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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Dying, Caring, Encore!
- Project Presentation with Angela Kerr, Emily Bates and Yi-Jing Chen26Jan 2023Our identity is defined by so many elements. Hair. DNA. Body. The way we think or dress. Yet, most of these are perishable. Our body becomes ashes, our hair is cut, our clothes are replaced. Those...
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Proposal by: Rosalie Bak
Until death makes us parts
Exploring the phenomena from-life-to-death ~ through haptonomy
This artistic public-research proposal brings together experts and 'the dying' in an intimate setting - where they can co-research, -experience and -imagine the phenomena from-life-to-death and...
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Proposal by: Qiaochu Guo
Twining The Underneath
Project proposal: Reading the body through Moxibustion
This project is Inspired by moxibustion which heats up the body by burning the wormwood above the skin's surface, thereby achieving a means of curing diseases. This traditional therapy means to...
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Proposal by: Emily Bates
Human Hair Tapestry
Project Proposal: A collective document, and trauma portrait
Hair has played a complex and diverse role within humankind’s cultural history, both symbolically and materially, being utilised within rituals and as memorial or portrait across many communities...
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Jenny Konrad
Artist and Designer
Jenny Konrad is a visual translator of information who researches and appropriates methods, medias, tools and materials to transform raw content into experiences that are digestible to constantly...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Weimin Zhu
Playful Jewelry for the Inner World
26Aug 2022- Exhibition by Weimin Zhu31Dec 2024'Playful Jewelry for the Inner World' is a collection of silver jewelry that invites the wearer to move meditatively. The rhythmic movements bring you closer to your inner world, make you more aware...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Piss, Death, Stress
- Penny for your Thoughts Project Presentations with Arthur Guilleminot, Jennifer Kumer and Irina Birger28Jul 2022Piss, waste, sex 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 productive?
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Mediamatic Biotoop Aya Koné
Making Myco-clay
Turning rotting mycelium into moldable material
RECIPE 2 parts rotting mycelium 1 part hay/pink oyster mushroom mycelium A giant bucket A large tarp to lay out material 2+ feet/hands to stomp, turn, squish and mix
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Isaac Monté , In4Art
Prosthetic X
29Apr 2022- by Isaac Monté and In4Art12Aug 2022“True beauty comes from within”, a statement that transcends the test of time and often grows stronger as we age. In parallel to this growing sense of beauty is the universal need to nurture...
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Chiesetta della Misericordia Willem Velthoven
When the body says Yes
23Apr 2022- The Dutch contribution to the Venice Biennale 2022 is a very cosy space.27Nov 2022Melanie Bonajo: "It is essentially a cuddle space which centralizes the clitoris as the epicentre of social design and a place for worship". This was the motto of the amazing environment that Bonajo...
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Artist Residencies 2024
Artists, designers and research
A selection of artists and designer that have done a residency at Mediamatic. You'll also find the artists who coordinate our Labs here. Also, check out our Meet a Maker page to see when you can talk...
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Proposal by: Margherita Soldati
A human microplastography
Project proposal: Finding microplastics in the human body
How do microplastic particles alter the human landscape by travelling through it? An abstract raised-relief 3dimensional map showing the traces and impact microplastic has on the human scape
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Ruchama Noorda
Tumulus Venushill
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Tumulus is an enclosed garden installation that functions as a natural ruin, compost heap, soil sculpture, seedbed, earthwork, dyeing source, and dunghill. Over the course of several seasons from...
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Bebe Melkor-Kadior
Bebe Melkor-Kadior is a pluridisciplinary performance artist and pro-choice afro feminist author. From fire breathing to sword swallowing and adult films performances, she works with her body as to...
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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.
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Laura van Zuylen
Laura van Zuylen (1988) has been working as a film journalist for, among others, De Filmkrant for almost fifteen years. Her pieces have a feminist slant and she is specifically interested in gender.
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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...
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Sam Nemeth
Artist and scientist
Sam Nemeth (Rotterdam, 1962) is a filmmaker, journalist, designer, and scientist who conducts research in the field of tangible interfaces: a tangible alternative to the mouse, keyboard, and computer...
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Julia Schmitz
Filmmaker
Julia Schmitz (1993) is a filmmaker with a great fascination for the process of imaging and the construction of stories. In her associative films, she often explores complex subjects, such as sexual...
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Lizette van Hecke
Storyteller
An original generalist from the metropolis of Rotterdam with a deep love for words and threads. She likes to play with expectations and loves strong stories. Experienced in multi-platform projects...
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Gian van Grunsven
Journalist and maker
Gian has been conducting artistic-journalistic research into sexuality in all its facets for seven years. This previously resulted in the successful show ' SEXIETY' in collaboration with Gehring&...
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Clarissa Smith
Professor
Clarissa Smith is Professor in Media at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. Her research has focused on sexual media and representations and she is particularly interested in the ways in which...
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Bert Sliggers
Art historian and curator
Bert Sliggers was curator of Teylers Museum for much of his life and thus responsible for a large number of exhibitions and accompanying books. As guest curator he is now associated with the Museum...
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Amber Rahantoknam
Multidisciplinary Artist
Amber Rahantoknam, also known as AMBIGOU, is a multi-disciplinary maker mixing text and image through illustration and poetry.