Photographs

Documentation method.

Photography as a tool for bearing witness, but also SMW is approaching subjects – especially the self – as a photographer à la Hannah Wilke (MH synthesis of conversation with SMW).

Listings connecting to the typology “Photographs” (1171)

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Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 01765-2021-DoP-InGoodCompany09
  • Title
  • In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Live action
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Photos from the virtual opening of SMW solo exhibition at mistral, Amsterdam (2021). The exhibition opens up the process of the ‘monumental’ 18-month collaborative performance Gift Science Archive (GSA) to the public for haptic engagements with the artist’s working and archiving processes. Visitors are invited to peruse the GSA archive database and to pull materials from the collection for a closer look and, over a cup, for a story. The ‘research experience’ is thus set into relational motion, by conversations – a central part of Murray-Wassink’s practice. Co-curated by Megan Hoetger (If I Can’t Dance) together with Radna Rumping and Huib Haye van der Werf (mistral).

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01841-2002-DoP-BodyPrint/GayShadows42
  • Title
  • Body Print/Gay Shadows
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Digital registration of semi-public first nude performance in the ‘BOYS: The Construction of Masculinities’ group exhibition at Shedhalle, Zürich.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 01888-2021-DoP-InGoodCompany08
  • Title
  • In Good Company virtual tour
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital registration of live action
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Closing virtual tour of the exhibition ‘In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present’ which was lead by the artist and If I Can’t Dance curator Megan Hoetger. 21 May 2021, 17.00-18.30hr. mistral, Amsterdam, corner Groenhoedenveem – Veemkade (Pakhuis Wilhelmina).

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 01920-2021-DoP-InGoodCompany40
  • Title
  • In Good Company virtual tour
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital registration of live action
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Closing virtual tour of the exhibition ‘In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present’, which was lead by the artist and If I Can’t Dance curator Megan Hoetger. 21 May 2021, 17.00-18.30hr. mistral, Amsterdam, corner Groenhoedenveem – Veemkade (Pakhuis Wilhelmina).

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Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 01809-2002-DoP-BodyPrint/GayShadows10
  • Title
  • Body Print/Gay Shadows
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Digital registration of semi-public first nude performance in the ‘BOYS: The Construction of Masculinities’ group exhibition at Shedhalle, Zürich.

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Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 01820-2002-DoP-BodyPrint/GayShadows21
  • Title
  • Body Print/Gay Shadows
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Digital registration of semi-public first nude performance in the ‘BOYS: The Construction of Masculinities’ group exhibition at Shedhalle, Zürich.

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Photographer: Titus Nouwens

  • Catalog No.
  • 01852-2021-DoP-ProcessEvent#3COLLABORATION02
  • Title
  • ProcessEvent#3: COLLABORATION. How to work together?
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Video registration of the third and final of the process event series, which took place as a live-stream conversation within the public program of Rijksakademie Open Studios 2021. The artist and collaborators Amalia Calderón, Megan Hoetger and Radna Rumping sat together with If I Can't Dance archive and research curator Anik Fournier to discuss the structures of 'collaboration' within the group's 'monumental' 18-month performance of archiving, as well as their respective roles and shared tasks throughout the process. Friday 21 June 2021, 12.00-13.30hr. Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Sarphatistraat 470, 1018 GW Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 01899-2021-DoP-InGoodCompany19
  • Title
  • In Good Company virtual tour
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital registration of live action
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Closing virtual tour of the exhibition ‘In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present’ which was lead by the artist and If I Can’t Dance curator Megan Hoetger. 21 May 2021, 17.00-18.30hr. mistral, Amsterdam, corner Groenhoedenveem – Veemkade (Pakhuis Wilhelmina).

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 01931-2021-DoP-InGoodCompany51
  • Title
  • In Good Company virtual tour
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital registration of live action
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Closing virtual tour of the exhibition ‘In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present’, which was lead by the artist and If I Can’t Dance curator Megan Hoetger. 21 May 2021, 17.00-18.30hr. mistral, Amsterdam, corner Groenhoedenveem – Veemkade (Pakhuis Wilhelmina).

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01831-2002-DoP-BodyPrint/GayShadows32
  • Title
  • Body Print/Gay Shadows
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Digital registration of semi-public first nude performance in the ‘BOYS: The Construction of Masculinities’ group exhibition at Shedhalle, Zürich.

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Photographer: Megan Hoetger

  • Catalog No.
  • 01864-2021-DoP-InGoodCompany (visitor…
  • Title
  • In Good Company (visitor engagement)
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image file
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Visitor-researcher Kevin Gotkin engages with materials from Gift Science Archive at mistral, Amsterdam.

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Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 01910-2021-DoP-InGoodCompany30
  • Title
  • In Good Company virtual tour
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital registration of live action
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Closing virtual tour of the exhibition ‘In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present’, which was lead by the artist and If I Can’t Dance curator Megan Hoetger. 21 May 2021, 17.00-18.30hr. mistral, Amsterdam, corner Groenhoedenveem – Veemkade (Pakhuis Wilhelmina).

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Photographer: Charlott Markus

  • Catalog No.
  • 01659-2021-DoE-InGoodCompany90
  • Title
  • In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image files
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

SMW solo exhibition at mistral, Amsterdam (2021). The exhibition opens up the process of the ‘monumental’ 18-month collaborative performance Gift Science Archive (GSA) to the public for haptic engagements with the artist’s working and archiving processes. Visitors are invited to peruse the GSA archive database and to pull materials from the collection for a closer look and, over a cup, for a story. The ‘research experience’ is thus set into relational motion, by conversations – a central part of Murray-Wassink’s practice. Co-curated by Megan Hoetger (If I Can’t Dance) together with Radna Rumping and Huib Haye van der Werf (mistral).

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01942-1995/2007-PO-TryoutWallpaper06
  • Title
  • Gay Pornographic Modeling Tryout Wallpaper
  • Dimensions
  • Each strip 350 x 45,5
  • Materials
  • 8 strips of wallpaper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Technical Notes

8 strips were originally made; one strip is now with the Estate of Carolee Schneemann and one strip is in the personal collection of A.A. Bronson.

  • Reflection Notes

“The images were taken by Rudy Rijling in Amsterdam, an (at that time) older than me erotic photographer of young men whose ad I found in the back of a contact magazine. I had just gotten back from Greece with De Ateliers on a residency trip and because of the weather difference I had a very heavy red rash on the insides of my thighs. Luckily on black and white film this does not really show up. I had wanted to make this wallpaper in 1997 for my first exhibit ever at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam but one of the curators, Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen (a gay man himself) advised 23 year old me against it, saying I would become known as the ‘guy with the erect penis’. Carolee Schneemann told me never to be ashamed of pleasure and how the body shows it. So I was confused, but listened to him and then in 2007, ten years later, at a solo exhibit in Munich at Lothringer 13, finally had the opportunity to have the wallpaper made. I had tried to become a gay porno model, but only half-heartedly. I went back to Rudy later to ask for the negatives which he gave me, we also had sex a few times at some point. It’s one of the first times I realized that much older men were attractive to me…There were 8 strips of wallpaper and they were never glued, they exist as unique objects. I have to add and I don’t really like to, it gives me no great pleasure, that part of the idea of the wallpaper came from Andy Warhol’s Cow series of wallpaper and other series of his. But there could have been other influences this was not an exclusive influence.” – SMW.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 01766-2021-DoP-InGoodCompany10
  • Title
  • In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Live action
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Photos from the virtual opening of SMW solo exhibition at mistral, Amsterdam (2021). The exhibition opens up the process of the ‘monumental’ 18-month collaborative performance Gift Science Archive (GSA) to the public for haptic engagements with the artist’s working and archiving processes. Visitors are invited to peruse the GSA archive database and to pull materials from the collection for a closer look and, over a cup, for a story. The ‘research experience’ is thus set into relational motion, by conversations – a central part of Murray-Wassink’s practice. Co-curated by Megan Hoetger (If I Can’t Dance) together with Radna Rumping and Huib Haye van der Werf (mistral).

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