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  • The Finger Rub Rug

    When enclosed in a room with a rug made of silicone fingers, it is difficult to remain neutral. Whether it be humour or disgust, Dima's installation invites the audience to act on their response as...
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  • How can our Experience of Intimacy be changed by…

    Throughout the Covid19 lockdown, there has been a 47% increase in the use of the internet as the world has turned to technology to connect with loved ones. This has made the research of Lancel/Maat...

  • Wetlands by Charlotte Roche

    The new Covid19 restrictions means it's time for those creative hobbies to come out of the woodwork again! Or, perhaps you are looking for something creative and different... have you considered...

  • Fashion Your Sweat

    Alice Potts is a biomaterial designer fascinated by sweat. By f ashioning this vital bodily fluid into crystals for garments, shoes and sportswear, Potts asks us to reconsider the potential of our...

  • The Self and Solo Sex

    Celebrating International Masturbation Month

    Sexual discovery and self-pleasure, that’s what May is about. This month we honour solo sex and break the stigma surrounding human sexuality, masturbation and self-love.

  • Distant Secretopias

    Rethinking intimacy in isolation

    During times of quarantine and social distancing, we face an unprecedented shift in society that highlights the volatile nature of what makes us social beings. We encounter new challenges in the...

  • Getting Drunk From Saliva

    Anivor - Alcohol made of saliva by Sydney Schaefer

    Saliva contains an enzyme called Amylase. When Amylase is combined with starch, which you can find in for example rice, it creates sugar. To create alcohol one only needs to combine sugar and yeast.

  • When can we start to objectify our hair?

    Human Hair Transformation by Zsofia Kollar

    Zsofia Kollar is a designer who uses hair as the primary medium. The human hair has many capabilities due to their nutrients. For this collection, Zsofia experiments with the hair as an absorbent...

  • About the Pis’ Project

    2014-2016

    The Pis’ Project connects urine in the arts with innovation within design, architecture and environment. After a successful two years we decided in 2017 to expand the project from urine to all human...

  • It's Electric!

    Electric pee in Rio de Janeiro

    Every year the city of Rio de Janeiro has to deal with the same reoccurring problem. The many people at the Carnival pee in the streets. With this in mind, AfroReggae and JWT came up with a way to...

  • Symbolic Table: 100% interface-free media player

    Mediamatic Atelier RFID project. Not only for children and geriatrics.

    Symbolic Table is an interface-free media player. A cultural tool for those who want to work with media without any hassle. It is not an appliance, but a simple table. There are no buttons, no knobs.

  • Wearable Fluids: Turning the Body Inside Out

    Body Fluids by Zane Cerpina

    What if you were able to wear some of your most intimate bodily fluids, such as menstrual blood, breast milk or semen, as jewellery? Visual artist Zane Cerpina created a collection of jewellery made...

  • Intimate Currency

    Peck As You Go by Raphael Kim

    With the world becoming more globalized with the help of the internet, businesses and payments become more intangible and digital. Such as so, payment systems are pressured to keep up with the rapid...

  • In the End, We Only Have Ourselves

    Body as a Restaurant by Zane Cerpina

    Time is of the essence. Human progression and technological advancements have led us to turn our world to the new age- the Age of Man; the Anthropocene. When we can no longer rely on mother nature’s...

  • The Dirt We Carry

    Self Portrait by Amanda Cotton

    For three months, Amanda Cotton documented her life using her face wipes for her ‘Self Portrait’ . These face wipes not only show the removed makeup, but also the dirt and oil that is inevitably...

  • Regulated Sex

    Sex advise from the National Institute for Health and Environment

    Just when we thought the 1.5 meter rule had completely fucked up our sex lives, the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport released a set of rules and regulations for safe sex. Solo sex or sex with...

  • Pissing in Perfect Cursive

    Lou Buche's Pee-Project

    What may have started as a “seriously drunk” act on a snowy Amsterdam night turned into something much more rousing. For artist Lou Buche, a quick piss stop on the trek home from a drunken night led...

  • Forever, Ink.

    A new, everlasting memorial.

    Morticians Mike and Kyle Sherwood launched Save My Ink Forever in 2016 when they realised that thousands of dollars of body art was literally going up in smoke.

  • Shewee

    Stand up and take control.

    The Original Female Urination Device since 1999. Shewee is a urinating device that allows women to urinate without removing clothes whilst standing or sitting. The Extreme comes with a carry case and...

  • Urinelle

    Easy. Hygienic. Fast.

    At home women can easily sit down to pee, however in public toilets the seats are often dirty and women are "hovering" in order to prevent sitting down. On top of that, it is not uncommon to see a...

  • The Chair That Bleeds

    The Red Series 001 Breath Chair by Hyun-Gi Kim

    We consider chairs to be one of those everyday inanimate furnitures that fills the room. And like many inanimate objects, they’re often taken for granted because chairs are always being made. But...

  • Celebrating Spit

    dribble, slobber, sputum, drool...

    A weapon, a balm and a data bank, when used respectfully saliva brings us passion and healing. 

  • WoPeeH

    For women who stand up!

    WoPeeH pocket is the newest reusable urinating device for practical modern woman! WoPeeH pocket is specifically designed to easily take with you and lockable. Made of sturdy plastic it is reliable to...
  • Workshop: Tanja Baudoin, Michel Langendijk

    Workshop Coffin for your Beloved

    Work together with a contemporary artist

    A coffin with poetic ribbons, graffiti or textile? A robe or something more conceptual? As part of the Ik RIP exhibition on death and self-representation Mediamatic organized workshops for surviving...

  • How about human hair for mass production?

    British designer Ellie Birkhead uses local human hair to make region-specific bricks.

    What if we could use human hair to replace finite materials used in building houses?  Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Ellie Birkhead decided to experiment with this idea. Birkhead is the developer...

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