Dream

Inventorying session + invited archivist (IA) meeting – 15.09.20. “I love archives. Your system, and your story”. – IA.

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.

“Gay men don’t want to admit that they are growing older.” – SMW. “Bottom solidarity that I didn’t always have to use my own body.” – SMW.

SMW & AC inventorying session – 24.09.20. “Sex in times of corona…” – AC. “Is complicated.” – AC and SMW.

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.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “The cantine person was the one to strike one of the cores of the archive: ‘what does archiving give you?’”. – AC. “Exactly, you cannot hierarchise those things. what does it take to be an artist? All it takes is…” – SMW. “… to say that you are one.” – SMW & AC. “It’s not a craft. It’s the way to think, to see, to make. The craft section comes after.” – AC. “The conceptualisation of the artist is all.” – SMW

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.

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

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