LIST OF DELEGATES

İrem Müftüoğlu (She/Her)
Contact person for Delegate Programme
irem@borealisfestival.no
+4741649181

Kaja Bjørntvedt (She/Her)
Contact person for Delegate Programme
kaja@musicnorway.no
+ 47 97730647

Roza Aghili Taslimi (She/Her)
Project Coordinator
Music Norway
roza@musicnorway.no

Agnes Hvizdalek (She/Her)
Managing Director
Borealis
agnes@borealisfestival.no

Peter Meanwell (He/Him)
Artistic Director Borealis
peter@borealisfestival.no

Alasdair Campbell (He/Him)
Creative Producer & Director
AC Projects + Counterflows Festival
UK
alasdair@masterod.com
Alasdair Campbell is the creative producer and director of AC Projects an independent arts organisation. AC Projects produces the Counterflows festival in Glasgow and also co-curates the Tectonics festival with Ilan Volkov.

Alf Håvard Vestrheim (He/Him)
Senior Advisor
Section for Culture, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Norway
alf.havard.vestrheim@mfa.no
Alf Håvard Vestrheim is In charge of promoting Norwegian music abroad.

Anna Ramos
(She/Her)
Radio Web MACBA
Spain
aramos@macba.cat
Anna Ramos runs Radio Web MACBA, the online radio project of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), founded in 2006. She is an enthusiastic member of the RWM Working Group and lives and works in Barcelona.

Charlotte Higgins (She/Her)
Chief Culture Writer
The Guardian
UK
charlotte.higgins@theguardian.com
Charlotte Higgins is the chief culture writer of the Guardian. Her current focus is the war in Ukraine; a regular column on the Opinion pages; and longform articles. Specialising in the arts, she is particularly interested in subjects where culture, politics and society meet.

Clarisse Dupouy-Greteau (She/Her)
International Projects Manager
Office national de diffusion artistique – Onda
France
clarisse.dupouy-greteau@onda.fr
Clarisse Dupouy-Greteau is currently working in Onda as project manager for international activities at Onda – French national office for artistic dissemination.

Elin Már Øyen Vister (They/Them)
Artist & Composer
Initiator of Jiennagoahti
Norway/Sápmi
elinmar@mailbox.org
Elin Már is a gender fluid interdisciplinary artist, composer and land/water defender, based on the island of Røst, Northern Norway/Sábme, traditional coastal sámi lands.

Fielding Hope (He/Him)
Senior Producer
Cafe OTO + Counterflows Festival
UK
fielding@cafeoto.co.uk

Francesca Poloniato (She/Her)
Artistic Director
Le ZEF scène nationale de Marseille
ONDA delegation
France
fran.poloniato@gmail.com

Giovanna Esposito Yussif (She/Her)
Artistic Director
Museum of Impossible Forms
Finland
giovanna.ey@gmail.com
Giovanna Esposito Yussif engages with curatorial praxis and research. Recently Giovanna curated the Pavilion of Finland at the 58th Venice Biennale with the Miracle Workers Collective. Since 2021 she is Artistic Director of the Museum of Impossible Forms, a cultural centre in east Helsinki and the coming together of communities of art and cultural workers working to build anti-colonial, anti-patriarchal, and non-fascist commitments and futures.

Hugo Frison (He/Him)
Director
La Renaissance
ONDA delegation
France
direction@theatrelarenaissance.com

Jakub Knera (He/Him)
Journalist
Nowe idzie od morza + The Quietus
Poland
jakub.knera@gmail.com
Jakub Knera is a journalist and curator. Contributor in The Quietus, Polityka Weekly, Radio Folk Culture Centre and Dwutygodnik. He founded noweidzieodmorza.com in 2012. Co-founder of the Palma Foundation.

Jaleh Negari (She/Her)
Composer & Musician
Borealis Artist in Residence 2025–26
Denmark
negari@egetvaerelse.dk
Jaleh Negari is a danish-iranian drummer, composer and sound artist with a M.A. in composition from The Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. She has played in the band Pinkunoizu, a member of free jazz noise band Selvhenter and the art duo Fungal Network and is one of the founders of the artist collective Eget Værelse.

James Black (He/They)
Artistic Director
Klang festival
Denmark
james@klang.dk
Composer, performer, and Artistic Director of Klang festival, Copenhagen. Originally from the UK but based in Denmark since 2013. Black’s work lies at the intersection of score music and performance art, encompassing all forms of media in a deep exploration of themes including queer identity, religion, and loss.

Jean-Baptiste Pasquier (He/Him)
Co-Director
Théâtre Silvia Monfort
ONDA delegation
France
Jean-Baptiste Pasquier co-founded and directed FormART, an office for the production and development of artistic projects. He has worked in Théâtre Gérard Philipe and in Théâtre National de Bretagne in Rennes. In 2023, he was appointed as co-director, with Ninon Leclère, of Théâtre Silvia Monfort in Paris, developing a project around national and international transdisciplinary creation (performing arts, musical creation, creation for all audiences).

Jennifer Torrence (She/Her)
Curator, nyMusikk
Norway
jetorrence@gmail.com
Jennifer Torrence is a Oslo-based percussionist and performer. Curator at nyMusikk, Associate Professor in percussion at Norwegian Academy of Music and member of percussion trio Pinquins.

Johan Sara Jr (He/Him)
Composer, Joiker & Publisher
STIERDNA (record label)
Performing at Borealis 2024
Norway/Sápmi
johansara@gmail.com
Sami musician, producer and composer Johan Sara Jr. is combining joik with contemporary music in unique ways, creating a hypnotic and meditative characteristic that is praised both within and outside Norway’s borders.. His music has manifested his position as a vibrant, fresh and genre-free innovator. He has won a number of awards including The Edvard Prize by TONO for his album Transmission. He also runs the record label Stierdna.

Joni Hyvönen (He/Him)
Freelance writer
Vagant
Sweden
orgonom@gmail.com

Ketil Gutvik (He/Him)
Executive Director
nyMusikk
Norway
ketil@nymusikk.no
Ketil Gutvik has been the executive director of nyMusikk since March 2022. Gutvik has a background as a professional guitarist within the field of jazz and improvised music. He is the founder of several concert series in Oslo, such as Drazztic Acoustic, Fritt Fall and Gutvik Ukentlig. Most recent and profiled activities include world touring with Paal Nilssen-Love’s ensemble Large Unit.

Kristi Monfries (She/Her)
Co-Director
Liquid Architecture
Australia
kristi@liquidarchitecture.org.au
Kristi Monfries is a Javanese – Australian creative producer and curator, who specialises in collaborative and experimental arts projects between Asia and Australia. She is currently Co-Director of Liquid Architecture, a position she shares with Lulu Quintanilla. Liquid Architecture is a sound arts organisation based in Naarm/Melbourne dedicated to artists that engage in experimental sound practice, sustained and energised through conversation and research, and realised in collaboration with people in the community and beyond.

Louisa Palmi (She/Her)
Composer
Konstmusiksystrar
Sweden
louisapalmi@gmail.com
Konstmusiksystrar (Sisters in Contemporary Music) is a network for composers and sound artists who define themselves as women, non-binary or transgender people. The organisation creates different kinds of projects in the music field. I am a member of the board and work as a composer.

Lucreccia Gomez Quintanilla (She/Her)
Co-Director
Liquid Architecture
Australia
lucreccia@liquidarchitecture.org.au
Dr. Lucreccia Quintanilla is a multidisciplinary artist and Co-Director of Liquid Architecture. She produces both written, sculptural and sound work presented locally and internationally. Quintanilla has presented at the Sound System Outernational Conference in Naples, has been resident artist at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and is a soundsystem operator of General Feelings Sound, the first woman-led sound system in Australia.

Margrethe Pettersen (She/Her)
Artist & Florist
Presenting sound work at Borealis 2024
Norway/Sápmi
margrethe.pettersen@gmail.com
The works of Margrethe Iren Pettersen from Romssa/Tromsø on the Norwegian side of Sápmi, materialise as installations, sculptures, sound walks and public growing projects as well as prints, drawings and photographs. Margrethe is also a florist, has a BA from the Academy of Art in Tromsø and a MFA from the Art and Public Space programme at KHiO – Oslo National Academy of the Arts. You can hear Margrethe’s sound pieces in Jiennagoahti during the festival.

Marte Bernsten Aasen (She/Her)
CEO
Insomnia Festival
Norway/Sápmi
marte@insomniafestival.no
Insomnia is a festival fueled by love that has forged friendships worldwide. Welcoming challenges and curiously embracing risks is in the DNA of the festival – Insomnia itself is an experiment, established because the north needed a meeting point for electronic music and contemporary sounds. Insomnia Festival is a non-profit event, with their main goal to create an artistic melting pot and an important platform for innovative artists above the arctic circle.

Maya Al Khaldi (She/Her)
Artist performing at Borealis 2024
Palestine
Maya Al Khaldi (مايا الخالدي) is a musician and composer from Palestine, based in Jerusalem. In her work she explores the voice and music of the past and present, using archive material as source to imagine the future. Her debut album Other World is inspired by Palestinian folklore, influenced by the present, to imagine a sonic future. All songs include either lyrics, melodies, or recordings of traditional Palestinian music from the audio archive of the Popular Art Center in Ramallah, Palestine.

meLê yamomo (He/They)
Assistant Professor University of Amsterdam
Netherlands/Germany
m.j.yamomo@uva.nl
meLê yamomo is an Assistant Professor of New Dramaturgies, Media Cultures, Artistic Research, and Decoloniality at the University of Amsterdam, a member of the Amsterdam Young Academy, and author of Sounding Modernities. He is the project leader and principal investigator of the EU-JPICH project Decolonizing Southeast Asian Archives (DeCoSEAS), and the Dutch Research Council project »Sonic Entanglements«.

Patrick Wurzwallner (He/Him)
Curator & Artist
Elevate Festival
Austria
wurzi@klingt.org
Curator, writer, talker, drummer. Organizing and hosting events in Austria and beyond.

Rafael Machado (He/Him)
Director
Festival Semibreve
Portugal
rafael@festivalsemibreve.com
Rafael is the director of a cultural co-operative based in Braga, in the north of Portugal, whose main area of activity is music and other forms of sound exploration. We create our own projects and produce 3 activities: semibreve festival – an international festival of exploratory music and digital art; #OCUPA – an event with local artists and collaborations in the same area and Ciclo da Fragua – artistic residencies in a house in the mountains, with occasional invitations to artists

Raphaëlle Girard (She/Her)
Director
TAP – Théâtre & Auditorium de Poitiers
ONDA delegation
France
raphaelle.girard@tap-poitiers.com

Sam Salem (He/Him)
Festival Co-Director, curator & composer
Another Sky Festival
UK
sam.salem@gmail.com
Sam Salem is the co-director of Another Sky, a new festival based in the UK which focusses upon experimental music from the SWANA region and diaspora. He is also co-founder of Distractfold Ensemble and PRiSM Lecturer in Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester (UK).

Sandrine Piq (She/Her)
Advisor
Office national de diffusion artistique – Onda
France
sandrine.piq@onda.fr

Sarah Miles (She/Her)
Music Programmer
Haus der Kunst
Germany
sound@hausderkunst.de
Sarah Miles is a freelance music programmer and is currently curating and managing the ‘Tune’ sound series at Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany. Each month she invites a different artist for a short residency, with two live performances and an artist talk. Previously, she programmed the Roter Salon for the Volksbuehne in Berlin for two years, and she is the co-founder of Berlin Community Radio, which broadcasted from 2013-2020.

Sarouna (She/Her)
Artist, Producer & DJ
Performing at Borealis 2024
Palestine
Sarouna (سارونا) is a Jerusalem-born Palestinian qanun player, audio engineer, producer and DJ. She is currently working on her first album – an electronic exploration of memory through sampling and qanun. She is also the founder of Tawleef – an independent women-led Palestinian record label and artist space – and is working on an all-female collaborative music project, featuring local and diasporic Palestinian artists.

Xenia Benivolski (She/Her)
Curator & Freelance Journalist
The Wire Magazine
Canada
xeniaster@gmail.com
Xenia Benivolski curates, writes, and lectures about sound, music, and visual art. She is editor/curator of You Can’t Trust Music at e-flux.com, a research project connecting sound-based artists, musicians, and writers to explore together how landscape, acoustics, and musical thought contribute to the formation of social and political structures. Benivolski teaches art theory and criticism. Her writing appears in Artforum, Frieze, the Wire and more



