| MIXED GOODS: | 2 giant boxes feral robotic dogs
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| REMARKS: | transport from arnolfini supertoys exhibition, bristol back to their maker natalie jeremijenko in new york |
| FROM: |
Arnolfini in Bristol, UK
http://arnolfini.org.uk |
| TO: |
West 29th Street in New York, USA
http:// |
| SENDER: | kate rich |
| RECEIVER: | natalie jeremijenko |
| REQUESTED: | to ship between 14/01/09 and 19/02/09 |
| STATUS: | delivered West 29th Street 19/02/09 |
| MAP | route map |
| www.feraltrade.org |
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COURIER:
 kate rich
natalie jeremijenko
rasha shaheen
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| TOTAL ROUTE:
Arnolfini-Bristol airport-Newark Liberty airport-Newark Penn Station-New York--West 29th Street |
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| mixed goods Arnolfini to West 29th Street
1. feral dox boxes transshipment newark airportjpg 2. feral dog boxes newark terminal b arrivals |
| | Courier Report FER-1474 DISPATCHED: 17/02/09 DELIVERED: 19/02/09 kate rich dogs boxed in bubblewrap by arnolfini technician mark harris, leaving space for kate rich personal goods to cotravel. boxes designed to each meet continental baggage limits of 62 linear inches and 23kg per item. boxed dogs departed arnolfini 17/2, transported in taxi to the cube microplex where they overnighted in the corridor. 730AM pickup courtesy driver rasha shaheen, driving courier and dogs to bristol airport. 1 GBP trolley fee to wheel boxes from departures drop off point to check in queue. rasha reparked in short term parking and attempted to join courier in the queue but was banished by the US border official who then interrogated kate rich on travel and identity details. box contents declaration as toy robotic dogs left chekin officials unphased. continental airlines eastern european desk agent discretely upgraded courier to frequent flyer elite' status to allow the 2 items to be checked without excess charge. delivered mini-artist talk to oversized items checkin agent on the dogs' ability to sniff out and converge in a pack on concentration gradients of environmental toxins such as neighborhood drycleaners. after rasha's departure, successfully rearranged other items to appear to fit in 1 bag and cleared security without incident. 1015AM continental departure to newark, new jersey departed on time, watched bullit and read a hardback thriller about environmental justice. landing at newark 13h was ultra turbulent, threw up. approximately 1 hour to transit S immigration which requires now 2 thumbprints and 2x4 fingerprints of all non-US arrivals. picked up dogs boxes from luggage carousel, cleared customs without incident. just prior to bag recheck area, opened boxes, removed personal non-dog items and repacked, to then recheck 2 entirely different bags for the connecting flight to LA later in the day. recheck agents were entirely sympathetic to bag repack action, strangely.
exited security area 15h and phoned natalie, then holed up in terminal b arrivals area at the payphone opposite starbucks to recover from bad flight motion with giant green tea. natalie arrived 16h in a car service, dogs went in the trunk then we circled airport for a while in the back seat having work meeting, altough the car was clocking up 50 dollars per hour so the meeting was kept brief. courier dropped off at terminal C departures, dogs departed by car/train to manhattan |
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| freight and handling mixed goods to West 29th Street sponsored by |
| | FERALTRADE products passed by hand. The word 'feral' describes a process that is deliberately wild, as in pigeon, as opposed to nature wild (wolf). Feral Trade freight operates largely outside commercial channels, using the surplus potential of social, cultural and data networks for the distribution of goods. contact kate@feraltrade.org |
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mixed goods ferally traded since: .
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