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I AM NOT AN ORACLE

A World Building Exhibition

14 november 2025
— 1 februari 2026
12:00 — 18:00


Locatie: IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture]
Openingstijden: Woensdag t/m zondag van 12:00 tot 18:00.

Tentoonstelling tickets:
€7,- (Regular), €6,- (Discount CJP, Upas, Student, <18) of €3,50 (Met Museumjaarkaart)
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Hoe ordenen we de wereld om ons heen? En belangrijker: wat doet dat met ons? Op 14 november opent IMPAKT in Utrecht I AM NOT AN ORACLE, samengesteld door curator Ine Gevers: een interactieve reis langs negen kunstwerken die reflecteren op de grote systemen die ons bestaan structureren – identiteit, biologie, economie, kolonialisme, klimaat, technologie, religie en politiek.

Om grip te krijgen op een complexe wereld, maken we gebruik van systemen. Ze scheppen orde en maken samenleven mogelijk. Maar wat bedoeld was als behulpzaam instrument, is ongemerkt onze realiteit gaan vormgeven. De IMPAKT Tentoonstelling I AM NOT AN ORACLE zal je niet de waarheid voorleggen, maar nodigt je uit om de grote systemen – én je eigen aannames – te bevragen: via kunstinstallaties die functioneren als speelse, soms confronterende spiegels. Bezoekers doorlopen de tentoonstelling als een game, waarbij elke installatie een eigen perspectief biedt en uitdaagt om met nieuwe ogen naar de wereld – en naar jezelf – te kijken. 

Humor, poëzie, spel en verbeelding helpen om de structuren die ons bestaan bepalen te ontrafelen. Soms werkt dit prikkelend, soms bevrijdend – altijd met het doel om kritisch denken en creativiteit aan te wakkeren. Zo wordt zichtbaar hoe diep systemen ons zelfbeeld vormen, en hoe we daar opnieuw grip op kunnen krijgen. Het besef hoe gefilterd en voorgevormd onze wereld is, is indringend en persoonlijk. Tegen de tijd dat je de tentoonstelling verlaat, ben je niet meer helemaal dezelfde persoon als toen je binnenkwam.

Kunstenaars:
BBB_
Yinzk
Monobanda
Cristina Lucas
Shu Lea Cheang
Shertise Solano
Folkert de Jong
patricia kaersenhout
The School of Mutants

Curator:
Ine Gevers

Beeld: Monobanda, Soul Paint 

 

Songs of Cyborgeoisie

BBB_ (2024)
 

LETTING GO

Yinzk (2022)
 

Soul Paint

Monobanda (2024)
 

4 FAIT/H

Cristina Lucas (2025)
 

Virus Becoming

Shu Lea Cheang (2024)
 

Overboard and Still Breathing

Shertise Solano (2022)
 

Jacob’s Pillow

Folkert de Jong (2023)
 

MEA CULPA

patricia kaersenhout (2020)
 

The Dig

The School of Mutants (2024)
BBB_ Yinzk Monobanda Cristina Lucas Shu Lea Cheang Shertise Solano Folkert de Jong patricia kaersenhout The School of Mutants

BBB_

― Kunstenaar

BBB_ is a technologically advances cross disciplinary music and performance project. Founded by allapopp and Alexander Sahm in early 2015, it works on the intersection of music, performance, art, design, philosophy and digital technologies.The project works in live performance and scenographic installations format, experiments with digital voices, natural language processing, brain stimulating music and interactive visuals. With utopian and dystopian setups, through experimental sound, intense electronic music and spoken words, artists try to confront the spectator with a situation where human and inhuman conditions merge, speculating on various states of mind, relationships and self-perception, altered by socially and emotionally intelligent digital technologies.

Yinzk

― Kunstenaar

Yinzk (1998, NL) is a hyper-sentient artist, centring both the body’s senses and one’s feelings. They translate delicate themes such as collectivity, selfhood, the body and societal conditions into cathartic artworks. Their work is coloured by a commitment to collaboration and accessibility, connecting various disciplines and experiences. Yinzk intersects the sacred with the heart and the fantastical with the real in their films, music and performances. Prioritising the extensive portrayal of feelings over words, their body of work reflects their desire to create immersive, personal experiences - ever yearning for the full circle.

Monobanda

― Kunstenaar

Monobanda is an award winning studio that explores and expands the boundaries of play and interaction. Their projects connect the human body, physical space and the virtual world in surprising ways, creating new forms of meaningful play that find their way into art, science and education. Their core aesthetic is ‘play’. A state of being that all humans share, and facilitates our best traits, like creativity, communication, motivation and self confidence. Inspired by the social interactions that are found on a playground or in a sandbox, where creativity and imagination run free, they make projects that inhabit the space between the virtual and physical world. This means they always create experiences where people discover something new about themselves through playful behavior. Something that is always both personal and totally universal. They work in hybrid teams where our art is informed, and co-created by scientists, psychologists, care professionals and other experts on the broad spectrum of human experience. Their work ranges from (VR) Games, art installations to workshops and mental healthcare interventions. Play is everywhere after all.

Cristina Lucas

― Kunstenaar

Working across many different media, Cristina Lucas dives into the political and economic structures of our time to reveal disjunctures of official story, personal history, and collective memory. The focus of her work ranges from the position of women, Western hegemony, and humankind’s ambition to control nature. Cristina Lucas was born in Jaén, Andalucía. She holds one degree in Fine Arts from the Madrid Complutense University and a Master on Fine Arts by University of California Irvine. She also attended the Rijksacademie, Amsterdam. Lucas has given important solo exhibitions both in Spain and abroad, most notably Environment Is Us, Kranenburgh Museum Bergen · Back and Forth, CAAC Sevilla·Patterns, Museo Helga de Alvear,Cáceres · The People That Is Missing, Artica Svalbard · Trading Transcendence, MUDAM Luxembourg · Global Edges, Ok Centrum Linz, Manchas en el silencio, Alcalá 31 Madrid · Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico · Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Móstoles among others.

Shu Lea Cheang

― Kunstenaar

Shu Lea Cheang is an artist and filmmaker who engages in genre bending gender hacking art practices. She drafts sci-fi narratives in her film scenario and artwork imagination. She builds social interface with transgressive plots and open network that permits public participation. Celebrated as a net art pioneer with BRANDON (1998 - 99), the first web art commissioned and collected by Guggenheim Museum, New York, Cheang represented Taiwan with mixed media installation, 3x3x6, at Venice Biennale 2019.   Crafting her own genre of Scifi New Queer Cinema, she has made 4 feature films, FRESH KILL(1994), I.K.U. (2000), FLUIDø (2017) and UKI (2023). In 2024, she received the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Award. In early 2025, she presented a survey show KI$$ KI$$ at Haus der Kunst in Munich and a  theatre performance Hagay Dreaming at Tate Modern, London. Currently she is working on LOVER LOVE, a mixed media installation for Leslie Lohman Museum opening in April 2026. 

Shertise Solano

― Kunstenaar

“Solano vertaalt haar eigen ervaringen en visioenen naar droomwerelden op monumentaal – atelierwandvullend – formaat. Door die werelden bewegen sprookjesachtige hybride mens-dierfiguren die associaties oproepen met de meest uiteenlopende mythologieën en culturen. Haar werk vertegenwoordigt de waarheid of werkelijkheid die al in de beschouwer aanwezig is, zegt ze zelf: het houdt je een spiegel voor. De figuren, die ze met krachtige lijnen en vlakken in overwegend ritueel rood, zwart en wit neerzet, zijn nu eens speels en vrolijk en komen dan weer dreigend over, (…).” 

Folkert de Jong

― Kunstenaar

Folkert de Jong is bekend om zijn levensgrote beeldengroepen die gemaakt zijn van Styrofoam en polyurethaan schuim, dat als isolatiemateriaal gebruikt wordt voor onder andere in de bouw, architectuur en de decorbouw van de Hollywood filmindustrie. Met dit voor de kunst atypische materiaal, dat afkomstig is van de petrochemische industrie, schept De Jong opmerkelijke en complexe tableaus van groteske werelden, die macht, geweld, rampspoed en andere verontrustende aspecten van de menselijke conditie tot onderwerp hebben. Geïntrigeerd door de krochten van de menselijke ziel, sleurt de kunstenaar de kijker mee in die wereld waar het bizarre en het kwetsbare samenkomt. 

patricia kaersenhout

― Kunstenaar

Born in The Netherlands but a descendant of Surinamese parents, patricia kaersenhout developed an artistic practice which investigates their Surinamese background in relation to their upbringing in a Western European culture. The political thread in kaersenhout’s work raises questions about the African Diaspora’s movements and it’s relation to feminism, sexuality, racism, and the history of slavery. Their oeuvre is rooted in ancestral memory. It explores hidden and forgotten histories and evokes a shared understanding of the weight and pain of cultural memory, so crudely shaped by colonialism and Western modernity. kaersenhout envisions a world of multiple possibilities and universes to ensure the potential to dream of a world of peace and joy where many worlds can flourish.

The School of Mutants

― Kunstenaar

The School of Mutants is a collaborative art and research platform, initiated in 2018 by Hamedine Kane & Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro. The project aims to mobilize spaces for the production, transmission and pluralization of knowledge in a non-hierarchical way, in connection with socio-cultural, ecological and aesthetic mutations of the real. Their inquiry into educational infrastructures that emerged in relation to independence in West Africa continues through specific projects that embodies the fact of being part of « le Tout-Monde » Formal members in 2025 are : Horacio Cadzco, Diane Cescutti, Hamedine Kane, Lou Mo, Valérie Osouf,  Boris Raux and Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro 

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