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Elficological know‑how
A take on fictional knowledge by Mediamatic artist in residence Pauline Rip
How can we reimagine the richness of our cultural relationships with plants and nature through the imaginary creatures they inhabit? To what extent can fictional knowledge and cultures explore the...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dasha Tsapenko
Tasting and Making Borsch
- Learn how to make traditional Ukranian Borsch13Jan 2023Stop by Mediamatic and learn one of the home-cook Borsch recipes collected by designer Dasha Tsapenko. After all, borsch doesn't just have to be made of beets! The traditional sour soup is clear
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Dying, Caring, Encore!
- Project Presentation with Angela Kerr, Emily Bates and Yi-Jing Chen26Jan 2023Our identity is defined by so many elements. Hair. DNA. Body. The way we think or dress. Yet, most of these are perishable. Our body becomes ashes, our hair is cut, our clothes are replaced. Those...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dasha Tsapenko
Tasting and Making Borsch
- Learn how to make traditional Ukranian Borsch30Dec 2022Stop by Mediamatic and learn one of the home-cook Borsch recipes collected by Dasha Tsapenko. After all, borsch doesn't just have to be made of beets! The traditional sour soup is clear, sour and...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Dasha Tsapenko, Ruslana Goncharuk, Marjo Van Schaik
Growing Gunya
17Dec 2022- Exhibition: Totemic Apparel for this Winter5Mar 2023Gunya is a Ukrainian traditional wool coat, originally worn by Hutsul shepherds in the Carpathian mountains. Providing physical protection from severe weather and animals, throughout the years it has...
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Story of Growing Gunya
History and process
What is a Gunya? What is the story behind the creation of these Garments?
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Proposal by: Miku Sato
Book and Fire
Project Proposal: Reading cookbooks and the back side of recipes: food culture, politics and feminism
Based on the research of the old cookbooks of the Soviet Union and Japan, the project depicts food culture , politics , feminism , and how they are interrelated. Recipes can be considered stories.
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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: Paolo Bosca
Food Utopias
Project Proposal: A different geography of taste
Food Utopias is a performative and theoretical research which investigates the power exercised by map on space, specifically in gastronomy. We use maps every day. The most common maps see the world...
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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: 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...
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Proposal by: Stephanie Pau
Time Givers, by Tomato Plants et al
Project Proposal: Practicing more-than-human care
Humans are not the only entity in the world, machines and the rest of nature, too, share the same world. In the next tomato planting season (2023), I, with local tomato plants - wherever I may be
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Proposal by: Ginevra Petrozzi
Requiem for my mother's Data
Project Proposal: Ritual for performing grief in the digital age
How do we experience the loss of our Data? How can we say goodbye to loved ones' stream of media, and devices that they leave behind? How we one disentangle ourselves from our data when we die? To...
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Proposal by: Sujata Majumdar, Roland van Dierendonck, Irene Nooren
Nanoplay
Project Proposal: The Society Within Us
'The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think' - Gregory Bateson Our current way of thinking does not enable us to deal with...
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Proposal by: Emily Bates
Human Hair Tapestry
Project Proposal: A collective document, and trauma portrait
Hair has played a complex and diverse role within humankind’s cultural history, both symbolically and materially, being utilised within rituals and as memorial or portrait across many communities...
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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...
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Mediamatic Pigeon
Celebrate the pigeon with us during Museumnacht '22!
Museum night 2022 is dedicated to the peacemaker, fertilizer, symbol of love and innocence and our fellow townsman with many faces; the pigeon. We humans live like we're the center of the earth
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Boerderij Pieter Bijlsma
Boerderij Pieter Bijlsma is a farm located in Nieuw-Vennep that specialises in growing ancient grains such as emmer, eirkorn, and spelt. Boerderij Bijlsma aims to return to the basics of grain...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Frank Bloem, Niklaus Mettler
Inhuman Sanatisers
Olfactory Cross-dressing
Can we raise awareness for the diversity of species in our ecosystem by smelling? Smelling like of coral reef in the ocean, a field with wild flowers, or an endangered rhino? It's all possible!
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How do you identify?
Finding the right words to communicate your identity to the world can be useful for anybody. You get to identify yourself and name your identity in a way that fits. You also get to share that...
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Collaboration Mediamatic & UvA Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Radical Imagining of 'Just & Green' futures
- Making Utopias Real with Laura Burgers, Ivana Isailović, Usha Natarajan, Pippi van Ommen, Anouk Beckers, Margarita Nieves & Kyra Sacks20Jul 2022A limit on your energy consumption? A ban on cars? Or hamburgers for 100 euros? We like to promise each other a "just and green transition" of the economy, addressing global warming in a "fair
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Using autism to imagine alternative worlds
A/artist discussion round with research duo Liminal Vision
Liminal Vision is a creative research duo consisting of artistic maker Victor Evink and film maker Emilia Tapprest. Victor is open about his autism diagnosis, while Emilia is not on the spectrum.
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Proposal by: Alena Grahn
Erotic Ecology
Project proposal: Our Human Bodies
This project aims to explore the erotic in our local ecology through the senses. As we are expanding our relationship with this idea, the research will be performed as ritual. In our exploration, we...
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Proposal by: Si Knight
Multisensory Listening Rituals
Project Proposal: for Reducing Stress
As you may well have experienced, life today can be very stressful. As a result of this, many people are currently in desperate need of finding ways to reduce their stress levels. Yet contemporary...