Gudrun Lock Shoreham Repository is an experimental archive focused on the interstitial world of the buffers of Shoreham Yards in Northeast Minneapolis. Created and compiled between 2019 and 2023, it was acquired by the James K. Hosmer Special Collections Department of the Minneapolis Central Library in March 2024. The archive is available to the public, can be added to over time, and will be maintained in perpetuity. It houses exhibition ephemera, corporate reports, data sets, maps, illustrations, photographs, artworks, personal notes and observations, books that inspired the project, plant pressings, four pairs of degraded men’s underpants, found objects such as rocks, seed pods and debris, a Dakota language poem and short experimental film produced by three collaborators: Liz Cates, Gloria, and Stefon Leron Alexander. Additional data sets, artworks and writings included in the archive were created/collected by Miranda Trimmier, Dave Zumeta, Stuart McLean, Elizabeth Workman, Leslie Grant, Hallie Bahn, Jeffrey Skemp, Janet Lobberecht, Greg Feinberg, Chad Giblin, Kathryn Savage, Jessica Rossi Mastracci, Alicia Johnson, Xiating Chen and others

The archive statement is here, the key here, Elizabeth Workman wrote about it here. This grant report by Jessica Rossi-Mastracci is included in Shoreham Repository.

East Side Buffer, Central Ave NE from 29th Ave to St. Anthony Parkway

All objects were found on site. Handling of photographs is recommended. Contains:

  1. Mother Mary head from Christmas yard display

  2. Snapshots with handwritten comments on the backs

  3. French hair conditioner

  4. Sealed condom packet

  5. Nail polish (one of 8 found)

  6. Empty methadone bottle (one of 6 found)

  7. Liquid nicotine canister

  8. Empty Bomb Pop wrapper

  9. Photograph of the cover of of a DVD case, Policing the Police, from Hennepin County Public Library

Northern Buffer, “Soo-Line Dump”, St. Anthony Parkway, south of Columbia Golf Course

All objects were found on site. Handling of photographs is recommended. Contains:

  1. Piece of concrete

  2. Snapshots with handwritten comments on the backs

  3. Slag

  4. Concrete with embedded slag

  5. Asphalt

  6. Slag clinker

  7. Photos

  8. Golfball

  9. Snapshots of insects documented on site with handwritten comments on the backs

South Side Buffer, 27th Ave. NE from Monroe St to 6th St NE

All objects were found on site. Handling of photographs is recommended. Contains:

  1. Photograph of book cover, Getting the Most Out of Life, An Anthology from Reader’s Digest, 1946

  2. Grains of wheat that fell off passing train cars

  3. Taconite pellets that fell off passing train cars

  4. Empty bottle of vodka found on site

  5. Snapshots with handwritten comments on the backs

  6. Snapshots with handwritten comments on the backs

  7. Remains of a sunflower

  8. Arugula seeds from Shoreham Community Garden