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
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  • 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
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  • 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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  • 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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  • Catalog No.
  • 02287-c2015-TwA4-MyComplexion
  • Title
  • My Complexion
  • 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.
  • 02319-c2015-TwA4-TryAgainTomorrow
  • Title
  • Try again tomorrow
  • 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.
  • 00218-2001-PsW2000-BYANYMEANSNECESSARY!
  • Title
  • BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker and pen on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “You know you know it, you just don’t know how you know it.” – AC. “Or you don’t trust that you know it, cause we have been told not to trust those feelings.” – Anon. “When are we allowed to trust any feelings?” – AC.

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  • 00252-2000/2001-PsW2000-FloatingHearts
  • Title
  • Floating Hearts
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker on paper
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  • Physical
  • Technical Notes

Pre-heart drawings.

  • Reflection Notes

“My frustration has always been that I am not a visual artist. I was trying to make drawings, but that didn’t really matter to me. It’s not about that.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00288-c2001-PsW2000-GAY(Pen)
  • Title
  • GAY (Pen)
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Pen on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00322-2000-PsW2000-HebJePersoonlijkheid?
  • Title
  • Heb Je Persoonlijkheid?
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

“I almost wish there was a typology for ‘works I wish I could destroy’.” – SMW. “Tracy Emin used to make these graceful paintings, and all that I make is so rough…” – SMW. “That is the one thing I was never insecure about. It’s the only voice I know.” – AC.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00354-2000-PsW2000-Why
  • Title
  • Why
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker on paper
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  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

MH and AC meeting – 15.03.21. “Please don’t cruise me.” – MH. “I am not cruisable!” *laughter* – AC.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00386-c2002-PsW2000-MYWORKIS
  • Title
  • MY WORK IS
  • Dimensions
  • 30 x 42
  • Materials
  • Oil crayon on paper
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  • Physical

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00439-2001-PsW2000-Comet
  • Title
  • Comet
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker on paper
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  • Physical

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Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 00477-2002-PP-ElkeSandsEqualitiesEquivalence…
  • Title
  • Elke & Sands: Equalities, Equivalences
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Live action
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Location: Sands and Robin’s old flat (Halmaheirastraat studio, Amsterdam).

  • Reflection Notes

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.

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Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 00509-2002-PP-ElkeSandsEqualitiesEquivalence…
  • Title
  • Elke & Sands: Equalities, Equivalences
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Live action
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Location: Sands and Robin’s old flat (Halmaheirastraat studio, Amsterdam).

  • Reflection Notes

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.

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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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  • Catalog No.
  • 01432-c2000-PsW2000-GossamerThread
  • Title
  • Gossamer Thread
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

“A collage of text that may or may not fit together.” – SMW paraphrased by MH.

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  • 01510-2012-PsW2010s-FantasySphinxter(HalfCoc…
  • Title
  • Fantasy Sphinxter (Half Cocked)
  • Dimensions
  • 50 x 65
  • Materials
  • Pencil on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Technical Notes

“Verso: ‘You want it too easy so help yourself’ – this idea of being self-sufficient again.” – SMW.

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  • 01790-c2014-PsW2010s-GetItRight
  • Title
  • Get It Right
  • Dimensions
  • 50 x 65
  • Materials
  • Pen and acrylic paint on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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