Samsom started Super-8 filmmaking in Amsterdam in early 1970s
lives in New York City since the ‘80s
international artist filmmaker / giving voice to, breathing life into, fantastic papiermache objects during recent multimedia performances
Glamour is Resistance.
View selected films through The Film-Makers' Coop and LIMA Amsterdam.
wikipedia Marja Samsom
Identities including Miss Behave, Miss Kerr, Madame Hulot en vacances, Marja van Marken, and others, still travel through time and space til this day.
NEW book : Miss Taken Identities 2021 available at Printed Matter Inc.
Diary of a Forgotten Actress 2015 curated by Inez&Vinoodh
Miss Taken Identities live stream performance on Participant After Dark in July 2021.
Miss Behave exhibition and performances held at Participant Inc in 2016.
In 2011, residency at The Clocktower funded by the Jerome Foundation, resulting in the storytelling performance and installation Shrine, dedicated to her sister Ingeborg. Hosted radio program Cooking Up a Storm at ARTonAIR.org. Solo projects presented online and in New York at LMAK Gallery, La Galleria at La MaMa, Club Berlin (25 Ave A, New York).
Flavor DJ & Founder of The Kitchen Club in 1985
first as cultural East Village Salon, then as an international hubbub & restaurant in NOLITA for 20 years 1990-2010 ’TheKitchenclubandChibisBar’.
During 1970s and ‘80s, presented work at De Appel Arts Centre opening program, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Galerie Riekje Swart, Bertha Urdang Gallery, Hal Bromm Gallery, and Franklin Furnace, as well as publications and print interventions for FILE magazine (with General Idea), FURORE, Flash Art, and Art in America.
From Amsterdam to New Amsterdam, 2019