IMPAKT

Last chance to see the Festival Exhibition Techno-Ancestrality at BAK Basecamp!

Explore Techno-Ancestrality with us this Sunday.

Join one of our guided tours through the festival exhibition, where curators Edward Akintola and Arjon Dunnewind will introduce the ideas behind the works together with participating artists.

Through textile, script, ceramic, image, sound, and data, Techno-Ancestrality approaches technology as a field of memory, survival, and collective knowledge — opening up other ways of understanding what technics can be.

Guided tours:

BAK Basecamp / 12:30–13:45
aniara rodado, Isaiah Lopaz, Lorena Solís Bravo

IMPAKT / 14:30–15:45
Voluspa Jarpa, Russell Watson, Inty & Yauri Muenala

BAK Basecamp / 16:30–17:45
aniara rodado, Isaiah Lopaz, Angelina Kumar

🎟️ get your ticket at the desk, or via the link in our bio

The exhibition at IMPAKT will continue until 14 June (the international artists will only be here this Sunday)

Introducing Nancy Jouwe | IMPAKT Festival 2026⁠: Techno-Ancestrality

Nancy Jouwe is a cultural historian, researcher, public speaker, and teacher whose work focuses on postcolonial history, cultural movements, and the histories of slavery in the Netherlands. Through research, writing, and public history, she brings historical knowledge into conversation with urgent questions of representation, memory, and social justice.

At the IMPAKT Festival 2026, Jouwe moderates Technologies of Fabulation with Voluspa Jarpa, Fabiane Borges, and Isaiah Lopaz — a panel on storytelling as a way of preserving collective knowledge, confronting erasure, and expanding what an archive can be.
Together, the speakers explore fabulation as a practice that connects fragments, lived experience, and inherited knowledge, opening space for new configurations of memory and possibility.

Join us for Technologies of Fabulation and get your tickets via the link in our bio 🔗

📅 Thursday 9 April
🕙 19:30 — 20:45
📍 Theater Utrecht – Main Hall

Festival dates: 8–12 April

Introducing aniara rodado | IMPAKT Festival 2026: Techno-Ancestrality⁠

aniara rodado is a choreographer, artist, and researcher whose work explores plant worlds, witchcraft, and interspecies relations through a transhackfeminist and counter-colonial lens.

At the IMPAKT Festival 2026, rodado joins Ancestral Biotopes alongside Tabita Rezaire and Angelina Kumar — a panel on ecological knowledge, care, and more reciprocal ways of relating to land, climate, and collective life.

Her installation Yuca Brava, on view at BAK Basecamp from 8 April to 14 June, reflects on bitter cassava as a living technology of care, transformation, and intergenerational ecological knowledge.

Through their practice, rodado questions dominant ecological paradigms and opens space for other forms of knowledge, alliance, and coexistence.

Join us for Ancestral Biotopes and get your tickets via the link in our bio 🔗

📅 Friday 10 April
🕙 12:30 — 13:45
📍 Theater Utrecht – Main Hall

Festival dates 8—12 April

Introducing Jaasir Linger | IMPAKT Festival 2026⁠: Techno-Ancestrality

Jaasir Linger is an interdisciplinary artist, photographer, and filmmaker based in Rotterdam. Rooted in research into Winti, Afro-Surinamese heritage, decolonisation, and Blackness, his work moves between spiritual inquiry, history, and installation.

At the IMPAKT Festival 2026, he joins Devices of Divination alongside Buhlebezwe Siwani and Russell Watson — a panel on ritual, spirituality, and ancestral practices as living technologies.

Linger is also part of the festival’s Winti sonic lecture and performance with Marian Markelo and Warimbo Krioro, bringing Afro-Surinamese spiritual traditions into a shared space through percussion, song, storytelling, and movement.

Join us for Devices of Divination and get your tickets via the link in our bio 🔗

📅 Thursday 9 April
🕙 12:30 — 13:45
📍 Theater Utrecht

Festival Dates: 8–12 April

Introducing Adriana I. Churampi Ramírez | IMPAKT Festival 2026⁠: Techno-Ancestrality

Adriana I. Churampi Ramírez is a scholar of Latin American literature whose work explores identity, representation, and the construction of Indigenous histories across colonial and contemporary texts.

At the IMPAKT Festival 2026, she joins Evelyn Wan, Yauri Muenala Vega, and Inty Muenala Vega for Transgenerational Counter-Coding — a panel on ancestral knowledge, alternative archives, and rewriting dominant systems from within.

Together, the speakers reflect on how inherited structures can be interrupted, reinterpreted, and transformed across generations in ongoing struggles for sovereignty and self-determination.

Join us for Transgenerational Counter-Coding and get your tickets via the link in our bio 🔗

📅 Saturday 11 April
🕙 16:00 — 17:15
📍 Theater Utrecht – Main Hall

Festival Dates: 8–12 April

Check out the full Festival programme at IMPAKT.nl

Introducing Shanice “Sissi” Djemesi | IMPAKT Festival 2026⁠: Techno-Ancestrality

Shanice “Sissi” Djemesi is a visual artist, storyteller, researcher, and cultural bearer. Through textiles and visual media, she explores oral traditions, rituals, and crafts rooted in Maroon culture, shaped by her own lived experience and memory.

Her work moves through knowledge, care, spirituality, and imagination, creating spaces of remembrance and reconnection.

At the IMPAKT Festival 2026, Djemesi joins Fugitive Frequencies alongside Meredith Joeroeja, Ronald Dijkman, and Jimmy Carrillo to reflect on Maroon identity, survival, and the transmission of cultural knowledge through lived experience.

Get your tickets for the panel via the link in our bio, and explore the full festival programme 🔗

📅 Thursday 9 April
🕙 16:00 — 17:15
📍 Theater Utrecht – Main Hall

Festival Dates: 8–12 April

Introducing Yauri & Inty Muenala Vega | IMPAKT Festival 2026⁠: Techno-Ancestrality

Yauri and Inty Muenala Vega are artists and cultural organisers from Ecuador, and this year’s S+T+ARTS Buen-TEK prize winners. Their work engages intercultural collaboration, Andean cosmologies, symbolic systems, identity, migration, and ecological relation.

At the IMPAKT Festival 2026, they join Adriana I. Churampi Ramirez and Evelyn Wan for Transgenerational Counter-Coding — a panel on ancestral knowledge, resistance, and the practice of rewriting dominant systems from within.

Through questions of counter-cartography, translation, memory, and self-determination, the conversation explores how inherited structures can be interrupted, redirected, and reimagined across generations.

Join us for Transgenerational Counter-Coding and get your tickets via the link in our bio 🔗

📅 Saturday 11 April
🕙 16:00 — 17:15
📍 Theater Utrecht – Main Hall

Festival Dates: 8–12 April

Don’t forget to check out the full Festival programme at impakt.nl

Introducing Sissel M. Bergh | IMPAKT Festival 2026⁠
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Sissel M. Bergh is a Sámi filmmaker and artist whose work explores knowledge systems, landscape, and the entanglement of myth, memory, and official history. Drawing on both artistic and scientific methods, she reflects on the interweaving of South Sámi and Norwegian cultures, and on histories that have been suppressed for political ends.⁠
At the IMPAKT Festival 2026, Bergh presents Know How to Know How, a screening programme featuring and Everything is speaking. First draft on Gorrie Guanna.⁠
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In , knowledge is carried through everyday gestures, language, family exchange, and embodied familiarity with place. In Everything is speaking. First draft on Gorrie Guanna, Bergh approaches Sámi spiritual traditions with care and openness, treating landscape as an active field of memory and presence.]⁠
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Across both works, knowledge appears as a way of moving attentively through a world that answers back. ⁠
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Join us for the screening and get your tickets via the link in our bio 🔗⁠
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📅 Thursday 9 April⁠
🕙 14:15 — 15:30⁠
📍 Theater Utrecht – Studio 3⁠
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Festival dates: 8–12 April⁠
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Find the full programme on impakt.nl

Introducing Voluspa Jarpa | IMPAKT Festival 2026

🗺️Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa works across installation, video, archival research, and spatial scenography, exploring archives, memory, and social trauma in Latin America. Her practice examines how knowledge is produced and contested through systems of power, with a focus on colonialism, state violence, and resistance.

Her work has been presented at major biennials including Venice, São Paulo, Shanghai, Istanbul, and BienalSur, and has received multiple international awards.

At IMPAKT Festival 2026, Jarpa will present the keynote What if the territory is a sensitive archive? The talk draws on her long-running research into archives, cartography, and geopolitical infrastructures, asking how territory can be read as a site of memory, power, and resistance.

Join us for the keynote ‘What if the territory is a sensitive archive?’ On Friday 10 April. 

And see Voluspa Jarpa’s ‘Counter-Cartographies of Resistance: Innovation and Ancestral Memory’ in the exhibition of IMPAKT Festival 2026: Techno-Ancestrality, on view from 8 April to 14 June.

📅 Friday 10 April
🕘 16:00 — 17:15
📍 Theater Utrecht
Festival dates: 8–12 April

Get your tickets via the link in bio!