In this 8th edition, IMPACT12 presents three artistic positions that demonstrate, in the most varied of ways, a human presence in fashion, music, film and performance by revealing a real and concrete practice. Choreographer Philipp Gehmacher is considered an understated ›Poet of Visibility‹, his decisive concepts have for some time now made tangible new communicative dimensions within dance; Henrik Vibskov, fashion designer and musician, whose productions make objects, atmospheres and performances comprehensible only as a Gesamtkunstwerk; and Shana Moulton, performing filmmaker, whose suggestive visual collages allow projection space and real space to merge into one another and who, equally precisely and ironically, submerges herself as an alter ego and eccentric fictional character into this sound-image-space framework, into the abstruse shallows of our consumerist world. Alongside Philipp Gehmacher who opens IMPACT12 on Thursday evening with the German premiere of his new work ›solo with jack‹, American artist Shana Moulton will also hold a public talk ›The magical line...‹ on Saturday presenting a chronological-anecdotal outline of her work and forces that shaped it, with video and performance excerpts.