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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...
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Music Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Spill Gold
Spill Gold
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021Darkness and light, playfulness and control: Spill Gold is a duo enhancing the transcendental character of duality. With cosmic, catchy & alienating sounds, coming from their drums, synths and voices
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performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Victor Engbers
LIKKEN
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021How do men deal with licking? Are men perhaps a little afraid of it because it gives freedoms to women to solve their pleasure themselves? Victor provides insight into cultural expressions and...
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lecture: Natlab
Let's Talk About Climate Justice
- With Paolo Cirio, Raphael Weyland, Teresa Borasino and Selçuk Balamir23Eki 2021Artist and activist Paolo Cirio deep dives into the research behind his work and shares insights about legal and financial claims using “Attribution Science” and “Majors Carbon Databases”. Raphael...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Anna Gimbrere
The Bef Quiz with Anna Grimbrere
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021Anna has her own television show called “Anna’s Brain” in which she and a team of young inventors and scientists, use scientific knowledge, guts and creativity to come up with spectacular answers. ...
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film: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jinnie Ahn, Julia Leis Lap
Eat Her
6Kas 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021For Beftival, Jinnie Ahn and Julia Leis Lap created a video that shows the over-sexualisation of both the animal body as a way to sell it as food and the female body. This causes a new level of...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Daphne Gakes
Intimate talks with Daphne Gakes
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021Get into the bathtub with artist and writer Daphne Gakes. In her podcast Tussen de Lakens (In between the sheets) Daphne talks openly with people about life, relationships, love and sex. This time...
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performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Nelke Mast
The Pleasure Is All Mine
6Kas 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021Nelke performs as a 'housewife' to create a visual commentary on gender roles by deconstructing and re-establishing prominent gendered sexual archetypes. Come see how a traditional patriarchal gender...
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performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Amber Rahantoknam
The Colorful Cunnilingual
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021See illustrator and poet Amber Rahantoknam, aka Ambigou, working on the windows of the Mediamatic restaurant, armed with a paintbrush and headset. While painting fluorescent pussies, tongues, fingers...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Irma Joanne
Female Textures
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021Irma Joanne is an interdisciplinary artist, with a background in fine arts, scenography and bodywork. Her work occurs where she touches, sees, and feels the bare skin. Female skin, to be precise. An...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Irma Joanne, Lana Prins
Reconnecting with the Female body
6Kas 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021“Reconnecting with the female body” is a collaboration between visual artist Irma Joanne and photographer Lana Prins. The female body is the main theme in both their individual practices. Their many...
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Party Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Vicky de Visser
Pussy Power Galore with DJ Paroah
6Kas 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021Paroah pulls hot records, sultry female voices, spicy stories, and sexy bangers from her music collection. Pussy power galore guaranteed.
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exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Bert Sliggers
Porn for the Illiterate
6Kas 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021Pornography is most fun when it is not allowed. Former curator Bert Sliggers shows his fantastic collection of paper pornography. By pulling, twisting, pushing and folding, secret sexual fantasies...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Hester Scheurwater
Perspective Pamphlet
6Kas 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021This visual pamphlet takes to the streets of Amsterdam for a week. It reacts to the contemporary image of the double standards surrounding women's sexuality in the media. All Hester Scheurwaters...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Olga Middendorp
Genotszoötroop
6Kas 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021Olga Middendorp's genots-zoötroop turns drawings into moving images. By turning the carousel, her sexual fantasy comes to life. Get inspired, draw your own sex-comic and put it in the the befbox. Who...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ine Poppe
Tongue Reading with Zaza
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021What does your tongue teach you about your erotic potential? Have your sexual future predicted by the shape, folds and lines of your tongue. How thick is it, how pointed, how strong, how soft? After...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Eva Schippers
Eva builds an Orgasm Machine
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021What is the line between pleasure and torture? Eva Schippers a.k.a. She-Man gets inspired by the potentiality of the future. The ‘orgasmatron’ is a machine made to give women pleasure known from...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Annika Hagen
Shameless Jewellery
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021Come create jewellery with Annika Hagen. Her collection of 'flaunting' hair (which sounds much better than pubic hair, right?) comes from people who replied to her call on Instagram to donate their...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Pleun van Dijk
Objects of Desire
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021Can algorithms morph our sexual sensitivity? Objects of Desire by Pleun van Dijk investigates the increasingly intimate relationship between human and technology. A series of selected images...
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performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Sally Fenaux Barleycorn, Bebe Melkor-Kadior
Yorùbá mythology: A genderless door to pleasure
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021If gender is a construct, it means we created it at some point in human history and that before that, gender didn't exist in the way it has been imposed on us over the last centuries. Many indigenous...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jin Lee
Anyone's Anything
- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021Sex toys are called toys for a reason. But why do we feel guilty when kids find them? Jin Lee transforms sex toys into slides, seesaws and swings. Come color inside or outside the lines in the sex...
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Bebe Melkor-Kadior
Bebe Melkor-Kadior is a pluridisciplinary performance artist and pro-choice afro feminist author. From fire breathing to sword swallowing and adult films performances, she works with her body as to...
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presentation: Natlab
Drinks at Dusk
- with Desirée Hammen22Eki 2021At Dutch Design Week we have daily presentations by various artists at sundown. In this edition we talk about how we can (re)create other species with all their textures and complexities through...
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presentation: Natlab
Drinks at Dusk
- with Conny Groenewegen21Eki 2021At Dutch Design Week, we have daily presentations by various artists at sundown. In this edition we talk about how we can embody and feel more like other species through fashion with fashion designer...