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  • Image: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Andrea Valdivia

    Wasabi flowers close up

    Meet our harvest!

    Photo credit: Andrea Valdivia
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  • Growing In & Out with Artist Minji Choi

    Plant, Something that (Doesn’t) Love a Wall

    Born in Seoul, South Korea and based in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Minji Choi has a transboundary persona. As an artist, she devotes herself to reexamining ‘belonging’ and ‘nativeness'. In her body of...
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Growth Imperative

    July - October '19

    Since its inception, Tumulus has been slowly changing shape. On Friday, September 13th , 2019, the artist organized a dedication ceremony inaugurating Phase 2 of the project. Visitors were offered a...
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda

    Spring

    Mar - June '21

    This spring the woad (Isatis Tinctoria) growing on the Tumulus flowers bright radiant yellow.The Hermitess pandemic shelter is freshly painted with wood tar that was obtained from trees through...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft

    Elderflower Champagne 2.0

    Popping champagne straight from the garden!

    The first fermentation step for making Elderflower champagne started last week with a trial test of 20L!  Here you can find the process, recipe, and some great action shots of the flowery business!
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Alessandra Avanzi

    Cooking with essential oils.

    What does ylang ylang, orange blossom or rose essential oils taste like?

    Do you know that about 70% of our taste comes from our nose? Our taste is basically nothing  without our nose.  In fact, have you ever noticed that when you catch a cold the food tastes different?
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Promised Land

    June '15 - July '19

    How, and where to move thousands of kilos of straw and clay? When Mediamatic moved from the Van Gendthallen to the Dijksgracht in 2015, we had to disassemble our freshly built straw office. It was...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft

    7 kilos of Happiness

    The ins and outs of weighing our fish

    Every 6 months, we weigh our 128 African catfish. This is done to get a snapshot into the growth rate of the catfish and check on their general wellbeing. The Aquaponics Greenhouse currently has five...
  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Arne Hendriks, Ben Hopley

    Folk

    May '21 – Pigeon Tower 10

    To make sure the tower has a stable foundation we re-press the mycelium blocks using the weight of our bodies. Two to five people stand on the top of the mycelium wall, hold hands, and slowly move or...
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda

    Dormant Lot

    Nov '19 - Mar '20

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft

    Tasting before wasting

    Optimizing our African Catfish feed

    My project for the past 8 weeks has been to look at how we could use waste streams from both the aquaponics greenhouse and the kitchen to feed our catfish to make the system as circular as possible.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Vera Catalano, Doudouce Knol

    What does a day in the Aquaponics greenhouse look…

    Morning The first thing we do in the morning is to check the pH in the subtank. The pH, a measure of how acidic the water is, determines the health of the fish, the creation of bacteria in the system
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Abhay Villa 28 Jun 2021

    Shitty Water + Wasabi - Snails = Money

    At the Mediamatic Greenhouse, we try to maximise the productivity of the little space we have by growing rare, collectable and valuable crops. All whilst strongly advocating for the advantages of...
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda

    Healing Property

    Mar - Aug '20

    In late July and early August 2020, an ornamental hermitage was constructed at the centre of the Tumulus, slightly sunk into the earth. It is built from compacted earth-bags and discarded home...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    L'Absinthe de la Rue de Dindon VIII – Mediamatic…

    by Dirk Vis and Edgar Walthert

    Ingredients: spirits, anise, fennel, liquorice, nettle, lemon, sage*, hyssop, melissa, coriander, lavender*, mint*, tree wormwood*, mugworth* and wormwood *harvested from Tumulus
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Firing

    June '21

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jessica Cohen

    An Occult Dunghill in the Dijkspark

    What is that overgrown mound of flora and fauna in front of the Sluisdeurenloods? Visitors of Mediamatic will have noticed a peculiar sight in front of the barn. Is it a garden, a sculpture or an...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Fermentation

    with Saskia Frederiks

    The world of fermentation is endless. You can play with structures, flavours and smells. Learn all about fermenting in our upcoming workshops.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Kombucha collection

    with Saskia Frederiks

    The world of fermentation is endless. You can play with structures, flavours and smells. Learn all about fermenting in our upcoming workshops.
  • 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...
  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda

    Autumn

    Sept '21 – Dec '21

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda

    Vegetative State

    June - July '19

    The Tumulus lot is alive with weeds and herbs seeded by the wind or deliberately planted.

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda

    Hibernating Winter Garden

    Dec '20 - Mar '21

  • Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda

    Hermit Hut II: Ruin

    Jan '22

    ruin - n-   late Old English, "act of giving way and falling down", from Latin  ruina  "a collapse, a rushing down, a tumbling down.” - Online dictionary of etymology 
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jessica Cohen

    Back to Nature

    behind the artistic practice of Ruchama Noorda

    Whilst European societies charged towards modernity at the turn of the 20th century, a new social reform movement went back to nature. How does the work of Ruchama Noorda relate to this movement?

created Andrea Valdivia modified Andrea Valdivia

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