Annemarie Kok is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen, with a research focus on the dynamics of freedom and control in European participatory art in the 1960s. In addition to her PhD research, she is currently writing a book on Dutch art criticism between 1989 and 2014. Previously, she has lectured at Utrecht University, the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and the University of Groningen on modern and postmodern art, media art, methods and theories of art history, photography and themes in contemporary art. She studied art history at Utrecht University (with a minor in museum studies at the University of Amsterdam and a study programme at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) and completed her research masters in art history in 2009. Her master thesis focused on performance art in the Netherlands in the 1970s.