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  • Image: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Anisa Xhomaqi

    Annika showing her shameless jewellery

    During Beftival  at Museumnacht 2021 artist Annika Hagen  invites us to get rid of the shame regarding pubic hair by making flaunting hair jewellery that we can wear with pride, 
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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...

  • Beftival Photo Gallery

    A collection of photos from Beftival

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ine Poppe, Olga Middendorp

    Beftival

    Program overview

    A festival featuring over 30 artists and scientists. Come discuss, feel and celebrate fe-male sexuality, gender and preference. Beftival is part of Museumnacht 2021.

  • Getting intimate through stitches

    Meet Desirée Hammen

    Are you curious to know more about our new workshop, Radical Embroidery? We talk with workshop tutor Desirée Hammen, an Eindhoven-based fashion designer and artist who specialises in embroidery.

  • Beftival Program

    An overview of all exhibitions, performances, workshops and events that are part of Beftival.

  • Private Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Self-Design Enzo Mari Furniture

    with Niels Albers

    High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...
  • Project Proposal: Lena Trost

    (Digital) Glass Tasting

    How glass becomes odour

    My artistic research is about how glass becomes odour. Glass is an odourless material. But therefore, I claim, it can be used to tap into our own biological olfactory memory - which is the goal of...

  • Using autism to imagine alternative worlds

    A/Artist discussion round with research duo Liminal Vision

    Liminal Vision is a creative research duo consisting of artistic maker Victor Evinck and film maker Emilia Tapprest. Victor is open about his autism diagnosis, while Emilia is not on the spectrum.
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    Self-Design Enzo Mari Furniture

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    Sep 2022
    - with Niels Albers

    High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...
  • Project proposal: Si Knight

    Multisensory Listening Rituals

    for Reducing Stress

    As you may well have experienced, life today can be very stressful. As a result of this, many people are currently in desperate need of finding ways to reduce their stress levels. Yet contemporary...
  • Project proposal: Sieta van Horck

    Bodies of Land

    Rituals to connect with land

    Bodies of Land is a radical ritual that explores the relationships of inter-being between multispecies bodies and local lands. How do we build living relationships and design practices that reawaken...
  • Project proposal: Krisztina Czika

    What's left to capture?

    Underwater journey

    'What's left to capture?' is inspired by a research project I have started in Sri Lanka back in the beginning of 2020. In our world today, the natural resources we use are, sadly taken for granted...

  • We grew a new project nursery: Penny for your…

    Project Nursery

    There is something uniquely inspiring when looking into artistic processes that are still in progress: unpolished, experimental, and open-ended.  Penny for your Thoughts   is our project nursery

  • Piss off! What did you just say?

    When was the last time you swore? What did you say… shit? Piss? Cunt? There's a high chance it was a word relating to bodily fluids, and at Secretopia we have summarised the research that will...
  • Project proposal: Lucie Majerus

    Colour-Smells of Amsterdam

    Sustainable souvenirs

    As a product designer, I am interested in how countries design nation branding and souvenirs. How can we find new ways for tourists to experience a place while giving them new sensual possibilities?
  • Project proposal: Thom van Hoek

    Object Permanence

    Levend sculptuur

    Object Permanence wordt een sculptuur bestaande uit 100% agar-agar (ook wel E406 genoemd) met daarin zaadjes van een nog nader – eventueel in overleg – te bepalen plant. Ik wil een geschikt autowiel...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Alessandra Avanzi

    Ancient Egypt and the culture of perfume.

    The use of smelly components in Egyptian daily life: Kyphi, incense and other perfume.

    Incense was considered the “Fragrance of the Gods” in Ancient Egypt. Making incense meant in a mysterious way creating the body of the gods and communicating with them.   Do you know that the...
  • Project proposal: Racha Tarazi

    My Dinner

    Digesting emotions

    My Dinner is an immersive art installation: part food-art and part theatrical set up. Thematically, it resembles a sit-down dinner party for 6-8 guests. My Dinner attempts to explore the process and...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    معاً نكتشف عالم العطور

    مع نور عاكوم

    عالم العطور عالم العجائب هل سبق و فكرت للحظة ما هو هذا اللغز الذي يكون عطرك المميز الذي تشتريه؟ في هذه المغامرة حول إكتشاف أسرار العطر، خطوة بخطوة ستتعلم كيفية صنع عطرك الخاص و ماهي هذه المراحل الذي...

  • Stitches, Threads and Needles

    Exploring the edges of contemporary embroidery

    From feminist empowerment and craftivism, to DIY material experimentations, embroidery is crossing boundaries left and right. Our new Radical Embroidery workshop has been inspired by a lot of...
  • Project proposal: Roland van Dierendonck, Maro Pebo

    Chili Pepper Pleasure

    A hedonistic experience

    Half the planet is addicted to capsaicin, the working substance in chili peppers. It is described as a stimulant or even an aphrodisiac. There has been proven to be a relationship between capsaicin...
  • Project proposal: Jennifer Kumer

    When My Time Comes

    an End-of-Life Conversation Game

    How do we prepare to die? Not usually a question we want to spend a lot of time thinking about, and yet, it's incredibly important. It’s often a question not answered until it is too late. This...
  • Project proposal: Alena Grahn

    Erotic Ecology

    & Our Human Bodies

    This project aims to explore the erotic in our local ecology through the senses. As we are expanding our relationship with this idea, the research will be performed as ritual. In our exploration, we...
  • Project proposal: Bas Huijbers

    Green Office

    Klimaatactie in het onderwijs

    Samen met leerlingen, docenten en schoolleiders, het onderwijs in Amsterdam klimaatcrisis bestendig maken. Met als basisproject: een Green Office

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