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

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  • 01346-2020-MaPi-BottomingToTheTop-003
  • Title
  • Bottoming to the Top
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  • 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).

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01377-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-031
  • 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.
  • 01409-2020-MaPi-HorseCloud-013
  • Title
  • Horse Cloud
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  • 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. “… bring roughness and playfulness into this serious art discourse.” – N/A. “Funny that you say the word playful, because when you read the (horse cloud) sentences, they are quite heavy, and it makes you draw from your own experiences […].” – SMW. “When I draw them (horses), I feel better.” – SMW. “So it’s like magic!” – N/A.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01356-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-010
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
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  • 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

“Bags in bags, and often bags of ‘Hema’, ‘Kruidvat’, ‘Zeeman’, ‘Van Beek’. Dutch istories. Shops have connotations (of different households, different classes).” – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01388-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-042
  • 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.
  • 01420-2020-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.
  • 01336-2020-MaPi-MoreUnrolling-003
  • Title
  • More Unrolling
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
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  • 10 phone snapshots
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  • Digital
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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.
  • 01367-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-021
  • 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.
  • 01398-2020-MaPi-HorseCloud-003
  • 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. “Can you say more as a horse?” – N/A. “Yes. The ‘I’ is meta, you get all this reverberation somehow.” – SMW. “‘*****’ is my work name. It’s my horse.” – N/A.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01378-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-032
  • 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.
  • 01357-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-011
  • 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.
  • 01347-2020-MaPi-BottomingToTheTop-004
  • 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

“In between, during shorts breaks we discuss Tony Cokes, and how Sands is attracted to these ‘clear messages’-a bold text on a screen, seemingly simple, effective, thinking as well of Lucy Lippard’s book ‘Get the message’ (1984).” From the meta-archive process diary. – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01410-2020-MaPi-HorseCloud-014
  • 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

“There is a gap in this diary but that doesn’t mean things didn’t happen.On March 6th the first process event took place, in a crowded studio, sitting with a beautiful sprawling horse cloud as the backdrop for a flowing conversation (with interesting questions from the audience), I remember how the temperature was literally rising. The video documentation + recording + notes that Amalia took can capture the event. It was also one of the last public events before the corona virus arrived seriously in The Netherlands, and evolved into a worldwide pandemic over the past few weeks, which brings us in a very different situation by now: we can’t meet in person, Sands didn’t go to the Rijksakademie anymore, Amalia moved back to her family in Spain for now, and also Megan works from home instead of the IICD office. How should we continue with this process-that for a large part is dependent on actual people, bodies, meeting in space to collaborate, have rose tea together, touch, measure and discuss the materials of Sands’ his studio.” From the meta-archive process diary. – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01389-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-043
  • 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.
  • 01421-2020-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

“Details of the Signature Collage, that would form a significant part of the exhibition ‘In Good Company (Horsepower)’ later at mistral.” – RR.

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