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Krater Börek from Japanese Knotweed - 2

Börek made by Krater for the Japanese Knotweed Festival at Mediamatic

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Japanese Knotweed Festival '23

Japanese Knotweed Program

All exhibitions , workshops and events during the Japanese Knotweed Festival. Reserve your tickets here *! *We offer a discount to students, artists and Stadspas holders.
Mediamatic Biotoop Branko Kleynen

Not just a Weed

Fermented Knotweed Pickles recipe

On March 25, 2020, after a scavenger hunt for Japanese Knotweed, Branko, Elise and Tommaso joined forces to pickle some shoots.
Understanding Japanese knotweed

In conversation with Virgile Durando

Virgile Durando is a product/material designer and researcher from France. He is our current artist in residency, presently working on collecting and developing knowledge regarding the re
Blog Leyang Fu

(Re)naming a Plant – the Magic in a Name

To many, calling a name equals casting a spell, as names are often assigned with magic or spiritual power. Such belief spreads widely geographically among different tribes. In modern days, we know...
festival: Mediamatic Biotoop

Japanese Knotweed Festival

Under European regulations, invasive exotic species are allowed to be radically eradicated. The City of Amsterdam, for example, is allocating 8 million euros to aggressively destroy Japanese knotweed.
If you can't beat it, eat it!

What we can learn from the fate of the passenger pigeon

Flocks clouded the sky and cast a dark shadow over the land, stealing hours of daylight and sometimes days on end. This is not an exaggerated Hitchcock scene from ‘The Birds’ but rather a common...
Proposal by: Leo Kay

The Acid House Of Ideas

Project Proposal: Bread, microbial and plant agency, fermentation, human evolution and collective ritual.

A month-long participatory exhibition centered around the building of a model house of ergot-inoculated rye bread; exploring the recent history of human alienation from the land; the creative...
373 words to insult a plant

In conversation with Alaa Abu Asad

Killing without thought. Just one of the phrases that is used to discuss the Japanese Knotweed. A plant that does not even deserve to be thought about. It only deserves to be killed. Artist...
Mediamatic Eten Luna Thissen

The Dog Dinner v0.8

17
Jan 2023
- Canine & Homo Sapiens

Mediamatic has joined forces with academic and artist Eva Meijer to organise a dinner experience for dogs and their human companions. This is a report about our first internal beta test edition that...
Updates from the aquaponics

Bad news, good news: a critical examination of what happened in the greenhouse

The accident arises doubts on the ethic of this practice
Closing the Tap

Turning to the canal to reduce our tapwater consumption

The goal is simple. We want to stop using clean tapwater to irrigate the plants at Dijkspark and instead use a watersource that may be considered unconventional: the canal. The common perception of...
mediamatic eten Justin Knelange

From Grandma's Kitchen to new Culinary Horizons

In conversation with our new head chef Panos Fakos

As a small boy, Panos was introduced to the world of spices and cooking by his loving grandmother. Food has always played a big role in his upbringing where his mother and her sister paved the path...
Japanese Knotweed Festival '23

Exhibitions
Japanese Knotweed Festival '23

Harvesting Knotweed Responsibly

Please prevent unintended spreading of knotweed

Japanese Knotweed is a hyper-local resource in the Netherlands, and a wonderful edible and medicinal plant, full of beneficial qualities. However, it is important to approach harvesting with caution...
Witness the rapidly growing Japanese Knotweed in…

The Japanese Knotweed Festival is coming up, and what better way to kick it off than by celebrating our own Japanese knotweed at Mediamatic? In merely 4 weeks, this plant can grow up to 1.5 meters
Interview Leyang Fu

Human as Food, in a Material World

An interview with Noa Jansma

Noa Jansma is a Dutch multimedia designer. She completed her training at the Design Academy Eindhoven and has exhibited her work at renowned locations such as C/O Berlin, Les Rencontres de la...
Mediamatic Biotoop Jiwei Zhou

Tempeh Ware with Flavour

Research continues to make tempeh ware more interesting

A food design research, aiming to optimise tempeh bowl tastes, texture, shapes, thickness and appearance, in order to create an interesting meet with tempeh bowls in our restaurant Mediamatic Eten.
Body as Atomiser

Swallowable Parfum by Lucy McRae

If we were able to biologically enhance the fragrance emitted from our bodies, what could be the consequences for our everyday existence? Our skin sweating cosmetics, turning into a perfume atomiser.
Dealing with pests

The pineapple sage infestation

With the changing of the seasons and the drop in temperature, some plants in the unheated greenhouse become more susceptible to pests and infestations as they are perennial, such as the Pineapple...
Mediamatic Biotoop, Mediamatic Eten Kamilè Vaitkuté, Jiwei Zhou

It smells like fresh bread!

As the taste of lupin tempeh was only pleasant to Willem, we all together decided to test the mycelium growth on different materials. We collected different grains (the ones that we have a personal...
Mediamatic Biotoop Jiwei Zhou

Experience the Moulds: Somewhere between Food and…

As lab interns, we already get used to eating our lab-grown moulds. Now let's step away from our perspective: how many of you are afraid of eating fungus, even knowing that a large part of our...
Not Just Blood

Take This, For It Is My Body, Unsettling Suite, by Sarah Jane Norman

For Australian-Aboriginal artist Sarah Jane Norman, blood has been used to represent the Aboriginals’ dark colonial history. ‘Take This, For It Is My Body’ is an interactive performance piece where 6...
Cuban Blood Sausages

Blood Sausage Performance by ENEMA Art Collective

Although we live in a world filled with different cultures, cuisines, and languages, there is one dish that is shared among cultures and one that has lasted through different traditions. That dish is...
Eating the Future

Exploring food beyond the plate

Food-4-Evah explores how the human body might adapt to a world of post-processed meals. Could you get used to food from the future? In exploring this question, photographer/teacher Ursula van de...

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