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  • Image: Andrea Valdivia

    Knitting close-up

    Meet behind scenes at Knit for Survival!

    Knitting doesn't have to be hard. In the knitting for Survival sessions you don't have to be an experienced needle worker at all. We'll provide beginner tools and instructions next to the most...
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  • 2022 Iliana Metaxa

    Stitches, Threads and Needles

    Exploring the edges of contemporary embroidery

    From feminist empowerment and craftivism, to DIY material experimentations, embroidery is crossing boundaries left and right. Our new Radical Embroidery workshop has been inspired by a lot of...
  • 2022 Elise Chalcraft, Willem Velthoven

    Sweaters against Putin

    Mediamatic turns down the gas heaters for Ukraine whilst learning how to knit.

    We are dialing down our heating because we don't want to fund the Russian government with our gas money. We will all be wearing sweaters for Ukraine in an attempt to stop our dependency on natural...
  • 2022 Iliana Metaxa

    Getting intimate through stitches

    Meet Desirée Hammen

    Are you curious to know more about our new workshop, Radical Embroidery? We talk with workshop tutor Desirée Hammen, an Eindhoven-based fashion designer and artist who specialises in embroidery.

  • Using autism to imagine alternative worlds

    A/artist discussion round with research duo Liminal Vision

    Liminal Vision is a creative research duo consisting of artistic maker Victor Evink and film maker Emilia Tapprest. Victor is open about his autism diagnosis, while Emilia is not on the spectrum.

  • Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno

    Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno exhibited in Nature's Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Invention .  Nature's Toolbox  is an exhibition exploring the wonders of biodiversity. The exhibition perceives...
  • Proposal by: Anonymous

    Neurodiversiteit en de toegankelijkheid van…

    Project proposal: Inclusieve tools voor kunstfondsen

    Met het project ‘Inclusieve tools voor kunstfondsen’ verken  ik de toegankelijkheid van subsidies voor kunstenaars die zich identificeren als neurodivers. Hoe kunnen we gestandaardiseerde...

  • Across the Multiverse

    Chris Martin's poetic way to a neurodiverse future

    Chris Martin is a poet and an educator. What's unique in his practice that resonates with our attention to autistic minds and neurodiversity? 

  • How do you identify?

    Finding the right words to communicate your identity to the world can be useful for anybody. You get to identify yourself and name your identity in a way that fits. You also get to share that...

  • Redolent of the Past

    Smell, Memory and Affect

    The viscerality and embodiedness of olfactory experience are unrivaled by other senses. We introduce to you the role of smell in the formation and recall of memories and its affective powers in our...
  • Proposal by: Alena Grahn

    Erotic Ecology

    Project proposal: Our Human Bodies

    This project aims to explore the erotic in our local ecology through the senses. As we are expanding our relationship with this idea, the research will be performed as ritual. In our exploration, we...

  • How national is food culture?

    A case study of regional food practices in Turkey

    We often distinguish food cultures by assigning them a national name. However, national territories are rarely homogenous and, many times, various food cultures exist within the same country. This...
  • Proposal by: Stephanie Pau

    Time Givers, by Tomato Plants et al

    Project Proposal: Practicing more-than-human care

    Humans are not the only entity in the world, machines and the rest of nature, too, share the same world.  In the next tomato planting season (2023), I, with local tomato plants - wherever I may be
  • Proposal by: Margherita Falqui

    Liquid Maquis

    Project proposal: Connecting with places through the senses

    Exploring the connection to a territory and its curative potential by drinking it, ingesting it, feeling it. I would like to explore and communicate the connection to territory by creating a liquid...

  • Beftival Photo Gallery

    A collection of photos from Beftival

  • Inspiring confusion with photographs

    A/artist discussion round with Marna Slappendel

    Marna Slappendel is an Amsterdam-based visual artist. Since she received her autism diagnosis five years ago, she has evolved from knowing nearly nothing about it to researching and learning about...
  • Proposal by: Azucena Sánchez

    Oak Tales

    Project proposal: Genomic Soundscapes

    Plants are our ancestors, the ones that see the real in us, the only ones who saw the world before it got inhabited, the ones that created forms, aesthetics and structure. If nature were to be...
  • Proposal by: Mario Mimoso

    Floating Havens

    Project Proposal: Regenerating city life

    Floating Havens is a project aimed at regenerating life inside the urban landscape. Using Amsterdam’s canals as a way to gain land to the crowded and congested city streets, we want to dedicate these...
  • Proposal by: Sujata Majumdar, Roland van Dierendonck, Irene Nooren

    Nanoplay

    Project Proposal: The Society Within Us

    'The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think' - Gregory Bateson Our current way of thinking does not enable us to deal with...
  • Proposal by: Thom van Hoek

    Object Permanence

    Project proposal: Levend sculptuur

    Object Permanence wordt een sculptuur bestaande uit 100% agar-agar (ook wel E406 genoemd) met daarin zaadjes van een nog nader – eventueel in overleg – te bepalen plant. Ik wil een geschikt autowiel...

  • Elficological know‑how

    A take on fictional knowledge by Mediamatic artist in residence Pauline Rip

    How can we reimagine the richness of our cultural relationships with plants and nature  through the imaginary creatures they inhabit? To what extent can fictional knowledge and cultures explore the...
  • Proposal by: Pauline Rip

    Cooking Ghosts

    Researching elficology

    How can we reimagine the richness of our cultural relationships with plants and nature through the imaginary creatures they inhabit? Cooking Ghosts is a project based on research done by...
  • Proposal by: Roland van Dierendonck, Maro Pebo

    Chili Pepper Pleasure

    Project proposal: A hedonistic experience

    Half the planet is addicted to capsaicin, the working substance in chili peppers. It is described as a stimulant or even an aphrodisiac. There has been proven to be a relationship between capsaicin...
  • Proposal by: Sieta Maria van Horck

    Bodies of Land

    Project proposal: Rituals to connect with land

    Bodies of Land is a radical ritual that explores the relationships of inter-being between multispecies bodies and local lands. How do we build living relationships and design practices that reawaken...

  • Windworks

    a triptych between three windmills by Merel Karhof

    Ever since she made her first Wind Knitting Factory , Merel Karhof had the wish to use the harvest of her factory to upholster furniture pieces.

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