Working 2000

Inventorying session + invited archivist (IA) meeting – 15.09.20. “How can you make it clear that there are multiple voices included in the archive, and not an institutional monolithic voice?” – MH.

“Not an entertainer. I want to cause trouble.” – SMW. “The first thing I saw were mermaids tales.” – AC.

“Femininity makes me happy in general.” – SMW.

Email exchange – 12.04.20. “I had to document it all, even with others, partners, etc. because gay pornography figures and has figured in my life so I have to put my own body where I see the bodies of others…” – SMW.

“Is art our job? A psychologist got annoyed with me. ‘Art is a choice’, they said.” – SMW. “I would have stabbed them. The fact that you love what you are told that loving what you do makes it a vocation is a neoliberal brainwashing. Work, little capital slave. No! It’s still labour. It’s still hard and difficult to engage with at times, there’s no higher calling.” – AC.

Rijksacademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “20 years ago, sentimental without irony was not accepted. Feelings, no no no.” – Anon. “The rejection of knowledge production as cerebral. Spells, they bring out feelings.” – Anon.

“How do people go a month without sex?” – AC.

“Sometimes I think that what I do has more sense accumulatively. It makes more sense collectively.” – SMW.

“(Finding out these buried works from oblivion) is strange but also gives me comfort, as we are doing something with them now.” – SMW.