• Eight people sit in line. The person on the right is holding paper and looking down at it. The other people look in their direction. Behind them, there is a wall with drawings and hand-drawn posters. A group of people sits on the floor, facing the eight people who sit on chairs.

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    Left to right: Vivian van Saaze, Sands Murray-Wassink, Radna Rumping, Megan Hoetger. Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Photo: Silvia Ulloa Márquez, courtesy of If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam.

  • Five people sit in line. Behind them, there is a wall with drawings and hand-drawn posters.

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    Left to right: Vivian van Saaze, Sands Murray-Wassink, Radna Rumping. Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Photo: Silvia Ulloa Márquez, courtesy of If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam.

  • Two people sit next to each other, facing each other. Behind them, there is a wall with drawings and hand-drawn posters.

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    Sands Murray-Wassink (left) and Radna Rumping (right). Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Photo: Silvia Ulloa Márquez, courtesy of If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam.

  • A few people sit in line. The three people in the middle are looking at each other and laughing. Behind them, there is a wall with drawings and hand-drawn posters. Two other people, whose heads are visible, are sitting on the floor in front of them.

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    Left to right: Vivian van Saaze, Sands Murray-Wassink, Radna Rumping, Megan Hoetger. Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Photo: Silvia Ulloa Márquez, courtesy of If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam.

  • In an indoor space, there are three rectangular frames hanging next to each other, each with two photographs and some text in black. Right on top, there is a yellow triangular frame with three photographs. Below them, there is a low table with a projector, whose light shines towards the camera. One person sits to the left and three people to the right of the projector. The person on the left looks behind, towards the left, to a large white poster with black text, which hangs on the wall. In front of them, there are other people, whose upper bodies are partially visible.

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    Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Photo: Silvia Ulloa Márquez, courtesy of If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam.

  • A few people sit in line. Two of them are leaning forward, supporting their elbows on their knees. They lean towards the people who are sitting on the floor, facing them. One of the people on the floor is gesturing with their hands. The other people look towards them.

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    Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Photo: Silvia Ulloa Márquez, courtesy of If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam.

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    Selected video documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Video editing by Robin Wassink-Murray.

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VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable? was the first process event convened as part of painter and body artist Sands Murray-Wassink’s 18-month collaborative performance Gift Science Archive. In this opening process event, the artist and his collaborators, including Megan Hoetger and Radna Rumping, invited Associate Professor of Conservation and Museum Studies at Maastricht University Vivian van Saaze and members of the Amsterdam artist community to join them in their studio-depot at the start of their performance of archiving. Taking the form of a collective studio visit, the gathering “took stock” of the layers and meanings of ‘value’ operative across Murray-Wassink’s 25-year 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.

VALUE 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.

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