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  • Stella Bergsma

    Writer & Artist

    Stella Bergsma is a writer, opinion maker and frontwoman of the band   Einsteinbarbie   .   In 2014 her collection Cupcakes   with poems and song lyrics was published by Lebowski publishing house and...
  • Beftival
  • Writing
  • feminism
  • Sex

  • This Pussy Has Claws

    Vagina Dentata Myths of Empowerment and Horror

    Who would have thought that apart from lips, vaginas and mouths share even more? Vagina dentata, Latin for toothed vagina, bears the idea that a vagina with teeth or claws can devour a man. She can...

  • Bef-tival Explained

    beffen: verb, to lick pussy

    Going down on, eating pussy, carpet munching, muff diving, cunnilingus; these are some of the ways we refer to the act of female oral sex. But something seems to be missing from our sexual vocabulary.

  • 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...

  • Beftival Photo Gallery

    A collection of photos from Beftival

  • 2022 Iliana Metaxa

    Stitches, Threads and Needles

    Exploring the edges of contemporary embroidery

    From feminist empowerment and craftivism, to DIY material experimentations, embroidery is crossing boundaries left and right. Our new Radical Embroidery workshop has been inspired by a lot of...
  • 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...

  • Beftival Program

    An overview of all exhibitions, performances, workshops and events that are part of Beftival.

  • Space Seeds and Milk

    Milky Way by Maija Tammi

    What do you see when you picture outer space? Endless emptiness, dark and frozen, as far as the eye can see, but scary-exciting because you know there is infinitely more of it beyond your field of...
  • Proposal by: Sieta Maria van Horck

    Bodies of Land

    Project proposal: Rituals to connect with land

    Bodies of Land is a radical ritual that explores the relationships of inter-being between multispecies bodies and local lands. How do we build living relationships and design practices that reawaken...
  • Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina

    Rietveld Party

    School's out (for a week)

    Another Wilhelmina extravaganza.
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Pedro Meyer

    Rio de Janeiro Pavilion

    Transvestite Bathroom (girl from Rio)

    Curator Pedro Meyer presents the Rio de Janeiro pavilion at the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic. His pavilion opened on the 12th of December during the Standing Room Only Party. On view until 3...

  • Mediamatic Post CS

    Office and exhibition space 2004 - 2008

    Mediamatic moved into Post CS in 2004. We moved out in July 2008.

  • Commentary Kiki on Steroids! exhibition

    Originally collected on post-its

    Below some comments left behind by the visitors of the Kiki on Steroids! exhibition.
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale:

    Amsterdam Pavilion 2

    By Aynouk Tan

    Dutch Fashion icon and journalist Aynouk Tan presents her personal signature perfume range in her own pavilion at the Amsterdam Biennale at Mediamatic. The pavilion opened on 31 October, 2009 and can...

  • Progressiveness in Traditional Chinese Medicine

    The age old debate around Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is that its a form of alternative medicine that has been practiced since ancient times. There is little to no scientific evidence of the...
  • Book: Lori Gruen, George Panichas 10 Dec 1996

    Sex, Morality and the Law

    The book combines legal opinion and philosophical analysis to explore the controversial issues surrounding state control of sexual and reproductive behavior.
  • Proposal by: Jonas Klinkenberg

    Next Door

    Project Proposal:

    NEXT DOOR is an installation by STUDIO URBANISTAN which is based on interviews with sex     workers – giving access to a parallel world that takes up the complex realities of sex workers: a freely...

  • What makes urine a turn on?

    Talking about golden showers with Mistress Kalyss Mercury

    Water sports are still a taboo. You don't find many people who are willing to discuss the subject. Kalyss Mercury is an exception. Professional dominatrix for years and kink research pioneer, she has...

  • Dating mockup

    Ideas written in HTML, CSS and Javascript

    Text is just text. Sometimes you just want to do more than write down ideas that indicate changes. Sometimes there is a need to make visible the invisible, to play with visual artefacts instead of...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    The Sin Eaters through the eyes of Hildegard Von…

    By Alice Héron and Martin Butler

    The Sin Eaters is a culinary experience created by chef and artist Alice Héron and the director Martin Butler. During 9 evenings in February 2022, participants were immersed in the incredible world...

  • Writing From The Margins

    Technological Narratives of Arabic Typography

    Narratives of Arabic typography shift between technological exclusion, historical resistance, and cultural rediscovery. From negotiations surrounding the display of Arabic script by Internet browsers

  • Day 4: Red, Red, Green

    ikStaar

    See who can look the longest at the other without blinking. Winning means eternal glory, losing everlasting humiliation.
  • 1 Jan 2004

    Camille Paglia

    Feminist Fatale

    Although a reincarnate maenad, Camille Paglia is a worshipper of definite Apollo as well as of disorganizing Dionysus. She celebrates great art, archetypes, porn, rock'n'roll, and Renaissance man. In...

  • Oedipus Brewery

    We are Oedipus, four friends who share pleasure and knowledge through beer. We spend more time together than with our moms. We started brewing because we wanted to create something exciting

created Bogdana Schiopu modified Bogdana Schiopu

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