Philosophical sketches

Inventorying session + invited archivist (IA) meeting – 15.09.20 “Performative actions to exorcise negative thoughts. To get a grip on my depression.” – SMW.

“I remember vividly the making of this one.” – SMW. Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “The creaking of the chair annoyed the hell out of the listeners. It interrupted the group conversation. But what to do if we have enough money just for acid-free paper and creaky seats?” – AC.

Inventorying session + invited archivist (IA) meeting – 15.09.20. “How far can the archive reach in the world?” – AC.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “It’s not dry archiving, it’s about community, communication. It’s one big experiment.” – SMW.

“As a young gay man, I had to like Madonna *sighs*.” – SMW.

SMW and AC inventorying session [date unknown]. “Sometimes when I pass people on the street who are angry or tense… I think, they need a good f.” – AC. “When I said to Carolee my most important problems were sex and shit… I just realised last night that that means life and death.” – SMW. “An embodied infinite.” – AC. “In a very earthly way.” – SMW.

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.