Culture

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...

Branches (draft)

Shrinking Sustainability (draft)

Tofu, Bean curd or Rice paper? (draft)

Steaming Wellness (draft)

Comparison of Dutch Sauna experience with the Thai Herbal Sauna

The Thai Herbal Sauna experience is very unique and contrasting to the Dutch experience. The Thai traditional experience is focused more on personal relaxation and rejuvenation of the body, rather...

Tip of the Nose

On Smell and Language

“Wow, it smells wonderful!” I exclaim as we enter the neighborhood bakery. “It smells, it smells so… nutty.” Hmm, that’s not quite the word that I wanted to say, I think to myself. Ever since...

Food Wellness (draft)

Following the process of Waew's efforts to create a Thai Sauna experience

Take a deep breath in and hold it for a moment. Breath out. Feel the steam on your skin. Imagine being able to relax and take a moment for yourself, knowing that you will enjoy a delicious meal...

Stories of Coca

Controversies in Usage from South-America to Western Europe

It is one of the most consumed drugs worldwide. Yet, when considering that it is forbidden in the Netherlands, it is difficult to picture how "cocaine is the most seized drug" here ( Sawbridge 2019...

Redolent of the Past

Smell, Memory and Affect

The viscerality and embodiedness of olfactory experience is unrivaled by other senses. We introduce to you the role of smell in the formation and recall of memories and its affective powers in our...

Una Szeemann

Artist

Rosa Martinez

Art Curator and critic

Working internationally from Barcelona, Spain.

Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop

Messages from the Myco-Assemblage

11
Dec 2020
- Arne Hendriks & Dominik Einfalt talk about their attempts to construct pigeon guano towers with living mycelium waste.

This Friday 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...

Who Got Inspired?

Restaurants that adopted the Serres Séparées concept

A few restaurants over the world that were inspired by the idea to serve food in a greenhouse. Some examples look close to the greenhouses that we have at Mediamatic, while others made some serious...

Marketing the 'Other'

'Foreign' as a Selling point

This blogpost attempts to situate our approach to various cuisines within a broader political context of migration and diversity. How do perceptions of ‘foriegn’ food mirror political discourses...

How national is food culture?

A case study of regional food practices in Turkey

We often distinguish food cultures by assigning them a national name. However, national territories are rarely homogenous and, many times, various food cultures exist within the same country. This...

Mediamatic 2020

Here you will find an overview of our highlights, go here to see the full overview of our 2020 program or who we worked with this year . 2020 was an interesting year. The sudden, and first ever