Video

Digital image taken from documentation of performance available on Vimeo at: https://vimeo.com/76554268. The performance an homage to Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, as well as Carolee Schneemann, together with Robin Wassink-Murray. The title taken from video documentation of ‘Town Bloody Hall’ (1979) with Jill Johnston and others. Location: Schlachthaus Theatre (Bern, Switzerland). Colour; sound; 48:10 (unedited).

Performance in conjunction with the exhibition, ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’: on occasion of the Rijks Open Studios. From handout accompanying the exhibition: in the space opposite ‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’, visitors can also join Murray-Wassink, Hoetger and Rumping for Backstage with the Gift Science Archive. During selected hours, Backstage offers a look into the studio-depot where Gift Science Archive has unfolded. And, if you’re interested in learning more about the collaborative archiving process, Murray-Wassink, Calderón, Hoetger and Rumping will be in a live-streamed conversation on their process, their roles, and the nuances of co-creation along intergenerational feminist axes. The discussion will be moderated by If I Can’t Dance archive and research curator Anik Fournier and held within the Rijks Open Studios events program on Monday 21 June, 12.00-13.30hr.

SMW with friend set to music. Artist: Kelis/Album: Tasty/Song: “Intro” on repeat. Colour; sound; 1 hour 6 min 9 sec.

SMW with friend. Colour; sound; 1 hour 4 min 57 sec.

Self-shot footage of SMW masturbating collective over two days (11 and 22 July 2008). The video piece used in multiple performance and presented in the 2010 exhibition ‘Solace’ curated by Christian Kobal at the Austrian Cultural Center. Colour; sound; 1 hour 5 min 37 sec.

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).

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.

Virtual opening of SMW solo exhibition at mistral, Amsterdam (2021); video streamed on Instagram live. 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).

Virtual opening of SMW solo exhibition at mistral, Amsterdam (2021); video streamed on Facebook live. 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).

In the opening process event of Murray-Wassink’s year-long guest residency at the Rijksakademie, the artist and collaborators (Amalia Calderón, Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping) took stock of the artist’s oeuvre with guest Vivian van Saaze (Associate Professor of Conservation and Museum Studies at Maastricht University). Conversation focused on the tensions between productive and reproductive value in art objects, and the status of the art object in ‘the archive’. Friday 6 March 2020, 18.30-20.30hr, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Sarphatistraat 470, 1018 GW Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Official edited documentation of performance (color video with sound, 47:11; filmed by Elke, Selena, and Stefan; edited by Elke Krystufek // duration of performance: 47:11. FILE NAME: The Naked Conference_official edited documentation.wmv. Date: 30 June 2004. Location: BAWAG Foundation, Vienna.

Unedited documentation of performance (color video with sound, 1:06:44, filmed by Elke Krystufek) // duration of performance: 47:11. FILE NAME: Elke’s action stream_unedited documentation.wmv. Date: 30 June 2004. Location: BAWAG Foundation, Vienna.

Documentation of performance (titled color video with sound // duration of performance: 42:00. Video to be projected or shown on monitor/flatscreen. Location: GEM Museum, The Hague. Filmed by: Per Teljer. Photographed by: Claudia Reinhardt.