in response to archiving tips from Adrian Piper and archiving practices with
Sands Murray-Wassink.

Rijksakademie 150 Jaar Publicatie, 2020

42. don´t destroy things ?
43. Meditate, have some feminist sex and come back to the material.
44. How bizarre is it to put rules onto the business of memory.
45. REFLECT ON THE POWER YOU ENACT.
46. BE AN ACTIVIST.
47. Preservation is overrated: understand and tell the story.
48. MUST TALK ABOUT SEX IN BETWEEN.
49. drink some empowering tea & keep hydrated, for fuck´s sake.
50.
51. If necessary, KILL THE ARCHIVIST!!
52. Archive from your ovaries (ovaries are the biggest balls),
from your raw sexual rage and
pay no taxes on it.
53. intergenerational struggles are the anachronic condition of the storyteller.
54. Muses are the only artists.
55. collective archiving practices ARE political warfare: see divergent epistemologies
56. labour performing as sleeping beauty.
57. archiving words in your own native language feels like a spell.
58. genesis death rebirth how can we say we are singular or even delineated?
59. go below, find the water.
60. the archive is a mermaid’s wig: hybrid, singing, and a cautionary tale.
61. Decolonize your methods like a lost girl in Neverneverland.
62. RA TA TA TA HOLD YOUR WEAPONS WEAPONIZE YOUR softest dreams.
63. ritual for archival luck: 2 fish scales (CHANGE for vegan options); a human voice
trapped in a jar; an owl´s wisdom feather (given with care or not at all); 3 and
½ angry mushrooms; one vial of waterfall tears; rope; moon-bathed rosemary
branch (max. 4); Capricorn labour (to perform the spell); glitter-dipped hands;
(kill a man for extra good luck).
64. ´to die dreaming other lives´ is what an archivist should do.
65. bags bags bags bag the whole floor bags
66. Archive materials are survivors.
67. After you are done you get a PhD in archiving (but don’t expect university
money)
68. You relentlessly perform as you dig through.
69. The archive is queering you.

70. Don´t forget that you are looking straight into the past. How do you think your
ten-years-back-self would like to be looked at?
71. Caring is a practice, collectivity is a method, find yourself a coven.
72. Refusing to speak to white cishetero men is allowed.
73. The mess is the trash is the trashy is the value who is the material and what is
the archivist.
74. Labour is the pillar of memory: history is political, your rights are political, your
work…. what will you do with it?
75. Chronology morphs continuously into a rhizomatic thread.
76. Tags must be acid-free. Unless you envision a composting archive.
77. The floor is the first (and potentially last) shelf.
78. The answer is YES BUY MORE BOOKSHELVES.
79. pLAY, have a conversation, take sneak-peaks and dialogue with your materials.
Some lucky days they tend to talk back.
80. Brace yourself: creating a database is like a pregnancy. Get ready to get big,
and I sincerely hope you like crying.
81. “One step at a time” can be roughly translated into “steadily and progressively
succumbing into logistical chaos”. Find practice-based tricks so that you don´t
go irremediably mental. What? Find your own! No, I´m not sharing, I said no!
82. Be your own archivist &
make
absolutely
no apologies for it.