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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Photographer: Luc Matthys

  • Catalog No.
  • 00532-2004-PP-ValieSandsEqualitiesEquivalenc…
  • Title
  • Sands & VALIE: Equalities, Equivalences
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Live action
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Social link(s)
  • · Irritation (negative)
  • · Correspondence
  • Year
  • Technical Notes

Location: Maes and Matthys Gallery Antwerp Belgium.

  • Reflection Notes

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.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01258-2000-PsW2000-PowerSensual(Pink)
  • Title
  • Power Sensual (Pink)
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01470-2015-PsW2010s-CannotBeRuined
  • Title
  • Cannot Be Ruined
  • Dimensions
  • 50 x 65
  • Materials
  • Acrylic and color pencil on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • 01781-2014-PsW2010s-Uhhhhh
  • Title
  • Uhhhhh
  • Dimensions
  • 50 x 65
  • Materials
  • Color photo prints glued to paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Technical Notes

In the same style as Anal Collage (PRIDE and JOY). The photographs themselves from 2001 (in one of them, SMW looking at a sculptural installation installed in the Double Trouble show with Schneeman at Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam).

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  • Catalog No.
  • 02225-c2015-TwA4-PigeonholeMe
  • Title
  • Pigeonhole me
  • Dimensions
  • 29.5 x 21
  • Materials
  • Abrcrylic 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.
  • 02257-c2015-TwA4-GayPainting
  • Title
  • Gay painting
  • Dimensions
  • 29.5 x 21
  • Materials
  • Abcrylic 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.
  • 02289-c2015-TwA4-TheElkeSilviaKrystufekEffect
  • Title
  • The Elke Silvia Krystufek Effect
  • 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.
  • 00220-2000-PsW2000-TELKENSZELFTEVREDENHEID
  • Title
  • TELKENS ZELF TEVREDENHEID
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker and pen on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

“It’s interesting to think about materials across time.” – AC.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00254-2000-PsW2000-Lifeissoscary
  • Title
  • Life is so scary
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00290-c2001-PsW2000-EnjoyLife
  • Title
  • Enjoy Life
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Pen on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00324-2000-PsW2000-IfPeopleThought
  • Title
  • If People Thought
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

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

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00356-2000-PsW2000-GoodEnough
  • Title
  • Good Enough
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00388-c2002-PsW2000-EVERYTHINGIDO
  • Title
  • EVERYTHING I DO
  • Dimensions
  • 30 x 42
  • Materials
  • Oil crayon on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “… a crash course on pricing artwork.” – N/A. “I always try to counteract. What is the actual value of a piece of paper?” – SMW. “I think I am a bit punky inside my head.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 02321-c2015-TwA4-Afrofemcentrist
  • Title
  • Afrofemcentrist
  • 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.
  • 00441-2001-PsW2000-HumanLife
  • Title
  • Human Life
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker and pen on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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