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  •  Nature Morte
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  • Shroud
  • 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...

  • Death
  • 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...

  • Fake-Eco Evaluation: Still Life at Mediamatic

    Is death truly sustainable?

    Death is one last action - a body left to account for. Some of us have already given it a thought, but how hard have we thought about our upcoming deaths, really? Mediamatic´s Still Life: death

  • 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...

  • Proposal by: Susanne Duijvestein

    Nokanshi Dreams

    Project proposal

    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...

  • 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

  • Nature Morte

    Death, Design and Sustainability

    We explore new approaches and designs for our own inevitable death with progressive funeral director Susanne Duijvestein. Lectures and workshops about architecture, rituals, life stories and the...

  • Venue 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...

  • 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...

  • ...and beyond workshop

    The workshop of fashion designers ...and beyond is aimed at working together on a shroud for the deceased. On this shroud drawings will be applied with stitches, as a final farewell and in memory of...

  • Memento mori profiel

    Van online profiel naar herdenkingsplek

    Met het maken van een online profiel op Mediamatic.net, Hyves of Facebook proberen veel mensen expressie te geven aan hun individuele identiteit. Er kan allerlei persoonlijke informatie worden...

  • Maurizio Montalti 5 Dec 2011

    Bodies of Change

    Installation

    The growth of a new burial practice by employing fungi in performing the role of main “disassemblers” within the cyclical processes of growth and decomposition.

  • Together Forever

    When I was an apprentice, the directors told me a story that has shaped the way I view funerals and family requests to this day. Sometimes it happens that two people who are very close die at nearly...

  • Book: Simon Critchley 1 Jan 1997

    Very Little...Almost Nothing

    Very Little ... Almost Nothing puts the question of the meaning of life back at the centre of intellectual debate.

  • Bodies of Change Growth

    Week 1 of growth

    In the second installment of this series, we watch the strange growth that has shown up on the mycelium shroud and it's not exactly what we were expecting!

  • Proposal by: Rosalie Bak

    Until death makes us parts

    Exploring the phenomena from-life-to-death ~ through haptonomy

    This artistic public-research proposal brings together experts and 'the dying' in an intimate setting - where they can co-research, -experience and -imagine the phenomena from-life-to-death and...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • List of Death Films

    Research for Death exhibition

    - The Loved One , (1965). A black comedy about a funeral business, directed by Tony Richardson - Kostnice (1970). A short documentary made by Jan Svankmeyer on the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech...

  • A community of the dead

    A conversation with Elizabeth Heyert

    Mary Caparitia Bush is ready to go to the party. She is wearing a stunning black sequin dress with a pattern of white leaves. Lace gloves and a pink hat with a flower complement the look. Mary’s hair...

  • Funeral Rites in Chinatown

    "The clear, melodic notes of a brass band marching along Chinatown's Stockton Avenue catch the attention of an Asian woman picking over produce at a sidewalk vegetable stand. As the band turns the...

  • Kompromat blog

    Secret agent Sokolova

    is temporary out of service

    The spy who came in from the cold is going back there. Her government is calling her. She may return soon. Or never. Kompromat is closed for the time being. Tomorrow never dies.

  • 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.

  • The Cremains of the Day

    A look at Words in Funeral Service

    Euphemisms abound in funeral service. As Hugh Rawson explains in one of my most favorite books, Euphemisms & Other Double Talk (Crown Publishers NY, 1981), words that are used to describe unpleasant...

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