Future Kin

Warehouse9 is partnering with Live Art Development Agency (UK), My Wild Flag (Sweden), Rosendal Teater (Norway) and ANTI Festival (Finland) to create a network dedicated to nurturing queer interdisciplinary performance practice across borders.

Partners will develop collective tools and strategies for supporting marginalised practices through co-learning programmes focused on sustaining queer practice, community, public space and legacy. The network aims to build a transnational model for co-learning and cooperation, grounded in the cultural and political significance of queer performance practice. Across developing, platforming, and archiving queer practice, the network members will share tools for preserving marginalised histories, challenging dominant narratives, and enabling social transformation through cultural programming.

Future Kin is funded by Nordic Culture Point

About the partners:

Live Art Development Agency, London, UK, is a charitable organisation, dedicated to the development of live art research, practice and infrastructure. Founded in 1999, the Live Art Development Agency (LADA) operates from East London and works locally, nationally and internationally. They are the home of the Study Room research collection, which holds an archive of queer performance from the 1980s to today. The archive will form the starting point of the London network meeting focused on preserving and activating queer art histories and a public discursive event for our artistic community. LADA will host the first network meeting in London in June 2026. www.thisisliveart.co.uk

My Wild Flag, Stockholm, Sweden, is an annual dance and choreography festival happening in early September since 2017. The festival offers international and local acts working with experimental formats and intersectional perspectives. MWF can be seen as a choreography in itself, where different communities engage in social choreographies as well as works made for the stage. The festival wants to expose and address urgent themes: bodies, thinking and beings that disturb and embrace the ways in which we perceive the world. MWF will bring their experience of artist-led curation and grassroots activism to the network, and host the second network meeting at the festival in early September 2026. www.mywildflag.com

ANTI Festival, Kuopio, Finland, is an international contemporary art festival held annually in September. The festival has been organised for 25 years and is Finland’s leading live art event. ANTI will work as the project lead, taking care of the overall project coordination and financial management. It will utilise its wide photo and video archives and experiences in working with queer artists and local communities to support the project objectives. Through its 25-year history, the festival has not only supported queer live art strongly but also worked for queering the mindset and spaces of its hometown, for more equal and safer public spaces. ANTI will host the third and final network meeting at the ANTI Festival in late September 2026 in Kuopio. https://antifestival.com/en/

Rosendal Teater, Trondheim, Norway, is an inviting, curious, super international and hyper local house of performance, theatre, dance, music and debate. Their vision is to transform the performing arts – towards a bold, inclusive and sustainable future. RT is deeply embedded in queer art locally, nationally and internationally, with a significant proportion of its programme given to queer focusses and audiences that are twice as likely to be queer as national averages. RT will contribute its curatorial, and socially engaged expertise to support the project’s goals. www.rosendalteater.no

Warehouse9, Copenhagen, Denmark, brings nearly 20 years of community-rooted queer arts practice in Denmark, where queer performance has historically been underrepresented and under-documented. We are committed to supporting marginalised practices, reimagining the politics of space, and creating artist-centred opportunities.  As we approach our 20th anniversary, this network will be instrumental in guiding how we engage with and activate our archive. WH9 will contribute its curatorial, archival, and socially engaged expertise to support the project’s goals.

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River Lin: My Body is Queer Library / ANTI Festival 2022. Photo: Akseli Muraja

Ali Cedroni

Technician

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Ali Cedroni (She/Her) has been involved in nearly every industry involving sound, from recording studios, to film sets, to video games, to concerts and theater.

After studying Audio Arts and Acoustics at Columbia College Chicago in 2016, she left the US and became heavily involved in the DIY music and queer art scenes in Scandinavia, expanding her skills to lights and performing music herself. 

Sarah Wegeberg

Producer & communications

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Sarah Wegeberg (she/they) is the producer and head of communications at Warehouse9. 

Sarah has an MA in Theatre- and performance studies from University of Copenhagen (2023), with a focus on queer dramaturgy, performance ontologies, and communications. She has worked with several queer theatre and performance groups, across both independent and larger institutional contexts. 

At Warehouse9, Sarah produces multidisciplinary art and community projects that connect artists and communities across disciplines and traditions.

Kasper Daugaard Poulsen

Chairperson of Warehouse9's board of directors

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Dancer, performer and choreographer.

Educated dancer from the Amsterdam School of the Arts in 2002. Kasper works in a wide variety and mix of formats and genres such as dance, performance, text-based theatre, music drama, installation work, video art, site-specific work, and works for children and young audiences, both on a national and international basis.

He served as member of the Danish Arts Council, The Committee for Performing Arts as well as The Committee for Music Drama (2014-17), and as member of Aarhus City Arts Council (2018-21).

Member of the board of Aarhus Theatre and chairman of SCENATET –ensemble for art and music.

Member of the Horsens Theatre Festival curating group 2026-29. Board graduate from Aarhus Business Academy 2026.

Jasmin Ingemansen

Communications manager

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Jasmin has a master’s degree in English and cultural communications from the University of Copenhagen and has worked with several fields within the cultural sphere. She has worked with executing and communicating films, festivals, art fairs, and literature, and has now embarked upon queer performance art at Warehouse9. 

Emma Castro Møller

Co-Director

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Emma (they/she) has been a core member since 2012 and a leading effort in driving organisational development. They have helped shape WH9’s artistic profile, initiated national and international collaborations and consolidated WH9 through fundraising strategies, and insisting on production methods centering care and accessiblility.

In addition, Emma works as an independent curator, e.g. through the curatorial duo osborn&møller, where they have acted as guest curator at the Wellcome Collection (UK) and curated part of City of Women’s 25 year anniversary festival in 2019 (SL). Emma has experience as a freelance producer in the UK, where they worked with artists such as Poppy Jackson, Manuel Vason and SPILL Festival. Emma holds a MA in Theater and Performance from Queen Mary, University of London and a BA (Hons) in Drama, Applied Theatre & Education from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Jørgen Callesen

Artistic Director

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Jørgen Callesen (They/He) is co-founder and artistic director of  Warehouse9.

For the past 19 years, they have been an integral part of developing Warehouse9 to become a leading organisation for cross-aesthetic queer art, including international festivals and socially engaged projects. He holds a Ph.D. in information & media science from Aarhus University (2005) and has an artistic practice with the performance figure “miss fish”. They have presented solo work in Denmark and internationally since 2002 and work in collaboration with numerous queer artists as well as in lager scale productions.

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