Mediamatic Blog
Mediamatic Blog
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Open Call: Serres Séparées
Mediamatic is now accepting applications for the upcoming year, starting February 1st, 2025. Since 1983, Mediamatic has been a space for innovation, fostering a community of artists, designers, and scientists. We invite you to transform one of our six waterfront greenhouses spaces into a unique…
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Queer Offline Club - 3rd Edition
🏳️🌈 Queer Offline Hangout | Amsterdam
By popular demand, we are bringing 🌈 QUEER OFFLINE CLUB hangout to Mediamatic Art Centre again! Lock your phone away and enjoy spending time at this awesome location on the water facing Nemo museum. Swap phone time with real-time, be present and connect with like-minded people - free of digital…
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Finnisage Ghosts in the Foreign Land
Finissage programme: Saturday 14th of December April 2024, from 15.00 hrs Location: Mediamatic Sluisdeurenloods This event will be held in English Admission: Free entrance Host: Marwan Anaki Artist Talk Guests: 《Defining Divinity》 Lisette Alberti & Rising Lai(NL & TW/BE) 《Death on Stage》Shao-Chun…
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Feeding your Ghost: a Fictional Self-ritual
with Lin Wen-Hsuan & Lin Szu-Han
As an extension of the exhibition Ghosts in the Foreign Land , this food-related workshop reimagines the cultural memory of the Penghu bîng-kun-toh through a fictional self-ritual. In this contemporary interpretation, each participant simultaneously embodies both the worshipper and the…
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Ghosts in the Foreign Land 鬼地方計畫
This exhibition investigates the unique cultural phenomenon in Penghu, Taiwan: the Bîng KunToh (Underworld-Army Table), a ritual held during Ghost Month to honor foreign spirits. Szu-Han Lin together with 7 Taiwanese and Dutch artists, explore the profound influence of foreign spirits on local…
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...Others Drink Through Their Mouths
The time has come to say goodbye to Silke Riis’ installation Some Breathe Through Their Butts - after all, we all know that sea cucumbers breathe through their anuses by now, right? To mark a full year of cucumber creatures inhabiting the bathrooms of Mediamatic, we’d like to invite you to the…