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  • Afbeelding:

    A Plague Doctor

    Photo by Kuma Kum
  • Dood
  • book: James M. Barrie

    Peter Pan and Wendy

    Peter Pan or the Boy who wouldn't grow up

    Peter Pan and Wendy is James M. Barrie’s most famous work, first a play in 1904 and then turned into a novel in 1911.
  • book: Simon Critchley 1 jan 1997

    Very Little...Almost Nothing

    Very Little...Almost Nothing plaatst de vraag naar de zin van het leven terug in het centrum van het intellectuele debat.

  • Prevention rather than cure

    Old saying true for us

    Fish are like humans. They have all kinds of slumbering diseases and they have an immune system that helps them defeat the pathogens. Just like us.

  • Workshop Melanie Bonajo

    Grafkist voor je geliefde

    Voor Melanie Bonajo is het vormgeven van de grafkist een gezamelijk proces waarbij plaats is voor rituelen en voor verhalen over de overledene.
  • 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.

  • ...and beyond workshop

    Grafkist voor je geliefde

    De workshop van de mode-ontwerpers ...and beyond is gericht op het gezamelijk werken aan een lijkwade voor de overledene, waarop met lijntekeningen herinneringen en een laatste groet worden...

  • Allerzielen Alom

    kunst tot herdenken

    Vieren van het geleefde leven Vroeg of laat krijgt iedereen te maken met het mysterie van de dood. Wanneer iemand doodgaat van wie we houden, is er eerst vooral rouw. Pas later beseffen we dat we...

  • 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...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop 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...

  • 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!

  • 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...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    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...

  • Overzicht Nature Morte evenementen

  • 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...

  • Birds, guns and shadows from afterlife

    A visit to the 3rd moscow biennial

    Forget the crisis, the cold and the autumn depression. In Moscow, contemporary art is booming. In the first 2 days, only the main venue of the Moscow biennial had over 10000 visitors. Kompromat was...

  • spectres?

    Mediated mourning rituals and the cultural acceptance of death

    The following is an excerpt from my MA thesis entitled 'Praise the media!' in which I look at examples of mourning rituals, namely the LCD embedded gravestone, through the looking glass of media...

  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...

  • 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 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.
  • Verhuur Mediamatic Biotoop

    Een mooi afscheid

    Het (on)conventionele afscheid

    Alle manieren van leven krijgen een plaats bij Mediamatic. De dood is inherent verbonden met de levenscyclus en zoals ook de natuur een plaats geeft aan sterven, geven wij u een unieke gelegenheid om...

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