marjolijn kok

For over ten years marjolijn kok (PhD) worked at the University of Amsterdam as a theoretical archaeologist. Not satisfied with the way academic work became more constrained, she started her own company Bureau Archeologie en Toekomst (future), to focus on contemporary archaeology and art. kok worked at the studio collective Havenstraat in Rotterdam until December 2015 and now has her own studio which she shares with line kramer. Together they form the artist’s collective the KOKRA FAMILY, which focuses on projects that problematize the concept of family. In her own work kok is keen on the aporetic turn of reclaiming historical traces and turning them into contemporary actions. Her work involves long-term projects and events that focus on the connections between and the perceptions of people and their material context. Her latest ongoing project is 'The Museum of Failure and Unloved Objects'. In relation to the exhibition Were It As If (2016) kok has set up the digital and analog archive of Kunstinstituut Melly. Since then she has been working as the archivist of the institute. Since 2017 kok researches as a contemporary archaeologist Moluccan camps (woonoorden). She publishes this research on the blog www.molukserfgoed.com.