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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?

- 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

#archive #anarchiving #anarchive #neoism

Ties, Bonds, Grips. Things to cling to.

#coexistence #improvisation #continuity #receptivity #connection #repair #anarchiving

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/ties-bonds-grips/

Textured surface of rocks. There are roots emerging from cracks. The rocks are old. The roots are younger. If you watch long enough you can see the erosion progressing.

Art of Something Larger. The potential of museums, galleries, theatres and other arts organisations as refuges amidst cultural dissonance and social upheaval.

#art #awe #sacred #beauty #belonging #secular #museum #temple #anarchiving

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/art-of-something-larger/

Several people sitting on chairs. There is no apparent seating arrangement. it is dark. The scene is illuminated by candlelight.

Isolation Training. Locked down, cast out, alone and together, together and alone.

#practice #resilience #endurance #isolation #calisthenics #anarchiving

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/isolation-training/

A greyscale image. A silhouette of a man, looking into the mist. He is wearing a hat. We see him from behind, sharing his perspective.

Cornerstone of the Outer Monastery. Notes towards a manifesto, a pattern language, generative guidelines for a network of places where we can grow our own worlds.

#proposition #zibaldone #quietplaces #superject #hermitage #attention #introspection #anarchiving

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/cornerstone/

A room within a room. several rooms in the same space. wooden ceilings. wooden floors. ferns. windows overlooking new worlds.

Convivia & Refugia. On making places for connection, imagination and transformation.

#refuge #sanctuary #solitude #conviviality #shapeshifting #hopewithoutoptimism #anarchiving

https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/convivia-refugia/

A reflection of a reflection. sky. metal. a copper sculpture twisting outwards.

Equinox greetings, with a vernal soundtrack by @Lowdjo 🌱

Listen > https://fo.am/blog/2023/03/20/viridian-virescent/

#anarchiving #soundtrack #green #viriditas #spring #equinox #ostara #🌱

A conversation between @theun and Frank Heckman of The Embassy of the Earth, who just returned from a recent White Mountain Future Search in Tanzania, about hosting this Massai led initiative to regenerate landscapes and livelihoods.

https://fo.am/blog/2023/03/06/hosting-in-unruly-situations/

#anarchiving #hosting #futuresearch #whitemountain #flow #embassyoftheearth

At the start of meteorological spring, with plants and animals awakening from their winter slumber, let's talk about Zoöps.

https://fo.am/blog/2023/03/01/zoop-the-practice-of-zoonomy/

#anarchiving #zoöp #zoönomy #regenerativeeconomy #multispecies #morethanhuman #institutionbuilding

A recipe to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the devastating 1983 Ash Wednesday Bushfires in Australia, written by our friends at The Center for Genomic Gastronomy.

"Firebreak Banana Bread is a transitional recipe. It sits in the cracks between the legacy of the globalized commodity food system and the ongoing climate emergency. It has three main ingredients. An annual grass, a perennial herb and a perennial tree."

https://fo.am/blog/2023/02/22/firebreak-banana-bread-an-edible-timeline/

#anarchiving #AshWednesday #AshWednesdayBushfires #SmokeTaintedWheat #FoodSecurityThroughObscurity #BiodiversityOfTheKitchen #FoodForestFantasies #AirGappedAgriculture #firebreak #bananabread #wildfires

🥂 Laissez les bons temps rouler! 🍻

https://fo.am/blog/2023/02/21/down-the-wormhole/

#mardigras2023 #anarchiving #cocktails #goodtimes #carnival #hospitality

"Calibrating where to land in the space between now and the future you’re transporting your audience to takes careful consideration. Start as you mean to go on."
—Scott Smith @changeist

https://fo.am/blog/2023/02/20/calibrating-experiences-of-the-future/

#anarchiving #howtofuture #changeist #designfiction #experientialfutures #walknotrun

"Imagining what happens when Utopia and Dystopia embrace and dance, intertwined with imagined everyday lives, that is the form of futuring that we like to do." —Time's Up

https://fo.am/blog/2023/02/14/arts-thinking-in-a-vuca-world/

@TimesUp

#anarchiving #futuring #artsthinking #socialdreamers #futurescenarios #experientialfutures #physicalnarratives

In a conversation with Maya Weeks, Dave Griffiths of Then Try This talks about everything from Sonic Kayaks to re-envisioning citizen science as a way to distribute research skills beyond academia and affect local policy.

https://fo.am/blog/2023/01/29/recovering-experts/

@nebogeo
@thentrythis

#anarchiving #sonickayaks #Cornwall #citizenscience #viruscraft #accesslab #farmcrapapp #evidencesupportinitiative #thentrythis

As green comet C/2022 E3 passes overhead, we're releasing 'Green: Multispecies Entanglings', a reader from FoAM's Anarchive. 🌱 Planted firmly on the Earth, contributors explore how we relate to the plants, animals, landscapes, and other beings with whom we share our planet. 🌍 Blending shades of green to paint possible futures where gardening and gathering, fieldwork and storytelling, contemplation and experimentation foster reciprocal relationships with the living world. Nobody walks the path alone. 🗺️

https://anarchive.fo.am/green/

#anarchiving #environment #climatechange #multispecies #gardening #fieldwork #viriditas #thalience #luminousgreen #groworld #naturalfarming #sonickayaks #farmcrapapp #swampineverybackyward #mud #swamp #bog #seedballs #soil #solarpunk #vegetalcity #zandmotor #zoop #borrowedscenery #augmentedecology #machinewilderness #rootedhauntology #patabotany #gurukulabotanicalsanctuary #permaculture #boskoi #psychogeography #urbanforaging #notfitforstatistics #humanplantinteraction #gotellthecrows #geoengineering #terrafiction

"... the manifesto is confident and totalising, performing an authority it does not fully possess. It uses this confidence to bring imagined futures to life in the present. [...] It is a form fit for the challenges ahead, capable of sketching new visions and bringing urgent causes to light. "
— @julian & Simone Ashby

https://fo.am/blog/2023/01/24/with-all-caveats/

#anarchiving #navigatinguncertainty #manifesto #unmanifesto #futures #futuring

Rachid Tahri, self-described "antifragile postman" speaks about the relationship between bodily movement and the earth.

"I have an intimate relationship with the ground because I'm standing on my hands every day. When I squat, I'm already closer to the Earth. When there is intimate contact with the ground, it is no longer my enemy and I relax."

https://fo.am/blog/2023/01/17/walk-with-me/

Interview by Cocky Eek.

#anarchiving #handstand #walking #newyearsresolutions #januaryfitnesschallenge

When our resolve is put to the test by the relentless grind of the everyday, Rasa Alksnyte reminds us "to care, with care, for care".

"did I mention patience already? and the pleasant boredom that might come with it? how to touch and comfort someone in pain? how to deal with exhaustion? how to embrace failures and mistakes? how to let go? and let go. and let go..."
—Rasa Alksnyte

#anarchiving #care #time #resolution #bluemonday #letgo

https://fo.am/blog/2023/01/15/to-care-with-care-for-care/

In a gentle invocation of daylight's return, Alkan Chipperfield's musings draw us into moments of infinite vastness and glimmering light...

"Last night it rained and the wind blustered; in my restless sleep I became aware of a muffled pattering on the skylights, and saw the snow banked up on them; the first of the year, now mostly melted. And the dreams again."

https://fo.am/blog/2023/01/11/where-the-fireflies-glowed-and-flickered/

#anarchiving #winter #kagamibiraki #fireflies #invocation

A sonic Räucherwerk closing circles and scrying paths through the nascent year. Futures written in wisps of smoke. On the last of the twelve Raunächte, this is a soundtrack to banish demons and summon daemons. Quadrantid meteorite dust trailing off Befana's broom. Anger distilled into crystal clear discernment. New Year's resolutions shattering into scores of micro revolutions. Shards of grace for graceless times.

#anarchiving #soundtrack #lowdjo #foam

https://hearthis.at/lowdjo/raucherwerk/

#anarchiving

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