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  • Afbeelding: Mediamatic Biotoop Anisa Xhomaqi

    Audience during the performance "Yorùbá…

    Audience attending the immersive performance Yorùbá mythology: A genderless door to pleasure at  Beftival during Museumnacht 2021. The performance is written and directed by Sally Fenaux Barleycorn...
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  • 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

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Ine Poppe, Olga Middendorp

    Beftival

    Programma overzicht

    Een festival met meer dan 30 kunstenaars en wetenschappers. Kom discussiëren, voelen en vier fe-male seksualiteit, gender en voorkeur.

  • Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno

    Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno exhibited in Nature's Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Invention .  Nature's Toolbox  is an exhibition exploring the wonders of biodiversity. The exhibition perceives...

  • Beftival Program

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

  • 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.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Sadhbh O'Donnell

    Smelling under the water?

    Under the Harbour workshop development with Mariko Hori

    Mariko Hori is a visual artist with a flair for triggering the imagination and creating new experiences. She has done this so far through her work with Freestyle Kintsugi, a workshop inviting...

  • 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...
  • Proposal by: Sieta 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...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Alessandra Avanzi

    Ancient Egypt and the culture of perfume.

    The use of smelly components in Egyptian daily life: Kyphi, incense and other perfume.

    Incense was considered the “Fragrance of the Gods” in Ancient Egypt. Making incense meant in a mysterious way creating the body of the gods and communicating with them.   Do you know that the...
  • 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: Anoniem

    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...
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    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...
  • 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: 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...
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
  • 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: 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...

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