Shoreham Repository (2024- ) is an experimental artistic project and living archive. Its contents are inspired by, and created about, the scrappy sections of trees and grass that surround Shoreham Yards, a train and truck facility in Northeast MInneapolis. The yards connect local and global economies of extraction and consumption and also create pockets and pathways for wildlife. Compiled between 2019 and 2023, the archive houses exhibition ephemera, corporate reports, species surveys, maps, illustrations, photographs, artworks, personal notes and observations, books that inspired the project, plant pressings, soil test results in the form of degraded men’s underpants, found objects such as rocks, seed pods and railroad debris, and a Dakota language poem and short experimental film produced by three collaborators: Liz Cates, Gloria, and Stefon Leron Alexander. Additional data sets, artworks and writings included in the archive 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.
