Labor

“Figuring out more typologies. How do we call the ‘It’s a Schneemann thing’ mug and other objects that Sands has printed by companies such as Hema? A sculpture. Letters, notes and other texts that have been distributed? Distributed notes. ‘one thing at a time’ ‘better late than never’.” – RR. From the meta-archive process diary. “This is a drawing by MH, thinking about a structure for the archive.” – RR.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “Can you say more as a horse?” – N/A. “Yes. The ‘I’ is meta, you get all this reverberation somehow.” – SMW. “‘*****’ is my work name. It’s my horse.” – N/A.

“Getting to know each other. The first six letters between Sands and Aimar move in a slow time, stretching across nearly the entire summer season. As with most relationships in their early stages, these initial exchanges are tentative, exploratory and even a bit naïve. Their language has in it a reaching gesture—a reaching toward something but what that something is, is not yet formed. Here one can sense them getting to know each other and feeling out their affective expectations, toward one another, perhaps, but maybe more so toward the form of the letter itself. In the last of these letters, Aimar shares with Sands an image of his working desk where Sands book Profeminist WHITE FLOWERS lies, freshly arrived via post from Amsterdam—in this gesture of touch, of book in hand (or hand on book as it were) what Sands will later call ‘the pulse of your contact’ seems to be made. It is this same image through which you entered Sands and Aimar’s room in ificantdance.studio and through which we hope you will return for further reading, in other intimate moments alone.” – MH studio note from ificantdance.studio

“Wassinque Inc. is the new family unit: Sands Murray-Wassink + Robin Wassink-Murray + their cat Duman (now, before it was Betsie).” – RR.

“I printed this stationary to use for my business, but never really used it for that. I used it to start making drawings on. My Mom had sent me fruit scented markers with animals printed on them, which I had used in my childhood. I used these to make the drawings, declarative statements to find my way.” – SMW.

“I printed this stationary to use for my business, but never really used it for that. I used it to start making drawings on. My Mom had sent me fruit scented markers with animals printed on them, which I had used in my childhood. I used these to make the drawings, declarative statements to find my way.” – SMW.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.