Perhaps you took the time to stop by the Archiving Heaviness exhibit in the 013 basement at last year’s festival? The project set out to be a collection of objects, a museum space, and a living archive. Whether you visited, contributed, or are just now finding out about the whole concept, your thoughts on Roadburn will make a very welcome addition to this continuing project. 

Having collected memorabilia as well as oral histories relating to the festival, the Archiving Heaviness project – which is led by a heritage researcher and enthusiastic Roadburner – will evolve further this year, seeking to further capture the essence of Roadburn. If you’d like to contribute your thoughts, then you’ll find the crew posted up in the Spoorzone where they invite you to ponder on such questions as:

• What is Roadburn? Is this where you feel ‘belonging’?
• How does ‘heaviness’ strengthen this feeling?
• What do you make of this combination of ‘belonging’ and ‘heaviness’ as a form of mental, possibly spiritual, wellbeing?

Whether you opt to add a brief note in one of the “curious notebooks” that will be circulating or engage in a deeper, reflective conversation, your contributions are what make this archive so alive and so imbued with the spirit of Roadburn.