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  • Pliny's panacea

    The ancients and pee

    From time immemorial, urine fascinated mankind. People ascribed to it's magic powers, using it to bleach hair, boost crops, perform curses, seduce, and whatnot. Pliny the Elder's "Natural History"...

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  • Mediamatic Hoogtepunten

    Op deze pagina het in 2020 gepresenteerde overzicht van onze favoriete projecten van de voorgaande jaren.  Klik hier voor alle jaaroverzichten en de actuele evenementen kalender .

  • Heel erg veel en nog lang niet genoeg!

    Mediamatic Show

    Hier vind je een selectie van onze projecten van de afgelopen 4 jaar. En een kleine impressie van belangrijke en grote projecten van de afgelopen 40 jaar. Kijk hier voor alle jaaroverzichten. 

  • Love spell, magic bottle and ballistic firepower

    Surprising uses of urine in medieval age

    Without a flushing tank at their service, medieval people had to interact with their urine much more often than we do. Immediate proximity to the material inspired in our ancestors some mind blowing...

  • Poepzaken

    Het land bevruchten met mensenpoep en -plas: het klinkt misschien vies, maar was tot zo’n honderd jaar geleden heel gebruikelijk. Sterker nog: eind negentiende eeuw werd in de meeste steden een...

  • Het riool als politieke infrastructuur

    Wat kan het riool ons leren over het functioneren van de moderne democratie? En over de rol van techniek en infrastructuur in politiek bedrijven? Riolering is niet neutraal, maar politiek actief: het...

  • Vespasian and universal bleach

    Where does the expression “Money doesn't stink” come from?

    While urine-diverting toilets are hitting the headlines as a wonder of innovative technology, collecting urine from public lavatories was a common thing in ancient Rome. Demand for the product was so...

  • 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...

  • Modern Day Vampires

    Consumption of blood whether it is human blood or animal blood in our modern culture has been associated to vampirism. In the past decade, our pop culture was fascinated by the fantastical stories of...

  • 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...

  • Bibliography

    Olfactory History of Oosterdok

    English bibliography Allen , Catherine. “To be Quechua: The Symbolism of Coca Chewing in Highland Peru”. American Ethnologist , 8, no. 1 (February 1981): 157-171. doi:10.1525/ae.1981.8.1.02a00100.

  • The dilemma of the modern artist

    From Manet to Warhol

    In the essay Myth of Artisthood, that our project is based on, the famous Dutch art critic, Camiel van Winkel is dividing all the artists in three different types: Romantic, Modernistic and the Beaux

  • Urine and philosopher's stone

    How the search for gold led alchemists to discover something else

    For centuries alchemists and magicians were racking their brains over the riddle of philosopher’s stone - a mysterious substance that is able to turn basic metals into gold. One of the legends ran...

  • Our first steps into reality

    The start of a new project with Jasmin Moeller

    Recently, Mondriaan Fund granted Jasmin Moeller and Mediamatic the Commissioning Contemporary Art scholarship for the Reality of Theory project. This is a project in which the audience will produce...

  • Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit? Blogserie…

    #1 Leren luisteren naar niet-mensen is een politieke aangelegenheid

    In de serie ‘Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit?’ schrijf ik blogs over uitdagende theorieën uit de ecofilosofie. Ik introduceer de ideeën, ter informatie of inspiratie. Daarna zullen er...

  • On bees and piss

    riddle answer

    Why is a honey bee like a men's urinal? Have you guessed the riddle yet?

  • Spinoza

    Superster uit de gouden eeuw

    Er bestaat slechts één substantie, met één en dezelfde natuur Wie vrij is schrijft zichzelf de wet voor Het doel van de staat is de vrijheid

  • It makes death look okay!

    3D at the Ik R.I.P. opening

    3D paid a visit to the Ik R.I.P. opening. See what he experienced. Review taken from the 3D List: Week # 21 Subscribe for this weekly email service at sos.kunst [at] gmail.com

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Joodse Huizen

    herdenking van Joods Amsterdam

    Het project ‘Joodse Huizen’ verbindt Amsterdammers van nu met de Amsterdammers van toen. Zij geven een gezicht aan de namen van alle in de oorlog omgekomen Joodse Nederlanders. Op 4 mei 2011 werden...

  • Creators of social value

    Conversation with Erik Pold, travel-guide and curator of the Copenhagen pavilion

    Danish artist Erik Pold interviewed four people from the cultural underground in Copenhagen for his CPH TLK project. This Saturday the 21st of November at 20:00 hrs Erik's Copenhagen pavilion opens...

  • Wash Your Guilt Away

    SELF Human Soap, Schuldfabriek by Julian Hetzel

    Schuldfabriek is a performative installation that takes place as a luxury cosmetic store. Their best-selling product? Guilt.

  • You like this! & verantwoordelijkheid.

    Uitting doormiddel van externe middelen & de vervagende grens tussen digitaal en analoog.

    Je moet jezelf onderscheiden van de rest. Op de een of andere manier moet dat. Als westers mens wil je nu eenmaal aan de rest laten zien wat ze aan je hebben. Dat is niet nieuw, dat was altijd al zo.

  • Pop-up Urinals

    Public convenience by the push of a button

    This public urinal hides in plain sight during the day, and rises for the occasion at night. With room for three, the urinal provides ample opportunity and encouragement for male citizens to do their...

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