Working 2000

Gift Science Archive meeting – 20.08.20. “Are you surviving in English?” – SMW.

“Lineage as influence: existing in a line of other artists. The content is more important.” – SMW.

Inventorying session + invited archivist (IA) meeting – 15.09.20. “Tiny bits and pieces, this is what we are up against.” – SMW.

Gift Science Archive meeting – 20.08.20. “Carolee used to say: is this good for vulva? I ask ‘is this good for anus?’” – SMW.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “What does it give you to archive?” – Anon. “It gives almost a sense of accomplishment of how much there is, but also what it is. Nobody was interested before, and it requires persistence to keep going.” – SMW. “A victory (to keep going).” – Anon. “I feel that sometimes the artist gets forgotten. The work overrides it.” – SMW. “To get lost in art can destroy art?” – AC.

SMW & AC inventorying session – 24.09.20. “One big thing you can do is talk about your experience of your own body.” – SMW.

“It’s better to be on the apologetic side than in the ‘fuck you idc’.” – SMW. SMW & AC inventorying session – 24.09.20. “I want my work to happen close to the earth. Plants, we respect them inside, but outside, they become ashtrays.” – Anon.

Gift Science Archive meeting – 12.04.20. “The intergenerational dimension to the project… three generations tracked in the archive, a network of relationships and their shifts. Like so much of Sands is, already, ‘too close’. Partners of performers function as centres of the practice in caretaking. Talking about those caretaking relationships (ie. library objects) would give care back towards i.e. Robin. It’s a tragedy that in most of the history of performance we don’t hear enough about the carers.” – MH.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “This artist who spent 6 to 10 years just making, never showing anything to light.” – Anon. “That’s beautiful.” – AC.

SMW and AC inventorying session [date unknown]. “Sometimes when I pass people on the street who are angry or tense… I think, they need a good f.” – AC. “When I said to Carolee my most important problems were sex and shit… I just realised last night that that means life and death.” – SMW. “An embodied infinite.” – AC. “In a very earthly way.” – SMW.

“You don’t have to work ahead of yourself, you can show what you are making.” – SMW.

“There is always a tail (like they say in Dutch)…” – SMW.