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  • Image: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Anisa Xhomaqi

    Lizette showing erotic embroidery examples to the…

    At Beftival  during Museumnacht 2021, participants join artist Lizette van Hecke  for an erotic embroidery session. 
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  • Beftival
  • Storytelling
  • Culture
  • society
  • sexy
  • textile
  • erotic
  • museumnacht
  • sexuality

  • Beftival Photo Gallery

    A collection of photos from Beftival

  • 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...

  • 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...
  • 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.
  • Project proposal: Mario Mimoso

    Floating Havens

    Regenerating city life

    Floating Havens is a project aimed at regenerating life inside the urban landscape. Using Amsterdam’s canals as a way to gain land to the crowded and congested city streets, we want to dedicate these...
  • Project proposal: Maaike Anne Stevens

    Bipolaris

    Essay film

    Bipolaris is an essay film of about 30 minutes about the fundamental difference in the way our two brain hemispheres experience the world. By means of documentary shots, fictional scenes, interviews...
  • Project proposal: Nina Anin

    Wind Airwave transmission

    Sustainable radio show

    WIND TURBINE My project mainly revolves around this windturbine I have built. The windturbine is connected (through gears) to a motor which generates power. The mini circuitboard is then connected to...
  • 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: Margherita Falqui

    Liquid Maquis

    Connecting with places through the senses

    Exploring the connection to a territory and its curative potential by drinking it, ingesting it, feeling it. I would like to explore and communicate the connection to territory by creating a liquid...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Sadhbh O'Donnell

    Smelling under the water?

    Under the Harbour workshop development with Mariko Hori

    Mariko Hori is a visual artist with a flair for triggering the imagination and creating new experiences. She has done this so far through her work with Freestyle Kintsugi, a workshop inviting...
  • 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...

  • Beftival Program

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

  • 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: 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
  • 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: 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: 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...
  • 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: 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...
  • Project proposal: Pauline Rip

    Cooking Ghosts

    Researching elficology

    How can we reimagine the richness of our cultural relationships with plants and nature through the imaginary creatures they inhabit? Cooking Ghosts is a project based on research done by...
  • 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: Mariko Hori

    Archive something we don't know yet

    Understanding water conditions through paper making

    This project is a study and a little hope to archive potential data of current water conditions of Amsterdam, for future generations.

  • 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.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jeanne Rousselot

    From Eye to Tongue

    A Film Dinner experience

    Getting Comfy Course 0 – Zen Pussy   by   Annie Sprinkle  (12 minutes) We were welcomed in a pink-lit room. On three screens close-ups of vulvas were speaking to us. A whisper of breathing and...

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