Discomfort

“I had to throw away a lot of these, there were also Dutch gay liberation magazines in the boxes Erik Hagoort gave me, called ‘De Verkeerde Krant’ or so, (‘van de verkeerde kant’ was a Dutch saying for a queer person) but due to storage I could not keep everything as a resource to use. There are hundreds of these painted drawings, and they get quite a good response. Paul Thek = newspaper paintings, Karen Finley = same as Paul Thek, Erik Hagoort is the partner of Dutch artist Albert van Westing and AA Bronson showed a fondness for the drawings.” – SMW.

“I had to throw away a lot of these, there were also Dutch gay liberation magazines in the boxes Erik Hagoort gave me, called ‘De Verkeerde Krant’ or so, (‘van de verkeerde kant’ was a Dutch saying for a queer person) but due to storage I could not keep everything as a resource to use. There are hundreds of these painted drawings, and they get quite a good response. Paul Thek = newspaper paintings, Karen Finley = same as Paul Thek, Erik Hagoort is the partner of Dutch artist Albert van Westing and AA Bronson showed a fondness for the drawings.” – SMW.

“I had to throw away a lot of these, there were also Dutch gay liberation magazines in the boxes Erik Hagoort gave me, called ‘De Verkeerde Krant’ or so, (‘van de verkeerde kant’ was a Dutch saying for a queer person) but due to storage I could not keep everything as a resource to use. There are hundreds of these painted drawings, and they get quite a good response. Paul Thek = newspaper paintings, Karen Finley = same as Paul Thek, Erik Hagoort is the partner of Dutch artist Albert van Westing and AA Bronson showed a fondness for the drawings.” – SMW.

“As a young gay man, I had to like Madonna *sighs*.” – SMW.

SMW and AC inventorying session [date unknown]. “Sometimes when I pass people on the street who are angry or tense… I think, they need a good f.” – AC. “When I said to Carolee my most important problems were sex and shit… I just realised last night that that means life and death.” – SMW. “An embodied infinite.” – AC. “In a very earthly way.” – SMW.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “A crossover.” – SMW. “Career overlaps across time… an art network chronology.” – AC. “Archiving as becoming a story.” – Anon. “The relational quality of the space, it’s unpredictable.” – AC. “Archival revenge as a method to reclaiming feminine/masculine [and non-binary] symbologies. – AC and Anon.

GSA meeting (unknown date). “It feels very much like world-building.” – AC.

MH & AC meeting – 29.03.21. “This matrix like balance of a perfect archive.” – AC. “The violence of the taxonomical…” – MH.

9 april 2020 (WeTransfer notes): “Okay, here are some of the most important works I’ve ever made: ‘Elke & Sands: Equalities, Equivalences’ from 2002 in a series of images taken by Robin in an old flat of ours in my studio there. It’s a wonder these ever were taken and I still love them.” – SMW.

9 april 2020 (WeTransfer notes): “Okay, here are some of the most important works I’ve ever made: ‘Elke & Sands: Equalities, Equivalences’ from 2002 in a series of images taken by Robin in an old flat of ours in my studio there. It’s a wonder these ever were taken and I still love them.” – SMW.

9 april 2020 (WeTransfer notes): “AND also the ones with VALIE and that’s when VALIE got so pissed with me. Top secret but also top important/significant.” – SMW.

“Eyes windows to the soul // souls connected // the penises quite accurate in terms of scale.” – SMW.

“It was such an uncomfortable experience. It was 9 o’clock in the morning and no one wanted to be photographed. The photographer started crying.” – SMW.