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    Happy Are Ye Poor by Paul Yore

    Happy Are Ye Poor, 2017 Mixed media textile appliqué including found materials, iron-on printed fabric transfers, wool, beads, sequins buttons 90 3/5 × 81 1/2 in 230 × 207 cm

  • embroidery
  • Culture
  • society
  • assemblage
  • collage
  • queer
  • experimental
  • 2022 Iliana Metaxa

    Stitches, Threads and Needles

    Exploring the edges of contemporary embroidery

    From feminist empowerment and craftivism, to DIY material experimentations, embroidery is crossing boundaries left and right. Our new Radical Embroidery workshop has been inspired by a lot of...
  • 2022 Iliana Metaxa

    Getting intimate through stitches

    Meet Desirée Hammen

    Are you curious to know more about our new workshop, Radical Embroidery? We talk with workshop tutor Desirée Hammen, an Eindhoven-based fashion designer and artist who specialises in embroidery.
  • 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: Viviana Selene M. Calderon de la Barca

    Inclusive Patching.

    Project proposal: Textile & Sustainability

    It's not news. We're running out of time to save our natural world and resources. So this two in one, workshops + inclusive and diverse get togethers, aim to be informa(c)tive and inspiring to spread...
  • 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...

  • Piss off! What did you just say?

    When was the last time you swore? What did you say… shit? Piss? Cunt? There's a high chance it was a word relating to bodily fluids, and at Secretopia we have summarised the research that will...

  • We grew a new project nursery: Penny for your…

    Project Nursery

    There is something uniquely inspiring when looking into artistic processes that are still in progress: unpolished, experimental, and open-ended.  Penny for your Thoughts  is our project nursery
  • 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...
  • Proposal by: Arthur Guilleminot

    Piss Soap

    Project proposal: Ecodeviant Research

    My project of Piss Soap is an ecodeviant product aiming to regenerate our local urban environments, while questioning our social conditioning about disgust. Piss soap is made entirely out of human...
  • Proposal by: Lena Trost

    (Digital) Glass Tasting

    Project proposal: How glass becomes odour

    My artistic research is about how glass becomes odour. Glass is an odourless material. But therefore, I claim, it can be used to tap into our own biological olfactory memory - which is the goal of...
  • Proposal by: Anonymous

    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...

  • Across the Multiverse

    Chris Martin's poetic way to a neurodiverse future

    Chris Martin is a poet and an educator. What's unique in his practice that resonates with our attention to autistic minds and neurodiversity? 
  • Proposal by: Jennifer Kumer

    When My Time Comes

    Project Proposal: an End-of-Life Conversation Game

    How do we prepare to die? Not usually a question we want to spend a lot of time thinking about, and yet, it's incredibly important. It’s often a question not answered until it is too late. This...

  • Elficological know‑how

    A take on fictional knowledge by Mediamatic artist in residence Pauline Rip

    How can we reimagine the richness of our cultural relationships with plants and nature  through the imaginary creatures they inhabit? To what extent can fictional knowledge and cultures explore the...

  • Beftival Photo Gallery

    A collection of photos from Beftival

  • Marketing the 'Other'

    'Foreign' as a Selling point

    This blogpost attempts to situate our approach to various cuisines within a broader political context of migration and diversity. How do perceptions of ‘foriegn’ food mirror political discourses...
  • Proposal by: Stephanie Pau

    Time Givers, by Tomato Plants et al

    Project Proposal: Practicing more-than-human care

    Humans are not the only entity in the world, machines and the rest of nature, too, share the same world.  In the next tomato planting season (2023), I, with local tomato plants - wherever I may be
  • Proposal by: Sujata Majumdar, Roland van Dierendonck, Irene Nooren

    Nanoplay

    Project Proposal: The Society Within Us

    'The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think' - Gregory Bateson Our current way of thinking does not enable us to deal with...
  • Proposal by: Sophia Schullan

    Form Follows Fun

    Project Proposal: Form Follows Fun – Finding Fun In Everyday Life

    ‘Form Follows Fun’ would be a talk hosted in the Mediamatic facilities. Its goal is not only to spread fun and entertainment but more importantly to give others the tools to create fun and...
  • Proposal by: Bas Huijbers

    Green Office

    Project proposal: Klimaatactie in het onderwijs

    Samen met leerlingen, docenten en schoolleiders, het onderwijs in Amsterdam klimaatcrisis bestendig maken. Met als basisproject: een Green Office
  • 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...
  • 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: 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: 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...

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