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2022 Iliana Metaxa
Getting intimate through stitches
Meet Desirée Hammen
Are you curious to know more about our new workshop, Radical Embroidery? We talk with workshop tutor Desirée Hammen, an Eindhoven-based fashion designer and artist who specialises in embroidery.
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2022 Iliana Metaxa
Stitches, Threads and Needles
Exploring the edges of contemporary embroidery
From feminist empowerment and craftivism, to DIY material experimentations, embroidery is crossing boundaries left and right. Our new Radical Embroidery workshop has been inspired by a lot of...
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February '22 - May '22
Andrea Valdivia
Photography Assistant
My name is Andrea, and I am a 21-year-old Peruvian who joined Mediamatic as a photography intern (Feb - May 2022). I was born in Lima, Peru, but moved abroad three years ago for my studies...
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Private Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Freestyle Carpenting
with Niels Albers
High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...
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Beftival Photo Gallery
A collection of photos from Beftival
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Eline Salden,
The Pipers
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021By creating this interactive installations, students of the Willem de Kooning Academy Eline, Noah and Susanne redefine the interpretation of intimacy by stimulating our senses. Their aim is to...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Thijske Akerboom
Glossarium
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Thijske works with latex in a wearable and sculptural context and has a fascination for bodies and shapes and how they relate or seem to contradict. For her, working with latex feels like working...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Yacinth Pos, Laura van Zuylen
Lick my Oyster
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Do you crave for a gentle, yet intense touch of the tongue? There is no scientific evidence that oysters actually make you horny, however we can’t deny the fact hat a specimen swimming in its own...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Hester Scheurwater
Licking the House
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021This event is part of Beftival during Museumnacht Amsterdam.
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Cancelled - Self-Design Enzo Mari Furniture
- with Niels Albers19Mar 2022High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Self-Design Enzo Mari Furniture
- with Niels Albers19Feb 2022High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...
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Sacha Knežević
Office Manager (he/him)
At Mediamatic I'm responsible for human resources and facility management.
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Sam Nemeth
Lik Locus
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Sam Nemeth responds to the Orgasm Machine by creating a tongue interface. Lik Locus explores the cultural significance of this highly complicated muscle structure and its role in our sexual protocols.
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Why Beftival?
A Conversation with Ine Poppe and Olga Middendorp
Beftival is coming, and, along with our growing anticipation, we also got curious to know more about the conceptual behind the scenes of it all. What pressing societal issues gave inspiration to this...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Lizette van Hecke
Erotic Embroidery
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Who said embroidery can't be sexy? Join for a steamy embroidery session with artist and storyteller Lizette van Hecke. During this workshop, you are invited to bring sensual images and fantasies to...
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Music Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Spill Gold
Spill Gold
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Darkness and light, playfulness and control: Spill Gold is a duo enhancing the transcendental character of duality. With cosmic, catchy & alienating sounds, coming from their drums, synths and voices
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performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Victor Engbers
LIKKEN
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021How do men deal with licking? Are men perhaps a little afraid of it because it gives freedoms to women to solve their pleasure themselves? Victor provides insight into cultural expressions and...
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lecture: Natlab
Let's Talk About Climate Justice
- With Paolo Cirio, Raphael Weyland, Teresa Borasino and Selçuk Balamir23Oct 2021Artist and activist Paolo Cirio deep dives into the research behind his work and shares insights about legal and financial claims using “Attribution Science” and “Majors Carbon Databases”. Raphael...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Anna Gimbrere
The Bef Quiz with Anna Grimbrere
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Anna has her own television show called “Anna’s Brain” in which she and a team of young inventors and scientists, use scientific knowledge, guts and creativity to come up with spectacular answers. ...
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film: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jinnie Ahn, Julia Leis Lap
Eat Her
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021For Beftival, Jinnie Ahn and Julia Leis Lap created a video that shows the over-sexualisation of both the animal body as a way to sell it as food and the female body. This causes a new level of...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Daphne Gakes
Intimate talks with Daphne Gakes
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Get into the bathtub with artist and writer Daphne Gakes. In her podcast Tussen de Lakens (In between the sheets) Daphne talks openly with people about life, relationships, love and sex. This time...
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performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Nelke Mast
The Pleasure Is All Mine
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Nelke performs as a 'housewife' to create a visual commentary on gender roles by deconstructing and re-establishing prominent gendered sexual archetypes. Come see how a traditional patriarchal gender...
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performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Amber Rahantoknam
The Colorful Cunnilingual
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021See illustrator and poet Amber Rahantoknam, aka Ambigou, working on the windows of the Mediamatic restaurant, armed with a paintbrush and headset. While painting fluorescent pussies, tongues, fingers...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Irma Joanne
Female Textures
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Irma Joanne is an interdisciplinary artist, with a background in fine arts, scenography and bodywork. Her work occurs where she touches, sees, and feels the bare skin. Female skin, to be precise. An...