Intergenerational

What is a legacy? What is legendary?

Where do women's voices go after they speak, and who can carry them?
Paying homage to the naked, the horizontal, the vulnerable...

Feminist intergenerational assemblages are not methodologies of receiving but of re-telling and transforming life experiences passed down throughout histories. Gift Science Archive envisions intergenerational art as RESILIENCE of fragmented visions: conversations that turn into colliding chronologies, juxtaposed by fierce political (in)correctness. Passing down responsibilities and fulfilling quasi-biographical DREAMS is to us almost an obscured prophecy, weighed down by hxstorical voices but also capable of floating through MONUMENTS to their struggle. Our queered archive here listens to gayness, intersectionality, rioting, resistance and practices of feeling, altogether shape-shifting through time and bodies in a continuum of collective biographies. We ask:

IS THIS GOOD FOR ANUS? For mothers? For the offspring of witches past? – AC.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01473-2020-DN-AWomanifesto
  • Title
  • A Womanifesto in response to archiving tips from Adrian Piper and archiving practices with Sands Murray-Wassink
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  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital word document file
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  • Digital
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Written by Amalia Calderón, Gift Science Archive Artistic Researcher, on occasion of the for the Rijksakademie 150-year anniversary publication (December 2020).

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01474-2012-DN-AdrianPiperArchivingTips
  • Title
  • Adrian Piper Archiving Tips
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
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  • Digital word document file
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  • 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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Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 02381-2019-FwPP-Carolee+Sands
  • Title
  • Carolee + Sands Magic Hair Pyramid & Working 2000 x 3
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  • Variable
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  • Construction in hand-carved, hand-gilded frame (triangle) and three framed signed works (rectangles) of photo collages printed from slides
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“Above: Carolee had a knot in her hair. We were in her hotel room in Frankfurt where we met for her retrospective in 2017. She asked me if I could help to comb her hair and untangle the knot, and she insisted that Robin photograph it as a performance. Below: In 2000 in the first house that Robin and I shared together in Amsterdam, which was 19 square meters, I was on the phone arranging a purchase from Ronald Feldman Gallery of ‘Handle with Care,’ a work by Hannah Wilke. As Robin often does, he documented the action as a work.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 02382-1991/2021-FwGT-nt(Sengalinocut)
  • Title
  • n.t. (Senga linocut)
  • Dimensions
  • 44 x 75
  • Materials
  • Framed lino-block and print
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  • Physical
  • Technical Notes

Lino-block produced (and signed on the back) by Senga Nengudi in 1991, which gifted to SMW around 2011 and printed at the Rijksakademie print lab during SMW’s guest residency in 2021.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00068-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-047
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 29.5 x 21
  • Materials
  • Photocopy and oil crayon
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

“Performalist. It’s funny when your image becomes part of your work. Hannah did it because she was beautiful and that was troublesome for feminists, they thought it was easy, but it wasn’t. I’ve been objectified in different ways – my face not being good enough, always commenting on my weight (I think the unusual bits of me are part of what make me queer). Who makes them entitled to someone else’s physicality? Carolee always told me to go where the difficulty is, and that is (my) physicality. So, I made it central because people thought it was important somehow to draw my attention to. Sometimes I wish I could have been more handsome but then that was all I would’ve been known as. I can bridge the more and less beautiful.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00087-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-066
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 20.5 x 25
  • Materials
  • Black and white photo print
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

“Imagine someone in the 15th century thinking: ‘I'm gonna make a tapestry about unicorns.’ Circa 93/94 when I was an intern at the cloisters collection (NY). A responsibility to be gentle to other people – like men are not with sex.” –SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01214-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-045
  • Title
  • Identity Shots: Before Robin, After Hannah Wilke
  • Dimensions
  • 20 x 30
  • Materials
  • Black and white photo print
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Technical Notes

Edition of 60 performalist self-portraits self-shot with a timer by the artist and archivally stored with floral silk textile.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01254-2001-TwHd-JimDineOctopus
  • Title
  • Jim Dine Octopus
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker and pen on paper
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  • Physical
  • Technical Notes

First Heart Drawing, which was shown in the ‘Double Trouble’ exhibition with Schneemann at Cokkie Snoei Gallery in 2001 – “Cy Twombly wouldn’t show in a space like that.” (Schneemann)

  • Reflection Notes

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

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Photographer: Charlott Markus

  • Catalog No.
  • 01647-2021-DoE-InGoodCompany78
  • Title
  • In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image files
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

SMW solo exhibition at mistral, Amsterdam (2021). The exhibition opens up the process of the ‘monumental’ 18-month collaborative performance Gift Science Archive (GSA) to the public for haptic engagements with the artist’s working and archiving processes. Visitors are invited to peruse the GSA archive database and to pull materials from the collection for a closer look and, over a cup, for a story. The ‘research experience’ is thus set into relational motion, by conversations – a central part of Murray-Wassink’s practice. Co-curated by Megan Hoetger (If I Can’t Dance) together with Radna Rumping and Huib Haye van der Werf (mistral).

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  • Catalog No.
  • 02246-c2015-TwA4-LetItSinkIn
  • Title
  • Let it sink in
  • 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.
  • 01881-2020-MaAR-MetaArchiveConversation#5
  • Title
  • Meta-Archive Conversation #5: Sands & Amalia
  • Dimensions
  • N/A
  • Materials
  • Digital sound file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

“An aspect of the meta-archive, which includes a series of longer recorded conversations initiated by RR (with Sands, with Sands and Amalia Calderón and with Sands and Robin Wassink-Murray), which aimed to capture ideas about value, structure, and care for an artistic practice, as well as providing plenty of space for sharing references, gossip, and ‘information’ – one of Sands’ main materials. These seven hours of interviews – some in Dutch and some in English – are all in their unedited richness part of the meta-archive, both as audio recordings and transcriptions (translations and transcriptions by Martha Jager).” – RR.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 02210-c2015-TwA4-Thekian
  • Title
  • Thekian
  • 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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Listings connecting to the keyword “Intergenerational” (683)

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  • 02238-c2015-TwA4-Glamour
  • Title
  • Glamour
  • 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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  • 02270-c2015-TwA4-MyOwnLittleWorld
  • Title
  • My own little world
  • 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.
  • 02302-c2015-TwA4-NotMeantToBeRead
  • Title
  • Not meant to be read
  • 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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  • 02334-c2015-TwA4-StirringThingsUp
  • Title
  • Stirring Things Up
  • 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.
  • 00029-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-008
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 21 x 29.5
  • Materials
  • Photocopy and oil crayon
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

Pornographing Annamaria Pinaka, not a match, being a chapter in phd thesis x2. I call myself a beauty warrior – acceptance of the fact that you can’t remain beautiful all the time. Envy of this timeless beauty that she has, it’s a little bit of a Marilyn Monroe situation. Nose job. A beautiful woman using herself as an image – how can we do that and resist objectification? Beauty at the doors of death as a cautionary tale. Having to be nearly dead before anyone takes notice of you.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00061-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-040
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 25 x 20.5
  • Materials
  • Black and white photo print and oil crayon
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  • Physical
  • Technical Notes

Self-printed. Photo of Sands mother (Marjorie) at the pancake restaurant in NY.

  • Reflection Notes

“Construction of your own history. What you remember and what you don’t remember. The history that I feel part of is abstract expression.” – SMW and AC.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00093-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-072
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 28 x 13.5
  • Materials
  • Magazine cut-out
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  • Technical Notes

Skin flicks – gay porn.

  • Reflection Notes

“When I grew up, there weren’t many images of gay relationships. Brokeback Mountain hadn’t happened yet. So I feel men turned to porn, which is similar to the beginning of a relationship.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00434-2001-TwHd-YoungerMen(WhatColorIsYourPa…
  • Title
  • Younger Men (What Color Is Your Parachute?)
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker, pen and coffee on paper
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  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

“I can’t deal with being angry at men. It’s a different anger: low tolerance for male behaviour. You can’t just trust men as friends.” – SMW.

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  • 00544-1995/2001-S-MotherCorner-003
  • Title
  • Mother Corner
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  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Mixed media
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  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Location: This installation at Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam, NL.

  • Reflection Notes

From 4. April 2020 (email exchange): “This is a strange installation work that I would like to put forward, a sort of corner collage… Luce Irigaray and Carolee Schneemann are also here in the installation… The final pic is me as a baby with my mother Marjorie.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00710-2010-DoP-MindBodyLandscape-030
  • Title
  • MindBodyLandscape – 14 September session
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  • Variable
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  • Variable
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  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of course co-taught in Zürich in 2010 together with http://www.sabianbaumann.ch. Dates: 14-17 September 2010.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00742-2010-DoP-MindBodyLandscape-062
  • Title
  • MindBodyLandscape – 14 September session
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  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Vdariable
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of course co-taught in Zürich in 2010 together with http://www.sabianbaumann.ch. Dates: 14-17 September 2010.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00774-2010-DoP-MindBodyLandscape-094
  • Title
  • MindBodyLandscape – 15 September session
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  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Variable
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of course co-taught in Zürich in 2010 together with http://www.sabianbaumann.ch. Dates: 14-17 September 2010.

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  • 00806-2010-DoP-MindBodyLandscape-126
  • Title
  • MindBodyLandscape – 16 September session
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  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Variable
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of course co-taught in Zürich in 2010 together with http://www.sabianbaumann.ch. Dates: 14-17 September 2010.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00838-2010-DoP-MindBodyLandscape-158
  • Title
  • MindBodyLandscape – 17 September session
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  • Variable
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  • Variable
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of course co-taught in Zürich in 2010 together with http://www.sabianbaumann.ch. Dates: 14-17 September 2010.

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  • 00870-2010-DoP-MindBodyLandscape-190
  • Title
  • MindBodyLandscape – student drawings
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  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Variable
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of course co-taught in Zürich in 2010 together with http://www.sabianbaumann.ch. Dates: 14-17 September 2010.

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