Working 2000

Email exchange – 26.04.20. “[on sharing email exchanges] I am sharing it not to overload you but to be affirmative towards life.” – SMW.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “My relationship with money is disastrous.” – SMW. “If you show them [galleries, museums, employers in general] that they can do that to you, they will do it to everyone. We need to get paid for the hours that we put in, not the product. My salary per hour is X much, as per X Artist Association guidelines.” – N/A.

“My favourite audience is female artists.” – SMW.

Gift Science Archive meeting – 20.08.20. “Fragmentary tales connect the works intuitively.” – AC.

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.

GSA inventorying session – 10.09.20. “They associate themselves with the rich because it helps them with their dreams of upward social mobility.” – MH.

“I pay attention to things that I wouldn’t if I wasn’t archiving. I would want to trash them. But we work with what we’ve got.” – SMW.