Robin Wassink-Murray

Life partner.

00:01:39: “Yes how do I always phrase that ... We are a team. That's how I always say it: we’ve been together since November 16, 1996. And yes, I have always seen you as very influential because you have taught me a lot about people and also how to look at art and my own work. Because you... How do you say that? Feet or legs on the ground? You keep my feet on the ground.” – SMW. (Filename: conversation w_ sands and robin by radna 24 July 2020 (unedited) .WAV).

Listings connecting to the social link “Robin Wassink-Murray” (7)

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  • Catalog No.
  • 02254-c2015-TwA4-WithRobin
  • Title
  • With Robin
  • Dimensions
  • 29.5 x 21
  • Materials
  • Acrylic paint on pages of Gai Pied magazine
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The pages are yellowed and cracked with age. Dutch Curator Erik Hagoort gave SMW a few huge boxes of these French gay liberation magazines from the 80s, and SMW intuitively started painting on them. There are many more than those listed in the archive.

  • Reflection Notes

“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.

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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
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Construction in hand-carved, hand-gilded frame (triangle) and three framed signed works (rectangles) of photo collages printed from slides
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“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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  • Catalog No.
  • 02388-2015-DA4-Robin
  • Title
  • Robin
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Scan of gouache drawing on lined paper
  • Object Location
  • Digital

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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
  • Object Location
  • 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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  • Catalog No.
  • 02076-1993/1995/2019-S-UnlabelledDigitizedSl…
  • Title
  • Unlabelled Digitized Slide #129
  • 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.
  • 01463-2015-PsW2010s-ILoveRobin
  • Title
  • I Love Robin
  • Dimensions
  • 50 x 65
  • Materials
  • Acrylic paint and gouache on paper
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A second painting also on verso.

  • Reflection Notes

Inventorying session + invited archivist (IA) meeting – 15.09.20. “AC’s exact birthdate is the day Robin and I met. It’s all about these convergences.” – SWM. “RWM is my main audience and collaborator.” – SMW.

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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
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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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