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Amber Veel speaking about her taxidermy practice

Death

Overview of Nature Morte events
book: Simon Critchley 1 Jan 1997

Very Little...Almost Nothing

Very Little ... Almost Nothing puts the question of the meaning of life back at the centre of intellectual debate.
Allerzielen Alom

kunst tot herdenken

Vieren van het geleefde leven Vroeg of laat krijgt iedereen te maken met het mysterie van de dood. Wanneer iemand doodgaat van wie we houden, is er eerst vooral rouw. Pas later beseffen we dat we...
Workshop Melanie Bonajo

Coffin for your beloved

For Melanie Bonajo designing the coffin is a communal process with much room for rituals and stories about the deceased.
Maurizio Montalti 5 Dec 2011

Bodies of Change

Installation

The growth of a new burial practice by employing fungi in performing the role of main “disassemblers” within the cyclical processes of growth and decomposition.
...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...
Prevention rather than cure

Old saying true for us

Fish are like humans. They have all kinds of slumbering diseases and they have an immune system that helps them defeat the pathogens. Just like us.
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...
Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Susanne Duijvestein

From Pest to Soil

Humusating a Muskrat

Maybe you have heard about the Muskrat, an ‘invasive exotic’ that likes to chomp on 'our' Dutch dykes. It was on the 22nd of May that one found their final resting place in one of the grow beds at...
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!
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...
Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

Design your own Shroud

with Susanne Duivensteijn

Have you ever thought about what you want to be wearing when you die? In this workshop we will breathe new life into an old Dutch tradition. You will be guided in the process of making your own...
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...
book: James M. Barrie

Peter Pan and Wendy

Peter Pan or the Boy who wouldn't grow up

Peter Pan and Wendy is James M. Barrie’s most famous work, first a play in 1904 and then turned into a novel in 1911.
Birds, guns and shadows from afterlife

A visit to the 3rd moscow biennial

Forget the crisis, the cold and the autumn depression. In Moscow, contemporary art is booming. In the first 2 days, only the main venue of the Moscow biennial had over 10000 visitors. Kompromat was...
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...
List of Death Films

Research for Death exhibition

- The Loved One , (1965). A black comedy about a funeral business, directed by Tony Richardson - Kostnice (1970). A short documentary made by Jan Svankmeyer on the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech...
Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Katja Sokolova, Olga Jitlina

St. Petersburg Pavilion

Thank Adam

Open from 5 December 2009 - 3 January 2010 in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic. While visiting Ancient department of the Hermitage, we suddenly noticed that there was some strange energy...
Proposal by: Rosalie Bak

Until death makes us parts

Exploring the phenomena from-life-to-death ~ through haptonomy

This artistic public-research proposal brings together experts and 'the dying' in an intimate setting - where they can co-research, -experience and -imagine the phenomena from-life-to-death and...
A community of the dead

A conversation with Elizabeth Heyert

Mary Caparitia Bush is ready to go to the party. She is wearing a stunning black sequin dress with a pattern of white leaves. Lace gloves and a pink hat with a flower complement the look. Mary’s hair...
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...
Kompromat blog

Secret agent Sokolova

is temporary out of service

The spy who came in from the cold is going back there. Her government is calling her. She may return soon. Or never. Kompromat is closed for the time being. Tomorrow never dies.
Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Magdalena Thur

The Resomation of Fungal tissue

Could fungi provide the future fabric for death shrouds?

Mediamatic's search for vegan fabric that could be used in Resomation, an environmentally friendly alternative burial method, led to testing fungal material.
Venue Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

Space for a final goodbye

(un)conventional rite

All forms of life are given a place at Mediamatic. Death is inherently linked with the cycle of life. Just as nature provides room for death, so do we. We offer the opportunity to bid your deceased...

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