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  • De Balie

    (On)gezonde angst

    16
    Jun 2015
    - Controle over de dood

    Dankzij de moderne geneeskunde - het slikken van pillen en talloze medische ingrepen - kunnen we het moment van overlijden steeds langer uitstellen. Ook wanneer we ongeneeslijk ziek zijn is de...
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  • ziektebed
  • verzekering
  • controle
  • gezondheid
  • zorg
  • Death
  • Fear

  • Joy in the Cemetery

    Cemeteries are more about the living than the dead.

    I like to attribute the whole “cemeteries are scary places” trope to romantic and gothic literature as well as horror movies. I don’t think cemeteries are inherently scary, or sad, or haunted - and...

  • Science Fiction in de zorgnew event

    door Tertium Publieksprogramma's

    Stel je voor dat medisch specialisten hun patiënten alleen nog spreken via een videoverbinding. Zorgrobots houden je thuis gezelschap voor medische controles en een goed gesprek. Alle behandelingen...

  • Virtueel Verzet

    Wat te doen wanneer Nederland wordt bezet?

    Gedurende de Tweede Wereldoorlog was het woord een krachtig machtsmiddel dankzij nieuwe mediatechnologieen waarmee dit woord kon worden overgebracht. Het verzet had veel baat bij de radio, terwijl de...

  • Allerzielen Alom

    kunst tot herdenken

    Vieren van het geleefde leven Vroeg of laat krijgt iedereen te maken met het mysterie van de dood. Wanneer iemand doodgaat van wie we houden, is er eerst vooral rouw. Pas later beseffen we dat we...
  • Kompromat blog

    Secret agent Sokolova

    is temporary out of service

    The spy who came in from the cold is going back there. Her government is calling her. She may return soon. Or never. Kompromat is closed for the time being. Tomorrow never dies.

  • Dead links

    Despite what the title of this article suggests, these links do go somewhere!

    Here you find a collection of links to websites that somehow are related to the topic of death. Leave a comment if you have other good suggestions.
  • Bis Repetita Placent Raymond Depardon

    BON BON Jeun L'Çonte 2009

    ".....Pardon......Man Bijte Konte......a oui biensur........" heureusement nouveau la fesse l'an de Vision ( Man bites buttock New Year) de RAYMOND MIRRER et RAYMOND DEPARDON

    Une petit persiflage de MAN BIJT KONT de NCRV television Neerlandais/ The Dutch television program Man Bijt Hond sounds like and looks like MAN BITES BUTTOCK/ So a Hommage to Raymond Depardons...

  • Somatic Intersection

    Art Exhibition PuntWG, Amsterdam

    Art Exhibition

  • Science Fiction in de zorgnew event

    door Tertium Publieksprogramma's

    Stel je voor dat medisch specialisten hun patiënten alleen nog spreken via een videoverbinding. Zorgrobots houden je thuis gezelschap voor medische controles en een goed gesprek. Alle behandelingen...

  • ikCoffin

    An Ik R.I.P. project

    Mediamatic transformed the ikCam into an ikCoffin for the Ik R.I.P. exhibition . Visitors were invited to be photographed as corpses. It was very simple: you stepped into the coffin, closed the lid...
  • Maurizio Montalti 5 Dec 2011

    Bodies of Change

    Installation

    The growth of a new burial practice by employing fungi in performing the role of main “disassemblers” within the cyclical processes of growth and decomposition.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Susanne Duijvestein

    From Pest to Soil

    Humusating a Muskrat

    Maybe you have heard about the Muskrat, an ‘invasive exotic’ that likes to chomp on 'our' Dutch dykes. It was on the 22nd of May that one found their final resting place in one of the grow beds at...
  • Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 2011

    The Porn Rule

    Media advice for repressive regimes

    During the past months we had many discussions about media censorhip and blocking by repressive regimes. It occurred to me that amazingly large parts of the population in their countries know so well...

  • Memento mori profiel

    Van online profiel naar herdenkingsplek

    Met het maken van een online profiel op Mediamatic.net, Hyves of Facebook proberen veel mensen expressie te geven aan hun individuele identiteit. Er kan allerlei persoonlijke informatie worden...

  • Nio

    You have the right to remain silent

    In retrospect, postmodernism was first and foremost a regressive movement. The discovery that modernism, with its voracious ambition, had literally usurped all the open space available, and had...
  • Book: Maurice Nio 1 Jan 1998

    You have the right to remain silent

  • Workshop Melanie Bonajo

    Coffin for your beloved

    For Melanie Bonajo designing the coffin is a communal process with much room for rituals and stories about the deceased.

  • Adynda - or size does matter

    A review of the project by Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries

    A drive through the city center of Amsterdam, in which the passengers -a man and a woman- but especially the man - ponder upon the size and color of his reproductive organs. The size isn't right and...

  • Birds, guns and shadows from afterlife

    A visit to the 3rd moscow biennial

    Forget the crisis, the cold and the autumn depression. In Moscow, contemporary art is booming. In the first 2 days, only the main venue of the Moscow biennial had over 10000 visitors. Kompromat was...

  • The Girl, the Pot & the Frog

    Fairytales of Noord

    Foundland found themselves inspired by the many fairytale aspects of Noord.

  • Mediamatic Off-Line Vol. 11#3

    Forgotten Flags - August 2007

    Last issue of the Mediamatic Off-Line (september 2007) about the film Vergessene Fahnen by Florian Thalhofer and Juliane Henrich, with an essay by Krystian Woznicki. Bonus Track is the film Small...

  • Day 4: Red, Red, Green

    ikStaar

    See who can look the longest at the other without blinking. Winning means eternal glory, losing everlasting humiliation.

  • Moraliteit spel met container gekkies

    Vergeef me van Cyrus Frisch

    Ze staan ‘s ochtends vroeg bij de achteringang van de Dirk van de Broek, naast de glasbak. Meestal hebben ze wat blikjes goedkoop bier in de hand. Ze zijn luidruchtig, hebben vaak ruzie.

  • List of Death Films

    Research for Death exhibition

    - The Loved One , (1965). A black comedy about a funeral business, directed by Tony Richardson - Kostnice (1970). A short documentary made by Jan Svankmeyer on the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech...

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