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  • Image: Mediamatic Biotoop Anisa Xhomaqi

    Ruchama sitting on Tumulus sheet dyed with acorns

  • Sustainability
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  • Fine Art
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Jessica Cohen

    An Occult Dunghill in the Dijkspark

    What is that overgrown mound of flora and fauna in front of the Sluisdeurenloods? Visitors of Mediamatic will have noticed a peculiar sight in front of the barn. Is it a garden, a sculpture or an...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Jessica Cohen

    Back to Nature

    behind the artistic practice of Ruchama Noorda

    Whilst European societies charged towards modernity at the turn of the 20th century, a new social reform movement went back to nature. How does the work of Ruchama Noorda relate to this movement?
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Meet-a-Maker

    30 minute 1 on 1 meetings with artists

    Meet-a-Maker offers short one-on-one sessions with artists currently developing projects at Mediamatic. Join them in our greenhouse by the water for an open conversation about art, process, and...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    L'Absinthe de la Rue de Dindon VIII – Mediamatic…

    by Dirk Vis and Edgar Walthert

    Ingredients: spirits, anise, fennel, liquorice, nettle, lemon, sage*, hyssop, melissa, coriander, lavender*, mint*, tree wormwood*, mugworth* and wormwood *harvested from Tumulus
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Full programme overview 2020

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop

    Growth Imperative

    July - October '19

    Since its inception, Tumulus has been slowly changing shape. On Friday, September 13th , 2019, the artist organized a dedication ceremony inaugurating Phase 2 of the project. Visitors were offered a...
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Ruchama Noorda

    Blue Monday

    Sept - Dec '20

    The Tumulus lot is alive with weeds and herbs seeded by the wind or deliberately planted. The woad (lsatis tinctoria) which was planted in 2019 has been partially harvested and used to make woad dye...
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Ruchama Noorda

    Healing Property

    Mar - Aug '20

    In late July and early August 2020, an ornamental hermitage was constructed at the centre of the Tumulus, slightly sunk into the earth. It is built from compacted earth-bags and discarded home...
  • Becoming magnesium Mediamatic Biotoop Fredrik Link

    Becoming magnesium

    Through scrunching & draping tinfoil: can I transform into magnesium?

    Through researching costume ideas for the Inhuman Carnaval, I came across the mineral magnesium. The rock and metal like texture reminded me of the scrunched up tin foil around the sandwiches my mum...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    In 2022 we worked with these people

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Ruchama Noorda

    Dormant Lot

    Nov '19 - Mar '20

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Ruchama Noorda

    Autumn

    Sept '21 – Dec '21

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Ruchama Noorda

    Vegetative State

    June - July '19

    The Tumulus lot is alive with weeds and herbs seeded by the wind or deliberately planted.

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Ruchama Noorda

    Hibernating Winter Garden

    Dec '20 - Mar '21

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Ruchama Noorda

    Romantic Ruin

    Dec '21

    Winter is knocking on our door and the Tumulus vegetation is preparing to hibernate.  This patch of nature is still holding its green for the most part but some plants have decayed to fall colours...

  • History

    1983 - now

    In 1983 our focus was on media technology: video art, installations and performance were the early core of our presentations, productions and   magazine . In the 1990s it was interactive media. We...

  • Growing Chewellery

    Wearable objects.

    The following objects were created by destroying another experiment. A delicate woven tissue was made with care and needed to fill it with some soil and flower seeds. The whole thing just fell apart...
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop

    Firing

    June '21

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Complete program overview 2018

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Full programme overview 2021

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Ruchama Noorda

    Hermit Hut II: Ruin

    Jan '22

    ruin - n-   late Old English, "act of giving way and falling down", from Latin  ruina  "a collapse, a rushing down, a tumbling down.” - Online dictionary of etymology 
  • Mediamatic Biotoop, Mediamatic Eten Naomi Tidball

    Skin Hunger

    Looking into the artistic imagination of our upcoming event

    In our current health-crisis, the feeling of loneliness, or the lack of physical contact can be pressing. The term 'Skin Hunger,' derives from our necessity for physical touch. We compare this need...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Complete program overview 2019

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Ruchama Noorda

    Spring

    Mar - June '21

    This spring the woad (Isatis Tinctoria) growing on the Tumulus flowers bright radiant yellow.The Hermitess pandemic shelter is freshly painted with wood tar that was obtained from trees through...

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