Resume Emily Kocken
Emily Kocken is a Dutch writer and artist. She was born in New York on February 5, 1963.
Wallestein 18
3632 WL Loenen aan de Vecht
The Netherlands
M +31 (0)6 36 13 57 74
E [email protected]
W emilykocken.nl
Literary Publications
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2024
Adoptica — Querido
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2023
B ≈ B (On Le Livre by Stéphane Mallarmé) — West, The Hague
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2022
How to make sculpture move — Jap Sam Books
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2021
100 Years Beuys — De Gids (guest editor)
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Lalalanding (novel) — Querido
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2020
De beer (story) — De Gids
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Your mother! (story) — De Gids
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Everything sounds soft and hopeful (story) — De Revisor
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2019
A letter of Sol leWitt (essay) — Tubelight
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Huh? aha! duh (essay) — IKK, West, RUG
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Don’t Shoot the Pianist (essay) — De Gids
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2018
Hello Darkness (essay) — De Gids, Nieuw Amsterdam Publishers
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Sleeping with rabbits (essay) — De Gids
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2017
The Cure (novel) — Querido
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Fictional bloodshed (essay) — De Revisor
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2016
Stewart (story) — De Revisor
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2013
O San Francisco (column) — The Optimist
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White Flag (novel) — Querido
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2011
Haarpijn (story) — De Revisor (online)
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2010
De hond zag ons in Rheine (story) — De Revisor
Exhibitions
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2023
Moon Mill — De Hoop, Loenen aan de Vecht
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2022
Here / hear (audio) — M Museum, Leuven
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How to make sculpture move (with Ruta Butkute) — Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam
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2021
Sacred Emily (monologue) — Alphabetum, West
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Here / hear (audio) — Arti et Amicitiae / /
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Direct me to the centre of gravity — duotentoonstelling & performances met Ruta Butkute, Arti et Amitiae, Amsterdam
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2020
De wind kust je overal (audio monologue tape) — Sensual Havoc, De Appel The Bar Broedplaats Lely, Amsterdam
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Spheres — Online Viewing Room, Lauwer, Den Haag
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2018
Cello Girls Orbit — vinyl record with Jacco Prantl, installation, performance, C&H gallery, Amsterdam – Solo
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2017
Ben ik een dier? — Museum De Domijnen, Sittard – Group
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2015
Come-Go-Stay — performative installation, West, The Hague – Solo
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2013
Anonyme Zeichner 2013 — Galerie Nord/Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin – Group
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The Maiden Element — photography, drawings / C&H art space, Amsterdam – Solo
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2011
The Negotiator — curator: MaRF, photography, drawings / Belgium & France – Group
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2010
The Holy Yesman — [digitaal?] analoog! / Huis Marseille, Amsterdam – Group
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Letters from a Dying Building — installation / Des Chapitres du Conflit, Collasus, Berlin – Group
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Handmodelling — Binnenzee, installation, photography, video / RC De Ruimte, IJmuiden – Group
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Collecting Evidence — photography, video, drawings, books / C&H Art&Design, Amsterdam – Solo
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Tracing the Mother Key — photography, installation / City Council, Amsterdam Zuidoost – Solo
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The Guard — Masterpiece, fotografie / De Zwarte Ruyter, Rotterdam – Group
Performances & Lectures
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2021
Lecture performance Be Open-minded Art — part of Here / Hear, part of installation presentation Direct me to the centre of gravity, duo show with Ruta Butkute, at Arti et Amicitiae, supported by AFK, Tijlfonds
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2020
Think what you write (performance) — Museum Arnhem
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Voordracht, Outsider Art Gallery, Amsterdam
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Podcast De gids — Je moeder! read by Emily Kocken
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Lezing, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam
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Voordracht Bird Bath, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
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Lezing Het manifest, Philos, Groningen — Online via Filosofisch Café Nederland Live
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2019
Minilecture Talking about art met Thijs Lijster — Noorderzon Festival for Performance Arts, Groningen
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2018
Cello Girls — record release tour, Concerto, Amsterdam
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The Swan — performance, The Ballroom, Amsterdam-Zuidoost
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Woordnacht — Literary festival, Rotterdam
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Point of No Return — curator and performer, Huis de Pinto, Amsterdam
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2017
Book tour De kuur — various book stores and cultural venues in the Netherlands
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2016
Reflections/Encounters at Art Rotterdam 2016 — Emily Kocken & K. Schippers (moderated by Judith Vrancken)
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Cello performance, part of ‘Now is forever lasting constant in the mind’ — an evening curated by Padraic E. Moore, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
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Club Debuut — Literair Productiehuis Wintertuin & Nederlands Letterenfonds, Nijmegen/Groningen
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Shut Up & Write — Van Rossum bookshop, Amsterdam
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2015
Read-in Cinema — meerdagse performance, uitvoering en regie, Het Veem Theater, Amsterdam
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2014
Lecture on Witte vlag — National Day of the Park, Rembrandtpark, Amsterdam
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2011
Call of the Wild — Performance with dogs, Rhizomatic, Amsterdam
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Hello, I shot this with my plastic Holga — Lecture on photography, Kunstlinie, Almere
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2010
Artist Talk, Collecting Evidence — C&H Art & Design, Amsterdam
Commissions & Collections
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2020
De omhelzing, instructiepoëzie — TAAK, Amsterdam
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2019
Waves — benefit, private collection
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2018
Unknown is this body — text for performance installation, Newbody, Astrit Ismaili, Kunstverein/Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Basel
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2015
Ohio (essay) — Catalogue text show Nanette Kraaikamp, Stedelijk Museum Vianen
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Opheliade — drawings, private purchase
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2014
All to hide (illustration) — Poetry Centre, Gent
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Cut/Tuc — essay, catalogue solo show Kasper Sonne, Galerie West, Den Haag
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2013
The Maiden Element — drawings, private purchase
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Sign of the times — essay, show Jeannet Klement, Grote Kerk, Oosthuizen
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Witte vlag — Book Lovers Project, collection artist’s novels, MHKA, Antwerpen
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2012
Zoekende reiziger — translation (NL to EN) of essay dr. Stan Petrusa, catalogue Adriaan Rees
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The Godforsaken Grandness of the Deadly Dame — essay, show Josien Vogelaar, C&H art space, Amsterdam
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2010
Binnenzee (feuilleton) — IJmuider Courant
Prizes/Nominations/Grants
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2022
How to make sculpture move — Projectsubsidie (met Ruta Butkute, Jap Sam Books) Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunst, Mondriaan Fonds, Jaap Harten Fonds.
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2021
Adoptica — Projectbeurs Nederlands Letterenfonds
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Ontwikkelbeurs Letterenfonds — Voor podcastserie Lalalanding ism Radiofabriek Hilversum
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2019
Reisbeurs Parijs — Letterenfonds
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2018
Dutch Foundation for Literature — work grant for third novel
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Nomination Halewijnprijs
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2017
Fluiten in het donker — radio play, Nederlands Letterenfonds
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2015
Dutch Foundation for Literature — work grant for second novel
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2014
Dutch Foundation for Literature — travel grant to Davos for second novel
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Academica Literatuurprijs longlist — debut novel Witte vlag
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2010
Project Grant — Gemeente Amsterdam, Stadsdeel Zuidoost / Tracing the Mother Key
Reviews & Interviews selection
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2021
Lalalanding magisch web — Recensie in Trouw door Yolanda Entius
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2020
Filosofie Magazine — The moment
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Schrijven Magazine — The specialist (interview)
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Photography book Moe (2008) reviewed in Mister Motley — Article by Iris van der Zee for art mag Mister Motley https://www.mistermotley.nl/art-everyday-life/slapen-een-wereld-zonder-wekker / / /
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2017
Nooit Meer Slapen — VPRO radio
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2015
In the Spirit of Gertrude Stein — Erik Quint on Come-Go-Stay, Den Haag Centraal
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Dog Show — Pia Louwerens on Come-Go-Stay, Tubelight
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Showdogs — George Vermij on Come-Go-Stay, Metropolis M
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2013
Opium — Critic Kees ’t Hart about Emily Kocken, AVRO Radio 1
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Beste boek van 2013 — André Keikers about Witte vlag, Leeuwarder Courant
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VPRO radio, De Avonden — live interview, Jeroen van Kan
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Boek van de week — Kees ’t Hart about Witte vlag, De Groene Amsterdammer
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Welbespraakte kunstenaarsvrouw — Arjan Peters about Witte vlag, De Volkskrant
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What you have missed — Daniel Gould about The Maiden Element, Gould’s 3D List
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2011
De Hond zag ons in Rheine — in De Revisor Jaarboek, Bart Temme, TZUM
Extracurricular Activities
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2022–24
Jury President Hendrik de Vries Stipend — Groningen
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2021
Teacher writing — Sensual Havoc II, Subbacultcha, Amsterdam
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Writing Professor — At Project Space Goleb, Amsterdam, 1-15 February 2021
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2020–now
Lid Programmeringscommissie Arti
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2019–now
Cellodocent Vrije Muziekschool Amsterdam
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2016
Workgroup on performance and dance policy — led by Sarah van Lamsweerde
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2015
Artists’ activities workgroup — Kunstinitiatief Retort, Amsterdam
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2014–now
Advisor private artists
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2013
Moderator — Project Women and Music
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2012–now
Cello teacher — Amsterdam
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2010
Curator — Binnenzee group show, RC De Ruimte, IJmuiden
Education
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2000–02
Prose, poetry, script writing — Schrijversvakschool, Amsterdam
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1996
Film — School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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1990–94
Philosophy — Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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1981–89
Violoncello & music education — Brabants Conservatorium, Tilburg
Residencies
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2019
Lalalanding writersresidency — Paris
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2011
Rhizomatic — slides, drawings, performance, Amsterdam
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2010
RC De Ruimte — Binnenzee, IJmuiden
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2009
Uqbar Berlin — Transient Spaces – The Tourist Syndrome, Palanga, Lithuania
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1986
Académie Musicale de Morges — cello masterclass, Morges, Switzerland