Autism
Autistic ASS
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
The Queer Superdiversity Show
- a live podcast31Jul 2024Aynouk Tan and Asia Hussain present a live podcast in which they discuss queer perspectives and themes that are still relatively understudied. Guests are mostly queer and trans people from migrant...
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5. Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Clemens Tomlow
Monsters Under the Bed
12Apr 2024- by Clemens Tomlow14Jul 2024All over the world, monsters are used to scare children. But they are the same fairy tales that show that what we find monstrous in our society is often rather misunderstood. "Monsters Under the Bed"...
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Artikel A/artist meeting in autisme magazine #04…
"Met een inclusieve houding hoef je niet eens te weten of iemand autist is"
Autisme Magazine van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Autisme, NVA Interview met Gerard van Wolferen en Willem Velthoven, verschijningsdatum 20 december 2023.
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A lively evening with workshops, performances and presentations Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Zelf again
12 artists quietly pretending it's museumnacht.
During Museumnacht, 1000+ joined our artistic diagnostic tract. This night we offer the same program for professionals and those that find Museumnacht a bit too noisy!
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Book: Annelies Wina Doom, Willem Velthoven, Jam van der Aa, Marcel Sturing
Zelftest
Cahier voor Museumnacht 2023
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On Diagnosis and Labels
Should you want to be labeled? Why?
Every being has special qualities. Especially regarding the invisible traits, such as an extraordinary mind. It can be helpful to name them explicitly. It can be helpful to identify these traits, to...
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Saturday november 11, 2023 17:00—20:30
Zelf/Self again (the quiet version)
Museumnight program for those who find Museumnight a bit noisy.
On Saturday, Nov. 11 (6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.), there will be a special opening for people who find Museum Night a little too busy or who could no longer get a ticket for Nov. 4. Tickets Are you ever...
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15. Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Pet vd Luijtgaarden
11 Selected Collections
4Nov 2023- Installation by Pet van de Luijtgaarden5May 2024Pet collects collections, to the point of compulsion. All these collections are carefully sorted and grouped. Pet displays eleven of these collections in our small waterfront greenhouses, so each...
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Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Minjoo Choi
My Shadow is part of my body
4Nov 2023- Performance by Minjoo Choi11Nov 2023Minjoo throws clay, she hurls clay against the walls, she flings clay against the windows, and the clay falls, the clay dries, the clay is picked up again and kneaded until it can be thrown once more.
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ignacy Radtke
Smile Like You Really Mean It
15Dec 2023- Installation by Ignacy Radtke14Apr 2024In this work, Ignacy Radtke explores the concept of emotional labour, the effort required to maintain social relationships. For some, this kind of 'work' is easier to perform than for others. This...
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Zelf (what would you say?)
Museumnight Amsterdam 2023
Are you ever bothered by yourself? A lot or just a little? Come to Mediamatic and evaluate yourself through the works of a diverse team of artists. Hand yourself over to our experts, let them help...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jemima de Jonge
A Body of Water, Table-Scene
4Nov 2023- Video Installation by Jemima de Jonge31Mar 2024When does a sense of safety and security turn into claustrophobia and fear? When does it float back? When does it become humorous or grim?
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Freedom in Patterns
An interview with Gerard van Wolferen
We sat down with musician Gerard van Wolferen at Mediamatic ahead of his talk at our upcoming A/artist event to discuss the predictability and freedom within Gamelan music patterns . From childhood...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Playing with Ethics and Rhythm
- A/artist Meeting with Gerard van Wolferen and Astrid Poot16Oct 2023During this A / artist evening, we continued to explore the neurodivergent experience in the practice of the arts. Designer, freethinker, activist and blue collar philosopher Astrid Poot opened the...
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Long Live the Difference
Astrid Poot's perspective on autism and work
Activist, freethinker, designer, writer, maker and blue collar philosopher…Astrid Poot puts on a lot of hats, but what does she say about neurodivergence and being different?
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Explaining Humans
Camilla Pang's Manual for the Outliers
“My mother is an artist, and my father is a scientist, and being honest I am somewhere caught in between,” says Camilla Pang. As a biochemist, a writer, and an autism advocate, what does Pang catch...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
wat denk je Zelf?
- (what would You say?) Museumnight about your mind4Nov 2023Are you ever bothered by yourself? A lot or just a little? Come to Mediamatic and evaluate yourself through the works of a diverse team of artists. Hand yourself over to our experts, let them help...
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Embroidering words
How Gro Dahle writes childrens' books differently
Gro Dahle (*1962) is an author well-known in her home country Norway for publishing over sixty books, most of them poetry collections and children's books. Her work has received several literary...
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Claiming the Stage
Hannah Gadsby defies stereotypes through humour
Hannah Gadsby (*1978) is a successful Australian comedian and actor, known for her shows Nanette and Douglas , both featured on Netflix, in which she addresses topics such as trauma and abuse, as...
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The Visual Thinker
Temple Grandin explores different kinds of minds
Temple Grandin is an academic and animal behaviorist from America famous for redesigning the slaughterhouses so that cattle can be treated in a more humane way. She is also an autism spokesperson.
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Autism and Activism
Greta Thunberg's uncompromising life and work
Greta Thunberg became famous when, in 2018, she started to skip Fridays at school to instead sit in front of the Swedish Parliament in protest against politicians’ inaction in the face of the climate...
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Tools for Flourishing in Art Education (and Life)
Public A/artist symposium with Jenny Konrad
During this second public symposium on neurodivergence in art education, The Hague-based German artist and designer Jenny Konrad talked about the tools they have created to manage time, energy and...
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Feeling in Colour
Patrick Samuel as a Role Model
Patrick Samuel is a visual artist, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and autism advocate based in the UK. But what makes him a role model for neurodivergent creatives?
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Spinning as Stimming
Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Johnson as a Role Model
Ahmir Johnson (*1971), known professionally as Questlove, is an American musician, record producer, disc jockey, filmmaker, music journalist, and actor. But what makes him a role model for...