Marc Fischer – “The People’s Archive Barges”

The People’s Archive Barges as imagined by Marc Fischer, One of fifteen islands fabricated by Greg Sholette based on ideas proposed by invited collaborators, Mixed media, 2012

Hi Greg,

So theoretically one could land on these archive barges and just move from one unit to the next with each containing a different personal collection and experience. They could read on them, handle documents, listen to recordings, or otherwise engage with private collections that normally go unused and unseen.

- Marc Fischer

Marc Fischer is a co-founder of Temporary Services and runs Public Collectors, the virtual and actual home to numerous cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect, or do not make freely accessible.

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