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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Full programme overview 2022
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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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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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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jeanne Rousselot
From Eye to Tongue
A Film Dinner experience
Getting Comfy Course 0 – Zen Pussy by Annie Sprinkle (12 minutes) We were welcomed in a pink-lit room. On three screens close-ups of vulvas were speaking to us. A whisper of breathing and...
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Film Dinner Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Laura van Zuylen , Yacinth Pos
BEF Film Dinner
- Beftival's Film Dinner – by Laura van Zuylen and Yacinth Pos10Nov 2021This six-course dinner experience is a collaboration between chef and designer Yacinth Pos and film critic Laura van Zuylen as part of Beftival . Dishes are paired with movie excerpts to explore the...
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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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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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Jin Lee
Object Designer
Jin Lee (1990, KR) is an object designer currently living and working in the Netherlands who has recently graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Jin Lee’s work sits between serious...
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Hester Scheurwater
Photographer
Hester Scheurwater (1971) studied monumental art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. Under the guise of self-portraits, she investigates and critiques the role of a woman as a sex object.
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Annika Hagen
Artist
Annika Hagen or 'Kaatje' (b. 1997) is an artist who is based everywhere and nowhere. She wants her art to caress you, shock you, make you shiver or do all that at the same time. The College of Arts...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Beftival
6Nov 2021- Museumnacht Amsterdam 202113Nov 2021The act of licking pussy is still surrounded by shame and red ears, but not everywhere! Partly influenced by social media, society seems to become more predatory, but at the same time, female...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Weekend of Science
2Oct 2021- Open for kids3Oct 2021Get green fingers in our garden and discover the natural treasures hidden around Mediamatic. From exploring intriguing plants in Aquaponics to a live reading about the six-winged chicken: come by!
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The Sin Eaters Research Suzana Orsolic
Day 3: Tabula Rasa
“When is it kicking in?”
Day 3 became Day 0. We started from scratch, with a table full of ideas. Five senses, seven deadly sins (plus one if you include sadness), different colours corresponding to our senses and also sins...
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The Sin Eaters Research Suzana Orsolic
Day 4: Smelling
“Do you have heavy or light sadness?”
The question on the importance of context also guided us through day four, a day that was fully dedicated to olfaction.
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The Sin Eaters Research Suzana Orsolic
Day 2: Touching & Tasting & Hearing
“I caught a nice fish for you.”
Day 2 was about storytelling, mutual trust – and a day at the beach. Pauline and Alice created a little storyline that let our minds travel to the beach, while listening to the sound of the ocean...
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The Sin Eaters Research Suzana Orsolic
Day 1: Vision
“It is a process, let it happen.”
April 26 2021 marked the first day of our Neo Futurist Dinner test week. In an attempt to structure the days that we spent together we agreed on dedicating each day to one sense. Monday started with...
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The Sin Eaters Research Suzana Orsolic
Sensorial Brainstorming
From tricking our senses to the magic of Hildegard von Bingen
As the world slowly but steadily seems to be opening up again, we have been busy preparing one of this year's Neo Futurist Dinner concepts. Artist Martin Butler gathered a team of six people from...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Plant Properties
Starting from Dijkspark, we are mapping plants in the city
A big variety of plants is growing around our Biotoop, from healing to toxic, from dark green to purple. You can visit the Hortus Dijkspark at any moment. Come to learn more about the different...
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The Duality of the Phallic Object
A conversation with Rixta van der Molen
When is something phallic? Are we constantly being penetrated? Rixta van der Molen is a young artist who is working with wax and sculpture making to question how our society thinks about “phallic...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Full programme overview 2021