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.
  • 01317-2020-MaPi-ShabbyChic-002
  • Title
  • Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 18 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 28.01.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW and MH unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works. Images of the large print of e-mail from Adrian Piper with archiving tips on the wall.

  • Reflection Notes

“Adrian’s e-mail with archiving tips, printed on the wall to not forget (it gives a structure, or a reminder of a possible structure) while we had to find out our own way of archiving.” – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01318-2020-MaPi-ShabbyChic-003
  • Title
  • Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 18 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 28.01.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW and MH unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works. Images of the large print of e-mail from Adrian Piper with archiving tips on the wall.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01319-2020-MaPi-ShabbyChic-004
  • Title
  • Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 18 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 28.01.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW and MH unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works. Images of the large print of e-mail from Adrian Piper with archiving tips on the wall.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01320-2020-MaPi-ShabbyChic-005
  • Title
  • Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 18 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 28.01.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW and MH unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works. Images of the large print of e-mail from Adrian Piper with archiving tips on the wall.

  • Reflection Notes

“Sands just bought a new wig, to fit with his new wrap-dress. It’s the first wig after the older one from 1999, who was called Lemon Pie (short: Lemon). This one, found on a sale rack at the Backstage, has longer hair, is from Revlon with a ‘tomato bisque’ colour: Sands calls her Strawberry Short Cake (short: Straw). As always the lines are blurring, figuring out the ‘updated’ outfit, as an extension of oneself, feels like a significant production: ‘I never know when I’m working and not working’. But: we feel like doing some hands on archive work today, and start to unroll some of the Thought Paintings-to measure, title and document them and start archiving to see how the filing system with a catalogue number could work.” From the meta-archive process diary. – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01321-2020-MaPi-ShabbyChic-006
  • Title
  • Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 18 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 28.01.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW and MH unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works. Images of the large print of e-mail from Adrian Piper with archiving tips on the wall.

  • Reflection Notes

“By just picking a few of the paintings randomly from the stack of rolls we immediately discover different strands of Sands’ work and history; such as a rough painting that Sands send to Tracy Emin, that she returned by mail, in 2009: ‘It’s a rough painting to test if Tracy could deal with it, and obviously she couldn’t. It looks like it has been kicked and smashed. I have given Tracy so much of my loyalty-maybe too much?’.” From the meta-archive process diary. – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01322-2020-MaPi-ShabbyChic-007
  • Title
  • Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 18 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 28.01.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW and MH unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works. Images of the large print of e-mail from Adrian Piper with archiving tips on the wall.

  • Reflection Notes

“Books as weights to keep the painting rolled out on the floor, a table instead of a ladder-ways of auto-archiving, no need to do it perfect.” – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01323-2020-MaPi-ShabbyChic-008
  • Title
  • Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 18 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 28.01.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW and MH unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works. Images of the large print of e-mail from Adrian Piper with archiving tips on the wall.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01324-2020-MaPi-ShabbyChic-009
  • Title
  • Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 18 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 28.01.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW and MH unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works. Images of the large print of e-mail from Adrian Piper with archiving tips on the wall.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01325-2020-MaPi-ShabbyChic-010
  • Title
  • Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 18 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 28.01.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW and MH unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works. Images of the large print of e-mail from Adrian Piper with archiving tips on the wall.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01326-2020-MaPi-ShabbyChic-011
  • Title
  • Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 18 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 28.01.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW and MH unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works. Images of the large print of e-mail from Adrian Piper with archiving tips on the wall.

  • Reflection Notes

“2009 was the year Sands started to paint (again) and from this time we find the figurative Erykah Badu painting, but also a more text-based painting mentioning for instance Iris Kensmil, and texts that are overlapping each other. They remind me of hyperlinks, with different windows popping up-a sort of analog web/internet.” From the meta-archive process diary. – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01327-2020-MaPi-ShabbyChic-012
  • Title
  • Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 18 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 28.01.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW and MH unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works. Images of the large print of e-mail from Adrian Piper with archiving tips on the wall.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01328-2020-MaPi-ShabbyChic-013
  • Title
  • Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 18 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 28.01.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW and MH unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works. Images of the large print of e-mail from Adrian Piper with archiving tips on the wall.

  • Reflection Notes

“BOYS. BOYS. BOYS. BOYS. BOYS. BOIS. BOIS. VOIS. VOISE. VOICE. VOICE? // Glitter clipped to the wall// dripping down sweaty rsvps // i WILL NEVER call you. Glitter cascading down a skin far too unflattering. Glitter naked // threading us the emperor’s robe // parading up and down your throatGLITTER UP // those // uncanny expectators…they know // they KNOW // how to // make a fit among the living // Glitter up and down like // good-too-quick-i’m-coming sex as af // ill-in for the gender mob // glitter my words: i can be trashy. Glitter in your cornea // GOLDEN VISIONS // or nothing at all. // WILL NEVER-GLITTER UP-KNOW-GOLDEN VISIONS // WGKG WGKG WGKG WGKG WGKG WGKG WGKG WGKG.” – AC.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01329-2020-MaPi-ShabbyChic-014
  • Title
  • Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 18 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 28.01.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW and MH unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works. Images of the large print of e-mail from Adrian Piper with archiving tips on the wall.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01330-2020-MaPi-ShabbyChic-015
  • Title
  • Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 18 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 28.01.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW and MH unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works. Images of the large print of e-mail from Adrian Piper with archiving tips on the wall.

  • Reflection Notes

“Shabby chic, slackerism.” – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01331-2020-MaPi-ShabbyChic-016
  • Title
  • Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 18 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 28.01.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of SMW and MH unpacking, measuring, photographing and ordering rolled-up painting works. Images of the large print of e-mail from Adrian Piper with archiving tips on the wall.

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