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  • Afbeelding: Mediamatic Biotoop Marcel Sturing

    lief je gast poster in de stad

    MUPI poster Japanse Duizendknoop Festival

    Deze posters voor het Japanse Duizendknoop Festival bij Mediamatic hangen in april in Amsterdam. 
  • Japanese knotweed
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  • Festival: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Japanese Knotweed Festival

    Under European regulations, invasive exotic species are allowed to be radically eradicated. The City of Amsterdam, for example, is allocating 8 million euros to aggressively destroy Japanese knotweed.
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Aquatic Speculations

    26
    jul 2025
    - with Silke Riis

    You are an archaeologist of the future, and on one of your excavations you stumble upon something odd hidden in the soil; During your sailing trip across what once used to be “The Netherlands”, you...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Anna Lina Litz, Nesie Wang 11 jul 2023

    Looking via the Brain not the Eye

    17
    apr 2023
    - A/artist Roundtable with Nesie Wang

    During the roundtable on Monday 17 April, Nesie Wang talked about how autism shapes her thoughts and expressions in her photography practice. Nesie joined Mediamatic for an internship as A/artist...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Branko Kleynen

    Not just a Weed

    Fermented Knotweed Pickles recipe

    On March 25, 2020, after a scavenger hunt for Japanese Knotweed, Branko, Elise and Tommaso joined forces to pickle some shoots.
  • Peru Camilla Calamai

    Becoming a Pigeon

    What I learned from Donna Haraway’s book “Staying with the Trouble, Making Kin in the Chthulucene” and String Figure Theory

    The Inhuman Carnival train us to see the world from a non-human perspective, specifically from the one of a pigeon. How do we change the gossip surrounding pigeons, and empathise with them so that we...

  • Aromathèque

    Sensory art, Research and Design

    Aromathèque  is here to tickle your senses, flip your nose upside down, and make you rethink everything you smell, taste, touch, and inhale. From mayonnaise madness to alluring pheromones, every...
  • Blog Leyang Fu

    (Re)naming a Plant – the Magic in a Name

    To many, calling a name equals casting a spell, as names are often assigned with magic or spiritual power. Such belief spreads widely geographically among different tribes. In modern days, we know...

  • Clean Knotweed & the Strange Entanglements of…

    An Interview with Artist Yoshinari Nishiki

    I had the pleasure of interviewing artist Yoshinari Nishiki for Mediamatic's Japanese Knotweed festival. Yoshinari had just returned from Brussels, where he had spoken with European policymakers.
  • Japanse Duizendknoop Festival '23

    Workshops

    Neem deel aan onze workshops tijdens het Japanse Knotweed Festival. Bestel hier uw tickets ! 

  • 373 words to insult a plant

    In conversation with Alaa Abu Asad

    Killing without thought. Just one of the phrases that is used to discuss the Japanese Knotweed. A plant that does not even deserve to be thought about. It only deserves to be killed. Artist...

  • Feeling in Colour

    Patrick Samuel as a Role Model

    Patrick Samuel is a visual artist, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and autism advocate based in the UK. But what makes him a role model for neurodivergent creatives? 

  • Proposal by: Takako Hamano, Uno Fujisawa

    EatArt Experience in Experiments

    Project Proposal: Stimulating five senses

      During the COVID pandemic, people were confronted with the essence of (their) being, either consciously or unconsciously. We had to find new ways to feel at ease with(in) ourselves and in our...
  • Japanse Duizendknoop Festival

    Mensen

  • Japanse Duizendknoop Festival '23

    Oogst de plant voorzichtig!

    Zo voorkom je onbedoelde verspreiding

    Ontdek hoe je de Japanse duizendknoop kunt gebruiken, of bestrijden. Leer hier hoe je deze eetbare en medicinale plant, die boordevol kwaliteiten en voordelen zit kunt oogsten zonder dat ie wortel...

  • Which paper works & doesn't work for the printer

    Needs to be edited everytime you know more about one paper specifically :)

    In the graphic room, we have different type of paper. Some of them are quite old and some other more new and useful. Here is a little list of which >> paper works on the big printer: 180 gram coated...

  • “Anxiety is the Japanese knotweed of mental…

    Presumably, anxiety is a challenge we all have dealt with at one point in our lives. Be it caused by the pandemic, wars, our fast paced lifestyles, our own personal challenges, or… THE JAPANESE...
  • Japanse Duizendknoop Festival '23

    Programma - lief je gast

    Alle  exposities ,  workshops en events die gedurende het festival plaatsvinden.

  • Understanding Japanese knotweed

    In conversation with Virgile Durando

    Virgile Durando is a product/material designer and researcher from France. He is our current artist in residency, presently working on collecting and developing knowledge regarding the re

  • If you can't beat it, eat it!

    What we can learn from the fate of the passenger pigeon

    Flocks clouded the sky and cast a dark shadow over the land, stealing hours of daylight and sometimes days on end. This is not an exaggerated Hitchcock scene from ‘The Birds’ but rather a common...

  • Rooted Reflections

    A conversation with Alaa Abu Asad, Asli Hatipoglu, and Uno Fujisawa

    In their preparation for the 17th edition of the Neo Futurist Dinner “Knots, Weeds & Roots”, I sat down with artists Alaa, Asli, and Uno in order to discuss a bit more about what they have planned...

  • Witness the rapidly growing Japanese Knotweed in…

    The Japanese Knotweed Festival is coming up, and what better way to kick it off than by celebrating our own Japanese knotweed at Mediamatic? In merely 4 weeks, this plant can grow up to 1.5 meters

  • Strong like a Weed

    How Pop-Culture Can Teach Us Resilience

    There is an intriguing connection between Jujutsu Kaisen's hero, Itadori Yūji, and the notorious Japanese Knotweed. Discover the hidden meaning behind this name doppelganger!

  • Robin Waart is an artist who makes books who…

    A/artist roundtable with Robin Waart

    Robin Waart is an Amsterdam–based artist. During our discussion round he let us browse through six of his printed projects. They are collections of movie stills and book pages that deal with themes...
  • Japanse Duizendknoop Festival '23

    Events

    Het Japanse Knotweed Festival 2023 activiteiten programma. 14 april - 7 mei. 

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