Dream

“More perfumes! Testers and smaller bottles. When you see this image, are you overwhelmed or can you spot a structure? Looking back 6 months after taking the snapshot I now notice the business card of Angelyne, her name in hot pink” – RR.

“A first meeting, a mirror. Even when a snapshot is blurry, sometimes you know a moment needs to be captured. The start of a collaboration between SMW, MH, RR, and a friendship. ‘We looked at a booklet of images made with Valie Export (which she doesn’t want to be public). Then we walked to the Rijksakademie. Megan suggested to think of different categories; aside from regular archive categories such as material, date, medium, we can also think of people that the work relates to (Carolee, Adrian, Hannah, Robin etc. etc.)‘ From the meta-archive process diary.” – RR.

GSA inventorying session – 10.09.20. “I feel guilty about everything in life.” – SMW.

20 January 2021 (via email): “so i was 19 and in brooklyn at pratt institute, pre-carolee i think, that was ’94, there is a spoon and fork, and a knife on the pillow near me. this version i traded with an artist in vienna (named katrina daschner), it’s hand printed by me, framed nicely. but i made a good negative of it so i can reprint it any size now. i love it and it reminds me of valie export and others, ana mendieta… so many… i just thought of it tonight when robin got home.” – SMW.

“A response to the story of Schneemann’s removal from Reutgers faculty because, it was said, ‘she was a witch’.” – SMW paraphrased by MH.

“Eyes windows to the soul // souls connected // the penises quite accurate in terms of scale.” – SMW.

“Jim Dine was, according to Schneemann, the first male to do a Happening who was making himself vulnerable.” – SMW.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “… De Ateliers as a boys club. I was gay but I had a penis so it didn’t matter. I lost contact with Carolee for a year, and I asked myself, what happened? All my feminist work was kind of tossed by them.” – SMW. “I was laughed away because I was a woman. The only way to survive is to become one of the boys […]. Feminist as a word, but a dirty word.” – Anon.

SMW & AC inventorying session – 03.09.20. “Dream a little dream of me is my Carolee song.” – SMW. SMW & AC inventorying session – 24.09.20. “I was distracted by the dream of…” – SMW. “The story?” – AC. “Sex.” – SMW.