Discomfort

Negative irritations maximised.
Who do these people think they are?
Our meat-wrapping is often insufficient.
Is our “Tryout Masculinity” insufficient? Cease and desist, or light up your own fires.
Friction as fuel.
Tips for purpose.
A body for the push.

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Discomfort at art institutions. Discomfort at the edges of your own body. Discomfort at a market in which you are marked “an apolitical commodity”. Discomfort at the loss of becoming, at genderbending for the first time. Discomfort at the paying of dues to all of those who got naked before us. Discomfort at state-funded artivist organizations that make you feel unwelcome. Discomfort at irritated heteronormativity, at your own inner oppressive discourses. Discomfort as gasoline to blast a fire that burns good-hearted tips into a sculptural claim.

One foot inside of the Rijksakademie and one outside. – AC.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00326-2000-PsW2000-ADOLESCENTAMERICA
  • Title
  • ADOLESCENT AMERICA
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

“I was so beaten up as a teenager that I could not stand up.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00236-2001-PsW2000-IHATEINSTITUTIONS!
  • Title
  • I HATE INSTITUTIONS!
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00457-2009-DN-PileOfShit
  • Title
  • Pile of shit
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital word document file
  • Object Location
  • Digital

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00541-2005-Co-VALIE EXPORTCease+DesistLetter
  • Title
  • VALIE EXPORT ‘Cease and Desist’ Letter
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Outlook Express email service
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Social link(s)
  • · Irritation (negative)
  • · Correspondence
  • Year
  • Technical Notes

Email from lawyer.

  • Reflection Notes

“I/we found VALIE’s email to me from 2004, please find it attached for archiving eventually. In the archive we should blur or censor VALIE’s personal email address of course. This is just for you, now, for your eyes only… (James Bond’s theme tune runs through my head… :)” – SMW.

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Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 00884-2005-DoP-UntitledFirstNakedPublicPerfo…
  • Title
  • Untitled (First Naked Public Performance)
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Live performance
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Video documentation of performance (color video with sound, 37:37) // duration of performance: 37:37. Performance Date: 11 September 2005. Event: ‘When the Lady Talks’. Location: Arminius Church Rotterdam.

  • Reflection Notes

From 17. April 2020 (WeTransfer notes): “I get naked at around 6:39 on the video… first naked performance, untitled I think, where I was so nervous that I drank an entire bottle of red wine before I went on and could barely speak. I am wearing the dress by Karl Lagerfeld for H&M that Radna also has :) And the long black coat is meant to reference Hannah Wilke's performance https://www.eai.org/titles/int... and simultaneously the Blackgama images I commented on in Whatsapp: http://www.blackglama.com/camp...” – SMW.

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Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 00612-2009-PSP-TryoutMasculinityVenusEnvySho…
  • Title
  • Tryout Masculinity Venus Envy Shots (Sands and Peter)
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Variable
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Location: Peter Brandt’s Apartment Copenhagen, Denmark (21 August 2009). Images by: Double Performalist Self Portraits together with Robin Wassink-Murray.

  • Reflection Notes

8 april 2020 (WeTransfer notes): “‘Tryout Masculinity Venus Envy Shots’ by me and www.peter-brandt.com in Copenhagen taken by Robin on this same trip to Denmark in 2009. Robin took these in Peter’s studio in his apartment. I’ve broken my friendship with Peter for various reasons which we can talk about. But these pictures are the only pix I have with another male body artist of this nature.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01474-2012-DN-AdrianPiperArchivingTips
  • Title
  • Adrian Piper Archiving Tips
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital word document file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Archiving tips sent to SMW by Adrian Piper via email in 2012 in response to photographs of SMW’s studio shared with Piper.

  • Reflection Notes

“(We had) To put AP’s tips to the test.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01479-2020-UbR-VondelbunkerGoesToTheGiftScie…
  • Title
  • Vondelbunker goes to the Gift Science Archive
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital word document file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Text co-written by Amalia Calderón and Megan Hoetger for a proposed collaboration with Vondelbunker as part of the GSA archiving marathon series, which was never realised due to pandemic conditions and the lack of interest by the artistic committee of the Vondelbunker.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00343-2000-PsW2000-GAYISDRIVING
  • Title
  • GAY IS DRIVING
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

“Did I ask for your opinion? Stay in your body.” – AC. “Stay in your lane.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 02286-c2015-TwA4-Narcissism/Capitalism
  • Title
  • Narcissism/Capitalism
  • Dimensions
  • 29.5 x 21
  • Materials
  • Gouache and acrylic paint on pages of Gai Pied magazine
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Technical Notes

The pages are yellowed and cracked with age. Dutch Curator Erik Hagoort gave SMW a few huge boxes of these French gay liberation magazines from the 80s, and SMW intuitively started painting on them. There are many more than those listed in the archive.

  • Reflection Notes

“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.

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Listings connecting to the keyword “Discomfort” (546)

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01430-2000-PsW2000-AMarketingImpulse
  • Title
  • A Marketing Impulse
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

“Body as material. Thought as material. Why does something have to be physical?” – SMW paraphrased by MH.

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  • 01508-c2012-PsW2010s-AnInterestingTrajectory
  • Title
  • An Interesting Trajectory
  • Dimensions
  • 50 x 65
  • Materials
  • Acrylic paint on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • 01788-c2014-PsW2010s-IShouldBeAbleToDoWhatIW…
  • Title
  • I Should Be Able To Do What I Want
  • Dimensions
  • 50 x 90
  • Materials
  • Acrylic paint on paper with collage element
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  • Physical

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  • 02232-c2015-TwA4-Pithy
  • Title
  • Pithy
  • Dimensions
  • 29.5 x 21
  • Materials
  • Acrylic paint on pages of Gai Pied magazine
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Technical Notes

The pages are yellowed and cracked with age. Dutch Curator Erik Hagoort gave SMW a few huge boxes of these French gay liberation magazines from the 80s, and SMW intuitively started painting on them. There are many more than those listed in the archive.

  • Reflection Notes

“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.

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  • 02264-c2015-TwA4-WhatILoveDoing
  • Title
  • What I love doing
  • Dimensions
  • 29.5 x 21
  • Materials
  • Acrylic paint on pages of Gai Pied magazine
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Technical Notes

The pages are yellowed and cracked with age. Dutch Curator Erik Hagoort gave SMW a few huge boxes of these French gay liberation magazines from the 80s, and SMW intuitively started painting on them. There are many more than those listed in the archive.

  • Reflection Notes

“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.

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  • 02296-c2015-TwA4-Tiresome
  • Title
  • Tiresome
  • Dimensions
  • 29.5 x 21
  • Materials
  • Acrylic paint on pages of Gai Pied magazine
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Technical Notes

The pages are yellowed and cracked with age. Dutch Curator Erik Hagoort gave SMW a few huge boxes of these French gay liberation magazines from the 80s, and SMW intuitively started painting on them. There are many more than those listed in the archive.

  • Reflection Notes

“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.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 02328-c2015-TwA4-SeeWhatHappens
  • Title
  • See what happens
  • Dimensions
  • 29.5 x 21
  • Materials
  • Acrylic paint on pages of Gai Pied magazine
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Technical Notes

The pages are yellowed and cracked with age. Dutch Curator Erik Hagoort gave SMW a few huge boxes of these French gay liberation magazines from the 80s, and SMW intuitively started painting on them. There are many more than those listed in the archive.

  • Reflection Notes

“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.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00194-c2000-PsW2000-SpineAsALove-limb
  • Title
  • Spine As A Love Limb
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

SMW & AC inventorying session – 24.09.20. “Spine as a love limb.” – SMW. “Love-limb.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00228-2000-PsW2000-INSTRUCTIVE
  • Title
  • INSTRUCTIVE
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker and pen on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

SMW & AC inventorying session – 15.10.20. “I think when you are 19 what you do is considered student work.” – SMW. “Bollocks!” – AC. “It’s bollocks, because how can you tell?” – SMW. “When do you become an artist? Pinpoint that moment for me.” – AC. “… first time I call something art in my adult life.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00265-2001-PsW2000-MyMotherAndITalked
  • Title
  • My Mother And I Talked
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker and pen on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

Inventorying session + invited archivist (IA) meeting – 15.09.20. “My grandmother was an abstract expressionist painter, and she never exhibited her work in galleries, it was only for herself, and she only started painting when she was in her forties. This is the energy that I wanted to be part of.” – SMW.

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  • 00297-c2001-PsW2000-FORMALAPPEARANCEDOESNOTS…
  • Title
  • FORMAL APPEARANCE DOES NOT SIGNIFY LINEAE
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

“Lineage as influence: existing in a line of other artists. The content is more important.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00331-2000-PsW2000-WomensMovement
  • Title
  • Womens' Movement
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

Gift Science Archive meeting – 12.04.20. “We must make a conscious effort to be kind to women (whatever their sexuality), precisely because [we/they are] brought up to destroy each other and pick on them. Distrust of men as a political defence. Is it a feminist clash? There’s no feminism handbook. Women against women is an overused trick.” – AC.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00363-2000-PsW2000-PRIORITIESAREESSENTIAL
  • Title
  • PRIORITIES ARE ESSENTIAL
  • Dimensions
  • 43 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker and pen on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • 00395-c2002-PsW2000-BREATHANDDELIBERATION
  • Title
  • BREATH AND DELIBERATION
  • Dimensions
  • 30 x 42
  • Materials
  • Oil crayon, glue and photographs on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • 00449-2000-PsW2000-FASCINATNGARTQUESTION
  • Title
  • FASCINATING ART QUESTION
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

Inventorying session + invited archivist (IA) meeting – 15.09.20: “Can I hold your art? (with my mandarine hands?).” – MH.

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