Workshop:

Distilling a Scent Bouquet

with Frank Bloem

18 Feb 2024

During this workshop, you will be introduced to scent extraction and the distillation process. Distillation is the process of extracting essential oils from plant based materials. Using your own or materials from the Mediamatic grounds, you will distill your own artistic essential oil.

Tickets 

SOLD OUT, EXTRA DATE: 25 February

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Herbs to be chopped up and made into essential oil - Alice Gimpel

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What you will do

In this workshop, you will be introduced to the process of distilling. With the plants that grow on the Mediamatic grounds or the waste from the kitchen of Mediamatic, you will form scent bouquets that can be distilled into an essential oil. Participants are encouraged to bring their own materials according to their inspiration (f.e past experiments have included using lard, fungi and horse hair). After learning about different distilling techniques, combining raw materials and eventually extracting the scent, you will take home a tiny bottle of a 10% solution in alcohol.

Frank Bloem

Frank Bloem is an artist who uses scent as his primary medium. He studied Fine Arts at the Rietveld Academy. In the summer of 2016, Frank changed his focus from visual art to olfactory-based works and started The Snifferoo. This perfume laboratory is a place for education and experiments around scent. He made several personalised perfumes, hosts regular workshops, and has recreated the elephant smell of Artis, the Amsterdam Zoo.

Tickets

Full price €70 | *Discount price €49

*We give a discount to students, stadspas and artists. If this applies to you we might ask to see your kvk nr/portfolio or student card for this option.

Information

18th of February, 12:00-15:00
Attendance limited to 6 people. We maintain a minimum of 4 participants.
Please note that, unless everyone speaks Dutch, this workshop will be held in English.
For questions, please send an email to workshop@mediamatic.nl.

Read our ticket terms and conditions here.