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Install documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, Without You I’m Nothing (Blue), Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam, June 2021. Photo: Frédérique Bergholtz.
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“Studio depot” documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger and Radna Rumping, Backstage with Gift Science Archive, Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam, June 2021. Photo: Sander van Wettum, courtesy of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam.
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Without You I’m Nothing (Blue) was an exhibition conceived within the frame of the Rijksakademie Open Studios 2021 for the conclusion of painter and body artist Sands Murray-Wassink’s guest residency. The installation presented a wide selection of never-before-seen works, which were unearthed in the artist’s 18-month collaborative performance Gift Science Archive, including paintings on paper and fabric, photographs and video, and works by Senga Nengudi and Carolee Schneemann from Murray-Wassink’s personal collection. Through the juxtaposition of different materials, it highlighted the artist’s long-standing practices of writing, painting, posing, and feminist citationality.
Additionally, as a pendant piece to the exhibition, Murray-Wassink staged a durational performance inviting visitors inside the project’s studio-depot where the artist and collaborators Megan Hoetger and Radna Rumping were on hand to offer a peak into the group’s working processes and relational methods.
Murray Wassink’s installation and performance were realized in the frame of the 2021 Rijks Open Studios (17 - 27 June 2021) and formed part of the commission Gift Science Archive, which Hoetger led as part of the Edition VIII - Ritual and Display biennial program (2019-2021) for If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam. The project was co-produced with mistral, Amsterdam and Auto Italia, London with support from the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. The Without You I’m Nothing (Blue) installation was co-curated by Hoetger together with If I Can’t Dance director Frédérique Bergholz, and the Backstage with Gift Science Archive performance was a collaboration between Murray-Wassink, Hoetger, and Radna Rumping.