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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Hester Scheurwater
Perspective Pamphlet
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021This visual pamphlet takes to the streets of Amsterdam for a week. It reacts to the contemporary image of the double standards surrounding women's sexuality in the media. All Hester Scheurwaters...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Olga Middendorp
Genotszoötroop
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Olga Middendorp's genots-zoötroop turns drawings into moving images. By turning the carousel, her sexual fantasy comes to life. Get inspired, draw your own sex-comic and put it in the the befbox. Who...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ine Poppe
Tongue Reading with Zaza
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021What does your tongue teach you about your erotic potential? Have your sexual future predicted by the shape, folds and lines of your tongue. How thick is it, how pointed, how strong, how soft? After...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Eva Schippers
Eva builds an Orgasm Machine
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021What is the line between pleasure and torture? Eva Schippers a.k.a. She-Man gets inspired by the potentiality of the future. The ‘orgasmatron’ is a machine made to give women pleasure known from...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Annika Hagen
Shameless Jewellery
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Come create jewellery with Annika Hagen. Her collection of 'flaunting' hair (which sounds much better than pubic hair, right?) comes from people who replied to her call on Instagram to donate their...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Pleun van Dijk
Objects of Desire
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Can algorithms morph our sexual sensitivity? Objects of Desire by Pleun van Dijk investigates the increasingly intimate relationship between human and technology. A series of selected images...
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Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Sally Fenaux Barleycorn, Bebe Melkor-Kadior
Yorùbá mythology: A genderless door to pleasure
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021If gender is a construct, it means we created it at some point in human history and that before that, gender didn't exist in the way it has been imposed on us over the last centuries. Many indigenous...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jin Lee
Anyone's Anything
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Sex toys are called toys for a reason. But why do we feel guilty when kids find them? Jin Lee transforms sex toys into slides, seesaws and swings. Come color inside or outside the lines in the sex...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Sandberg Instituut
Disclosing Discomforts
28Oct 2021- by Disarming Design department at Sandberg Instituut31Oct 2021cooking, making, weaving, screening, sensing, sculpting, giving, talking, playing, mapping, healing, workshopping, celebrating, reclaiming, documenting, forming, witnessing, juxtaposing, tripping
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Film Dinner Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Laura van Zuylen , Yacinth Pos
BEF Film Dinner
- Beftival's Film Dinner – by Laura van Zuylen and Yacinth Pos10Nov 2021This six-course dinner experience is a collaboration between chef and designer Yacinth Pos and film critic Laura van Zuylen as part of Beftival . Dishes are paired with movie excerpts to explore the...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Sadhbh O'Donnell
Smelling under the water?
Under the Harbour workshop development with Mariko Hori
Mariko Hori is a visual artist with a flair for triggering the imagination and creating new experiences. She has done this so far through her work with Freestyle Kintsugi, a workshop inviting...
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Giancarlo Pazzanese
Giancarlo is a communications consultant with 20 years of experience in design, marketing, and project management. His work focusses on art direction, multimedia production and content curating. As a...
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Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno
Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno exhibited in Nature's Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Invention . Nature's Toolbox is an exhibition exploring the wonders of biodiversity. The exhibition perceives...
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Victor Engbers
Cultural entrepreneur, Artist & Writer
Victor Engbers was born in 1970 in the south of the Netherlands and studied law before he became a journalist. Only at 40 did he decided to become an artist. His work is about changing perspectives
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We’re serious about mocking!
On the theory of carnival
Whether at the Rio Carnival in Brazil, the Mardi Gras in New Orleans or the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival - Carnival is celebrated all over the world. In fall 2021, Mediamatic will also join the...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Frank Bloem, Lydia Schouten, Olga Middendorp, Nelke Mast, PISSWIFE
Feminism
- Odorama 46 with Pisswife, Olga Middendorp, Nelke Mast, Lydia Schouten and Frank Bloem18Nov 2021Let's dive into the relationship between smell and female empowerment. BEFtival curator Olga Middendorp and multi-disciplinary artist Nelke Mast wonder why vagina smell is still a taboo. Performance...
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Organization:
Amsterdam Fashion Academy
Fashion Business and Design; Founded in 2013
is a boutique fashion academy. Within the academy, students can obtain their university awarded fashion bachelor's degree with honors programs. Their educational vision focuses on students who do not...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Alessandra Avanzi
Ancient Egypt and the culture of perfume.
The use of smelly components in Egyptian daily life: Kyphi, incense and other perfume.
Incense was considered the “Fragrance of the Gods” in Ancient Egypt. Making incense meant in a mysterious way creating the body of the gods and communicating with them. Do you know that the...
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Aug 2021 - Jan 2022
Marguerite d'Ervau
Exhibition and Workshops Assistant
After completing my MA in European studies, I joined Mediamatic as an exhibition and workshops assistant with the desire to curate impactful exhibitions, workshops and events. During my time at...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Abhay Villa 5 Aug 2021
Is it an alien? Is it a sex toy? No, it's Sopropo!
procuring, growing and cooking this intriguing fruit
You may have come across Sopropo on your travels, at a Surinamese/Asian restaurant or maybe even at home. Read on and learn about our journey procuring, growing and cooking this intriguing fruit...
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Jeanne Rousselot
Restaurant Manager / Neofuturist Dinner Assistant
My name is Jeanne and I am currently half of the duo of restaurant manager and am producing Neofuturist Dinner at Mediamatic. Initially trained as a designer at La Cambre in Brussels, I developed a...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Perfumery Basics: Arabic Scent
Have you ever wondered about the magical world of fragrances and its role in the Arabic culture? The origins of perfume are in ancient Egypt where they were using fragrant oils in wellness, rituals...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Design your own Shroud
with Susanne Duivensteijn
Have you ever thought about what you want to be wearing when you die? In this workshop we will breathe new life into an old Dutch tradition. You will be guided in the process of making your own...
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Organization:
MoCa Busan
Museum of Contemporary Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art Busan is a Busan-based public art museum that focuses on contemporary art. As the name suggests, it aims to introduce a new trend in the arts, focusing on contemporary...