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Book: Caro Verbeek
Een kleine geschiedenis van de (grote) neus
Door Caro Verbeek
In Een kleine cultuurgeschiedenis van de (grote) neus neemt Caro Verbeek de lezer mee op een reis langs opvallende neuzen in de westerse kunst en cultuur. Van Michelangelo, Rembrandt en Gogol tot...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Testing the Sin Eaters dinner
7Dec 2021- Neo Futurist Dinner 14 - with Martin Butler and Alice Héron7Dec 2021 -
Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda
Romantic Ruin
Dec '21
Winter is knocking on our door and the Tumulus vegetation is preparing to hibernate. This patch of nature is still holding its green for the most part but some plants have decayed to fall colours...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Branko Kleynen
Not just a Weed
Fermented Knotweed Pickles recipe
On March 25, 2020, after a scavenger hunt for Japanese Knotweed, Branko, Elise and Tommaso joined forces to pickle some shoots.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Deathscapes
2Nov 2019- Museumnacht Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019What does your death sound like? Walk through the different rooms and experience the influence of music.
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Collection O'Tristana
by Zeger Reyers
Oysters are locked in their own enclosing and homemade houses. Once they settle, that's it, they never move again. A sad thing according to artist Zeger Reyers. For his exhibition 'O' Tristana he...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jeanne Rousselot
From Eye to Tongue
A Film Dinner experience
Getting Comfy Course 0 – Zen Pussy by Annie Sprinkle (12 minutes) We were welcomed in a pink-lit room. On three screens close-ups of vulvas were speaking to us. A whisper of breathing and...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Sam Nemeth
Lik Locus
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Sam Nemeth responds to the Orgasm Machine by creating a tongue interface. Lik Locus explores the cultural significance of this highly complicated muscle structure and its role in our sexual protocols.
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Proposal by: Simon Niedenthal
Creative Reinterpretations
Project proposal: Scents & Computers
Scented interactive media like the web games of DigiScents, Inc. have largely vanished from the internet despite archival efforts of the time, only leaving behind hints at what these experiences...
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Proposal by: Susanne Duijvestein
Nokanshi Dreams
Project proposal
Preparing a dead body for a funeral often takes place behind closed doors, outsourced to deathcare professionals. If it’s up to Susanne Duijvestein, funeral director and Nature Morte curator, we...
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Why Beftival?
A Conversation with Ine Poppe and Olga Middendorp
Beftival is coming, and, along with our growing anticipation, we also got curious to know more about the conceptual behind the scenes of it all. What pressing societal issues gave inspiration to this...
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Music Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Spill Gold
Spill Gold
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Darkness and light, playfulness and control: Spill Gold is a duo enhancing the transcendental character of duality. With cosmic, catchy & alienating sounds, coming from their drums, synths and voices
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Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Victor Engbers
LIKKEN
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021How do men deal with licking? Are men perhaps a little afraid of it because it gives freedoms to women to solve their pleasure themselves? Victor provides insight into cultural expressions and...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Anna Gimbrere
The Bef Quiz with Anna Grimbrere
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Anna has her own television show called “Anna’s Brain” in which she and a team of young inventors and scientists, use scientific knowledge, guts and creativity to come up with spectacular answers. ...
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Film: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jinnie Ahn, Julia Leis Lap
Eat Her
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021For Beftival, Jinnie Ahn and Julia Leis Lap created a video that shows the over-sexualisation of both the animal body as a way to sell it as food and the female body. This causes a new level of...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Daphne Gakes
Intimate talks with Daphne Gakes
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Get into the bathtub with artist and writer Daphne Gakes. In her podcast Tussen de Lakens (In between the sheets) Daphne talks openly with people about life, relationships, love and sex. This time...
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Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Nelke Mast
The Pleasure Is All Mine
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Nelke performs as a 'housewife' to create a visual commentary on gender roles by deconstructing and re-establishing prominent gendered sexual archetypes. Come see how a traditional patriarchal gender...
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Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Amber Rahantoknam
The Colorful Cunnilingual
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021See illustrator and poet Amber Rahantoknam, aka Ambigou, working on the windows of the Mediamatic restaurant, armed with a paintbrush and headset. While painting fluorescent pussies, tongues, fingers...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Irma Joanne
Female Textures
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Irma Joanne is an interdisciplinary artist, with a background in fine arts, scenography and bodywork. Her work occurs where she touches, sees, and feels the bare skin. Female skin, to be precise. An...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Irma Joanne, Lana Prins
Reconnecting with the Female body
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021“Reconnecting with the female body” is a collaboration between visual artist Irma Joanne and photographer Lana Prins. The female body is the main theme in both their individual practices. Their many...
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Party Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Vicky de Visser
Pussy Power Galore with DJ Paroah
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Paroah pulls hot records, sultry female voices, spicy stories, and sexy bangers from her music collection. Pussy power galore guaranteed.
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Bert Sliggers
Porn for the Illiterate
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Pornography is most fun when it is not allowed. Former curator Bert Sliggers shows his fantastic collection of paper pornography. By pulling, twisting, pushing and folding, secret sexual fantasies...
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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...