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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Looking back at the Japanese Knotweed Symposium
Knotweed on a pedestal
We look back at a two-day gathering with researchers, designers, and artists, which aimed to explore Japanese knotweed and our relationship with this contested plant. Japanese knotweed was put on a...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
- Workshop with Virgile Durando22Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
- Workshop with Virgile Durando30Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
- Workshop with Virgile Durando29Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
- Workshop with Virgile Durando15Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
- Workshop with Virgile Durando23Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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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...
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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
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Remaking Knotweed
- Workshop with Virgile Durando14Apr 2023Come by the Japanese Knotweed Workshop to learn hands-on the techniques and tools to work with Japanese Knotweed by creating your marquetry box with Japanese Knotweed. You will be guided by Virgile...
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Japanese Knotweed Festival '23
Harvesting Knotweed Responsibly
Please prevent unintended spreading of knotweed
Japanese Knotweed is a hyper-local resource in the Netherlands, and a wonderful edible and medicinal plant, full of beneficial qualities. However, it is important to approach harvesting with caution...
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Japanese Knotweed Festival '23
Exhibitions
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Japanese Knotweed Symposium
14Apr 2023- Lets talk Japanese knotweed!15Apr 2023Mediamatic invited experts and creatives from various disciplines to discuss all things Japanese knotweed. We will unpack the plant that is so often described as invasive. The symposium focussed on...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Paper Making Workshop
- with Lucie Havel and Marieke de Hoop16Apr 2023Touch, feel and enjoy the texture of Japanese Knotweed fibre and learn how to make paper in a workshop led by Marieke de Hoop of PapierLab and Lucie Havel . Y ou will make paper with three or four...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Freedom Meal
- love your guest5May 2023Artists Aslı Hatipoğlu (Thailand/Turkey), Alaa Abu Asad (Palestine/Netherlands) and Uno Fujisawa (Japan/Netherlands) have put together a special Freedom Meal at Mediamatic. Join us and be part of...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Knotweed Mosaic
14Apr 2023- Rethink, Reshape, Refine30Apr 2023The open studio of designer Virgile Durando shows an array of different applications of Japanese Knotweed stems. From weaves to joints and from marquetry to complete furniture, these diverse...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Invasive Energy Harvesting: EROI Drink
14Apr 2023- Exhibition by Yoshinari Nishiki25Jun 2023EROI Drink ( エロいドリンク ) is an energy drink made from invasive Japanese Knotweed harvested within the Netherlands. By focusing on unpolluted strains obtained through water companies and a nature...
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Mediamatic Eten Luna Thissen
The Dog Dinner v0.8
- Canine & Homo Sapiens17Jan 2023Mediamatic has joined forces with academic and artist Eva Meijer to organise a dinner experience for dogs and their human companions. This is a report about our first internal beta test edition that...
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Closing the Tap
Turning to the canal to reduce our tapwater consumption
The goal is simple. We want to stop using clean tapwater to irrigate the plants at Dijkspark and instead use a watersource that may be considered unconventional: the canal. The common perception of...
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Proposal by: Margot Domart
Bionomics sound
Project Proposal: How can we contribute together in reconnecting with our surroundings in a new era?
In our western society, we learn to connect images and concepts with words. We are living in the culture of the "eye", rather than the ear. I observe an atrophy of sensual and bodily intuition. With...
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Proposal by: Lucia Babina
Nodes
Project Proposal: An international mutual aid hospitality network and practice for mid-career artists: menopausal women, queer and more-than-strange humans
The NODES PROJECT is an artistic output focused network of inhabited homes/live-work spaces providing hosting for artists who, due to the precarious conditions we experience in our careers, require...
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Proposal by: Natascha Nanji
Welcome to Studio Swan
Project proposal: An interpersonal, speculative fiction proposition
Welcome to Studio Swan is a speculative proposition that asks what conditions would be appropriate for us to temporarily become with plant or animal? And why would this be something desirable or...
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Proposal by: Lianca Van der Merwe
ASD: Alternative Sensorial Dimensions
Project Proposal: We don't know as much as we think we do
We all have blind spots due to our culture, upbringing and even the language we speak. In addition, our brains are unswervingly selective organs that de-emphasise certain stimulus, like the noise...
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Proposal by: Leo Kay
The Acid House Of Ideas
Project Proposal: Bread, microbial and plant agency, fermentation, human evolution and collective ritual.
A month-long participatory exhibition centered around the building of a model house of ergot-inoculated rye bread; exploring the recent history of human alienation from the land; the creative...
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Proposal by: Sophia Schullan
Form Follows Fun
Project Proposal: Form Follows Fun – Finding Fun In Everyday Life
‘Form Follows Fun’ would be a talk hosted in the Mediamatic facilities. Its goal is not only to spread fun and entertainment but more importantly to give others the tools to create fun and...