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Traces of Death
in the work of Teresa Margolles
Re-appropriating, re-membering, and re-presenting the body and its remains is something that runs throughout all the work of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles. Her oeuvre is one of the best examples to...
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Secretions of Disappearing Bodies
When we think about secretions, the first thing that comes to mind could be sweat or piss. “Secretion” sounds like something that is produced by a living body. But what happens when we think of this...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Parfums Funèbres
- Odorama 38: Olfactory Rituals of Death met Frank Bloem, Susanne Duijvestein, Steffie Baaijens, Caro Verbeek en Josely Carvalho25jun 2020De dood ruikt. Geuren hebben altijd een essentiële rol gespeeld in rituelen rondom de dood. In dit programma onderzoeken we de relatie tussen geur en de dood langs historische, hedendaagse en...
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Verhuur Mediamatic Biotoop
Een mooi afscheid
Het (on)conventionele afscheid
Alle manieren van leven krijgen een plaats bij Mediamatic. De dood is inherent verbonden met de levenscyclus en zoals ook de natuur een plaats geeft aan sterven, geven wij u een unieke gelegenheid om...
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Fake-Eco Evaluation: Still Life at Mediamatic
Is death truly sustainable?
Death is one last action - a body left to account for. Some of us have already given it a thought, but how hard have we thought about our upcoming deaths, really? Mediamatic´s Still Life: death
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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...
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Always Do Your Best
Bert Mulder is dood. We missen hem
Bert was een briljante vriend en is bijna 30 jaar bestuurslid geweest van Mediamatic. De zin "Always do your best" is het vierde inzicht (Agreement) van "The Four Agreements", een sjamanistisch...
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Gunpowder: Fireworks and Fatality
The smell of fireworks, of the sulfur within the ignited gunpowder, permeates the streets of Amsterdam as the Central European Time Zone welcomes in the new year. Illegal for the public’s usage at...
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Jonas Klinkenberg
Profile of Jonas Klinkenberg, a Germany-based artist and performer. He is involved with Mediamatic's Olfactory History of Oosterdok upcoming exhibition, through the ongoing 'Private Dreams and Public...
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Jan Jedenak
Profile of Jan Jedenak, a Germany-based artist and performer. He is involved with Mediamatic's Olfactory History of Oosterdok upcoming exhibition, through the ongoing 'Private Dreams and Public...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
T - Design your own Shroud
- met Susanne Duijvestein1jan 4300Ooit nagedacht over wat je zult dragen als je dood bent? Vroeger was het in ons land gebruikelijk om je doodshemd zelf te maken en te bewaren in je linnenkast, voor je weet maar nooit. Hoewel deze...
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Doodskleed
De geschiedenis en de heropleving
Ooit nagedacht over wat je zult dragen als je dood bent? Vroeger was het in ons land gebruik om je doodshemd zelf te maken en te bewaren in je linnenkast, voor je weet maar nooit. Hoewel deze...
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Robin Beers
Robin Beers is an architecture masterstudent at the ArtEZ Art Academy and designer in training at urban strategy and architecture office INBO. She designed a concept in 2019 for a hospice and wake...
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A Deterrence of Sight and Smell
The gallows field of Amsterdam
The small headland on the north side of the IJ, opposite the Oosterdok, used to be the location of the gallows field of Amsterdam. Criminals sentenced to death were executed on Dam Square, and as an...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Dood
2nov 2019- Museumnacht Amsterdam 20193nov 2019Klinkt jouw dood als Einaudi of meer als Hazes? Op 2 november ontdek je bij Mediamatic op een interactieve manier meer over jouw identiteit en expressie wat betreft de dood. Van abstracte...
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Aboard a passenger-liner-turned-hospital-ship
The Oranje
Smelly business did not remain in the pre-modern era. It is very much a modern phenomenon just as well. One point of interest for us scent-hunters is the MS Oranje. A 20,166-ton ship, in its hay-day...
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A Mélange of Foul Odours
The Smell of Discovery
One of the main purposes of the Oosterdok was the building of ships. For a short while in history, before the English took that questionable title, the Dutch were the largest colonial power in the...
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Those Who Bled for Nutmeg
The Narrative Contextualized within Banda Island's Larger History
“The island can be smelled before it can be seen. From more than ten miles out to sea a fragrance hangs in the air and long before the bowler-hat mountain hoves into view you are nearing land.”...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Magdalena Thur
The Resomation of Fungal tissue
Could fungi provide the future fabric for death shrouds?
Mediamatic's search for vegan fabric that could be used in Resomation, an environmentally friendly alternative burial method, led to testing fungal material.
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David Rademacher
David Rademacher (1984) studeerde af als architect aan de ETH-Zürich in 2011.Tijdens zijn studie werkte hij voor Jo Coenen Architecten en Werkplaats Vincent de Rijk. In de periode 2011 – 2015 werkte...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Death Architecture
- Still Life 03 - with David Rademacher, Susanne Duijvestein, Theun Karelse and Robin Beers18sep 2019How we relate to death culturally, is reflected in the design of our cemeteries and crematoria. Death has been pushed behind the scenes for the last decades, but it appears times are changing. It...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Filippo Iannone
Design your own Shroud
- with Nienke Hoogvliet10nov 2019Heb jij ooit nagedacht over wat je aan wilt hebben als je doodgaat? Dit najaar blazen wij met een reeks workshops een oude Hollandse traditie nieuw leven in. Deze workshop nodigt deelnemers uit om...
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Nienke Hoogvliet
Nienke Hoogvliet is a designer who founded her studio in 2013 and follows her heart ever since by focussing on materials that can contribute to a more holistic world. Her projects raise awareness of...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Susanne Duijvestein
Design your own Shroud
- with Femke van Gemert8sep 2019Have you ever thought about what you would wear when you die? This fall, we will breathe new life into an old Dutch tradition with a series of workshops. The workshop invites participants to actively...