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  • Image: Sieta Maria van Horck

    Logo Bodies of Land

    ~Bodies of land~ is an ongoing research and experimentation by Sieta van Horck and Rens Spanjaard to embody what it feels like to be entangled with the land.  Photo taken by Rens Spanjaard
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  • 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...
  • Proposal by: Racha Tarazi

    My Dinner

    Project Proposal: Digesting emotions

    My Dinner is an immersive art installation: part food-art and part theatrical set up. Thematically, it resembles a sit-down dinner party for 6-8 guests. My Dinner attempts to explore the process and...

  • Beftival Photo Gallery

    A collection of photos from Beftival

  • 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...
  • Proposal by: Krisztina Czika

    What's left to capture?

    Project Proposal: Underwater journey

    'What's left to capture?' is inspired by a research project I have started in Sri Lanka back in the beginning of 2020. In our world today, the natural resources we use are, sadly taken for granted...
  • 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...
  • Proposal by: Mariko Hori

    Archive something we don't know yet

    Project Proposal: Understanding water conditions through paper making

    This project is a study and a little hope to archive potential data of current water conditions of Amsterdam, for future generations.
  • Proposal by: Anonymous

    Neurodiversiteit en de toegankelijkheid van…

    Project proposal: Inclusieve tools voor kunstfondsen

    Met het project ‘Inclusieve tools voor kunstfondsen’ verken  ik de toegankelijkheid van subsidies voor kunstenaars die zich identificeren als neurodivers. Hoe kunnen we gestandaardiseerde...
  • Proposal by: René Nissen, Avery Franken

    Disrupting Citizenship

    Project proposal: Arrhythmia as the Urban Condition

    The world around us may make us feel like we are required to be our most “productive” selves, and like “unproductive” behaviour is penalised. These rules can be written – a contract, for example, may...
  • Proposal by: Nina Anin

    Wind Airwave transmission

    Project Proposal: Sustainable radio show

    WIND TURBINE My project mainly revolves around this windturbine I have built. The windturbine is connected (through gears) to a motor which generates power. The mini circuitboard is then connected to...
  • Proposal by: Pauline Rip

    Cooking Ghosts

    Researching elficology

    How can we reimagine the richness of our cultural relationships with plants and nature through the imaginary creatures they inhabit? Cooking Ghosts is a project based on research done by...
  • Proposal by: Lena Trost

    (Digital) Glass Tasting

    Project proposal: How glass becomes odour

    My artistic research is about how glass becomes odour. Glass is an odourless material. But therefore, I claim, it can be used to tap into our own biological olfactory memory - which is the goal of...
  • Proposal by: Alena Grahn

    Erotic Ecology

    Project proposal: Our Human Bodies

    This project aims to explore the erotic in our local ecology through the senses. As we are expanding our relationship with this idea, the research will be performed as ritual. In our exploration, we...
  • Proposal by: Viviana Selene M. Calderon de la Barca

    Inclusive Patching.

    Project proposal: Textile & Sustainability

    It's not news. We're running out of time to save our natural world and resources. So this two in one, workshops + inclusive and diverse get togethers, aim to be informa(c)tive and inspiring to spread...
  • Proposal by: Margherita Falqui

    Liquid Maquis

    Project proposal: Connecting with places through the senses

    Exploring the connection to a territory and its curative potential by drinking it, ingesting it, feeling it. I would like to explore and communicate the connection to territory by creating a liquid...
  • Proposal by: Thom van Hoek

    Object Permanence

    Project proposal: Levend sculptuur

    Object Permanence wordt een sculptuur bestaande uit 100% agar-agar (ook wel E406 genoemd) met daarin zaadjes van een nog nader – eventueel in overleg – te bepalen plant. Ik wil een geschikt autowiel...
  • Proposal by: Lucie Majerus

    Colour-Smells of Amsterdam

    Project proposal: Sustainable souvenirs

    As a product designer, I am interested in how countries design nation branding and souvenirs. How can we find new ways for tourists to experience a place while giving them new sensual possibilities?
  • Proposal by: Maaike Anne Stevens

    Bipolaris

    Project proposal: Essay film

    Bipolaris is an essay film of about 30 minutes about the fundamental difference in the way our two brain hemispheres experience the world. By means of documentary shots, fictional scenes, interviews...
  • Proposal by: Bas Huijbers

    Green Office

    Project proposal: Klimaatactie in het onderwijs

    Samen met leerlingen, docenten en schoolleiders, het onderwijs in Amsterdam klimaatcrisis bestendig maken. Met als basisproject: een Green Office
  • Proposal by: Roland van Dierendonck, Maro Pebo

    Chili Pepper Pleasure

    Project proposal: A hedonistic experience

    Half the planet is addicted to capsaicin, the working substance in chili peppers. It is described as a stimulant or even an aphrodisiac. There has been proven to be a relationship between capsaicin...
  • Proposal by: Azucena Sánchez

    Oak Tales

    Project proposal: Genomic Soundscapes

    Plants are our ancestors, the ones that see the real in us, the only ones who saw the world before it got inhabited, the ones that created forms, aesthetics and structure. If nature were to be...
  • Proposal by: Mario Mimoso

    Floating Havens

    Project Proposal: Regenerating city life

    Floating Havens is a project aimed at regenerating life inside the urban landscape. Using Amsterdam’s canals as a way to gain land to the crowded and congested city streets, we want to dedicate these...
  • Proposal by: Jennifer Kumer

    When My Time Comes

    Project Proposal: an End-of-Life Conversation Game

    How do we prepare to die? Not usually a question we want to spend a lot of time thinking about, and yet, it's incredibly important. It’s often a question not answered until it is too late. This...
  • Proposal by: Si Knight

    Multisensory Listening Rituals

    Project Proposal: for Reducing Stress

    As you may well have experienced, life today can be very stressful. As a result of this, many people are currently in desperate need of finding ways to reduce their stress levels. Yet contemporary...

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