Unbuilt roads

We never again talked to the people at Vondelbunker after that 30-minute meeting in the park.
We never saw Wonda Women. We never drank their renamed “Women power” tea.
We never had the ‘Archiving Marathons‘ and the galloping horse digging. We never made the A.G. (after Gift Science Archive) book.
We never cleaned the home studio.
We never fully opened the ‘In Good Company‘ exhibition because: pandemic.
We never spoke to HANNAH WILKE – we discovered her too late.
We never created a meta-archive sound collage, and it still plagues our mind.
We never interviewed MH.
We never formalised archivist visits.
We never heard back from ADRIAN PIPER, but we kept working on our magic anyways.
We never collaborated with that artist who kept on offering (oops).
We never finished those poems that sit tight at the tip of our tongue.
We didn‘t take that road – almost, but no.
We never became LEGENDARY (debatable: what is legendary?)
We never came back

The potentiality for broken, half-made things to accumulate as
unmaterialised performances.

Spectrality
We never threw away our squalor routines. elephant paths. – AC.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01478-2020-UbR-HybridHorseHeartsArchivingMar…
  • Title
  • Hybrid Horse Hearts Archiving Marathons
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital word document file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Text co-written by Amalia Calderón and Megan Hoetger for an archiving marathon series that was never realised due to pandemic conditions.

  • Reflection Notes

GSA inventorying session – 10.09.20. “Horse book writing HORSE BACK RIDING!” – 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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  • 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.
  • 00003-2009-TwRp-Fame
  • Title
  • Fame
  • Dimensions
  • 238 x 100
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 01519-2012-DoE-Oprecht/Sincere01
  • Title
  • Oprecht/Sincere
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image files
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

SMW solo exhibition at Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam (2012).

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  • 01502-2020-Co-InvitationToAdrianPiper
  • Title
  • Invitation To Adrian Piper
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital word document file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Note written by SMW as an addendum to an invitation extended by If I Can’t Dance and the Rijksakademie in Fall 2020 for an event focusing on artist and their archiving – the event was inspired by the Archiving Tips sent by Piper to SMW in 2012. The invitation was declined by Piper’s assistant. It remains unclear if Piper ever saw the invitation.

  • Reflection Notes

“When I think of Adrian I also think of her dancing (she’s dancing a lot in her works over the years) – something she has in common with Sands I think, dancing to music in various videos.” – RR.

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Photographer: Charlott Markus

  • Catalog No.
  • 01651-2021-DoE-InGoodCompany82
  • 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.
  • 02056-1993/1995/2019-S-UnlabelledDigitizedSl…
  • Title
  • Unlabelled Digitized Slide #109
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of SMW’s earliest mature works, which were digitized on occasion of the If I Can’t Dance Kick-off Introductory event and used in SMW’s ‘Up To And Including His Limits’ lecture performance (October 2019). *Note: images can be printed or made into photo-objects upon request.

  • Reflection Notes

“These are indeed my earliest works that I have documents of. I had some even earlier works that are with my parents in Topeka, Kansas. A lot of this digitized work is there too. It’s mainly from the period at Pratt Institute, also when Carolee Schneemann was my teacher. It was a super hard period, but out of it came this for me diamond like work. Some of these bleed into time at the Rietveld Academie and De Ateliers in the very first four months I was there and into 1995. I still count these works as being very foundational to what I do and who I am. When I sell from this period the work is more expensive than work I am making now.” – SMW.

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  • 02091-1993/1995/2019-S-UnlabelledDigitizedSl…
  • Title
  • Unlabelled Digitized Slide #144
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of SMW’s earliest mature works, which were digitized on occasion of the If I Can’t Dance Kick-off Introductory event and used in SMW’s ‘Up To And Including His Limits’ lecture performance (October 2019). *Note: images can be printed or made into photo-objects upon request.

  • Reflection Notes

“These are indeed my earliest works that I have documents of. I had some even earlier works that are with my parents in Topeka, Kansas. A lot of this digitized work is there too. It’s mainly from the period at Pratt Institute, also when Carolee Schneemann was my teacher. It was a super hard period, but out of it came this for me diamond like work. Some of these bleed into time at the Rietveld Academie and De Ateliers in the very first four months I was there and into 1995. I still count these works as being very foundational to what I do and who I am. When I sell from this period the work is more expensive than work I am making now.” – SMW.

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Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 00581-2009-PSP-TryoutMasculinityVenusEnvySho…
  • Title
  • Tryout Masculinity Venus Envy Shots (Sands and Peter)
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Variable
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Location: Peter Brandt’s Apartment Copenhagen, Denmark (21 August 2009). Images by: Double Performalist Self Portraits together with Robin Wassink-Murray.

  • Reflection Notes

8 april 2020 (WeTransfer notes): “‘Tryout Masculinity Venus Envy Shots’ by me and www.peter-brandt.com in Copenhagen taken by Robin on this same trip to Denmark in 2009. Robin took these in Peter’s studio in his apartment. I’ve broken my friendship with Peter for various reasons which we can talk about. But these pictures are the only pix I have with another male body artist of this nature.” – SMW.

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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
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital word document file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

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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Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 01549-2012-DoE-Oprecht/Sincere31
  • Title
  • Oprecht/Sincere
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image files
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

SMW solo exhibition at Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam (2012).

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  • 01974-1993/1995/2019-S-UnlabelledDigitizedSl…
  • Title
  • Unlabelled Digitized Slide #28
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of SMW’s earliest mature works, which were digitized on occasion of the If I Can’t Dance Kick-off Introductory event and used in SMW’s ‘Up To And Including His Limits’ lecture performance (October 2019). *Note: images can be printed or made into photo-objects upon request.

  • Reflection Notes

“These are indeed my earliest works that I have documents of. I had some even earlier works that are with my parents in Topeka, Kansas. A lot of this digitized work is there too. It’s mainly from the period at Pratt Institute, also when Carolee Schneemann was my teacher. It was a super hard period, but out of it came this for me diamond like work. Some of these bleed into time at the Rietveld Academie and De Ateliers in the very first four months I was there and into 1995. I still count these works as being very foundational to what I do and who I am. When I sell from this period the work is more expensive than work I am making now.” – SMW.

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  • 02006-1993/1995/2019-S-UnlabelledDigitizedSl…
  • Title
  • Unlabelled Digitized Slide #59
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of SMW’s earliest mature works, which were digitized on occasion of the If I Can’t Dance Kick-off Introductory event and used in SMW’s ‘Up To And Including His Limits’ lecture performance (October 2019). *Note: images can be printed or made into photo-objects upon request.

  • Reflection Notes

“These are indeed my earliest works that I have documents of. I had some even earlier works that are with my parents in Topeka, Kansas. A lot of this digitized work is there too. It’s mainly from the period at Pratt Institute, also when Carolee Schneemann was my teacher. It was a super hard period, but out of it came this for me diamond like work. Some of these bleed into time at the Rietveld Academie and De Ateliers in the very first four months I was there and into 1995. I still count these works as being very foundational to what I do and who I am. When I sell from this period the work is more expensive than work I am making now.” – SMW.

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Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 01528-2012-DoE-Oprecht/Sincere10
  • Title
  • Oprecht/Sincere
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image files
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

SMW solo exhibition at Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam (2012).

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  • 02038-1993/1995/2019-S-UnlabelledDigitizedSl…
  • Title
  • Unlabelled Digitized Slide #91
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of SMW’s earliest mature works, which were digitized on occasion of the If I Can’t Dance Kick-off Introductory event and used in SMW’s ‘Up To And Including His Limits’ lecture performance (October 2019). *Note: images can be printed or made into photo-objects upon request.

  • Reflection Notes

“These are indeed my earliest works that I have documents of. I had some even earlier works that are with my parents in Topeka, Kansas. A lot of this digitized work is there too. It’s mainly from the period at Pratt Institute, also when Carolee Schneemann was my teacher. It was a super hard period, but out of it came this for me diamond like work. Some of these bleed into time at the Rietveld Academie and De Ateliers in the very first four months I was there and into 1995. I still count these works as being very foundational to what I do and who I am. When I sell from this period the work is more expensive than work I am making now.” – SMW.

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  • 02070-1993/1995/2019-S-UnlabelledDigitizedSl…
  • Title
  • Unlabelled Digitized Slide #123
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of SMW’s earliest mature works, which were digitized on occasion of the If I Can’t Dance Kick-off Introductory event and used in SMW’s ‘Up To And Including His Limits’ lecture performance (October 2019). *Note: images can be printed or made into photo-objects upon request.

  • Reflection Notes

“These are indeed my earliest works that I have documents of. I had some even earlier works that are with my parents in Topeka, Kansas. A lot of this digitized work is there too. It’s mainly from the period at Pratt Institute, also when Carolee Schneemann was my teacher. It was a super hard period, but out of it came this for me diamond like work. Some of these bleed into time at the Rietveld Academie and De Ateliers in the very first four months I was there and into 1995. I still count these works as being very foundational to what I do and who I am. When I sell from this period the work is more expensive than work I am making now.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 02102-1993/1995/2019-S-UnlabelledDigitizedSl…
  • Title
  • Unlabelled Digitized Slide #155
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of SMW’s earliest mature works, which were digitized on occasion of the If I Can’t Dance Kick-off Introductory event and used in SMW’s ‘Up To And Including His Limits’ lecture performance (October 2019). *Note: images can be printed or made into photo-objects upon request.

  • Reflection Notes

“These are indeed my earliest works that I have documents of. I had some even earlier works that are with my parents in Topeka, Kansas. A lot of this digitized work is there too. It’s mainly from the period at Pratt Institute, also when Carolee Schneemann was my teacher. It was a super hard period, but out of it came this for me diamond like work. Some of these bleed into time at the Rietveld Academie and De Ateliers in the very first four months I was there and into 1995. I still count these works as being very foundational to what I do and who I am. When I sell from this period the work is more expensive than work I am making now.” – SMW.

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Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 00592-2009-PSP-TryoutMasculinityVenusEnvySho…
  • Title
  • Tryout Masculinity Venus Envy Shots (Sands and Peter)
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Variable
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Location: Peter Brandt’s Apartment Copenhagen, Denmark (21 August 2009). Images by: Double Performalist Self Portraits together with Robin Wassink-Murray.

  • Reflection Notes

8 april 2020 (WeTransfer notes): “‘Tryout Masculinity Venus Envy Shots’ by me and www.peter-brandt.com in Copenhagen taken by Robin on this same trip to Denmark in 2009. Robin took these in Peter’s studio in his apartment. I’ve broken my friendship with Peter for various reasons which we can talk about. But these pictures are the only pix I have with another male body artist of this nature.” – SMW.

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  • 01953-1993/1995/2019-S-UnlabelledDigitizedSl…
  • Title
  • Unlabelled Digitized Slide #7
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of SMW’s earliest mature works, which were digitized on occasion of the If I Can’t Dance Kick-off Introductory event and used in SMW’s ‘Up To And Including His Limits’ lecture performance (October 2019). *Note: images can be printed or made into photo-objects upon request.

  • Reflection Notes

“These are indeed my earliest works that I have documents of. I had some even earlier works that are with my parents in Topeka, Kansas. A lot of this digitized work is there too. It’s mainly from the period at Pratt Institute, also when Carolee Schneemann was my teacher. It was a super hard period, but out of it came this for me diamond like work. Some of these bleed into time at the Rietveld Academie and De Ateliers in the very first four months I was there and into 1995. I still count these works as being very foundational to what I do and who I am. When I sell from this period the work is more expensive than work I am making now.” – SMW.

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  • 01985-1993/1995/2019-S-UnlabelledDigitizedSl…
  • Title
  • Unlabelled Digitized Slide #39
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of SMW’s earliest mature works, which were digitized on occasion of the If I Can’t Dance Kick-off Introductory event and used in SMW’s ‘Up To And Including His Limits’ lecture performance (October 2019). *Note: images can be printed or made into photo-objects upon request.

  • Reflection Notes

“These are indeed my earliest works that I have documents of. I had some even earlier works that are with my parents in Topeka, Kansas. A lot of this digitized work is there too. It’s mainly from the period at Pratt Institute, also when Carolee Schneemann was my teacher. It was a super hard period, but out of it came this for me diamond like work. Some of these bleed into time at the Rietveld Academie and De Ateliers in the very first four months I was there and into 1995. I still count these works as being very foundational to what I do and who I am. When I sell from this period the work is more expensive than work I am making now.” – SMW.

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  • 02017-1993/1995/2019-S-UnlabelledDigitizedSl…
  • Title
  • Unlabelled Digitized Slide #70
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of SMW’s earliest mature works, which were digitized on occasion of the If I Can’t Dance Kick-off Introductory event and used in SMW’s ‘Up To And Including His Limits’ lecture performance (October 2019). *Note: images can be printed or made into photo-objects upon request.

  • Reflection Notes

“These are indeed my earliest works that I have documents of. I had some even earlier works that are with my parents in Topeka, Kansas. A lot of this digitized work is there too. It’s mainly from the period at Pratt Institute, also when Carolee Schneemann was my teacher. It was a super hard period, but out of it came this for me diamond like work. Some of these bleed into time at the Rietveld Academie and De Ateliers in the very first four months I was there and into 1995. I still count these works as being very foundational to what I do and who I am. When I sell from this period the work is more expensive than work I am making now.” – SMW.

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  • 02049-1993/1995/2019-S-UnlabelledDigitizedSl…
  • Title
  • Unlabelled Digitized Slide #102
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Documentation of SMW’s earliest mature works, which were digitized on occasion of the If I Can’t Dance Kick-off Introductory event and used in SMW’s ‘Up To And Including His Limits’ lecture performance (October 2019). *Note: images can be printed or made into photo-objects upon request.

  • Reflection Notes

“These are indeed my earliest works that I have documents of. I had some even earlier works that are with my parents in Topeka, Kansas. A lot of this digitized work is there too. It’s mainly from the period at Pratt Institute, also when Carolee Schneemann was my teacher. It was a super hard period, but out of it came this for me diamond like work. Some of these bleed into time at the Rietveld Academie and De Ateliers in the very first four months I was there and into 1995. I still count these works as being very foundational to what I do and who I am. When I sell from this period the work is more expensive than work I am making now.” – SMW.

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