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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Squirt DING
4nov 2017- Museumnacht 20175nov 2017Vrouwelijke ejaculatie is nog steeds een ding. Is het normaal? Hoe ziet het er uit? Waar smaakt het naar? En wat is het eigenlijk? Voor Secretopia , Mediamatic’s programmalijn over...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Caroline Jacob, Stichting Mediamatic
Workshop: How to wASH?
- Creating detergent from ash7okt 2017Ash is the residue left after the combustion of wood. The lye obtained by leaching ashes is a highly concentrated solution, containing properties for washing and for making soap. Designer Caroline...
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Wearable Fluids: Turning the Body Inside Out
Body Fluids by Zane Cerpina
What if you were able to wear some of your most intimate bodily fluids, such as menstrual blood, breast milk or semen, as jewellery? Visual artist Zane Cerpina created a collection of jewellery made...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Caroline Jacob, Stichting Mediamatic
Workshop: How to wASH?
- Creating detergent from ash14aug 2017Ash is the residue left after the combustion of wood. The lye obtained by leaching ashes is a highly concentrated solution, containing properties for washing and for making soap. Designer Caroline...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Caroline Jacob, Stichting Mediamatic
Workshop: How to wASH?
- Creating detergent from ash8sep 2017Ash is the residue left after the combustion of wood. The lye obtained by leaching ashes is a highly concentrated solution, containing properties for washing and for making soap. Designer Caroline...
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Getting Drunk From Saliva
Anivor - Alcohol made of saliva by Sydney Schaefer
Saliva contains an enzyme called Amylase. When Amylase is combined with starch, which you can find in for example rice, it creates sugar. To create alcohol one only needs to combine sugar and yeast.
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Caroline Jacob
wASH Laundrette
9sep 2017- Site-specific laundry detergent installation19dec 2017Caroline Jacob tackles common preconceptions of food, waste and hygiene in her latest work wASH. Using waste materials left over from Mediamatic’s food production, she creates a site-specific laundry...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Caroline Jacob, Stichting Mediamatic
Workshop: How to wASH?
- Creating detergent from ash9jul 2017Ash is the residue left after the combustion of wood. The lye obtained by leaching ashes is a highly concentrated solution, containing properties for washing and for making soap. Designer Caroline...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Sungaze
- DJ Zutzut (N*A*A*F*i, Mexico) + local support18jun 2017Listen and dance to the best tunes tracks songs rhythms beats and sounds from all over the world. With Mexican DJ Zutzut and local support acts. Facebook
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Crying Out Loud: Tear Donation
- Donate your tears for the sake of art11okt 2017WE NEED YOUR TEARS. During this free crying session Mediamatic provides you with the space to shed some tears in whatever way you feel comfortable. Donate your tears and let photographer Maurice...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Smell Transplant Workshop
- Find out what it's like to smell like someone else25jun 2017Olfactory artist Klara Ravat investigates with you how human interaction changes after you have swapped body odours with another person. By doing this, she hopes to get an insight in how big of a...
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Spit on Art
How conservators make use of what's in their mouth
Spit cleaning isn’t just for shoeshiners. Documentation of spit cleaning as an art conservation technique goes back as far as the 18th century , and today it is used worldwide by conservators in a...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Crying Out Loud!
- Visualising the Beauty of Tears11okt 2017Crying is often associated with weakness and is seen as useless. Yet it is a healthy behaviour both biologically and in its important social role. Through showcasing the works of the different...
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The placenta as a guidance tool
'Haem' by Cecilia Jonsson
Cecilia Jonsson is an interdisciplinary artist, who is exploring different forms of iron in her art works. Her project ‘Haem’, that she developed in cooperation with the scientist Rodrigo Leite de...
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Future Scenario: Microwaving Your Poo To Generate…
Poo is rich in carbon, and carbon is used to generate energy. So why doesn’t anyone retrieve this carbon from our poo? Truth is that poo is a nasty product; no one wants to have anything to do with...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Secretopia: Andy Warhol's Dracula
- Movie Discussion10apr 2017In this Secretopia session we discuss the outrageous cult classic Andy Warhol's Dracula (1975) exploring sexuality, immortality and classism. Paul Morrissey’s moralistic take on modern values, co
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Éva-Marie Lind
Éva-Marie Lind is a scent designer and aroma therapist. She has been active in organic and natural product formulation, with a specialty in the field of sensory perception, scent and aromatic...
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The ultimate probiotic yoghurt
Vagina Yoghurt
Cecilia Westbrook from the University of Wisconsin has tried to create yogurt from her vaginal fluids. Her goal was to explore and use the vagina's probiotic properties.
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The menstrual cup- conveniently liberating
I once met someone travelling who told me she had to fill half of her backpack with period supplies because she was travelling through a Muslim country. Incoming, the menstrual cup: breaking social
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Meet Klara Ravat
30mrt 2017Meet Klara Ravat, olfactory artist and distiller of scents. Klara will be artist in residence here at our Biotoop where she will be hosting a series of scented workshops, talks and other related...
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Connecting The Menstruation And Food Cycle
"Cyclus" a video performance by Cecile Hübner
While menstruation blood is seen as waste, food is almost seen as the opposite, a necessity that’s always present and welcome. How can these two be brought together? Cecile makes it happen in her...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Secretopia: Drugs and the Body
- Trainspotting movie discussion27feb 2017In our second edition of Secretopia movie discussions we looked at drugs and their effect on the body by considering human secretions in Trainspotting [1996].
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Secretopia: sexual liberation and bodily taboo’s
- Wetlands movie discussion13feb 2017During this night we covered some feminist angles on the movie Wetlands. When the book, and later the movie, came out a lot of people were shocked by its explicit and convention-breaking content.
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SECRETOPIA movie discussion
Wetlands (2013)
Meet Helen, an unusual girl with unusual tastes. SECRETOPIA's first event!