fcrA question about the best way to ship a printing/zine archive [8 moving boxes weighing a total of 95 kilograms] from Rotterdam to Dundee/Scotland, to the crowd wisdom here.
Commercial shipping seems to cost about 2000 EUR… Does anyone know of cheaper alternatives? Could someone transport it privately against reimbursement?
- This concerns my own archive of materials from 1980s/1990s DIY cultural networks around Neoism, consisting mostly of zines, and pamphlets. I always wanted it to be public, but considered art institutions unsuitable due to restricted access to their archives, Neoism's distance to the art system, and vice versa the little art curatorial value and appreciation of such subcultural materials.
At the University of Dundee, efforts to preserve Pete Horobin’s (thematically and interpersonally related, archiving-as-daily-art-practice) Attic Archive led me to donate my archive there, trusting librarians for their understanding of cultural commons and alternatives to commercial regimes.
Longer story here: https://pod.thing.org/posts/2552034
A question about the best way to ship a printing/zine archive [8 mo...
A question about the best way to ship a printing/zine archive [8 moving boxes weighing a total of 95 kilograms] from Rotterdam to Dundee/Scotland, to the crowd wisdom here. Commercial shipping seems to cost about 2000 EUR... Does anyone know of cheaper alternatives? Could someone transport it privately against reimbursement? The long story Some of you know that I have a large archive of materials (mostly zines, pamphlets and letters, but also self-published books, audio cassettes, video tapes and Super 8 films) from the DIY cultural networks of Neoism and related multi-use identity projects such as SMILE ("the magazine of multiple origins") and the Luther Blissett Project. This archive also includes the 1980s Neoism archive of my friend Graf Haufen who left it to me in the 1990s. It provided the material for various Neoist websites and the book 'A Neoist Research Project'. For a long time, I had been looking for a suitable place to make it available to the public. Art institutions w...
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