is a designer who has always had a desire to better understand his place and identity as a Malaysian. He graduated with his Bachelor’s in Graphic and Textile Design from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in 2022. His practice is about safeguarding contemporary legends onto textiles as tools for storytelling, just as the ancestors of Borneo did with their dreams and stories before the arrival of written alphabets from the West. Currently his artistic research is focused on evoking the presence of colonial narratives in our present-day lives and conjuring new myths to what it means to be an independent country.

is an Oslo-based artist, musician and craftsman working with interactive sound installations that contain textiles, sculpture and performance. Drawing on her background in both music and textile art, her work explores the relationship between sound and material, drawing on the commonalities between weaving and musical composition to create digitally hand-woven textiles that create visual, tactile experiences of sound structures.

is a visual and textile artist born based in Stockholm. Her work touches on the technology, code, and interface of weaving, and what that does to how weaving is experienced; as an image or as a system, as free or as strictly ordered. She did early on explore what different technologies and interfaces do to how woven fabric specifically and sometimes contradictory holds certain data. And how a strict order through craft can be transformed into something else and beyond. She is part of a newer generation of contemporary weavers who emerged in the 2010s. This group has explored weaving as an artistic expression, both experimentally and in conversation with tradition.

is a founder of the Stockholm-based Southnord (former Fiberspace) gallery and an artist who’s main line of inquiry is our common cultural heritage, using textile techniques as a vehicle to navigate her investigations. She is interested in site-specific narratives, working often with a mix of media, from sculpture to performance.

is a Swedish/Norwegian artist based in Stockholm, known for her interdisciplinary approach merging sound, textile craft, and performance art. With a unique focus on costume as the initiator and main actor, their performances delve into the exploration of portraying through textiles.

Varhaugvik invites diverse cultural practitioners to interpret textiles in captivating ways for each performance. Collaborating with fellow musicians, they skillfully utilize their voice as an enchanting tool, capable of communicating the inexplicable. The voice acts as a bridge between the performance and the audience, inviting them to transcend into a realm of heightened experience.