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Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Kinky Confessions
- Yes I have sinned, please forgive me!16أيار / مايو 2025Confessions can be relieving, empowering, and cathartic, even creating a communal moment. Step aside from the constraints and expectations of modern society and join Dante Woods on a path of fetish...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sound, Space, Sex
- Project Presentation with Renata De Bonis, Samar Khan and Lena Kuzmich9Feb 2023Nature is dualistic: it can be beautiful yet display ugliness, safe but also dangerous, kind and at the same time cruel. Nature can teach us a lot about who we are and how the world around us is...
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Chiesetta della Misericordia Willem Velthoven
When the body says Yes
23Apr 2022- The Dutch contribution to the Venice Biennale 2022 is a very cosy space.27Nov 2022Melanie Bonajo: "It is essentially a cuddle space which centralizes the clitoris as the epicentre of social design and a place for worship". This was the motto of the amazing environment that Bonajo...
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Beftival Photo Gallery
A collection of photos from Beftival
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Beftival Program
An overview of all exhibitions, performances, workshops and events that are part of Beftival.
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Proposal by: Irina Birger
Sex Positivity with Dr. Birger
Project proposal: Ongoing performative series
Lately, there was a lot of discussions on gray sexuality, supersexuality, and sex-positivity in general . The topic of Sex Positivity is of particular interest to Dr.Birger as a pro-sex feminist.
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Proposal by: Jonas Klinkenberg
Next Door
Project Proposal:
NEXT DOOR is an installation by STUDIO URBANISTAN which is based on interviews with sex workers – giving access to a parallel world that takes up the complex realities of sex workers: a freely...
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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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Stella Bergsma
Writer & Artist
Stella Bergsma is a writer, opinion maker and frontwoman of the band Einsteinbarbie . In 2014 her collection Cupcakes with poems and song lyrics was published by Lebowski publishing house and...
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Erika Lust
Film director
Erika is a proponent of the female gaze and employs women behind the camera in all key positions. She has an ongoing Open Call for Guest Directors to get more women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ people in...
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Film Dinner Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Laura van Zuylen , Yacinth Pos
BEF Film Dinner
- Beftival's Film Dinner – by Laura van Zuylen and Yacinth Pos10Nov 2021This six-course dinner experience is a collaboration between chef and designer Yacinth Pos and film critic Laura van Zuylen as part of Beftival . Dishes are paired with movie excerpts to explore the...
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Bef-tival Explained
beffen: verb, to lick pussy
Going down on, eating pussy, carpet munching, muff diving, cunnilingus; these are some of the ways we refer to the act of female oral sex. But something seems to be missing from our sexual vocabulary.
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Laura van Zuylen
Laura van Zuylen (1988) has been working as a film journalist for, among others, De Filmkrant for almost fifteen years. Her pieces have a feminist slant and she is specifically interested in gender.
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This Pussy Has Claws
Vagina Dentata Myths of Empowerment and Horror
Who would have thought that apart from lips, vaginas and mouths share even more? Vagina dentata, Latin for toothed vagina, bears the idea that a vagina with teeth or claws can devour a man. She can...
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Sam Nemeth
Artist and scientist
Sam Nemeth (Rotterdam, 1962) is a filmmaker, journalist, designer, and scientist who conducts research in the field of tangible interfaces: a tangible alternative to the mouse, keyboard, and computer...
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Julia Schmitz
Filmmaker
Julia Schmitz (1993) is a filmmaker with a great fascination for the process of imaging and the construction of stories. In her associative films, she often explores complex subjects, such as sexual...
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Nelke Mast
Multidisciplinary Artist
'Nelke Mast (alias NELLY DANSEN) is a 23-year-old multidisciplinary artist currently studying for a Master of Artscience at KABK. Nelke’s practice is primarily characterised by researching erotic...
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Gian van Grunsven
Journalist and maker
Gian has been conducting artistic-journalistic research into sexuality in all its facets for seven years. This previously resulted in the successful show ' SEXIETY' in collaboration with Gehring&...
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Clarissa Smith
Professor
Clarissa Smith is Professor in Media at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. Her research has focused on sexual media and representations and she is particularly interested in the ways in which...
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Bert Sliggers
Art historian and curator
Bert Sliggers was curator of Teylers Museum for much of his life and thus responsible for a large number of exhibitions and accompanying books. As guest curator he is now associated with the Museum...
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Daphne Gakes
Artist and Writer
Daphne Gakes is an artist and a writer with her own book and show of the same name “Ik Daphne Gakes”. Gakes is very influential in what she does and has her own podcast as well called “Between the...
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Amber Rahantoknam
Multidisciplinary Artist
Amber Rahantoknam, also known as AMBIGOU, is a multi-disciplinary maker mixing text and image through illustration and poetry.
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Pleun van Dijk
Speculative Designer
Pleun van Dijk is a speculative artist/designer in the middle of the moving and changing world. By observing and analysing moments of transition within society she tries to generate new thoughts and...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Beftival
6Nov 2021- Museumnacht Amsterdam 202113Nov 2021The act of licking pussy is still surrounded by shame and red ears, but not everywhere! Partly influenced by social media, society seems to become more predatory, but at the same time, female...