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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.

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📅 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