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Party Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Air Gentle Disco
- Help us build towers by dancing16Jul 2021This Friday a batch of mycelium bricks will come in, so it's time for another ‘Gentle Disco’ to press them! Join us to dance on top of the mycelium while listening to some good music, and contribute...
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Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Summer
June '21
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Elmer Kesseler
Guest Chef Mediamatic ETEN
Elmer Kesseler is joining Mediamatic ETEN as a guest chef in summer 2021.
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Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Promised Land
June '15 - July '19
How, and where to move thousands of kilos of straw and clay? When Mediamatic moved from the Van Gendthallen to the Dijksgracht in 2015, we had to disassemble our freshly built straw office. It was...
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Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Spring
Mar - June '21
This spring the woad (Isatis Tinctoria) growing on the Tumulus flowers bright radiant yellow.The Hermitess pandemic shelter is freshly painted with wood tar that was obtained from trees through...
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Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Hibernating Winter Garden
Dec '20 - Mar '21
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Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Blue Monday
Sept - Dec '20
The Tumulus lot is alive with weeds and herbs seeded by the wind or deliberately planted. The woad (lsatis tinctoria) which was planted in 2019 has been partially harvested and used to make woad dye...
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Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Healing Property
Mar - Aug '20
In late July and early August 2020, an ornamental hermitage was constructed at the centre of the Tumulus, slightly sunk into the earth. It is built from compacted earth-bags and discarded home...
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Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Dormant Lot
Nov '19 - Mar '20
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Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Growth Imperative
July - October '19
Since its inception, Tumulus has been slowly changing shape. On Friday, September 13th , 2019, the artist organized a dedication ceremony inaugurating Phase 2 of the project. Visitors were offered a...
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Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Vegetative State
June - July '19
The Tumulus lot is alive with weeds and herbs seeded by the wind or deliberately planted.
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Party Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Air Gentle Disco
- Help us build towers by dancing20May 2021We organise a ‘Gentle Disco’ to press mycelium bricks for our Pigeon Towers. First, we used a machine to press the blocks, but we found out that a dance ritual has the same effect, and is a lot more...
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Growing In & Out with Artist Minji Choi
Plant, Something that (Doesn’t) Love a Wall
Born in Seoul, South Korea and based in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Minji Choi has a transboundary persona. As an artist, she devotes herself to reexamining ‘belonging’ and ‘nativeness'. In her body of...
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Shitty Business
Fertilizing the land with human excrements: now that ideas about the ‘circular economy’ are gaining momentum, ‘human fertili s er’ is in the picture again. Indeed, again : up until the beginning of...
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Stage
Stage: Haeckel Erfgoed
Wil jij ons helpen om voor het digitaal en analoge erfgoed van Ernst Haeckel te zorgen en zijn missie voort zetten? Ernst Haeckel is een inspiratiebron voor ons. Meer dan een eeuw geleden scoorde hij...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
In 2021 we worked with these people
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The Finger Rub Rug
When enclosed in a room with a rug made of silicone fingers, it is difficult to remain neutral. Whether it be humour or disgust, Dima's installation invites the audience to act on their response as...
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Fashion Your Sweat
Alice Potts is a biomaterial designer fascinated by sweat. By f ashioning this vital bodily fluid into crystals for garments, shoes and sportswear, Potts asks us to reconsider the potential of our...
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Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
The new Covid19 restrictions means it's time for those creative hobbies to come out of the woodwork again! Or, perhaps you are looking for something creative and different... have you considered...
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How can our Experience of Intimacy be changed by…
Throughout the Covid19 lockdown, there has been a 47% increase in the use of the internet as the world has turned to technology to connect with loved ones. This has made the research of Lancel/Maat...
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Odorama
Credits
Thank you!
We would like to thank the following people, organizations, sponsors, and participants.
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Pigeon Towers
We are building with living mycelium waste
Is it a mushroom farm? Is it a tower? Is it fertile soil? Is it a corn field? Is it a pigeon tower? By Arne Hendriks The mycelium pigeon tower is a constant process of one state moving into the next.
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Events
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Messages from the Myco-Assemblage
- Arne Hendriks & Dominik Einfalt talk about their attempts to construct pigeon guano towers with living mycelium waste.11Dec 2020Friday afternoon, Arne and Dominik will discuss their attempt to build structures with living mycelium waste. What have they learned? What are the challenges? And what stories have emerged so far?