COLLABORATION. How can we work together?

COLLABORATION. How can we work together? was the third process event convened as part of painter and body artist Sands Murray-Wassink’s 18-month collaborative performance Gift Science Archive. For this final gathering in the series, the artist and collaborators Amalia Calderón, Megan Hoetger, and Radna Rumping returned to the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, this time for a roundtable conversation moderated by If I Can’t Dance curator of archive Anik Fournier. Together, they discussed the structures of ‘collaboration’ within the group’s performance of archiving and the modes of feminist storytelling and knowledge production developed over the course of their eighteen months working together. The four collaborators also gave insight into their respective roles and shared tasks along the way.

The three Gift Science Archive process events each took up a keyword central to the project — value, relationships, and collaboration — in order to open out the durational performance’s process to public engagement.