Japanese Knotweed Festival '23
People
Here are the collaborators taking part in the Japanese knotweed festival
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Alaa Abu Asad
Artist, Researcher
Artist Alaa Abu Asad does ongoing research on unwanted species, mainly known as invasive species. The research traces the violent, xenophobic speech used to describe the Japanese knotweed and its...
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Image: Vu Ha
Portrait of Siobhan
Artist in residence February-March 2024
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Janneke de Lange
Designer
Janneke de Lange is a designer who graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven. Her work " FRUITURE NURSERY" will be displayed at Mediamatic during Japanese Knotweed Festival 2024.
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Image:
Clemens Tomlow
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Erica Monde is a filmmaker, anthropologist and artist from Northern California currently based in Scotland. Her work focuses on the relationships between the body and the environment, queer...
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Uno Fujisawa
Artist / Chef
Uno Fujisawa , born in Japan in 1982 and currently based in Amsterdam, is not only an artist but also a chef. Her artistic endeavours are rooted in a profound exploration of the seemingly simple...
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Aslı Hatipoğlu
Artist / Cook
Aslı is a textile culinary artist who's interdisciplinary social practice focuses on curating participatory dinners and installations that shed light on how culinary history and agricultural politics...
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Lucie Havel
Artist
Lucie's current knotweed projects
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Fedora Boonaert
Artist/Researcher
Fedora Boonaert has been immersed in culture since childhood. This passion led her to pursue art history studies in Ghent. Fedora's thirst for exploration led her to the Netherlands, where she...
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Eva van Dée
Fermentation expert and researcher
Eva van Dée, a specialist in fermentation with a background in industrial design, explores various approaches to fermentation. During her residency at Mediamatic, she aims to refine her recipes and...
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Teun Castelein
Artist, Creator
Teun Castelein (1980) is an artist known for a wide range of entrepreneurial adventures. He calls himself a 'one-man conglomerate' operating from the city of Amsterdam with the ambition of overtaking...
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Arne Hendriks
Pigeon Tower Artist
Arne Hendriks is an artist and researcher on human ecology. He believes we should be more generous towards ourselves in allowing radical new ideas and practices to re-define our relationship with the...
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Thijs de Zeeuw
Landscape Architect and Nature Optimist
Thijs de Zeeuw is a Landscape architect and nature-optimist. He designs environments for both humans and non-humans to cohabit in. He dreams of multi-species societies in which humans regard animals...
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Sander Nederveen
Sander Nederveen is a brewmaster at Oedipus, a new Amsterdam brewery. Oedipus prefers to brew beer to fit each person's preferences, and for each moment of the day. Focus lies on tasteful, dry beers...
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organization:
Oedipus Brewing
Brewery
We are Oedipus, four friends who share pleasure and knowledge through beer. We spend more time together than with our moms. We started brewing because we wanted to create something exciting
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Frank Bloem
Artist, Curator and Aroma Lab Supervisor
Frank Bloem is an artist who uses scent as his primary medium. He studied Fine Arts at the Rietveld academy. In the summer of 2016, Frank changed his focus from visual art to olfactory-based works.
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2023
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Remko Andeweg
Urban botanist at Bureau Stadsnatuur
Remko Andeweg works as a city botanist at Bureau Stadsnatuur, part of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam. He specialized in the flora of the urban-industrial environment, vegetation...
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Jaike Bijleveld
Senior Advisor Assetmanagement Groen at Municipality of Amsterdam
Jaike Bijleveld is Coördinator invasive plantspecies, treediseases and -plagues (such as oak processionary caterpillar) and ecology for the municipality of Amsterdam. Jaike studied biology at the...
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Emile Corre
Artist, Entrepeneur, Activist, Brouwersberaad Curator
Emile's current Knotweed project
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Virgile Durando
Designer and researcher
Virgile's current knotweed project
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Takako Hamano
Artist
Takoko's current knotweed project
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Gjalt Jan Feersma Hoekstra
Technical Sales Consultant at Agriton
Gjalt Jan is technical Sales Consultant at Agriton who knows all about sustainable farming and food fermentation. Gjalt has also conducted many agronomical trials with bokashi and composting in the...
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Marieke de Hoop
Artist
Marieke's current knotweed project
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Mas Jansma
My name is Mas. I've lived in the center of Amsterdam all of my life. I love to see the countless ways in which life finds its way in the city. Plants arrest my attention whenever they do something I...
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Edwin Keijsers
Researcher Fibres in a circular future
Edwin has been working as a researcher at Wageningen Food & Biobased Research for the last 27 years on extracting and processing natural fibres for optimal use in existing and new circular industrial...
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Niek Kosten
Graphic Designer, Design Researcher
Niek's current knotweed project
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Sebastjan Kovač
Chef and Ecologist
Sebastjan's current knotweed project
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Krater
Production space
Krater's current knotweed project
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Marc Lemonnier
Artist / musician
Marc's current knotweed projects
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Neo Flutes
Craftsman / musician
Neo is speaking at the symposium of the Japanese Knotweed Festival
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Yoshinari Nishiki
Artist
Yoshinari's current knotweed project
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Gaja Mežnarić Osole
Designer
Gaja's current knotweed project
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Norbert Peeters
Botanical philosopher
Norbert Peeters (37) is a botanical philosopher, writer, and PhD-student at Leiden University. His dissertation focuses on the philosophy of weeds, invasive exotics, and the historical roots of...
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Lynn Shore
Herbalist and foraging teacher
The natural world has always deeply fascinated me – we are part of it and need to respect it. I express this through teaching, writing and being in green spaces. My professional background is in...
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Debra Solomon
Artist
In 2004 Debra Solomon (US/NL) began publishing her independent research on culiblog.org on food, food culture, and the culture that grows our food. Her recent work includes a series of temporary...
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Danica Sretenović
Curator and Architect
Danica's current knotweed project
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Johan van Valkenburg
Senior Scientist at the Netherlands Institute for Vectors, Invasive plants and Plant health (NIVIP)
Johan van Valkenburg is currently a Senior Scientist at the Netherlands Institute for Vectors, Invasive plants and Plant health (NIVIP), leading research projects relating to invasive non-native...
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Nout Verhoeven
Director Engineering at City of Amsterdam
Nout Verhoeven is Director Engineering at the municipality of Amsterdam. He is responsible for a great variety of projects concerning public spaces in Amsterdam. As a physicist, he is trained to...
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Annemarie Verschoor
Artist and Biologist
Annemarie's current knotweed projects
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Janny Vos
Strategic Partnerships Director for CABI
Dr. Janny Vos is Strategic Partnerships Director for CABI – an international, inter-governmental, not-for-profit organization that applies scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and...
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Kristof Vrancken
Visual Artist, Photographer and Researcher
Kristof's current knotweed project
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Why Knot Design
Biomaterial Design Studio
Why Knot is speaking at the symposium of the Japanese Knotweed Festival
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Pauline Wiersema
Social Practice Artist
Pauline's current knotweed project
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Anke Wijnja
Wild picker, Nature coach and Bushcrafter
Anke has been eating from the wild for half her life. As a student in rotterdam, she collected "park greens," out of curiosity about what people were eating here for centuries; She immersed herself...
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Sus Willems
Ecological advisor
"Every landscape, no matter how big or how small, is a music score that I want to read in order to hear the music. As a green manager, you can select very specific musical notes on a stave, but in...
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Anne Hofstra
Artistic Research
Anne is an artist and artistic researcher. In 2023 she created the show KIP, that plays at Mediamatic.