The stories, voices and talents of our performers give the festival its own sound and sense of experience.
Ali Choupani Nejad is an Iranian contemporary flutist, composer, and sound artist based in Ghent, Belgium. His practice moves between contemporary performance, improvisation, sound installation, and artistic research, exploring the connections between sound, movement, memory, and collective experience.
Drawing on both Iranian musical traditions and contemporary experimental practice, Ali works with flute, electronics, and unconventional approaches to sound. His work creates spaces for listening, reflection, and encounter, where sound can become a carrier of memory and emotion.
Benjamin Vermeulen schrijft liedjes in een taal die het hart raakt. Voor Altijd, z'n nieuwe muzikale voorstelling met liedjes, beelden & verhalen over verlies.
Zhenyu Wu is a Chinese visual artist based in France, working across performance, installation, painting, video, and text. His practice explores themes of memory, displacement, labour, and the fragile ways people remain connected to places, objects, and one another. Drawing on personal experiences of loss and distance, he explores how grief becomes intertwined with everyday life.




