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  • Image: Sexyland World Olga Middendorp, Barbara van Ittersum, vincent boschma, Mavi Veloso

    Fragments of Tr4v3sti Biológic4 trans* identity

    Mavi Veloso performing fragments of Tr4v3sti Biológic4 at Sexyland World

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  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Beftival Program

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

  • This Pussy Has Claws

    Vagina Dentata Myths of Empowerment and Horror

    Who would have thought that apart from lips, vaginas and mouths share even more? Vagina dentata, Latin for toothed vagina, bears the idea that a vagina with teeth or claws can devour a man. She can...

  • Bef-tival Explained

    beffen: verb, to lick pussy

    Going down on, eating pussy, carpet munching, muff diving, cunnilingus; these are some of the ways we refer to the act of female oral sex. But something seems to be missing from our sexual vocabulary.

  • 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: 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: 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...

  • 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: 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: Anonymous

    Neurodiversiteit en de toegankelijkheid van…

    Inclusieve tools voor kunstfondsen

    Met het project ‘Inclusieve tools voor kunstfondsen’ verken  ik de toegankelijkheid van subsidies voor kunstenaars die zich identificeren als neurodivers. Hoe kunnen we gestandaardiseerde...

  • 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: 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...

  • 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: 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.

  • 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...

  • 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: 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...

  • Mediamatic 2020

    Here you will find an overview of our highlights, go here to see the full overview of our 2020 program or who we worked with this year . 2020 was an interesting year. The sudden, and first ever

  • We’re serious about mocking!

    On the theory of carnival

    Whether at the Rio Carnival in Brazil, the Mardi Gras in New Orleans or the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival - Carnival is celebrated all over the world. In fall 2021, Mediamatic will also join the...

  • 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: 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: Azucena Sánchez

    Oak Tales

    Genomic Soundscapes

    Plants are our ancestors, the ones that see the real in us, the only ones who saw the world before it got inhabited, the ones that created forms, aesthetics and structure. If nature were to be...

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