Gift Science meta-archive

Initiated by Radna Rumping in October 2019 as a space to record the ‘Gift Science Archive’ process. Process image contributions from Rumping and Megan; conversations with SMW, Robin Wassink-Murray and Amalia Calderón moderated by Rumping.


Listings connecting to the grouping of work “Gift Science meta-archive” (269)



Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01336-2020-MaPi-MoreUnrolling-003
  • Title
  • More Unrolling
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 10 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Date: 04.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works, featuring Sands standing on a table, a painting with a boa, and an example of bags in bags.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01367-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-021
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Megan Hoetger

  • Catalog No.
  • 01398-2020-MaPi-HorseCloud-003
  • Title
  • Horse Cloud
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 14 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Date: 04.03.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of working on large horse cloud with SMW, MH and Amalia Calderón. First time GSA meeting with Amalia present, images of Sands and Amalia talking with poster of Hannah Wilke in the background.


  • Reflection Notes

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “Can you say more as a horse?” – N/A. “Yes. The ‘I’ is meta, you get all this reverberation somehow.” – SMW. “‘*****’ is my work name. It’s my horse.” – N/A.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01283-2019-MaPi-StudioMove-016
  • Title
  • Studio Move
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 32 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Date: 12.12.19. Location: Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, small studio (in main building) and large studio (in manege). Images of Sands Murray-Wassink, Megan Hoetger and Radna Rumping moving studio; from a smaller ‘office-like’ space in the main building of the Rijksakademie, to the larger studio at the manege. Images of paintings, slides, photographs, studio interior, bags to move the materials. Plus a portrait of SMW, MH, RR together.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01315-2020-MaPi-MeetYourOwnNeeds-012
  • Title
  • Meet Your Own Needs
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 12 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Date: 14.01.20. Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of various materials that are unpacked in the studio by SMW and MH. Written caption by Sands on a rolled-up painting ‘meet your own needs’. Two images of a diagram MH has made during a brainstorm about the possible structure of the database.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01262-2019-MaPi-FirstMeeting-002
  • Title
  • First Meeting
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 7 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Date: 05.12.19. Location: Studio Sands, Swammerdamstraat 4E, Amsterdam. Megan Hoetger and Radna Rumping visit the studio of Sands, with Sands. This is the first meeting they have together. Snapshots of the studio as it is, with a painting 'Listen to yourself' on the wall, and shelves that are full with stacks of paper, drawings and cardboard boxes. Images of the perfume collection. Reflection of MH, RR and SMW in the mirror.


  • Reflection Notes

“When describing his studio, Sands’ would often say: ‘I painted myself into a corner’. Literally. This image shows one of the very few corners left in the studio with space to paint.” – RR.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01294-2019-MaPi-StudioMove-027
  • Title
  • Studio Move
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 32 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Date: 12.12.19. Location: Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, small studio (in main building) and large studio (in manege). Images of Sands Murray-Wassink, Megan Hoetger and Radna Rumping moving studio; from a smaller ‘office-like’ space in the main building of the Rijksakademie, to the larger studio at the manege. Images of paintings, slides, photographs, studio interior, bags to move the materials. Plus a portrait of SMW, MH, RR together.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Megan Hoetger

  • Catalog No.
  • 01273-2019-MaPi-StudioMove-006
  • Title
  • Studio Move
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 32 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Date: 12.12.19. Location: Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, small studio (in main building) and large studio (in manege). Images of Sands Murray-Wassink, Megan Hoetger and Radna Rumping moving studio; from a smaller ‘office-like’ space in the main building of the Rijksakademie, to the larger studio at the manege. Images of paintings, slides, photographs, studio interior, bags to move the materials. Plus a portrait of SMW, MH, RR together.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01284-2019-MaPi-StudioMove-017
  • Title
  • Studio Move
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 32 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Date: 12.12.19. Location: Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, small studio (in main building) and large studio (in manege). Images of Sands Murray-Wassink, Megan Hoetger and Radna Rumping moving studio; from a smaller ‘office-like’ space in the main building of the Rijksakademie, to the larger studio at the manege. Images of paintings, slides, photographs, studio interior, bags to move the materials. Plus a portrait of SMW, MH, RR together.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01316-2020-MaPi-ShabbyChic-001
  • Title
  • Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 18 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Date: 28.01.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW and MH unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works. Images of the large print of e-mail from Adrian Piper with archiving tips on the wall.


  • Reflection Notes

“Is it trash or trashy? Trashy can be good, but these rolled paintings were first stored in trash bags, and perhaps that went a bit too far. Can we also let the paintings be trashy, while store them in a more careful way?” – RR.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01295-2019-MaPi-StudioMove-028
  • Title
  • Studio Move
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 32 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Date: 12.12.19. Location: Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, small studio (in main building) and large studio (in manege). Images of Sands Murray-Wassink, Megan Hoetger and Radna Rumping moving studio; from a smaller ‘office-like’ space in the main building of the Rijksakademie, to the larger studio at the manege. Images of paintings, slides, photographs, studio interior, bags to move the materials. Plus a portrait of SMW, MH, RR together.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01326-2020-MaPi-ShabbyChic-011
  • Title
  • Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 18 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Date: 28.01.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW and MH unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works. Images of the large print of e-mail from Adrian Piper with archiving tips on the wall.


  • Reflection Notes

“2009 was the year Sands started to paint (again) and from this time we find the figurative Erykah Badu painting, but also a more text-based painting mentioning for instance Iris Kensmil, and texts that are overlapping each other. They remind me of hyperlinks, with different windows popping up-a sort of analog web/internet.” From the meta-archive process diary. – RR.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Megan Hoetger

  • Catalog No.
  • 01305-2020-MaPi-MeetYourOwnNeeds-002
  • Title
  • Meet Your Own Needs
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 12 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Date: 14.01.20. Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of various materials that are unpacked in the studio by SMW and MH. Written caption by Sands on a rolled-up painting ‘meet your own needs’. Two images of a diagram MH has made during a brainstorm about the possible structure of the database.


  • Reflection Notes

“MH discussed the set-up for an archive, with possibilities for cross-referencing-‘Adrian would be proud’. Names and relations with people can play a big role and become one of the ways to search through the archive (aside from year, typology etc). It would be great if the archive will eventually become public. Our conversation went on about Sands his website and its current list of names (mostly female or feminist artists). Sands mentioned there have been many other websites before, built in collaboration with Robin, including one that had 3500 links (!). The link and reference as a way to give attention to others. Thinking of these websites, and how Sands used social media such as facebook as a ‘process archive’, it’s a reminder Sands has actually been taking care of his archiving for a long time.” From the meta-archive process diary. – RR.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01263-2019-MaPi-FirstMeeting-003
  • Title
  • First Meeting
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 7 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Date: 05.12.19. Location: Studio Sands, Swammerdamstraat 4E, Amsterdam. Megan Hoetger and Radna Rumping visit the studio of Sands, with Sands. This is the first meeting they have together. Snapshots of the studio as it is, with a painting 'Listen to yourself' on the wall, and shelves that are full with stacks of paper, drawings and cardboard boxes. Images of the perfume collection. Reflection of MH, RR and SMW in the mirror.


  • Reflection Notes

“Sands has an inventory of his perfume collection, the last inventory was made in 2011. There are over 500 bottles. Monument to Depression is a work. It’s also a perfume collection. And the perfumes could be viewed as a kind of medicine; they are not only collected, Sands wears them as well.” – RR.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01327-2020-MaPi-ShabbyChic-012
  • Title
  • Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 18 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Date: 28.01.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW and MH unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works. Images of the large print of e-mail from Adrian Piper with archiving tips on the wall.

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