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: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01395-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-049
  • 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.
  • 01344-2020-MaPi-BottomingToTheTop-001
  • Title
  • Bottoming to the Top
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 4 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 18.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW working in the studio. Image of a self-portrait. Image of a pink note from the Angelyne Fan Club on the wall, accompanied by a card saying 'bottoming to the top' (a gift from MH to SMW).

  • Reflection Notes

“We talked about words such as discourse and then I came up with ‘ditzcourse’. Reading words like ‘anthroposcene, post-humanist’ in an intern application letter at first didn’t feel close to Sands his practice. ‘My materials are emotions, relations, behavior, it’s all about affect.’ ‘It’s all very domestic with me, I don’t want to sound as an intellectual’. But during the skype-talk we have with applicant Amalia Calderón it becomes more clear how she relates to these concepts and an engaged conversation unfolds, where there are clearly more connections than we might have expected from the initial letter.” From the meta-archive process diary. – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01375-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-029
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Vhoariable
  • 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

“An example of a horse drawing, without a horse. I know, it’s magic.” – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01407-2020-MaPi-HorseCloud-011
  • 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.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01354-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-008
  • 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.
  • 01386-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-040
  • 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.
  • 01418-2020-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.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01365-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-019
  • 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: Megan Hoetger

  • Catalog No.
  • 01396-2020-MaPi-HorseCloud-001
  • 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 used to be a horse-riding girl.” – N/A. “What happened?” – AC. “Drugs happened.” – N/A. “Drugs versus horses. Isn’t ‘horse’ supposed to be heroine?” – AC.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01345-2020-MaPi-BottomingToTheTop-002
  • Title
  • Bottoming to the Top
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 4 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 18.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW working in the studio. Image of a self-portrait. Image of a pink note from the Angelyne Fan Club on the wall, accompanied by a card saying 'bottoming to the top' (a gift from MH to SMW).

  • Reflection Notes

“A gift from MH, a note from the Angelyne fan club.” – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01376-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-030
  • 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.
  • 01334-2020-MaPi-MoreUnrolling-001
  • 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

“What is the status of the word artist? In between our checking-in/practical discussion points, wigs keep popping up, since there’s also a cobalt blue one now. ‘The wig, I almost have to put it on, everyday like perfume. And I’m thinking a lot about Terre Thaemlitz and his/her/their lecture Viva MacGlam’.” From the meta-archive process diary. – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01408-2020-MaPi-HorseCloud-012
  • 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

“This is the first meeting with AC, MH, SMW and RR working together in the studio. Back then we had no idea it would be the last for a long time. From mid-march 2020, the lockdown because of Covid-19 restricted further collaborative meetings at the Rijksakademie.” – RR.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01355-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-009
  • 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.
  • 01387-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-041
  • 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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