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    Portret Sabrina Franken

  • Photography
  • Death

  • Beftival Photo Gallery

    A collection of photos from Beftival

  • Proposal by: Susanne Duijvestein

    Nokanshi Dreams

    Project proposal

    Preparing a dead body for a funeral often takes place behind closed doors, outsourced to deathcare professionals. If it’s up to Susanne Duijvestein, funeral director and Nature Morte curator, we...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Andrea Valdivia

    Advice from a former Photography Intern

    Knowledge page

    Dear photography intern, As a former intern myself, I have made this article for you to know what are the main tasks that you will be responsible for, and some advices I would give you based on my...
  • 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...

  • spectres?

    Mediated mourning rituals and the cultural acceptance of death

    The following is an excerpt from my MA thesis entitled 'Praise the media!' in which I look at examples of mourning rituals, namely the LCD embedded gravestone, through the looking glass of media...

  • 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...

  • Van Moskou tot Magadan

    Met Jelle Brandt Corstius door Rusland

    Wie zijn de Russen zijn en wat drijft ze? Journalist en schrijver Jelle Brandt Corstius maakt een ontdekkigstocht door het hele land op zoek naar een antwoord. Een docuserie van 7 afleveringen, v/a...

  • Together Forever

    When I was an apprentice, the directors told me a story that has shaped the way I view funerals and family requests to this day. Sometimes it happens that two people who are very close die at nearly...

  • Participation is Powerful

    Participation is powerful. Often, children lack an opportunity to truly participate in the funeral services for their loved ones. When I was 8 and my brother 9, our father died after a few months of...

  • Dead links

    Despite what the title of this article suggests, these links do go somewhere!

    Here you find a collection of links to websites that somehow are related to the topic of death. Leave a comment if you have other good suggestions.

  • Death of the Author, Survival of the Avatar

    Can the dead still be involved in social networking?

    There are a lot of websites that revolve around remembering the dead. For instance, Tributes is a site where you can search obituaries and make a tribute to your lost loved one; they say '60-seconds...

  • Funeral Rites in Chinatown

    "The clear, melodic notes of a brass band marching along Chinatown's Stockton Avenue catch the attention of an Asian woman picking over produce at a sidewalk vegetable stand. As the band turns the...

  • Is it a man or a woman?

    Pedro Meyer’s fascination for nudes, hermaphrodites and transvestites

    Brazilian artist Pedro Meyer doesn't just paint nude women. With his painting-installation “Transvestite Bathroom” he plays with the notions of seduction and strangeness. The Rio de Janeiro pavilion...

  • ...and beyond workshop

    The workshop of fashion designers ...and beyond is aimed at working together on a shroud for the deceased. On this shroud drawings will be applied with stitches, as a final farewell and in memory of...

  • Memento mori profiel

    Van online profiel naar herdenkingsplek

    Met het maken van een online profiel op Mediamatic.net, Hyves of Facebook proberen veel mensen expressie te geven aan hun individuele identiteit. Er kan allerlei persoonlijke informatie worden...

  • Die Dutch catalog

    A project by Lucyeileen Hernandez

    For her graduation project at the Hogeschool van de Kunsten in Utrecht in 2005, Lucyeileen Hernandez designed a funeral catalog. As a Mexican native living in the Netherlands, Lucyeileen was struck...

  • Bodies of Change Growth

    Week 1 of growth

    In the second installment of this series, we watch the strange growth that has shown up on the mycelium shroud and it's not exactly what we were expecting!

  • Etalagemoorden

    Over gladde koppen en het feit dat de guillotine nog in werking lijkt te zijn.

    Mistroostig word ik van de talloze onthoofde paspoppen in mijn blikveld. Ik begrijp het niet, waarom al die doden in etalages? Is DEATH SELLS de nieuwste leus? Sigaretten verkopen beter sinds erop...

  • Eko coffin photo report

    How to fold your coffin step by step

    Discover how easy it is to put together a cardboard coffin. The Eko-Ben company from Poland demonstrates their environmentally friendly products. Mediamatic ordered a stack of cardboard coffins with...
  • Pitch voorstel voor Komjeook? 2

    Cool Numismatic Objects

    Of hoe kan het Geldmuseum een breed publiek interesseren voor en betrekken bij (een tentoonstelling/museum met) numismatische objecten.

    Deze winter wordt in het interactieve en multimediale Geldmuseum in Utrecht een collectietentoonstelling geopend met de honderd meest bijzondere numismatische objecten uit de collectie van het...

  • Zedz workshop

    Coffin for your beloved

    Together with the relatives Zedz designs a coffin that expresses the individuality of the loved one.

  • The Cremains of the Day

    A look at Words in Funeral Service

    Euphemisms abound in funeral service. As Hugh Rawson explains in one of my most favorite books, Euphemisms & Other Double Talk (Crown Publishers NY, 1981), words that are used to describe unpleasant...

  • Nature Morte

    Death, Design and Sustainability

    We explore new approaches and designs for our own inevitable death with progressive funeral director Susanne Duijvestein. Lectures and workshops about architecture, rituals, life stories and the...

  • Edwin Oudshoorn workshop

    Coffin for your beloved

    Edwin Oudshoorn works on a coffin that is covered with multiple fabrics that each signify a memory of the loved one.

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