Sands Murray-Wassink (NL/US)

_«Untitled 2009 (Hesse, Semmel)» (2009) (Perla Mode, exhibition) Photo installation (Betsie, Sands Murray-Wassink, Robin Wassink-Murray)

This work refers to Joan Semmel's 1974 painting «Autonomy / Intimacy».

Sands Murray-Wassink
(1974) is an American artist who lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands since 1994. He acquired his formal education in several schools and institutes in USA and Italy, and finalized it at the Rietveld Academy and the De Ateliers in Amsterdam 1996. He has taken part in several teachings, commissions and internships and has realized over 30 solo and group exhibitions and over 20 performances and projects in Europe and the USA. Sands has gained 4 prominent awards and has been nominated for 2 more. He questions the role of the artist, how one is «supposed» to act and interact with his/her environment while undermining taboos surrounding the gay, male body and its sexuality.

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MESSAGE SALON

EXHBITION & SCREENINGS & LIBRARY

Langstrasse 84 / Brauerstrasse 37, 8004 Zurich,
Opening times: Friday, June 5, 14.00-00.00, Saturday, June 6 & Sunday, June 7, 14.00-18.00

Participants: Grrrl Zine collection by Grrrl Zine Network (Elke Zobl and Haydeé Jiménez), I LOVE 69 POPGEJU (CZ), Jana Štepánová (CZ), Judith Schönenberger (CH), Lorenzö (F/I), Nobody, Sabina Baumann (CH), Sarah Jäger (CH), Sands Murray-Wassink (NL/US), The Centre of Attention (UK), Tim Blue (US/D)

Table library of important queer books, from art books to theoretical and historical texts, laid out on a table and available for interaction, reading and inspiration throughout the three days of the exhibition.

ipped in and references made. Thus, for instance, the archive serves as a setting to renewing public testimonial, a temporary rewriting of history. The documentary, which has long been perceived as the image of the world, here becomes the world as image. From the 5th to the 7th of June, guided tours, public readings, performances will intervene in existing archives that bear no obvious relation to queerness. In their interplay, the archive and the works performed therein influence each other, bringing to light other connections by following and rewriting on-going narratives.

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special thanks to: Judith Welter & migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Philipp Hofstetter & Archiv für Zeitgeschichte, Rolf Dewald, DESO Radiomuseum, Dieter Studer & Phonogrammarchiv, Dimitrina Sevova, all the artists: Simone Schardt, Martin Büsser, Salome Golliez, Stella Glitter, Michaela Melian, wire less choir, Rae Spoon, Terre Thaemlitz, Eran Schaerf, Eva Meyer, Marthe van Dessel, Kaspar Surber, Kamerateam: Riikka Tauriainen, Urslé von Mathilde, Sarah Jäger, Florian Bachmann, Maria Sigrist, Foto: Lena Reiser, Research: Sara Bernasconi, Philipp Messner, Web: Felix Eggmann