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  • Afbeelding: Mediamatic Biotoop Caroline Aravicius, Nelke Mast

    The Pleasure is Mine, performance by Nelke Mast

    During Beftival  at Museumnacht 2021 Nelke Mast   performs as a 'housewife' to create a visual commentary on gender roles by deconstructing and re-establishing prominent gendered sexual archetypes.
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  • Why Beftival?

    A Conversation with Ine Poppe and Olga Middendorp

    Beftival is coming, and, along with our growing anticipation, we also got curious to know more about the conceptual behind the scenes of it all. What pressing societal issues gave inspiration to this...

  • Beftival Photo Gallery

    A collection of photos from Beftival

  • This Pussy Has Claws

    Vagina Dentata Myths of Empowerment and Horror

    Who would have thought that apart from lips, vaginas and mouths share even more? Vagina dentata, Latin for toothed vagina, bears the idea that a vagina with teeth or claws can devour a man. She can...

  • 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...

  • Beftival Program

    An overview of all exhibitions, performances, workshops and events that are part of Beftival.

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Sadhbh O'Donnell

    Smelling under the water?

    Under the Harbour workshop development with Mariko Hori

    Mariko Hori is a visual artist with a flair for triggering the imagination and creating new experiences. She has done this so far through her work with Freestyle Kintsugi, a workshop inviting...

  • Bef-tival Explained

    beffen: verb, to lick pussy

    Going down on, eating pussy, carpet munching, muff diving, cunnilingus; these are some of the ways we refer to the act of female oral sex. But something seems to be missing from our sexual vocabulary.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Ine Poppe, Olga Middendorp

    Beftival

    Programma overzicht

    Een festival met meer dan 30 kunstenaars en wetenschappers. Kom discussiëren, voelen en vier fe-male seksualiteit, gender en voorkeur.
  • Project proposal: Sieta van Horck

    Bodies of Land

    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...
  • Project proposal: Irina Birger

    Sex Positivity with Dr. Birger

    Ongoing performative series

    Lately, there was a lot of discussions on gray sexuality, supersexuality, and sex-positivity in general .  The topic of Sex Positivity is of particular interest to Dr.Birger as a pro-sex feminist.
  • Project proposal: Si Knight

    Multisensory Listening Rituals

    for Reducing Stress

    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...
  • Project proposal: Mariko Hori

    Archive something we don't know yet

    Understanding water conditions through paper making

    This project is a study and a little hope to archive potential data of current water conditions of Amsterdam, for future generations.

  • The Duality of the Phallic Object

    A conversation with Rixta van der Molen

    When is something phallic? Are we constantly being penetrated? Rixta van der Molen is a young artist who is working with wax and sculpture making to question how our society thinks about “phallic...
  • Project proposal: Krisztina Czika

    What's left to capture?

    Underwater journey

    '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...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Alessandra Avanzi

    Ancient Egypt and the culture of perfume.

    The use of smelly components in Egyptian daily life: Kyphi, incense and other perfume.

    Incense was considered the “Fragrance of the Gods” in Ancient Egypt. Making incense meant in a mysterious way creating the body of the gods and communicating with them.   Do you know that the...
  • Project proposal: Viviana M. Calderon de la Barca

    Inclusive Patching.

    Textile & Sustainability

    It's not news. We're running out of time to save our natural world and resources. So this two in one, workshops + inclusive and diverse get togethers, aim to be informa(c)tive and inspiring to spread...
  • Project proposal: Lucie Majerus

    Colour-Smells of Amsterdam

    Sustainable souvenirs

    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?
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Jeanne Rousselot

    From Eye to Tongue

    A Film Dinner experience

    Getting Comfy Course 0 – Zen Pussy   by   Annie Sprinkle  (12 minutes) We were welcomed in a pink-lit room. On three screens close-ups of vulvas were speaking to us. A whisper of breathing and...
  • Project proposal: Bas Huijbers

    Green Office

    Klimaatactie in het onderwijs

    Samen met leerlingen, docenten en schoolleiders, het onderwijs in Amsterdam klimaatcrisis bestendig maken. Met als basisproject: een Green Office
  • Project proposal: Mario Mimoso

    Floating Havens

    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...
  • Project proposal: Jennifer Kumer

    When My Time Comes

    an End-of-Life Conversation Game

    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...
  • Project proposal: Roland van Dierendonck, Maro Pebo

    Chili Pepper Pleasure

    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...
  • Project proposal: 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...
  • Project proposal: Margherita Falqui

    Liquid Maquis

    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...

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