Hannah Wilke

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 (quote in reflection note for archive #00068-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-047).

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01219-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-050
  • 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.
  • 01048-2020-CP/PP-NewFaceFolder-071
  • Title
  • New Face Folder
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image files
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Self Portrait Images Ostensibly For Gay Internet Dating Sites (Planetromeo, etc.) Location: Swammerdamstraat Apartment Amsterdam, shower room.

  • Reflection Notes

From 12. April 2020 (WeTransfer notes): “they are a bit too close for me to properly ‘judge’, they are a bit neutral for me. Carolee always told me to go to where the difficulty was, and somehow my face has always been a challenging situation.” – SMW. 30. April 2020 (inventory note): “I also think of Jo Spence, the British artist, being told she was ‘brave’ for using her own image when she was not classically beautiful. And Carolee Schneemann and Hannah Wilke subverting the ‘ideal image’. I feel somewhere in between as I swing between ‘more ideal’ and ‘less ideal’.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01198-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-029
  • 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.
  • 01230-2015-PSP-IdentityShotsFlipBook
  • Title
  • Identity Shots: Before Robin, After Hannah Wilke book
  • Dimensions
  • 20 x 15
  • Materials
  • Flip book
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Technical Notes

Two of these flips books were made at HEMA. One given to Frederikke Hansen and the other is with SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01177-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-008
  • 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.

  • Reflection Notes

GSA meeting – 03.11.20. “The trick to caressing the ninox.” – AC. […] “Favourite art years. What we are doing and what we’ve done is some kind of organic magic.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01209-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-040
  • 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.
  • 01188-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-019
  • 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.
  • 01220-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-051
  • 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.
  • 01052-2020-CP/PP-NewFaceFolder-075
  • Title
  • New Face Folder
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Self Portrait Images Ostensibly For Gay Internet Dating Sites (Planetromeo, etc.) Location: Swammerdamstraat Apartment Amsterdam, shower room.

  • Reflection Notes

From 12. April 2020 (WeTransfer notes): “they are a bit too close for me to properly ‘judge’, they are a bit neutral for me. Carolee always told me to go to where the difficulty was, and somehow my face has always been a challenging situation.” – SMW. 30. April 2020 (inventory note): “I also think of Jo Spence, the British artist, being told she was ‘brave’ for using her own image when she was not classically beautiful. And Carolee Schneemann and Hannah Wilke subverting the ‘ideal image’. I feel somewhere in between as I swing between ‘more ideal’ and ‘less ideal’.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01199-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-030
  • 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.
  • 01178-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-009
  • 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.
  • 01210-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-041
  • 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.
  • 01189-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-020
  • 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.
  • 01221-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-052
  • 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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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01265-2019-MaPi-FirstMeeting-005
  • Title
  • First Meeting
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 7 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 05.12.19. Location: Studio Sands, Swammerdamstraat 4E, Amsterdam. Megan Hoetger and Radna Rumping visit the studio of Sands, with Sands. This is the first meeting they have together. Snapshots of the studio as it is, with a painting 'Listen to yourself' on the wall, and shelves that are full with stacks of paper, drawings and cardboard boxes. Images of the perfume collection. Reflection of MH, RR and SMW in the mirror.

  • Reflection Notes

“A first meeting, a mirror. Even when a snapshot is blurry, sometimes you know a moment needs to be captured. The start of a collaboration between SMW, MH, RR, and a friendship. ‘We looked at a booklet of images made with Valie Export (which she doesn’t want to be public). Then we walked to the Rijksakademie. Megan suggested to think of different categories; aside from regular archive categories such as material, date, medium, we can also think of people that the work relates to (Carolee, Adrian, Hannah, Robin etc. etc.)‘ From the meta-archive process diary.” – RR.

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