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“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.

From 27. April (WeTransfer notes): “The other 11 images are from 2009 as well. They were taken in Vienna and are a performance with artist Johanna Braun where I am both art historian and nude, and Johanna and I perform together discussing her work. This was based on a 1969 work by Carolee Schneemann in London called ‘Naked Action Lecture’ where she was art historian of her own work in a slide show and got naked at a certain point to see if she could keep her authority.” – SMW.

“When I speak with you (AC), I remember how it was to be your age and how older artists treated me.” – SMW. “It's important to not say the smart things. That's the point, if we all saw the same things... just shoot me.” – SMW and AC.

Gift Science Archive meeting – 20.08.20. “Fragmentary tales connect the works intuitively.” – AC.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “What does it give you to archive?” – Anon. “It gives almost a sense of accomplishment of how much there is, but also what it is. Nobody was interested before, and it requires persistence to keep going.” – SMW. “A victory (to keep going).” – Anon. “I feel that sometimes the artist gets forgotten. The work overrides it.” – SMW. “To get lost in art can destroy art?” – AC.

GSA inventorying session – 10.09.20. “They associate themselves with the rich because it helps them with their dreams of upward social mobility.” – MH.

“I pay attention to things that I wouldn’t if I wasn’t archiving. I would want to trash them. But we work with what we’ve got.” – SMW.

“All this archiving… I think it is also a form of self-care.” – SMW.

MH & AC meeting – 15.03.21. “Not really a keyword but it is in ‘Sandsland’.” – MH.

“Bare your money. Bare your clothes. From whore to leech-what a close call. Living outside the economy must be much like living outside your body: // from home to // homage to insurrection. // The economic loss of creating art creating bodies // keeping things alive beyond paper // is a suicidal mission // for those who roam the corners // of an altogether civilized-looking frame. // A capital world surrounded // by world capitals capitalising on a world yet to be made with money that came from nowhere you remember. // Dependent sexuality as the bread // on the table of the courtesan // who plies her sex body // into a domestic bank safe.” – AC