Carolee Schneemann

Inventorying session – 05.11.20: “Carolee’s vulva story. She said “I thought it would be too cunty for you.””. – SMW and AC.
CS was giving credit left and right, ’cause she was starved for female precedent. – SMW.

CS was my teacher when I was 19, and she really did change my life. –SMW.


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Photographer: Sander van Wettum

  • Catalog No.
  • 02380-2021-DoE-WithoutYouImNothing14
  • Title
  • Without You I'm Nothing (Blue)
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  • Variable
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  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital

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Installation on occasion of the Rijks Open Studios. From handout accompanying the exhibition: ‘Welcome to Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’, a display of works by Sands Murray-Wassink. All of the works have been unearthed in the process of Gift Science Archive, a ‘monumental’ archiving performance/performance of archiving undertaken by Murray-Wassink and collaborators Amalia Calderón (artistic researcher), Megan Hoetger (curator, If I Can’t Dance) and Radna Rumping (independent editor) over the last 18 months within the frame of Murray-Wassink’s guest residency at the Rjksakademie and his commission with If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution. The materials on display include paintings on paper and fabric, photographs and video, as well as works by Senga Nengudi and Carolee Schneemann from Murray-Wassink’s personal collection.

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Photographer: Tomek Dersu Aaron

  • Catalog No.
  • 02343-2021-DoE-WithoutYouImNothing05
  • Title
  • Without You I'm Nothing (Blue)
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Installation on occasion of the Rijks Open Studios. From handout accompanying the exhibition: ‘Welcome to Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’, a display of works by Sands Murray-Wassink. All of the works have been unearthed in the process of Gift Science Archive, a ‘monumental’ archiving performance/performance of archiving undertaken by Murray-Wassink and collaborators Amalia Calderón (artistic researcher), Megan Hoetger (curator, If I Can’t Dance) and Radna Rumping (independent editor) over the last 18 months within the frame of Murray-Wassink’s guest residency at the Rjksakademie and his commission with If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution. The materials on display include paintings on paper and fabric, photographs and video, as well as works by Senga Nengudi and Carolee Schneemann from Murray-Wassink’s personal collection.

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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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  • Physical

  • Technical Notes

“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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Photographer: Arvo Leo

  • Catalog No.
  • 02371-2021-DoP-BackstageWithGiftScienceArchi…
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  • Backstage with Gift Science Archive
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  • Variable
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  • Digital video file
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Performance in conjunction with the exhibition, ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’: on occasion of the Rijks Open Studios. From handout accompanying the exhibition: in the space opposite ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’, visitors can also join Murray-Wassink, Hoetger and Rumping for Backstage with the Gift Science Archive. During selected hours, Backstage offers a look into the studio-depot where Gift Science Archive has unfolded. And, if you’re interested in learning more about the collaborative archiving process, Murray-Wassink, Calderón, Hoetger and Rumping will be in a live-streamed conversation on their process, their roles, and the nuances of co-creation along intergenerational feminist axes. The discussion will be moderated by If I Can’t Dance archive and research curator Anik Fournier and held within the Rijks Open Studios events program on Monday 21 June, 12.00-13.30hr.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 02390-2008-VDoP-TownHall
  • Title
  • Town Hall Philosophical Living Color Drawing
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  • Variable
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  • Digital image file
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  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Digital image taken from documentation of performance available on Vimeo at: https://vimeo.com/76554268. The performance an homage to Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, as well as Carolee Schneemann, together with Robin Wassink-Murray. The title taken from video documentation of ‘Town Bloody Hall’ (1979) with Jill Johnston and others. Location: Schlachthaus Theatre (Bern, Switzerland). Colour; sound; 48:10 (unedited).


  • Reflection Notes

“Robin and I were in the hotel room when we told Carolee the title of the performance, and she said wryly ‘no one will ever get that.’” – SMW.

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Photographer: Sander van Wettum

  • Catalog No.
  • 02372-2021-DoP-BackstageWithGiftScienceArchi…
  • Title
  • Backstage with Gift Science Archive
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Performance in conjunction with the exhibition, ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’: on occasion of the Rijks Open Studios. From handout accompanying the exhibition: in the space opposite ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’, visitors can also join Murray-Wassink, Hoetger and Rumping for Backstage with the Gift Science Archive. During selected hours, Backstage offers a look into the studio-depot where Gift Science Archive has unfolded. And, if you’re interested in learning more about the collaborative archiving process, Murray-Wassink, Calderón, Hoetger and Rumping will be in a live-streamed conversation on their process, their roles, and the nuances of co-creation along intergenerational feminist axes. The discussion will be moderated by If I Can’t Dance archive and research curator Anik Fournier and held within the Rijks Open Studios events program on Monday 21 June, 12.00-13.30hr.

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Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 02392-2000/2021-PO-IstoryWillVindicateUs
  • Title
  • Istory Will Vindicate Us (Ana, Hannah, Carolee, Orlan)
  • Dimensions
  • 55 x 82
  • Materials
  • Color slide/Color print of digitized slide with liquid gloss
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

“This was a centrepiece of the ‘In Good Company (Horsepower)’ exhibition at mistral. In fact, it was the origin point of the exhibition’s title. The photo is a digitized slide, and it was originally taken in 2000 by Robin when he and Sands met Carolee in Denmark for the opening of an exhibition on the body in art. They are standing in the gallery on Feminist art where Carolee’s work was featured. Behind them are works by Ana Mendieta, Hannah Wilke and Orlan. Sands always says he would have liked to have had a photo of Carolee and Hannah together (they were friends), but Carolee never managed to find one for him. This was the first time that Carolee and Robin had met, so the photo is a commemoration of many things.” – MH.

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Photographer: Sander van Wettum

  • Catalog No.
  • 02373-2021-DoP-BackstageWithGiftScienceArchi…
  • Title
  • Backstage with Gift Science Archive
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Performance in conjunction with the exhibition, ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’: on occasion of the Rijks Open Studios. From handout accompanying the exhibition: in the space opposite ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’, visitors can also join Murray-Wassink, Hoetger and Rumping for Backstage with the Gift Science Archive. During selected hours, Backstage offers a look into the studio-depot where Gift Science Archive has unfolded. And, if you’re interested in learning more about the collaborative archiving process, Murray-Wassink, Calderón, Hoetger and Rumping will be in a live-streamed conversation on their process, their roles, and the nuances of co-creation along intergenerational feminist axes. The discussion will be moderated by If I Can’t Dance archive and research curator Anik Fournier and held within the Rijks Open Studios events program on Monday 21 June, 12.00-13.30hr.

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Photographer: Sander van Wettum

  • Catalog No.
  • 02374-2021-DoP-BackstageWithGiftScienceArchi…
  • Title
  • Backstage with Gift Science Archive
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Performance in conjunction with the exhibition, ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’: on occasion of the Rijks Open Studios. From handout accompanying the exhibition: in the space opposite ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’, visitors can also join Murray-Wassink, Hoetger and Rumping for Backstage with the Gift Science Archive. During selected hours, Backstage offers a look into the studio-depot where Gift Science Archive has unfolded. And, if you’re interested in learning more about the collaborative archiving process, Murray-Wassink, Calderón, Hoetger and Rumping will be in a live-streamed conversation on their process, their roles, and the nuances of co-creation along intergenerational feminist axes. The discussion will be moderated by If I Can’t Dance archive and research curator Anik Fournier and held within the Rijks Open Studios events program on Monday 21 June, 12.00-13.30hr.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 02077-1993/1995/2019-S-UnlabelledDigitizedSl…
  • Title
  • Unlabelled Digitized Slide #130
  • 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.
  • 02100-1993/1995/2019-S-UnlabelledDigitizedSl…
  • Title
  • Unlabelled Digitized Slide #153
  • 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: Charlott Markus

  • Catalog No.
  • 01662-2021-DoE-InGoodCompany93
  • 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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Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 01765-2021-DoP-InGoodCompany09
  • Title
  • In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Live action
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Photos from the virtual opening of 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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Photographer: Charlott Markus

  • Catalog No.
  • 01652-2021-DoE-InGoodCompany83
  • 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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Photographer: Megan Hoetger

  • Catalog No.
  • 01665-2021-DoP-InGoodCompany01
  • Title
  • In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital registration of live action
  • Object Location
  • Digital

  • Technical Notes

Virtual opening of SMW solo exhibition at mistral, Amsterdam (2021); video streamed on Facebook live. 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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