IMPAKT Festival 2024: DEAL WITH IT

The IMPAKT Festival 2024: DEAL WITH IT will take place from Wednesday 30 October to Sunday 3 November on different locations in Utrecht, including Het Huis Utrecht and IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture]. The festival will be a plea for radical, engaging and (self-)critical art.

With DEAL WITH IT the IMPAKT Festival 2024 makes a stand for artists who embrace controversy and dare to be radical. Their approach comes out of a principled critical practice, not some easy attempt to attract attention for cheap effect. They express themselves on the pressing issues of our times, and do so in non-conformist ways. They dare to be controversial. They use humour and can handle ambiguity and paradox. Especially now, with a populist right-wing government taking power, it’s going to take real courage to keep the arts going – and to unite us, despite our differing opinions. 

The first names:

• Dries Verhoeven: in-your-face critical artist working in large scale performative installation works
• The Yes Men: satirical activists, speaking truth to power
• Joyce Overheul: agent provocateur from Utrecht
• Kubra Khademi: Afghan performance artist forced to flee her country
• Domenique Himmelsbach de Vries: social designer and generator of ideas
• Maxim Februari: ideosyncratic philosopher with an opinion on ‘bad art’
• Roy Villevoye: against-the-grain relational artist
• Julika Rudelius: artist, analyses how power manifests itself in human behaviour
• Jeroen Jongeleen: artist intervening in public space
• Roee Rosen: politically incorrect Israeli artist and filmmaker