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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Kip
8Sep 2023- At last... theater that's not just for humans17Sep 2023Theater performance for chickens. We are learning more and more about interpersonal inclusiveness, but it is time to take a critical look at our interspecies diversity as well. Too little art is made...
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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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Presentation: Natlab, Ketelhuisplein
Inhuman Carnaval at Dutch Design Week '21
17Oct 2021- Open costume lab, workshops, exhibitions and more22Oct 2021How does it feel to be an earthworm, bee, plant, or fungus? During Dutch Design Week, we are hosting a big open costume lab, exhibitions, workshops and talks where we invite artists, designers, and...
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Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Get to know your inner pigeon
5Nov 2022- What’s your inner pigeon?5Nov 2022We are all unique, yet also have a lot of common ground which creates a lot of potential to learn from each other. Not just among us humans, but there is also a lot for us to learn from the animal...
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Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Costumelab: becoming a pigeon
5Nov 2022- Transform into a pigeon at Mediamatic's costume lab5Nov 2022During Museumnight we invite you to transform yourselves into a pigeon. Personalise your origami beak, try on feathers, wear pigeon eyes... MORE ABOUT MEDIAMATIC PIGEON
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Cohabitation
5Nov 2022- How do we live together with our (feathered) fellow city-dwellers?5Nov 2022Come and join artist Astrid Aragh as she leads us along her journey of cohabitation with fellow pigeons here in Amsterdam. MORE ABOUT MEDIAMATIC PIGEON
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Party: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Mediamatic Foundation
Pigeon party
5Nov 2022- Let's dance like a pigeon!5Nov 2022Ready to bop your heads like a pigeon? Flutter your wings and move to a pigeon inspired beat. See you at our pigeon disco party! MORE ABOUT MEDIAMATIC PIGEON
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Costume Lab
1Jun 2022We are hosting an Open Costume Lab where we invite fashion designers, artists and complete beginners, to make costumes of the amazing species from our ecosystem. In the Open Costume Lab we support...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Costume Lab
22Jun 2022We are hosting an Open Costume Lab where we invite fashion designers, artists and complete beginners, to make costumes of the amazing species from our ecosystem. In the Open Costume Lab we support...
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Costume Lab Natlab
Open Costume Lab
17Oct 2021- Dress up as the amazing species of our ecosystem22Oct 2021A costume made from a mushroom? A mask with the scent of lilac, or face paints as a water bear? At Dutch Design Week we are hosting an open costume lab where we invite fashion designers, artists and...
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Exhibition Natlab Philipp Schueller
Species Costume Library
17Oct 2021- Curated by Philipp Schueller22Oct 2021The Species Costume Library showcases works of more than 20 artists and fashion designers that explore the theme of biodiversity and the non-human other. In this merging of fashion, art and...
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Exhibition Natlab, Baltan Laboratories Paolo Cirio
Extinction Claims
17Oct 2021- By Paolo Cirio30Nov 2021The conceptual artist, Paolo Cirio created an algorithm that computes data of over 40,000 endangered species with data on fossil fuel emissions from major oil, gas, and carbon companies to calculate...
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Lecture: Natlab
Let's Talk About Climate Justice
- With Paolo Cirio, Raphael Weyland, Teresa Borasino and Selçuk Balamir23Oct 2021Artist and activist Paolo Cirio deep dives into the research behind his work and shares insights about legal and financial claims using “Attribution Science” and “Majors Carbon Databases”. Raphael...
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Workshop: Natlab Nina van Tuikwerd, Conny Groenewegen
Species Spectacle
- with Conny Groenewegen and Nina van Tuikwerd19Oct 2021A workshop that combines fashion design and movement. Can we make a costume from the perspective of feeling and movement?
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Masterclass Workshop Natlab Conny Groenewegen, Csilla Lakatos
Bugs & Buds Bootcamp
- Costume Design and Movement with Conny Groenewegen and Csilla Lakatos21Oct 2021A day-long immersion workshop that combines fashion design and movement. Can we make a costume from the perspective of feeling and movement?
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Pigeon Soundscape installation
5Nov 2022- Follow the pigeon beat5Nov 2022What sounds do pigeons make? Dutch artists Pim Water and Lucas Kramer have created a musical installation that will surround Mediamatic's Biotoop on Munseum night. Walk towards Mediamatic and follow...
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Performance: Natlab Jesse Asselman
House Plant in Residence
17Oct 2021- with Jesse Asselman19Oct 2021During Dutch Design Week, visual and performance artist Jesse Asselman becomes a living, breathing house plant at Natlab. With the help of body paint and make-up, they fully immerse themselves into...
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Performance: Natlab Nadie Borggreve
Live Tufting Landscapes
17Oct 2021- with Nadie Borggreve22Oct 2021Watch as Nadie Borggreve creates her tufting works that echo and are deeply rooted in nature. Her creations have a pictorial aspect that transport the viewer into a multitude of settings. Her...
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Performance: Natlab
We Have Always Been Animals
17Oct 2021- with Lennart Vader / Studio Nepco22Oct 2021During Dutch Design Week, Studio Nepco have been roaming around Natlab (and the streets of Eindhoven) in their impressive animal costumes. In this interactive performance and through their playful...
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Workshop: Natlab Miles Worner
Becoming a Duck
- with Miles Worner17Oct 2021Do you feel like a cog in the machine? Are you stuck in a routine? As a counterpoint to modern stress and competition in today's highly industrialized society, Miles Worner explored the need for...
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Performance: Natlab Iris Woutera
Deform
- with Iris Woutera17Oct 2021Deform (2015) by Iris Woutera is a performance in which a flexible cocoon envelops the human body. The combination of hard (plastic) and stretch (textile) creates a movable space, in which special...
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Workshop: Natlab Desirée Hammen
Embroidering Species
- with Desirée Hammen18Oct 2021Along with fashion designer Desirée Hammen you can create a fabulous animal in mixed media. With her help, you embroider skins, tracks, veins and other patterns and textures in textiles and also work...
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Workshop: Natlab Desirée Hammen
Embroidering Species
- with Desirée Hammen22Oct 2021Along with fashion designer Desirée Hammen you can create a fabulous animal in mixed media. With her help, you embroider skins, tracks, veins and other patterns and textures in textiles and also work...
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Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Hato Poppo
5Nov 2022- Folding Origami beaks with Emma Huffman, Mily Bogaart, and Asuka Kondo5Nov 2022Hato is Japanese for Pigeon. And Poppo is Japanese for coo. Artists Emma Huffman , Mily Bogaart and Asuka Kondo have designed this origami pattern exclusively for the Mediamatic pigeons. You can't...
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Lecture Natlab
Smelling Species
- Odorama 45 with Frank Bloem, Peter Roessingh, Jelle Zandveld, Arne Hendriks and Thomas Thwaites17Oct 2021During Inhuman Carnaval at Dutch Design Week, there is a lecture curated by Frank Bloem about the smells of the amazing species in our ecosystem. M ost animals have a sense of smell, but do they...
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Lecture: Natlab
Speaking on Pigeons, Goats and Ducks
- A Conversation with Thomas Thwaites, Miles Worner and Arne Hendriks17Oct 2021A conversation about how we, as humans, should relate to the planet and the non-human species around us.
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Natlab Niklaus Mettler, Frank Bloem
Olfactory Cross-Dressing
17Oct 2021- Dress yourself in the smell of other species22Oct 2021Who says a costume has to be visible? Fragrance artists Frank Bloem and Niklaus Mettler created scent costumes from various species in our eco-system.
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Free Tattoos Natlab Gentle Ink
Haeckel Tattoo Station
- with Gentle Ink21Oct 2021New tattoo on your mind? During Inhuman Carnaval at Dutch Design Week you have the opportunity to get free tattoos! Our collaborators, Gentle Ink, have come up with their own tattoo designs inspired...
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Presentation: Natlab
Drinks at Dusk
- with Nadie Borggreve18Oct 2021At Dutch Design Week we have daily presentations by various artists at sundown. In this edition we talk about how we can get closer to nature through tufting with Nadie Borggreve . Are you curious...
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Presentation: Natlab
Drinks at Dusk
- with Jesse Asselman19Oct 2021At Dutch Design Week we have daily presentations by various artists at sundown. In this edition we talk about the experience of dressing up as a plant with Jesse Asselman . Are you curious how...
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Presentation: Natlab
Drinks at Dusk
- with Lennart Vader / Studio Nepco20Oct 2021At Dutch Design Week we have daily presentations by various artists at sundown. In this edition we talk about how dressing up can playfully bring us closer to other species with performance artist...
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Presentation: Natlab
Drinks at Dusk
- with Conny Groenewegen21Oct 2021At Dutch Design Week, we have daily presentations by various artists at sundown. In this edition we talk about how we can embody and feel more like other species through fashion with fashion designer...
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Presentation: Natlab
Drinks at Dusk
- with Desirée Hammen22Oct 2021At Dutch Design Week we have daily presentations by various artists at sundown. In this edition we talk about how we can (re)create other species with all their textures and complexities through...
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Exhibition: Ketelhuisplein Arne Hendriks
Mycelium Pigeon Towers
17Oct 2021- by Arne Hendriks24Oct 2021The building of mycelium pigeon towers, a collaborative project between Arne Hendriks and Mediamatic, is now going to Eindhoven! These structures are an experiment to build with living mycelium waste...
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Ketelhuisplein Arne Hendriks, Conny Groenewegen
Get Married with your Living Dress
17Oct 2021- With Arne Hendriks and Conny Groenewegen24Oct 2021Getting married not IN your wedding dress but WITH your wedding dress. During Dutch Design Week, fashion designer Conny Groenewegen puts the finishing touches to a wedding dress made of mycelium in...
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Party Ketelhuisplein
Open Air Gentle Disco @DDW
- Show your moves on the mycelium dance floor17Oct 2021The Gentle Disco moves to Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week! Join us to dance on mycelium while listening to some good dancing music by DJ Huppeldepup, and contribute to the building process of a...
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Party Ketelhuisplein
Open Air Gentle Disco @DDW
- Show your moves on the mycelium dance floor21Oct 2021The Gentle Disco moves to Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week! Join us to dance on mycelium while listening to some good dancing music by DJ Huppeldepup, and contribute to the building process of a...
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Party Natlab
Inhuman Carnaval Party
- Free beer for Non-Humans!21Oct 2021Party in biodiversity costumes with DJ Wannabeastar and Shirley Macholina. Make sure to pass by in the costume lab before to make your outfit. Free beers from Oedipus Brewery for non-humans!
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Party: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Karaoekoe
5Nov 2022- Pigeon Karaoke with Willem Wits5Nov 2022During museum night we invite you to sing along to pigeon songs. Serenade your inner pigeon and sing and dance with show pigeon Willem. Take part in our karaoekoe! MORE ABOUT MEDIAMATIC PIGEON
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Fly Like a Pigeon
5Nov 2022- A Quantum Navigation Dance Workshop5Nov 2022How can we practice home coming together as a flock of pigeons? How can we find our way? by sensing the geomagnetic field, and by being attentive to each other's movements? In Fly like a pigeon: a...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Artificial Pigeon Nests
5Nov 2022- Lecture by Clemens Driessen5Nov 2022Do pigeons fall in love in prefabricated nests?
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Roekoe
24Oct 2022- Pigeon Campaign5Nov 2022Look for our pigeon campaign! Just like pigeons our posters and flyers are spread all over Amsterdam. MORE ABOUT MEDIAMATIC PIGEON
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Pigeon Lines
3Nov 2022- Pigeon performance by Vincent Gernot5Nov 2022An orchestrated pigeon performance in a populated square.
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Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Mediamatic ETEN
Eating like a pigeon
5Nov 2022- What do pigeons eat? How do they eat it?5Nov 2022Mediamatic ETEN created delicious pigeon snacks for Museum Night.
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Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Pigeon Quiz
5Nov 2022- Test your pigeon knowledge with Vivian Goerlich5Nov 2022Learn about pigeons and test your knowledge. MORE ABOUT MEDIAMATIC PIGEON
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Pledge allegiance to the pigeon
5Nov 2022- Gather, march and pledge your allegiance to the pigeon5Nov 2022How do we show our dedication to the pigeon? We gather and pledge our allegiance! During Museum Night we invite you to join us in performing a pigeon pledge. MORE ABOUT MEDIAMATIC PIGEON
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VR Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Visit Pending Xenophora
20Aug 2022- with Mari Bastashevski and non/human partners4Sep 2022Pending Xenophora is created by Mari Bastahsevski together with non/human partners. Through creating, setting up and exhibiting Pending Xenophora , Mari offers a curious insight into the...