Dream

“Mis-referencing, referencing and creating networks. I had some success in galleries in the beginning, and I hated it”. Abramović gallery. The greedy gallery floor. – SMW.

“Alan Saret was from Kansas and that’s why I chose this, interested in figuring out whereas there was anything intrinsic as to being from Kansas/and there isn’t. Kansas as washed out and bleached photo. Started as desperation, all these materials dragged to Europe in bin bags.” – SMW.

Inventorying session – 27.08.20. “Are we all the best artists in the world?” AC [in reply to SMW]. “Young artists and the flow of past voices – not taking down but breathing through.” – AC.

Inventorying session + invited archivist (IA) meeting – 15.09.20. “Cold cases – they are closed. They never found a killer. They never found the archive.” –SMW, MH, RR, IA.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “Artists over 70 with storages all over the world. Their children are worried, they don’t even know what’s in there. This is really a problem with artists’ families normal.” – Anon. “We [artists] have no saying, it’s up to them. Now I have a core group of people that will take care of them [my art pieces].” – SMW.

GSA inventorying session – 10.09.20. “Madness you respect.” – AC.

SMW & AC inventorying session – 08.10.20. “Maybe it doesn’t take 20 years to understand the work, as Pina Montano says, but even to face the work.” – SMW. “I’m making an executive decision that the archive will have inconsistencies.” – SMW. “How do you look at work that you made 20 years ago and don’t like or feel comfortable with? – AC. “Or relate to […] I don’t see the point in destroying things. They had a function.” – SMW. “It took me 10 years to make, my whole teenage years (‘I’m Proud of Myself’ sculpture), and I didn’t know I was making it. I was living. The accumulation is something I appreciate.” – SMW.

GSA meeting – 08.02.21. “[...] names that didn’t make it into telling stories.” – MH.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “[…] to archive in order to get viewers into this headspace. anon: The longer you are an artist, the more important it becomes that you cannot remember everything.” – SMW. “Is that desirable, or is it a threat? Maybe both?” – AC.