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Between October 2000
and May 2001 the Millennium Collection toured around the country
in a converted London Taxi Cab, exhibiting the collection in the
unusual, but entirely appropriate, venues of Car Boot Sales.
Car Boot Sales in muddy
fields, wildlife parks and race courses, car boot sales in cattle
markets, car parks and airfields. We visited Bristol, Preston,
York, Brighton, Cambridge, Corby, Lowestoft, Ross on Wye, Arundel,
Hounslow and Wimbledon.
The things not worth
keeping were handled, discussed, bidded for, laughed over and
debated. We were on the road through three seasons, including
New Year's Eve in the snow and we had to change dates due to severe
flooding and foot and mouth.
We now feel something
approaching experts on the car booting cultural phenomenon and
came to see ourselves as taking part, at times, in a kind of group
show exploring models of recycleable economies.
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