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Mediamatic Biotoop
The Sin Eaters through the eyes of Hildegard Von…
By Alice Héron and Martin Butler
The Sin Eaters is a culinary experience created by chef and artist Alice Héron and the director Martin Butler. During 9 evenings in February 2022, participants were immersed in the incredible world...
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Alena Grahn & Omri Roden - Erotic Ecology & Our…
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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...
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Si Knight - Multisensory Listening Rituals for…
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As you may well have experienced, life today can be very stressful. As a result of this, many people are currently in desperate need of finding ways to reduce their stress levels. Yet contemporary...
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Cooking Ghosts
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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...
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René Nissen, Avery Franken - Disrupting…
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The world around us may make us feel like we are required to be our most “productive” selves, and like “unproductive” behaviour is penalised. These rules can be written – a contract, for example, may...
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(Digital) Glass Tasting
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My artistic research is about how glass becomes odour. Glass is an odourless material. But therefore, I claim, it can be used to tap into our own biological olfactory memory - which is the goal of...
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Jennifer Kumer - When My Time Comes: an End-of
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How do we prepare to die? Not usually a question we want to spend a lot of time thinking about, and yet, it's incredibly important. It’s often a question not answered until it is too late. This...
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Margherita Falqui - liquid maquis
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Exploring the connection to a territory and its curative potential by drinking it, ingesting it, feeling it.
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Chili Pepper Pleasure
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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...
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Nina Anin - Wind Airwave transmission
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WIND TURBINE My project mainly revolves around this windturbine I have built. The windturbine is connected (through gears) to a motor which generates power. The mini circuitboard is then connected to...
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Floating Havens by Sharp & Sour
Regenerating Urban Ecosystems
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...
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Azucena Sánchez - Oak Tales: Genomic Soundscapes
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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...
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Bas Huijbers - Green Office
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Samen met leerlingen, docenten en schoolleiders, het onderwijs in Amsterdam klimaatcrisis bestendig maken. Met als basisproject: een Green Office
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Racha Tazari - MY DINNER
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My Dinner is an immersive art installation: part food art and part theatrical set up. Thematically, it resembles a sit-down table-for-six dinner party. My Dinner attempts to explore the process and...
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Neurodiversiteit en de toegankelijkheid van…
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Met het project ‘Inclusieve tools voor kunstfondsen’ verken ik de toegankelijkheid van subsidies voor kunstenaars die zich identificeren als neurodivers. Hoe kunnen we gestandaardiseerde...
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Lucie Majerus - Colour-Smells of Amsterdam
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As a product designer, I am interested in how countries design nation branding and souvenirs. How can we find new ways for tourists to experience a place while giving them new sensual possibilities?
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Krisztina Czika - What's left to capture?
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'What's left to capture?' is inspired by a research project I have started in Sri Lanka back in the beginning of 2020. In our world today, the natural resources we use are, sadly taken for granted...
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Maaike Anne Stevens - Bipolaris
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Bipolaris is an essay film of about 30 minutes about the fundamental difference in the way our two brain hemispheres experience the world. By means of documentary shots, fictional scenes, interviews...
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Arthur Guilleminot - Piss Soap
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My project of Piss Soap is an ecodeviant product aiming to regenerate our local urban environments, while questioning our social conditioning about disgust. Piss soap is made entirely out of human...
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Mariko Hori - archive something we don't know yet
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This project is a study and a little hope to archive potential data of current water conditions of Amsterdam, for future generations.
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Thom van Hoek - Object Permanence
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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...
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Rens Spanjaard & Sieta van Horck - Bodies of Land
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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...
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Inclusive Patching
Een workshop over textiel circulariteit, inclusiviteit en het vergroten van een collectief kunstwerk.
Kom voor een middagje patchen bij Mediamatic! We willen inspireren om restjes stof te up-cyclen voor een collectief kunstwerk tijdens een informatieve, inclusieve en diverse workshop over textiel...
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Vita Buivid
Artist / Photographer
Ukrainian / Russian artist / photographer. Buivid is considered to be one of the forward-thinking feminists in Russian art. An especially memorable project has been a series of «How I Spent My...