COURIER:
 willy le maitre
kate rich
kate rich
rasha shaheen
jenna didier
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Toronto airport-Calgary Airport-Banff Centre-Vancouver Airport-Western Front-Vancouver station-Emeryville station-San Francisco ferry building-Fell Street-San Francisco airport-Newark Liberty airport-Cube Microplex-Bristol airport-Newark Liberty airport-LAX Los Angeles airport-Los Angeles Union Station--Materials & Applications |
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| mixed goods Cube Microplex to Materials & Applications
1. checkin bristol airport 2. mixed goods transhipment newark airport 3. m and a groceries arrive 4. groceries bag m and a frontdoor 5. english groceries stacked LA 6. english groceries to LA |
| | Courier Report FER-1475 DISPATCHED: 18/02/09 DELIVERED: 18/02/09 kate rich assorted british rations including cheese scones, teacakes, chocolate ginger biscuits and pikelets from Marks & Spencers, champagne truffles, parsnip and cheddar crisps, 'gentlemans relish' anchovy butter and palestinian dates, packed in and around bags and boxes also containing a consignment of robotic dogs (FER-1474) shipping from bristol to new york (FER-1475), 4 bags coffee heading for canada & trader's personal effects.
Feb 18th departed cube 730AM courtesy driver rasha shaheen who offered to drive to bristol airport. experienced a reasonably smooth transit through check in queue where travellers are routinely interrogated by US border officals with wheeled laptops on their identity, history and travel arrangements although they did ask me if i packed the robotic dogs myself. continental airlines' eastern european desk agent discretely upgraded courier to frequent flyer 'elite' status, to allow 2 giant boxes to be checked in without excess charges. delivered mini-artist talk on robot dog artist natalie jeremijenko's behalf to the oversized items desk agent, explaining the modified toy dogs' capacity to sniff out and converge in a pack on concentration gradients of common environmental toxins such as neighborhood drycleaners, after which boxes departed on baggage conveyer belt. rearranged other items to appear as 1 carry-on 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 called water inc. landing at newark 13h was ultra turbulent, threw up. it took approximately 1 hour to transit US immigration which requires now 2 thumbprints and 2 sets of 4 fingerprints from all non-US arrivals. picked up boxes from the luggage carousel, cleared customs and just prior to the bag recheck area, repacked, removing dogs and boxes to recheck 2 entirely different bags for the connecting flight to LA. exited security area 15h and phoned natalie jeremijenko who was on amtrak to the airport to receive dogs consignment. 16h rendevouzed with natalie and car service car opposite terminal B starbucks and the dogs departed in car trunk for manhattan.
After that, courier re-traversed Newark Liberty airport security and waited at gate C-105 for the 1825h Continental airlines departure to Los Angeles, takeoff turbulence was thankfully minimal. Flew smoothly over USA with surprisingly edible hindu meal served, definite markup on the burger thing in regular meal service. landed ultra early 21h at LAX, picked up bags from the carousel and caught the LA flyer bus from arrivals green zone to Union station. After a payphone phone call jenna didier picked up then exhausted courier by truck, transported to M&A where the groceries were unpacked to rounds of applause. |
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| onward transit of FER-1478 from Toronto airport arrived Cube Microplex 2009-04-25 |
kate rich Departed Banff 730 sunday march 29 in Susan Kennard's car, drive through risky snowstorm to calgary took 2.5 hours. Bags were dropped at downtown Sandman hotel while courier met with some curators. Overnighted at sandman then midday shuttle to Calgary airport, plane to Vancouver & taxi to Western Front Gallery where mixed goods & courier stayed in guest residence for 1 week. Departed Western Front on foot 430AM mon march 6th downhill to Calgary station, for Amtrak bus trip to Seattle. At the US border, unloaded bags from bus and walked them through US immigration who asked questions about decade previous employment in the US. Crossed successfully reboarding bus for the 2 hours further drive to Seattle. Dragged bags from bus into the station and onto Amtrak train for the 24 hr ride south to San Francisco. Alighted the following morning at Emeryville, Amtrak thruway bus to (... tbc)
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mixed goods transit: Toronto airport to Cube Microplex
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| freight and handling mixed goods to Materials & Applications 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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