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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Beftival
6Kas 202113Kas 2021The act of licking pussy is still surrounded by shame and red ears, but not everywhere! Partly influenced by social media, society seems to become more predatory, but at the same time, female...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jin Lee
Anyone's Anything
6Kas 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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exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Bert Sliggers
Porn for the Illiterate
6Kas 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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performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Nelke Mast
The Pleasure Is All Mine
6Kas 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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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Eva Schippers
Eva builds an Orgasm Machine
6Kas 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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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Sam Nemeth
Lik Locus
6Kas 20216Kas 2021Sam Nemeth responds to the Orgasm Machine by creating a tongue interface. Lik Locus explores the cultural significance of this highly complicated muscle structure and its role in our sexual protocols.
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Pleun van Dijk
Objects of Desire
6Kas 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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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Olga Middendorp
Genotszoötroop
6Kas 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
6Kas 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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performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Sally Fenaux Barleycorn, Bebe Melkor-Kadior
Yorùbá mythology: A genderless door to pleasure
6Kas 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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performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Amber Rahantoknam
The Colorful Cunnilingual
6Kas 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 Yacinth Pos, Laura van Zuylen
Lick my Oyster
6Kas 2021Do you crave for a gentle, yet intense touch of the tongue? There is no scientific evidence that oysters actually make you horny, however we can’t deny the fact hat a specimen swimming in its own...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Annika Hagen
Shameless Jewellery
6Kas 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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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Lizette van Hecke
Erotic Embroidery
6Kas 2021Who said embroidery can't be sexy? Join for a steamy embroidery session with artist and storyteller Lizette van Hecke. During this workshop, you are invited to bring sensual images and fantasies to...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Daphne Gakes
Intimate talks with Daphne Gakes
6Kas 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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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Irma Joanne, Lana Prins
Reconnecting with the Female body
6Kas 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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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Irma Joanne
Female Textures
6Kas 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 Hester Scheurwater
Licking the House
6Kas 20216Kas 2021This event is part of Beftival during Museumnacht Amsterdam.
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Anna Gimbrere
The Bef Quiz with Anna Grimbrere
6Kas 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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Party Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Vicky de Visser
Pussy Power Galore with DJ Paroah
6Kas 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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performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Victor Engbers
LIKKEN
6Kas 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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Music Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Spill Gold
Spill Gold
6Kas 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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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Thijske Akerboom
Glossarium
6Kas 20216Kas 2021Thijske works with latex in a wearable and sculptural context and has a fascination for bodies and shapes and how they relate or seem to contradict. For her, working with latex feels like working...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Eline Salden, Noah Commandeur, Susanne Broer
The Pipers
6Kas 20216Kas 2021By creating this interactive installations, students of the Willem de Kooning Academy Eline, Noah and Susanne redefine the interpretation of intimacy by stimulating our senses. Their aim is to...
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film: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jinnie Ahn, Julia Leis Lap
Eat Her
6Kas 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 Hester Scheurwater
Perspective Pamphlet
6Kas 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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lecture: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ine Poppe, Olga Middendorp, Mediamatic Foundation
To bef, bef, bef
7Kas 2021Clarissa Smith, Professor of Media & Sexual Cultures at Northumbria University (UK), explores some of the contradictory pleasures of female sexuality as represented in art and pornography. Journalist...
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Film Dinner Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Laura van Zuylen , Yacinth Pos
BEF Film Dinner
10Kas 2021This six-course dinner experience is a collaboration between chef and designer Yacinth Pos and film critic Laura van Zuylen as part of Beftival . Dishes are paired with movie excerpts to explore the...
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presentation: Sexyland World Ine Poppe, Olga Middendorp, Julia Schmitz
Kijk*doos in Sexyland World and Art Bar Klitty
13Kas 2021Kijk*doos, the grand finale of Beftival , is a steamy art, performance, music and dance afternoon celebrating fe-male sexuality, gender and preferences. Click here for more information.