Host Traven Rice spoke with Lower East Side artist Marja Samson. Samsom is an international artist and filmmaker, whose work confronts and exposes cultural issues with elegant wit. Poised within 1970’s international avant-garde, her early works are experiments in self representation.
Her embodiment and simultaneous commodification of the character "Miss Bhave" and "Miss Kerr" pose an elegant, tongue-in-cheek dissection of glamour. Samsom’s current photography explores relationships between objects that illuminate with a pinch of wicked playfulness. Her practice is daily exploration: making 'something out of nothing'.
Samson was born in the Netherlands, raised in Europe, and spent time in New York City while exhibiting internationally. Deciding to stay in New York, Samsom created an underground word-of-mouth salon, the ‘Kitchen Club’, in the East Village. It developed into the legendary downtown eatery of same name on Prince & Mott Street. Curating both menu and restaurant space, Samsom actualized her Kitchen Club as a "gesamtkunstwerk" and hosted a radio series "Cooking up a Storm" on Art International Radio, where she was selected for a residency at the Clocktower Gallery with a storytelling performance ‘Shrine’ dedicated to her sister.
Recently, she completed a number of performances at Participant Inc. her work is currently included at H’ART Museum, Amsterdam. She lives and works in Downtown New York City.
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