Shoreham Repository (2024- ) is an experimental artist project and living archive focused on the scrappy buffers of trees and grass that surround Shoreham Yards, a train and truck facility in Northeast Minneapolis. Connecting global extraction and consumption networks Shoreham’s margins act as physical and theoretical frames for exploring complex biological systems, human impacts and convivial play. The archive contains items that reflect upon this place, or were collected along its edges, since 2018. Exhibition ephemera, corporate reports, species surveys, maps, illustrations, artworks, plant pressings, found rocks, seed pods, railroad debris, are all included in the Repository, as are books that inspired the project, personal notes and observations, and a Dakota language poem and short experimental film produced by three collaborators: Liz Cates, Gloria, and Stefon Leron Alexander. Results from on-going social practice experiments and data collection continue to be added over time. Some documents, artworks and writings were created/collected by Miranda Trimmier, Dave Zumeta, Stuart McLean, Elizabeth Workman, Leslie Grant, Hallie Bahn, Jeffrey Skemp, Janet Lobberecht, Greg Feinberg, Chad Giblin, Kathryn Savage, Jessica Rossi Mastracci, Alicia Johnson, Xiating Chen and others.
The archive statement is here, the key here, Elizabeth Workman wrote about it here. This grant report by Jessica Rossi-Mastracci is included in Shoreham Repository.
