Secretopia Calendar
This is an overview of events we organised for the Secretopia programme.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Beauty Kit Female Farm 0.3
11Aug 2019- Recycling the feminine living matter and bio-electricity, assuring an eco-friendly production of the best raw female fluids17Aug 2019In August this year, a group of females will take part in the third version of Beauty Kit Female Farm . The BKFF 0.3 is a seven day residency project that invites participants to undergo a long...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Beauty Kit Focus Group 0.2
- Participatory Lecture Performance by Isabel Burr Raty10Jun 2019In Catastrophic times… Can the orgasmic body be a source for sustainable electricity production? Can the cavities that make up the landscapes of the human sexual organs be a territory for...
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Beauty Kit Focus Group 0.2 Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Beauty Kit Focus Group
- Participatory Lecture Performance by Isabel Burr Raty13May 2019In Catastrophic times… Can the orgasmic body be a source for sustainable electricity production? Can the cavities that make up the landscapes of the human sexual organs be a territory for...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
The Eating of Humans
1May 2019- Neo Futurist Dinner 08 - with Gwen van der Zwan, Krisztina Czika and Bryce Steba4May 2019For the development of this 5-course Neo Futurist Dinner we invited artists Gwen van der Zwan, Krisztina Czika and chef Bryce Steba to collaborate around the theme of eating humans. This project was...
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Beauty Kit Focus Group 0.2 Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Beauty Kit Focus Group
- Participatory Lecture Performance by Isabel Burr Raty22Apr 2019In Catastrophic times… Can the orgasmic body be a source for sustainable electricity production? Can the cavities that make up the landscapes of the human sexual organs be a territory for...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meet Up: Isabel Burr Raty
- Discuss your work, ideas and obstacles with the artist30Apr 2019The coming year, Isabel Burr Raty will be in residence at Mediamatic. She will be a regular attendee of the Mediamatic Biotoop with scheduled consults for you to attend. Exchange your ideas and sign...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meet Up: Isabel Burr Raty
- Discuss your work, ideas and obstacles with the artist26Mar 2019The coming year, Isabel Burr Raty will be in residence at Mediamatic. She will be a regular attendee of the Mediamatic Biotoop with scheduled consults for you to attend. Exchange your ideas and sign...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meet Up: Isabel Burr Raty
- Discuss your work, ideas and obstacles with the artist26Feb 2019The coming year, Isabel Burr Raty will be in residence at Mediamatic. She will be a regular attendee of the Mediamatic Biotoop with scheduled consults for you to attend. Exchange your ideas and sign...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meet Up: Isabel Burr Raty
- Discuss your work, ideas and interests with the artist11Jan 2019The coming year, Isabel Burr Raty will be in residence at Mediamatic. She will be a regular attendee of the Mediamatic Biotoop with scheduled consults for you to attend. Exchange your ideas and sign...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meet Isabel Burr Raty
- Discuss your work, ideas and obstacles with the artist7Dec 2018The coming year, Isabel Burr Raty will be in residence at Mediamatic. She will be a regular attendee of the Mediamatic Biotoop with scheduled consults for you to attend. Exchange your ideas and sign...
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Waag Society
The Beauty Kit Focus Group at the Waag Society
- With Isabel Burr Raty15Nov 2018For the past years Isabel Burr Raty, performance artist and independent filmmaker, has been exploring the cavities that make up the human female sexual organs, concluding that they have a hybrid...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Beauty Kit Focus Group
- Participatory Lecture Performance 0.1 Mediamatic by Isabel Burr Raty7Nov 2018In this Beauty Kit Focus Group Isabel Burr Raty, who is in residence at both Mediamatic, Waag Society and VU this year, presents the beauty bio-products that she manufactures with female sexual...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Squirt DING
4Nov 2017- Museum Night 20175Nov 2017Female ejaculation is still a thing. Is it normal? And what is it, really? For Secretopia, Mediamatic’s program series on bodily fluids, there’s no need to agree on its composition; it’s a product of...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Crying Out Loud: Tear Donation
- Donate your tears for the sake of art11Oct 2017WE NEED YOUR TEARS. During this free crying session Mediamatic provides you with the space to shed some tears in whatever way you feel comfortable. Donate your tears and let photographer Maurice...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Crying Out Loud!
- Visualising the Beauty of Tears11Oct 2017Crying is often associated with weakness and is seen as useless. Yet it is a healthy behaviour both biologically and in its important social role. Through showcasing the works of the different...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Secretopia: The Great Sperm Race
- Screening of a documentary showing you the start of human life23Jun 2017For this edition of Secretopia movie discussions, we invited the director of the movie Julian Jones to come and discuss with us! Julian directed The Great Sperm Race, an artistic documentary filmed...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Irene de Gelder
Secretopia: Catching Pheromones
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, movie discussion15May 2017The movie Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, directed by Tom Tywker (2006), is set in 18th Century France and tells the story of Jean-Baptise Grenouille , an olfactory genius, on his homicidal quest...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Secretopia: Femininity and Life
- The Moon Inside You movie discussion27Mar 2017The documentary, The Moon Inside of you [2009], describes the director's personal journey in which she explores how we, both women and men, experience menstruation. Diana Fabianova's initial innocent...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Secretopia: From sci-fi to reality
- Fantastic Voyage movie discussion14Mar 2017Science fiction often invents devices before science does. This also goes for the movie Fantastic Voyage [1966] where a shrunken ship with crew enters a human body and moves around through the...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Secretopia: Drugs and the Body
- Trainspotting movie discussion27Feb 2017In our second edition of Secretopia movie discussions we looked at drugs and their effect on the body by considering human secretions in Trainspotting [1996].
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Secretopia: sexual liberation and bodily taboo’s
- Wetlands movie discussion13Feb 2017During this night we covered some feminist angles on the movie Wetlands. When the book, and later the movie, came out a lot of people were shocked by its explicit and convention-breaking content.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Public Intimacy
- Pis'Talk 8: A toilet deconstruction and bodily transmutations30Jun 2016Is it possible to improve a lady's pee experience? Is it only a matter of product design? Or do we need to start looking into body-modifications and urinal-prosthetics? At Pis'talk: Public Intimacy...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Architecture of Crisis
- Pis'Talk 7: How to survive inside the Mediamatic spaceship with urine, bioreactors and aquaponics19May 2016Have you ever wondered what it is like to survive in a spaceship? At this edition of Pis'talk, we explore how the bleak landscapes of our own planet can serve to reveal many things about human...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sex and the Pee
- Pis'Talk 6: exploring the curious world of Golden Showers31Mar 2016What happens when two of the most intimate experiences come together? Join us on Thursday March 31 as we discuss the curious and controversial subject of sexuality and urine. Listen to insightful...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Nature vs. culture
- Pis' Talk 4: Henriëtte Waal, Lou Buche, Julia Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Sam van Veluw26Nov 2015The speakers this evening will not only discuss practical solutions to incontinence, peeing in the open and urine fermentation; they will also address the issues of stigmatisation, emotional distress...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Odi et amo: on pee, trains and beer
- Pis'Talk 5: Marian Loth and Aduén Darriba Frederiks28Jan 2016Peeing in the train or at festivals… it is disliked by many but necessary for all. How come these toilet-experience are so unattractive? And what design solutions can be made to improve mobile...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Urine matters and materials
- Pis' Talk 3: Kamiel Rongen, Anne Vaandrager, Ruben Verwaal, Michelle Hammerton24Sep 2015After an evening on smart recycling of urine and another on public urination, the speakers of this third Pis' Talk focused on the materialism of the golden fluid: they highlighted how pee as a...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Pissing in Public
- Pis’talk 2: Christian Pagh, Theo Brandwijk, Thought Collider, FUD test and more...25Jun 2015Pis’talk is a series of lectures that explore urine in a very broad cultural sense. The speakers of the evening will dive into the process of designing and painting with urine in mind (and body), as...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Foundation
Pissing in the Park
- Masterclass Place Branding and site-specific Design with Christian Pagh26Jun 2015Do you want to be involved in designing the identity of a public space? Mediamatic welcomes Christian Pagh, one of the top European designers in the fields of Culture Design and Urban Planning, to...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Using Urine in Smarter Ways
- Pis’talk 1: Hugo Cortial, André Marques Arsénio and Janna Coomans30Apr 2015You never really get to talk about piss, do you? Well, at Mediamatic, we do. Kicking off the first Pis’talk, a series of lectures that explore urine in a broad cultural and contextual sense. The...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
MediaMasquerade X Open to All
- A unique new approach to self expression through dressing and masking25Jul 2020MediaMasquerade is a series of workshops to celebrate all identities. Gender clown Taka-Taka and designer Niki Milioni invite those of all ages to explore new forms of expression through fashion
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
MediaMasquerade X Kids
26Jul 2020Come play, create, and perform with us! Taka and Niki invite children to imagine new forms of expression through dressing up and roleplaying. Get your tickets here !
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Pride
18Jul 2020- MediaMasquerade & Queer Currents2Aug 2020There is no parade this year, but we still think it is important to celebrate identity in all its facets. That is why Mediamatic has a program during the pride week that gives an ode to the...
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2020 Tobias Servaas, Queer Currents
Queer Currents
Mediamatic is the stage for three panel discussions and an exhibition of Queer Currents, a wave of queer expressions in preparation for the Gay Pride.