Working 2000

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “A crossover.” – SMW. “Career overlaps across time… an art network chronology.” – AC. “Archiving as becoming a story.” – Anon. “The relational quality of the space, it’s unpredictable.” – AC. “Archival revenge as a method to reclaiming feminine/masculine [and non-binary] symbologies. – AC and Anon.

GSA meeting (unknown date). “It feels very much like world-building.” – AC.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “The cantine person was the one to strike one of the cores of the archive: ‘what does archiving give you?’”. – AC. “Exactly, you cannot hierarchise those things. what does it take to be an artist? All it takes is…” – SMW. “… to say that you are one.” – SMW & AC. “It’s not a craft. It’s the way to think, to see, to make. The craft section comes after.” – AC. “The conceptualisation of the artist is all.” – SMW

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “Part of what I do is giving things away, which is why I don’t like the market-and why I haven’t been very successful.” – SMW. “Who does?” – Anon. “No one likes the market!” – SMW, AC and Anon.

“We are moving quite fast today.” – SMW. “Look at us, masters of the archiving craft.” – AC. “Capitalising on the mystery of maybe being non-hetero.” – AC.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “Hannah, Adrian and Carolee are the ones watching us as we speak. Courage from Carolee, spontaneity from Hannah, and rigorousness from Adrian.” – SMW.

On beauty normativities – “Is it Vogue 2020 or is it Vogue 2000s. – AC. “Or Vogue 1960s!” – SMW.

“Besef is Dutch for ‘realisation,’ or ‘awareness.’ Let’s say awareness, just for us.” – SMW.

Inventorying session + invited archivist (IA) meeting – 15.09.20. “My grandmother was an abstract expressionist painter, and she never exhibited her work in galleries, it was only for herself, and she only started painting when she was in her forties. This is the energy that I wanted to be part of.” – SMW.

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

Gift Science Archive meeting – 12.04.20. “We must make a conscious effort to be kind to women (whatever their sexuality), precisely because [we/they are] brought up to destroy each other and pick on them. Distrust of men as a political defence. Is it a feminist clash? There’s no feminism handbook. Women against women is an overused trick.” – AC.

“I can’t bring to throw it away. I just don’t know where it will end.” – SMW.