From 30 October until 3 November, the IMPAKT Festival 2024 offered a stage to artists who apply their critical mentality on all fronts: from politics and society to themselves as individuals and their environment in the worlds of art, culture and academia – the fields in which they operate and on which they depend. In these times of identity politics, elite capture and hypercapitalism, we explored the pressures artists face from the demands of countless activist, social and political agendas.