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.
  • 01053-2020-CP/PP-NewFaceFolder-076
  • 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.
  • 01200-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-031
  • 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.
  • 01179-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-010
  • 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.
  • 01211-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-042
  • 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.
  • 01190-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-021
  • 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.
  • 01222-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-053
  • 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 (unknown date). “Archive is a buzz word.” – Anon. “Yeah but we’re messing it up!” – SMW. “We are messing it up, but we are still making a fucking archive.” – MH. “If you can find a box for it and a label, then you’ve made it!” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01056-2020-CP/PP-NewFaceFolder-079
  • 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.
  • 01201-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-032
  • 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.
  • 01180-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-011
  • 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.
  • 01212-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-043
  • 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.
  • 01191-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-022
  • 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.
  • 01223-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-054
  • 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.
  • 01170-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-001
  • 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

SMW & AC inventorying session – 24.09.20. “We’ll-just-see factors […] I almost see my brain as a brain drag […] If I would be an activist at all, I would be a depression activist […] … writing people out of language?” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01202-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-033
  • 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.
  • 01181-1995-PSP-IdentityShots-012
  • 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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