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Japanese Knotweed Season: Collaborative sculptural installation Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sculpting worlds from other perspectives
- Clay along to Siobhán McGibbon's exhibition!20Apr 2024On the stem and leaves of the Japanese Knotweed lives a flea that sees the world not as we do, but in strong UV colors. What does the world look like through the eyes of this flea? Together with...
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Japanese Knotweed Season: Collaborative sculptural installation Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sculpting worlds from other perspectives
- Clay along to Siobhán McGibbon's exhibition!19Apr 2024On the stem and leaves of the Japanese Knotweed lives a flea that sees the world not as we do, but in strong UV colors. What does the world look like through the eyes of this flea? Together with...
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Japanese Knotweed Season: Collaborative sculptural installation Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sculpting worlds from other perspectives
- Clay along to Siobhán McGibbon's exhibition!14Apr 2024On the stem and leaves of the Japanese Knotweed lives a flea that sees the world not as we do, but in strong UV colors. What does the world look like through the eyes of this flea? Together with...
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Japanese Knotweed Festival '24
Japanese Knotweed Program
upcoming events
All exhibitions , workshops and events during the Japanese Knotweed season. Reserve your tickets here ! *We offer a discount to students, artists and Stadspas holders.
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Program April & May
Japanese Knotweed Season 2024
Every spring, Mediamatic organizes a festival around Japanese knotweed. Knotweed is a fast-growing plant known in Europe for its intrusive properties. What many do not know, however, is that this...
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Aaron Delucoire
Artist/Performer
Curious minds, meet Aaron—a multifaceted artist whose journey weaves a tale of self-discovery, resilience, and a passion for the transformative art of makeup.
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Dorian de Rijk
Artist/Curator
A Master's graduate from the Film Academy in 2016, Dorian clinched the AHK Eindwerkprijs with her graduation film "Valerius." Since then, she has delved into various film and social design projects.
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Japanese Knotweed Season: Collaborative sculptural installation Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sculpting worlds from other perspectives
- Clay along to Siobhán McGibbon's exhibition!13Apr 2024On the stem and leaves of the Japanese Knotweed lives a flea that sees the world not as we do, but in strong UV colors. What does the world look like through the eyes of this flea? Together with...
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“Anxiety is the Japanese knotweed of mental…
Presumably, anxiety is a challenge we all have dealt with at one point in our lives. Be it caused by the pandemic, wars, our fast paced lifestyles, our own personal challenges, or… THE JAPANESE...
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Siobhán McGibbon
Visual Artist and Researcher, AromaLab Artist in residence 2024
Siobhán McGibbon is a Visual Artist, Researcher and World-builder with a transdisciplinary practice. Her expression mutates, merging sculpture, animation, drawing, permaculture and participatory...
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Blog Leyang Fu
(Re)naming a Plant – the Magic in a Name
To many, calling a name equals casting a spell, as names are often assigned with magic or spiritual power. Such belief spreads widely geographically among different tribes. In modern days, we know...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meet-a-Maker
- with Siobhán McGibbon16Apr 2024Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our little greenhouses by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Siobhán McGibbon is...
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Janny Vos
Strategic Partnerships Director for CABI
Dr. Janny Vos is Strategic Partnerships Director for CABI – an international, inter-governmental, not-for-profit organization that applies scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and...
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Remko Andeweg
Urban botanist at Bureau Stadsnatuur
Remko Andeweg works as a city botanist at Bureau Stadsnatuur, part of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam. He specialized in the flora of the urban-industrial environment, vegetation...
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Clean Knotweed & the Strange Entanglements of…
An Interview with Artist Yoshinari Nishiki
I had the pleasure of interviewing artist Yoshinari Nishiki for Mediamatic's Japanese Knotweed festival. Yoshinari had just returned from Brussels, where he had spoken with European policymakers.
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Mas Jansma
My name is Mas. I've lived in the center of Amsterdam all of my life. I love to see the countless ways in which life finds its way in the city. Plants arrest my attention whenever they do something I...
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3. Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Frank Bloem, Caetano Mendes Dias, Rachel Barfield
Aromas of Extermination
14Apr 2023- by Mediamatic Aromalab30Sep 2024Discover the smells of different ways humans try to get rid of the plant, from uprooting the plant to electrocuting their stems and leaves.
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Johan van Valkenburg
Senior Scientist at the Netherlands Institute for Vectors, Invasive plants and Plant health (NIVIP)
Johan van Valkenburg is currently a Senior Scientist at the Netherlands Institute for Vectors, Invasive plants and Plant health (NIVIP), leading research projects relating to invasive non-native...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
- Workshop with Virgile Durando22Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
- Workshop with Virgile Durando30Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
- Workshop with Virgile Durando29Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
- Workshop with Virgile Durando15Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
- Workshop with Virgile Durando23Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Norbert Peeters
Botanical philosopher
Norbert Peeters (37) is a botanical philosopher, writer, and PhD-student at Leiden University. His dissertation focuses on the philosophy of weeds, invasive exotics, and the historical roots of...