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. 

Lucas Lauwers' compositions explore loss, silence, and the unspoken. His work invites reflection and offers solace beyond words.
Through a refined interplay of classical instruments and electronic textures, he creates an immersive sonic landscape in which vulnerability becomes audible.In a world that so often overwhelms the senses, his compositions offer a gentle space for what lies beneath the surface to emerge and be felt.It is music that not only speaks but also knows how to be silent - and it is precisely in that silence that its deepest resonance can be found.

Benjamin Vermeulen writes songs in a language that touches the heart. Voor Altijd, his new musical performance featuring songs, images and stories about loss.

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.

Hanne Struyf is an actress and theatre maker who recently trained as a funeral celebrant at Tussentijd. She explores different forms and spaces where theatre, art, farewell, grief, and remembrance can come together.