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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
La Cocina Presents: Staging a Banquet
31Oct 2020Like plants and people, recipes travel all over the world. They adapt to, but also influence, the context and ingredients available. This event alludes to the importance of reflecting on the effects...
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Oct 2020 - March 2021
Nadine Schütz
Exhibition and Communications Assistant
My name is Nadine and I recently graduated from the University of Art and Design in Linz (Austria) where I did a bachelor’s course in graphic design and photography. As an exhibition intern at...
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Garri
Yuca, Macaxeira, Mandioca, Aipim, Agbeli or Cassava 'Bread'
“Cassava was a root vegetable indigenous to South America and the Caribbean, and it was directly available to the Indigenous people in the Caribbean. So they subsisted on the food of their land, and...
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Asian Period
Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz
Double the dough to hold the door to travel from India to Trinidad and Tobago. I can take a trip anytime because home is wherever Curry Channa and Tamarind Sauce coat my fingers. I know I have...
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African Period
Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz
I come from far far away I come from conquered soil and enchanted tongues I want to tell you where I’m from But I’m not sure my body remembers I am all the lost girls searching for their bodies to...
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European Period
Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz
Here lies the fruit of my invaded womb. This is what is left of me. There are pieces of my body scattered around looking for its way back to a home that no longer exists. Home is now wherever you...
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Indigenous Period
Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz
My land welcomes you. The mountains told us you were coming. The trees whispered you were close. It was written in the smoke. We have been expecting you. There are no maps to lead you to what you...
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The culinary journey of Code Noir
Told by Lelani Lewis
“Code Noir” is a project that guides its audience along the culinary journey of the cultivation of Caribbean cuisine. The namesake of the immersive dinner is the 17th century manuscript defining the...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Julia van der Veen
Testing Code Noir
In the morning of 17th September we've tested the upcoming Neo Futurist Dinner: Code Noir. This dinner merges food, performance and interaction to to take visitors on a culinary journey to get a...
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The Code Noir: A brief, yet powerful history
Winston Churchill famously said that “those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Our upcoming NeoFuturist Dinner touches on the importance of learning from our collective...
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A look at the history of Caribbean cuisine
A blog for Code Noir
Whether culture, tradition or simple sustenance, food is a central part of human life. It also carries great symbolic value. To share a meal goes beyond the food itself; it extends to an experience...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Blue Monday
21Sep 2020In July and early August 2020 an ornamental hermitage, built from compacted earth-bags and discarded home improvement detritus (collected on the streets during the pandemic), was constructed at the...
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Joana Velu
Joana Velu (Dutch/Brazilian) is a visual artist constantly zooming in and out from a global context to a micro scale. Through personal stories or other forms of narrative she intends to let herself...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Mediamatic Eten, Dijkspark Naomi Tidball
Food is both fuel and identity
A blog for Code Noir
In light of our upcoming Code Noir event, it is important to reflect on globalisation's ability to reshape food. It offers a diversity within gastronomy, and it allows for a wider availability of...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Stealing Minutes Back / Sacred City
21Sep 2020Stealing Minutes Back/ Sacred City is a part-documentary part-interpretive project focusing on the booming ‘Conscious Scene’ and ‘Conscious Communities’ in Amsterdam, which are centered around such...
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Rachel Rumai Diaz
Rachel Rumai Diaz is a writer, poet, performance artist, teacher and artivist. Being fluent in English, Spanish, Dutch and Spanglish she intertwines languages to create poetry that triggers...
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Lelani Lewis
Lelani Lewis, a chef, food stylist, and culinary activist, creates inspiring audience experiences with her innovative and vibrant approach to food. Growing up in South London with Grenadian and Irish...
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2020 Tobias Servaas, Queer Currents
Queer Currents
Mediamatic is the stage for three panel discussions and an exhibition of Queer Currents, a wave of queer expressions in preparation for the Gay Pride.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Queer Currents 2020: Inclusive Space
20Jul 2020How to open up the institutions of museums and archives for outsider voices? The Critical Visitor research project looks into the hotly debated issues of diversity and inclusion in the fields of...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Queer Currents 2020: Meet the Next Generation
18Jul 2020Roze senioren, LHBTI-ouderen... Twintig jaar geleden bestonden deze termen nog niet. Maar de huidige generatie 65-plussers is trots op haar roze identiteit en is zeker niet van plan deze op hogere...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Queer Currents 2020: Queer Manifesto Reading
22Jul 2020Girls Like Us is currently working on their first non-magazine publication: a collection of Queer & Feminist manifestos, edited by Liz Allan. In preparation for this project, they invite you to join...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Queer Currents: Such Delicate Tenderness
20Jul 2020Bas Kosters is Nederlands extravaganste queer fashion designer. Maandag 20 juli exposeert hij bij Mediamatic met erotische werken over mannelijkheid en homoseksualiteit. "Such Delicate Tenderness"...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
MediaMasquerade X Open to All
25Jul 2020MediaMasquerade is a series of workshops to celebrate all identities. Gender clown Taka-Taka and designer Niki Milioni invite those of all ages to explore new forms of expression through fashion
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
MediaMasquerade X Kids
26Jul 2020Come play, create, and perform with us! Taka and Niki invite children to imagine new forms of expression through dressing up and roleplaying. Get your tickets here !