Bookend Courier

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Savings and [Distributed] Loans

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Savings and [Distributed] Loans

The speculative concept involves only shipping objects one-way and thus cutting transportation in half. In other words, you leave your objects wherever you loan them and store the objects in the nearest storage facility that meets your standards. You dispense with the idea that they return to a “home” institution immediately.

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Cognitive Dissonance and Traveling Collections, Part 2

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Cognitive Dissonance and Traveling Collections, Part 2

To try to provoke thought and initiate change, I devised some options that try to disincentivize loans – or, conversely, incentivize not shipping – in order to preserve objects as well as to reduce the large carbon footprints that they exude.

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Cognitive Dissonance and Traveling Collections

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Cognitive Dissonance and Traveling Collections

If we acknowledge that it is safer for an object to remain at its institution, then why do we loan it to other institutions? If we acknowledge that it is more environmentally sustainable for an object to remain at its institution, then why do we loan it to other institutions? If we acknowledge that it is cheaper not to borrow objects for exhibitions, then why do we borrow it at great expense?

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Economic Eclipse

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Economic Eclipse

The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed widespread suffering on people, labor, and budgets around the world for well over a year now. Amidst all the friction between seemingly binary choices, it has also sparked some creative fires in our art and artifact wilderness that appear to acknowledge that this extraordinary moment aligns economic incentives with sustainability practices like a summer solstice on a clear day at Stonehenge.

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The Third Party 2: Venue Screening

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The Third Party 2: Venue Screening

Pre-screening a venue will become an increasingly important action to outsource to a local third party to not only better understand the conditions of the exhibition and storage spaces but also to get a general sense of the personnel that will handle your loan and installation.

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The Third Party 1: The Bookend Courier

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The Third Party 1: The Bookend Courier

Depending on insurance, object value, condition, and/or indemnity requirements, hiring third party supervisors to serve as a bookend couriers* may improve care, prove more economical than airfare/hotel/per diem required for traditional couriers, and radically reduce the carbon footprints.

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