Meta-archive

How to archive a body of work that is abundant, messy, relational and non-hierarchical? ‘Process’ is central in Sands’ practice, and to keep honouring that, a part of the ‘Gift Science Archive’ project deals with recording (and archiving) the process of the archiving itself: also known as the meta-archive. This is a term MH came up with, and RR was within the ‘Gift Science Archive’ collaboration happy to take up the role of 'meta-archivist'. The meta-archive materials contain snapshots taken during the 18-month Gift Science Archive performance and archiving activities, combined with diary notes. Another aspect is a series of longer recorded conversations initiated by RR (with Sands, with Sands & Amalia Calderón and with Sands & Robin Wassink-Murray), which aimed to capture ideas about value, structure, and care for an artistic practice, as well as providing plenty of space for sharing references, gossip, and ‘information’ – one of Sands’ main materials. These seven hours of interviews – some in Dutch and some in English – are all in their unedited richness part of the meta-archive, both as audio recordings and transcriptions (translations and transcriptions by Martha Jager). Finally, an e-mail thread between MH, RR and SMW from late 2020 gives space to speak about their collaboration and the process (and their feelings) at that time through the medium of an unedited e-mail correspondence. – RR.

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Photographer: Megan Hoetger

  • Catalog No.
  • 01350-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-003
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

  • Reflection Notes

Inventorying session + invited archivist (IA) meeting – 15.09.20. “… the archive living on as its own object, but also can it continue adding on information?” – MH.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01382-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-036
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01414-2020-MaPi-ConversationSandsAndRobin-004
  • Title
  • Conversation Sands and Robin
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 5 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 24.07.20. Location: house Sands and Robin, Swammerdamstraat 4E, Amsterdam. Images taken right after a recorded conversation with Sands and Robin, featuring cat Duman, Robin and Sands on the couch, and self-portrait in mirror of Radna.

  • Reflection Notes

“Sands and Robin together on the couch, a few minutes after I stopped recording. A bit tired after talking for 2 hours and 20 minutes, but also excited and happy-it felt like everyone in the room knew this was an important conversation somehow. SMW and RWM surrounded by works they have been collecting, and a framed drawing from Sands on the left.” – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01361-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-015
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01393-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-047
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

  • Reflection Notes

GSA meeting – 12.01.20. “Metaphoric and concrete, it all lives together. Horizontality has a logical structure to it, and so does messiness.” – MH.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01425-2020-MaPi-ConversationAmaliaAndSands-0…
  • Title
  • Conversation Amalia and Sands
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 10 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 27.08.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images taken before and after a recorded conversation with Sands and Amalia, featuring materials on the floor, Sands and Amalia holding a painting, and ‘denk aan parfum’ t-shirt at the door.

  • Reflection Notes

“A reminder on the door, to always remember perfume. When walking up the stairs to the studio, I could usually smell the perfume Sands was wearing.” – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01341-2020-MaPi-MoreUnrolling-008
  • Title
  • More Unrolling
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 10 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 04.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works, featuring Sands standing on a table, a painting with a boa, and an example of bags in bags.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01372-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-026
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

  • Reflection Notes

“The horses are motivational, the horses bring solace, the horses bring confidence, the horses forever run to new horizons.” – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01351-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-005
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01383-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-037
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

  • Reflection Notes

“Finding a rhythm in collaboration. What you can't see here, is the music that Sands was playing.” – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01404-2020-MaPi-HorseCloud-008
  • Title
  • Horse Cloud
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 14 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 04.03.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of working on large horse cloud with SMW, MH and Amalia Calderón. First time GSA meeting with Amalia present, images of Sands and Amalia talking with poster of Hannah Wilke in the background.

  • Reflection Notes

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “[I feel] nervous, uncomfortable.” – SMW. “It’s about the way they [visitors] manoeuvre their space. It completely changed – intruder!” – AC. “We are a collective and part of our work is the corporeality of it.” – SMW. “We are representing two silent [not present] partners. We are performative. How to do that without the performers?” – AC. “Just leave the door open.” – SMW. “We are not complete renegades, only slightly.” – AC.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01415-2020-MaPi-ConversationSandsAndRobin-005
  • Title
  • Conversation Sands and Robin
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 5 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 24.07.20. Location: house Sands and Robin, Swammerdamstraat 4E, Amsterdam. Images taken right after a recorded conversation with Sands and Robin, featuring cat Duman, Robin and Sands on the couch, and self-portrait in mirror of Radna.

  • Reflection Notes

“Living room of SMW and RWM, where the triangle is present again: Carolee, Adrian, Hannah.” – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01362-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-016
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

  • Reflection Notes

“Taking a quick image before this drawing was gifted.” – RR.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01394-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-048
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01342-2020-MaPi-MoreUnrolling-009
  • Title
  • More Unrolling
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 10 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 04.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works, featuring Sands standing on a table, a painting with a boa, and an example of bags in bags.

  • Reflection Notes

Inventorying session + invited archivist (IA) meeting – 15.09.20: “The archive changes the way it looks, so it also modifies the way history evolves. Stagnant history, how does it come alive? These ideas of relationality, equality, collectivity made into an archive, experimental as it is.” – MH.

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