Welcome to the online catalogue
Welcome to LIMA’s online catalogue. Here you will find over fifty years of media art and over three thousand works by more than five hundred national and international artists. LIMA distributes narrative and medium-specific works and performance registrations from emerging artists like Melanie Bonajo, Broersen & Lukács, Julika Rudelius, Giovanni Giaretta and Zeno van den Broek to pioneers like Marina Abramovic, The Vasulkas, UBERMORGEN, Nan Hoover, Livinus van der Bundt and Ulises Carrión.
LIMA’s collection is open for research and is constantly consulted by large numbers of students, journalists, researchers, programmers and curators from the Netherlands and abroad. The collection, online catalog and archive are a crucial source for the (future) history of (Dutch) media art.
Mediakunst.net is home to the media art collections of the Van Abbemuseum, Frans Hals Museum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands and LIMA. Visitors can create an account and freely browse the affiliated collections. Please visit www.mediakunst.net.
Catalogue overview pages
Night Soil - Economy of Love (2015), Melanie Bonajo
Night Soil - Economy of Love portrays a Brooklyn-based movement of female sex workers who regard their work as a way for women to reclaim power in a male-dominated pleasure zone, their mission being to rearrange sexual conventions and ideas about intimacy itself. Vivid imagery is accompanied by a spoken score, revealing Bonajo's vision of contemporary spirituality and expectations surrounding gender roles by playful, sensual, and feminist-driven means. Power to the female body!