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  • Image: Marcela Szwarc

    Sections of Meat

    Vera points out the liver, heart, and trachea that have been removed from the pigs' bodies and put in ice.
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  • Interview Melinda Pîrv

    Exploring Food, Texture, and Sensory Art

    An interview with Margherita Soldati

    Margherita Soldati is a visual artist based in Amsterdam and co-founder of Absurd Beings Collective . She graduated from Industrial Design in Italy in 2014 and from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2018.

  • Body as Atomiser

    Swallowable Parfum by Lucy McRae

    If we were able to biologically enhance the fragrance emitted from our bodies, what could be the consequences for our everyday existence? Our skin sweating cosmetics, turning into a perfume atomiser.

  • Chewy Facts

    The Benefits of Chewing Gum.

    Scientific research indicates that chewing gum may be good for you. So, grab a piece of gum (sugar-free is recommended) and chew along while reading the following health benefits. 

  • De Operaflat

    tijdens het Yo! Opera festival

    Dit project won een clinic van Stichting DOEN Bezoekers van eerdere edities van het Yo! Opera Festival zijn vast bekend met De Operaflat. Dit locatieproject van Yo! Opera wordt dit jaar voor de...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    The Beauty Dinner: the Recipes

    How to continue treating your skin at home

    Thank you to everyone who participated in The Beauty Dinner, created by artists Margherita Soldati, Krisztina Czika and chef Alice Héron. As we mentioned, we want you to be able to relive the dinner...

  • Cuban Blood Sausages

    Blood Sausage Performance by ENEMA Art Collective

    Although we live in a world filled with different cultures, cuisines, and languages, there is one dish that is shared among cultures and one that has lasted through different traditions. That dish is...

  • Eating the Future

    Exploring food beyond the plate

    Food-4-Evah explores how the human body might adapt to a world of post-processed meals. Could you get used to food from the future?   In exploring this question, photographer/teacher Ursula van de...

  • Food Wellness

    Following the process of Waew's efforts to create a Thai Sauna experience

    Take a deep breath in and hold it for a moment. Breath out. Feel the steam on your skin.  Imagine being able to relax and take a moment for yourself, knowing that you will enjoy a delicious meal...

  • Piss or get off the pot!

    New perspectives for the greenhouse: thinking about an Anthroponic system

    It's a rich solution, we produce it, sometimes it's inside us and sometimes it's not - and it connects us all, from the tiniest insect to the mastodontic blue whale. Is it blood? No, it's urine! Let'...

  • Oo, Oo That Smell

    What is that distinct smell after enjoying a plate of this green veggie?

    Asparagus. A lean, green vegetable with a dramatic list of healthy benefits. Many people are aware that asparagus is heart healthy, high in antioxidants, contains characteristics to heighten your...

  • How to Cook with Semen

    Semenology and The Natural Harvest Cookbooks by Paul Photenhauer

    At what point does the taboo of consuming human secretions start and end? Taboos such as these perhaps become normalized as sexual fetishes. From there on we would think ‘ah right, just one of those...

  • Hermann Nitsch @ Incubate Tilburg

    De Day After

    De geur van het bloed dringt zich nog steeds aan me op. Gisteren was ik bij de performance van Hermann Nitsch op het Incubate Festival in Tilburg. Het was een ervaring die me nog lang bij zal blijven.

  • The ultimate probiotic yoghurt

    Vagina Yoghurt

    Cecilia Westbrook from the University of Wisconsin has tried to create yogurt from her vaginal fluids. Her goal was to explore and use the vagina's probiotic properties.   

  • Healing, desire and breast milk

    Curdle by Zoo

    Breast milk is the "embodiment" of human nurture, of healing and nourishment of the newborn. It is well documented to contain vital immunological and medicinal replenishing qualities as well as...

  • In the End, We Only Have Ourselves

    Body as a Restaurant by Zane Cerpina

    Time is of the essence. Human progression and technological advancements have led us to turn our world to the new age- the Age of Man; the Anthropocene. When we can no longer rely on mother nature’s...
  • 1 Jan 2003

    Debra Solomon

    artist

    Debra Solomon (US/NL) creates experiential interventions aimed at breaking down the barriers between art and viewer. She is also a superfoodie and blogs at culiblog.org

  • Interview Kael T Block

    On XX Boys and more

    Mediamatic's exhibition Kiki on Steroids! presents Kael T Block's project XX Boys, a collection of photographs of transboys. Rooted in his own experience as a transboy or 'FtM' (Female to Male), the...

  • What makes the essence of a city?

    Diffusion: Essence de Rabot by Yeb Wiersma and Lotte Geeven

    Diffusion: Essence de Rabot is a project by Dutch multidisciplinary artists Yeb Wiersma and Lotte Geeven . It is about capturing the scent of a certain day, of emotions, and of a city through the...
  • workshop: Tanja Baudoin, Michel Langendijk

    Workshop Coffin for your Beloved

    Work together with a contemporary artist

    A coffin with poetic ribbons, graffiti or textile? A robe or something more conceptual? As part of the Ik RIP exhibition on death and self-representation Mediamatic organized workshops for surviving...

  • When can we start to objectify our hair?

    Human Hair Transformation by Zsofia Kollar

    Zsofia Kollar is a designer who uses hair as the primary medium. The human hair has many capabilities due to their nutrients. For this collection, Zsofia experiments with the hair as an absorbent...

  • Happee

    A product of Vitility. We make your life easier.

    Happee is a unisex disposable travel urinal for men, women and children in situations when no toilet is available. Happee‘s design has a high absorption fabric that securely keeps all the liquid...

  • Getting Drunk From Saliva

    Anivor - Alcohol made of saliva by Sydney Schaefer

    Saliva contains an enzyme called Amylase. When Amylase is combined with starch, which you can find in for example rice, it creates sugar. To create alcohol one only needs to combine sugar and yeast.

  • Capturing human scent through enfleurage

    In reference to Patrick Süskind’s Das Parfum

    Patrick S ü skind’s Das Parfum (or Perfume: Story of a Murderer) is considered our cult classic. It tells us a story of a man with a superhuman sense of smell who we know as Jean-Baptise Grenouille.

  • How to make a reservation for Over Datum Eetclub

    This page explained how to make a reservation for Over Datum Eetclub, a project at Mediamatic BANK in 2011.

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