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Sands Murray-Wassink, ‘Gift Science Archive’

‘Gift Science Archive’ is a work by Sands Murray-Wassink commissioned by Frédérique Bergholtz, director of If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, as part of the Edition VIII – ‘Ritual and Display’ (2019–21) programme. The project is curated by Megan Hoetger and carried out as a collaboration between Murray-Wassink, Hoetger, Amalia Calderón and Radna Rumping.


Project Trajectory

‘Up To and Including His Limits’
Performance
Saturday 26 October 2019
Not Yet Shebang, Amsterdam

‘Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?’
Conversation
Friday 6 March 2020
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam

‘Process Event #2: RELATIONSHIPS. Feminist Legacies, Queer Intimacies’
Epistolary exchange
Sunday 26 June 2020 – Saturday 6 February 2021
ificantdance.studio

‘In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993 – present’
Exhibition
Saturday 6 March – Sunday 23 May 2021
mistral, Amsterdam

‘Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)’
Exhibition
Thursday 17 – Sunday 27 June 2021
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam

‘Backstage with Gift Science Archive’
Performance
Saturday 19 June and Friday 25 June 2021
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam?

‘Process Event #3: COLLABORATION. How to work together?’
Conversation
Monday 21 June 2021
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam

‘I am not American (I love Adrian, I miss Carolee, I follow Hannah)’
Exhibition
Thursday 13 January – Sunday 6 March 2022
Auto Italia, London


Acknowledgements

‘Gift Science Archive’ is commissioned by If I Can’t Dance and is co-produced with mistral, Amsterdam and Auto Italia, London. Special thanks to the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam for their support of the project.

Unless otherwise stated, notes throughout the database are:
AC: Amalia Calderón
MH: Megan Hoetger
SMW: Sands Murray-Wassink
RR: Radna Rumping

Design and web development: Kommerz, Bram Nijssen and Marcel van den Berg
Editing: If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution

If I Can’t Dance is supported by the Mondriaan Fund and the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts). Edition VIII – ‘Ritual and Display’ is supported by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.