RELATIONSHIPS. Feminist Legacies, Queer Intimacies

RELATIONSHIPS. Feminist Legacies, Queer Intimacies was the second process event convened as part of painter and body artist Sands Murray-Wassink’s 18-month collaborative performance Gift Science Archive. Taking the form of an epistolary exchange, RELATIONSHIPS unfolded over a period of eight months as Murray-Wassink exchanged letters, emails, drawings, photographs, essays and other kinds of materials with the Bilbao-based curator and researcher Aimar Arriola. In their exchange, the two reflected on how ‘queer’ relationships – including the one in the making between them – form, grow, shift and blossom. Across the letters, they share insights into their lives and perspectives on the primary materials (thoughts, feelings and relationships) and key thematics (sex, sexuality, gender, health and self-care) in Murray-Wassink’s art/life practice.

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. The RELATIONSHIPS epistolary exchange (26 June 2020 – 6 February 2021) is available online⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠ for the public as a quilt-like network of chapters edited together by Hoetger in conversation with Murray-Wassink and Arriola.