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  • Image: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark JungJiea Hung

    Koen Royghens speaking about Stichting Metamorfose

  • Death
  • Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Piss, Death, Stress

    28
    Jul 2022
    - Penny for your Thoughts Project Presentations with Arthur Guilleminot, Si Knight and Jennifer Kumer

    Piss, waste, stress 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...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Magdalena Thur

    The Resomation of Fungal tissue

    Could fungi provide the future fabric for death shrouds?

    Mediamatic's search for vegan fabric that could be used in Resomation, an environmentally friendly alternative burial method, led to testing fungal material.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Susanne Duijvestein

    From Pest to Soil

    Humusating a Muskrat

    Maybe you have heard about the Muskrat, an ‘invasive exotic’ that likes to chomp on 'our' Dutch dykes. It was on the 22nd of May that one found their final resting place in one of the grow beds at...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

    Resomating a Musk Rat

    What happens to our bodies after death? When choosing Resomation as a burial method, the answer is just as fascinating as it might give you the shivers. With resomation, the human body is dissolved...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Design your own Shroud

    with Susanne Duivensteijn

    Have you ever thought about what you want to be wearing when you die? In this workshop we will breathe new life into an old Dutch tradition. You will be guided in the process of making your own...

  • Overview of Nature Morte events

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Space for a final goodbye

    (un)conventional rite

    All forms of life are given a place at Mediamatic. Death is inherently linked with the cycle of life. Just as nature provides room for death, so do we. We offer the opportunity to bid your deceased...

  • Dood

    Program overview

    An interactive exploration of your identity and expression in relation to death. From abstract death portraits to death masks, from beauty to love, from guts to gills: this year our Museumnacht will...
  • Bis Repetita Placent Raymond Depardon

    BON BON Jeun L'Çonte 2009

    ".....Pardon......Man Bijte Konte......a oui biensur........" heureusement nouveau la fesse l'an de Vision ( Man bites buttock New Year) de RAYMOND MIRRER et RAYMOND DEPARDON

    Une petit persiflage de MAN BIJT KONT de NCRV television Neerlandais/ The Dutch television program Man Bijt Hond sounds like and looks like MAN BITES BUTTOCK/ So a Hommage to Raymond Depardons...
  • Book: Chuck Palahniuk

    Survivor

    by Chuck Palahniuk

    Survivor is a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, first published in February 1999.

  • Ashes to Ashes

    Part 1

    For many, the idea of returning our bodies to the earth is a sacred and appealing concept. Those of us with a special bond to a particular patch of earth have found ways of making this return even...
  • Book: James M. Barrie

    Peter Pan and Wendy

    Peter Pan or the Boy who wouldn't grow up

    Peter Pan and Wendy is James M. Barrie’s most famous work, first a play in 1904 and then turned into a novel in 1911.

  • Nan is Dood

    Nan Hoover is op 9 juni 2008 in Berlijn overleden. Ze was ziek. We zullen haar missen. Als kunstenaar. Als mentor. Als vriend.

  • Nadine Jarvis: Challenging Post Mortem Traditions

    Designer Nadine Jarvis has produced some very thought provoking art work using cremated remains. But before you say, "Oh, I've seen those paintings and glass sculptures with the ashes mixed in"...
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Katja Sokolova, Olga Jitlina

    St. Petersburg Pavilion

    Thank Adam

    Open from 5 December 2009 - 3 January 2010 in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic. While visiting Ancient department of the Hermitage, we suddenly noticed that there was some strange energy...

  • Shroud

    History and the revival

    Ever thought about what you'll wear when you're dead? In the past it was customary in our country to make your own death shroud and keep it in your linen closet because you never know. Although this...
  • Book: Jonathan Safran Foer

    Extreem luid en ongelooflijk dichtbij

    Een zoektocht naar antwoorden

    Oskar Schell heeft zijn vader verloren bij de aanslagen op het WTC in New York. Hij probeert betekenis te geven aan de dood van zijn vader.

  • Etalagemoorden

    Over gladde koppen en het feit dat de guillotine nog in werking lijkt te zijn.

    Mistroostig word ik van de talloze onthoofde paspoppen in mijn blikveld. Ik begrijp het niet, waarom al die doden in etalages? Is DEATH SELLS de nieuwste leus? Sigaretten verkopen beter sinds erop...

  • Gypsy Graves

    Gypsy graves have a life of their own in Portland, Oregon

    In Portland Oregon's beautiful Rose City Cemetery, there is a section of Gypsy graves. The monuments on these graves are interesting enough during most of the year because of the photographs of men...

  • Workshop Melanie Bonajo

    Coffin for your beloved

    For Melanie Bonajo designing the coffin is a communal process with much room for rituals and stories about the deceased.

  • Moulds growing on fashion

    In 1997 Belgium fashion designer Martin Margiela produced his first solo exhibition, 9/4/1615 at the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum of Rotterdam. In collaboration with a microbiologist, Margiela...

  • Eko coffin photo report

    How to fold your coffin step by step

    Discover how easy it is to put together a cardboard coffin. The Eko-Ben company from Poland demonstrates their environmentally friendly products. Mediamatic ordered a stack of cardboard coffins with...
  • Project proposal: Susanne Duijvestein

    Nokanshi Dreams

    Preparing a dead body for a funeral often takes place behind closed doors, outsourced to deathcare professionals. If it’s up to Susanne Duijvestein, funeral director and Nature Morte curator, we...

  • The Travelers by Elizabeth Heyert

    The fotoseries The Travelers by Elizabeth Heyert consists of portraits taken after death in Harlem New York. Photographed against a black background, using the techniques of making formal portraits...

created Alice Gimpel modified Anne Lakeman

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