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February '22 - May '22
Andrea Valdivia
Photography Assistant
My name is Andrea, and I am a 21-year-old Peruvian who joined Mediamatic as a photography intern (Feb - May 2022). I was born in Lima, Peru, but moved abroad three years ago for my studies...
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Beftival Photo Gallery
A collection of photos from Beftival
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Eline Salden, Noah Commandeur, Susanne Broer
The Pipers
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021By creating this interactive installations, students of the Willem de Kooning Academy Eline, Noah and Susanne redefine the interpretation of intimacy by stimulating our senses. Their aim is to...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Thijske Akerboom
Glossarium
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Thijske works with latex in a wearable and sculptural context and has a fascination for bodies and shapes and how they relate or seem to contradict. For her, working with latex feels like working...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Yacinth Pos, Laura van Zuylen
Lick my Oyster
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Do you crave for a gentle, yet intense touch of the tongue? There is no scientific evidence that oysters actually make you horny, however we can’t deny the fact hat a specimen swimming in its own...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Hester Scheurwater
Licking the House
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021This event is part of Beftival during Museumnacht Amsterdam.
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Proposal by: Irina Birger
Sex Positivity with Dr. Birger
Project proposal: 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.
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Sam Nemeth
Lik Locus
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Sam Nemeth responds to the Orgasm Machine by creating a tongue interface. Lik Locus explores the cultural significance of this highly complicated muscle structure and its role in our sexual protocols.
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Proposal by: Debra Solomon
Let's take it outside
Project Proposal:
Let’s take this outside: duelling praxes Did you ever wonder how your work aligns with the theoretical positions of feminism/post- humanism/political ecology and/or eco-marxism? Or, does your...
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Proposal by: Mandy den Elzen
The essence of the Mastbos
Project Proposal:
Het Mastbos, aangelegd in 1515, is het oudste naaldbos van Nederland en ligt ten zuiden van Breda. Het functioneert nog steeds als een productiebos waaraan de innovatieve ideeën over bosbouw van...
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Proposal by: Susanne Duijvestein
Nokanshi Dreams
Project proposal
Preparing a dead body for a funeral often takes place behind closed doors, outsourced to deathcare professionals. If it’s up to Susanne Duijvestein, funeral director and Nature Morte curator, we...
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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...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Lizette van Hecke
Erotic Embroidery
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Who said embroidery can't be sexy? Join for a steamy embroidery session with artist and storyteller Lizette van Hecke. During this workshop, you are invited to bring sensual images and fantasies to...
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Music Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Spill Gold
Spill Gold
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Darkness and light, playfulness and control: Spill Gold is a duo enhancing the transcendental character of duality. With cosmic, catchy & alienating sounds, coming from their drums, synths and voices
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performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Victor Engbers
LIKKEN
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021How do men deal with licking? Are men perhaps a little afraid of it because it gives freedoms to women to solve their pleasure themselves? Victor provides insight into cultural expressions and...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Anna Gimbrere
The Bef Quiz with Anna Grimbrere
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Anna has her own television show called “Anna’s Brain” in which she and a team of young inventors and scientists, use scientific knowledge, guts and creativity to come up with spectacular answers. ...
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film: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jinnie Ahn, Julia Leis Lap
Eat Her
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021For Beftival, Jinnie Ahn and Julia Leis Lap created a video that shows the over-sexualisation of both the animal body as a way to sell it as food and the female body. This causes a new level of...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Daphne Gakes
Intimate talks with Daphne Gakes
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Get into the bathtub with artist and writer Daphne Gakes. In her podcast Tussen de Lakens (In between the sheets) Daphne talks openly with people about life, relationships, love and sex. This time...
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performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Nelke Mast
The Pleasure Is All Mine
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Nelke performs as a 'housewife' to create a visual commentary on gender roles by deconstructing and re-establishing prominent gendered sexual archetypes. Come see how a traditional patriarchal gender...
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performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Amber Rahantoknam
The Colorful Cunnilingual
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021See illustrator and poet Amber Rahantoknam, aka Ambigou, working on the windows of the Mediamatic restaurant, armed with a paintbrush and headset. While painting fluorescent pussies, tongues, fingers...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Irma Joanne
Female Textures
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Irma Joanne is an interdisciplinary artist, with a background in fine arts, scenography and bodywork. Her work occurs where she touches, sees, and feels the bare skin. Female skin, to be precise. An...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Irma Joanne, Lana Prins
Reconnecting with the Female body
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021“Reconnecting with the female body” is a collaboration between visual artist Irma Joanne and photographer Lana Prins. The female body is the main theme in both their individual practices. Their many...
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Party Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Vicky de Visser
Pussy Power Galore with DJ Paroah
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Paroah pulls hot records, sultry female voices, spicy stories, and sexy bangers from her music collection. Pussy power galore guaranteed.
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exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Bert Sliggers
Porn for the Illiterate
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Pornography is most fun when it is not allowed. Former curator Bert Sliggers shows his fantastic collection of paper pornography. By pulling, twisting, pushing and folding, secret sexual fantasies...