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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Piss, Death, Stress
- Penny for your Thoughts Project Presentation with Arthur Guilleminot, Si Knight and Jennifer Kumer28Jul 2022Piss, waste, stress and the pondering of one’s mortality: these can all be quite uncomfortable and difficult topics. But what if we could turn the uncomfortable into something nourishing and...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Design your own Shroud
- with Susanne Duijvestein13Mar 2022Ever thought about what you will wear when you're dead? In the past it was customary in the Netherlands to make your own death shroud and keep it in your linen closet because you never know. Although...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Deathscapes
2Nov 2019- Museumnacht Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019What does your death sound like? Walk through the different rooms and experience the influence of music.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Margherita Soldati, Krisztina Czika
Coffin Selfie
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019What would it be like to lie in your own coffin? Normally, once it happens it will be too late to know. Come and try it out in our coffin photo booth and have a picture taken.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Susanne Duijvestein
Design your own shroud
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019It used to be Dutch tradition to make your own shroud, wear it on your wedding night, and put it away until you died. This workshop will enable you to work on designing your shroud.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Margherita Soldati, Krisztina Czika
Death Beauty Salon
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019Lie back and let artists Krisztina and Margherita make your death mask. Our Hall of Faces will eventually be filled with death masks.
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Dood
Program overview
An interactive exploration of your identity and expression in relation to death. From abstract death portraits to death masks, from beauty to love, from guts to gills: this year our Museumnacht will...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Gwen van der Zwan
Finally Free
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019Having already inflated a number of intestines with helium, Gwen van der Zwan manufactured an 8by2-meter zeppelin from slaughterhouse waste. Finally Free is about the posthumous freedom of the 350...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Death one-on-one
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019Irina Birger will spend an entire evening having one-on-one conversations of approximately 15 minutes centered on death, in an especially created installation. You're welcome to share your stories
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Project proposal: Susanne Duijvestein
Nokanshi Dreams
Preparing a dead body for a funeral often takes place behind closed doors, outsourced to deathcare professionals. If it’s up to Susanne Duijvestein, funeral director and Nature Morte curator, we...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Design your own Shroud
- with Susanne Duijvestein25Jul 2021Ever thought about what you'll wear when you're dead? In the past it was customary in the Netherlands to make your own death shroud and keep it in your linen closet because you never know. Although...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Design your own Shroud
with Susanne Duivensteijn
Have you ever thought about what you want to be wearing when you die? In this workshop we will breathe new life into an old Dutch tradition. You will be guided in the process of making your own...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Embodiment of Death Denial
- Nature Morte 04 – with Arne Hendriks and Susanne Duijvestein11Jun 2021In this new episode of our Nature Morte series, funeral director Susanne Duijvestein and artist Arne Hendriks will have a conversation about human ecology and the disconnection we seem to have from...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Design your own Shroud
- with Susanne Duijvestein19Sep 2021Ever thought about what you will wear when you're dead? In the past it was customary in the Netherlands to make your own death shroud and keep it in your linen closet because you never know. Although...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Design your own Shroud
- with Susanne Duijvestein14Nov 2021Have you ever thought about what you want to be wearing when you die? In this workshop we will breathe new life into an old Dutch tradition. You will be guided in the process of making your own...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Design your own Shroud
- with Susanne Duijvestein25Oct 2020Have you ever thought about what you want to be wearing when you die? This autumn, we will breathe new life into an old Dutch tradition with a series of workshops. You will be guided in the process...
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Traces of Death
in the work of Teresa Margolles
Re-appropriating, re-membering, and re-presenting the body and its remains is something that runs throughout all the work of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles. Her oeuvre is one of the best examples to...
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Secretions of Disappearing Bodies
When we think about secretions, the first thing that comes to mind could be sweat or piss. “Secretion” sounds like something that is produced by a living body. But what happens when we think of this...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Parfums Funèbres
- Odorama 38: Olfactory Rituals of Death with Frank Bloem, Susanne Duijvestein, Steffie Baaijens, Caro Verbeek and Josely Carvalho25Jun 2020Death smells, and fragrances have always played an essential role in rituals surrounding the death. By means of historical, contemporary, and religious examples, we want to explore the relation...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Space for a final goodbye
(un)conventional rite
All forms of life are given a place at Mediamatic. Death is inherently linked with the cycle of life. Just as nature provides room for death, so do we. We offer the opportunity to bid your deceased...
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Fake-Eco Evaluation: Still Life at Mediamatic
Is death truly sustainable?
Death is one last action - a body left to account for. Some of us have already given it a thought, but how hard have we thought about our upcoming deaths, really? Mediamatic´s Still Life: death
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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...
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Joy in the Cemetery
Cemeteries are more about the living than the dead.
I like to attribute the whole “cemeteries are scary places” trope to romantic and gothic literature as well as horror movies. I don’t think cemeteries are inherently scary, or sad, or haunted - and...
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Always Do Your Best
Bert Mulder is dead. We miss him
Bert was a brilliant friend and a board member of Mediamatic for nearly 30 years. The words "Always do your best" sum up the fourth of "The Four Agreements", a shamanistic spiritual handbook by Don...