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- | === feasability study for sustained sustenance: feral trade cafe at http === | + | **feasability study for sustained sustenance: |
- | ===== HTTP ===== | + | Feral Trade [[http:// |
+ | HTTP [[http:// | ||
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+ | ===== CAFE motives, structure and infrastructure | ||
- | * official structure, business plan, revenue model. | + | * Motives |
- | Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett (unincorporated partnership). Tax entity, overheads & PAYE. | + | |
- | HTTP and Furtherfield are not for profits with written constitutions. | + | |
- | Furtherfield has an advisory board and is funded by ACE. | + | |
- | HTTP is a furtherfield.org | + | |
+ | Practical | ||
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+ | 1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond - a business park in the residential London borough of Harringay [[http:// | ||
+ | A cafe would give exhibition visitors something to chew on to accompany the art, such as | ||
+ | sustenance and conviviality; | ||
+ | Elongate visit. | ||
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+ | 2. A service for local residents and studio occupants. A way of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and open, a softer and more everyday interface than the gallery. The neighbourhood is changing - cafe would be an interface to that. | ||
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+ | Conceptual | ||
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+ | Demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology. | ||
+ | Promote free processes and experiences other than those governed by hegemonic global | ||
+ | capitalism. So many shops deal with just money. Feral Trade is an economy based on | ||
+ | other peoples' | ||
+ | Even at this small scale it has a polemic value. | ||
+ | [[feral_trade_economy]] | ||
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+ | Financial | ||
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+ | Profit is not a motive for the cafe, which opens up the territory considerably. | ||
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+ | * income scenario | ||
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+ | All transactions logged and accounted for. | ||
+ | The cafe would be designed as financially self sufficient, although seed funding agreed as probable. | ||
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+ | Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms. | ||
+ | It operates in an absence of the principle of least effort, | ||
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+ | The investment is in the network. | ||
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+ | * hours of operation, visitor patterns, winter plan | ||
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+ | Gallery hours are currently 12-5PM Fri-Sun, possibly extending to Thurs. | ||
+ | Current average 15-20 visitors per weekend, mainly arriving via Manor House tube. | ||
+ | There is no cafe between the tube and HTTP although it is possible to take a | ||
+ | detour to Costa Coffee, a commercial chain in the business mall on Green Lanes. | ||
+ | (Portuguese cafe in the other direction has cheap and good espresso and a largely Portuguese clientele). | ||
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+ | The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows. | ||
+ | The gallery has an exhibit approximately 3/4 of the year. | ||
+ | There are gaps between shows. In winter and gaps, the distributed library [[http:// | ||
+ | Trade cafe could occupy the gallery space. People would visit for the library, or for meetings. | ||
+ | Library visitor numbers are low but it's the intensity of the experience that counts. | ||
+ | It would be a coup to overcome geography and keep the cafe open in winter. | ||
+ | Without affecting global warming. | ||
+ | Patio bonfires are worth looking into. | ||
- | **CAFE** | ||
- | * motivations | ||
- | * income scenarios (on/off books) | ||
- | * seed- or self-funding | ||
- | * hrs of operation, winter plan - patio fire - | ||
- | * visitors: gallery visitors/ | ||
- | * visitor profile: current average numbers, travel and rival refreshments, | ||
- | * physical setup: service and storage spaces, equipment investment, utensil choices | ||
* caretaking: human resources as they currently stand | * caretaking: human resources as they currently stand | ||
- | * preparation, | ||
- | * automation options | ||
- | * vending options | ||
- | * regulatory scenarios: use existing premises regulations as a template/ | ||
- | * landlord relations, liability | ||
+ | When the gallery is open, there is someone always available to respond to visitors. | ||
+ | Saturday and Sunday have dedicated invigilation, | ||
+ | Currently Ale (Furtherfiled administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sunday there is a paid invigilator. | ||
- | **MENU** | + | Hazards: At what scale would the cafe interfere with the basic running of other office activity? |
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+ | **Service:** preparation, | ||
+ | Cafe service role would be rotated amongst present core personnel. | ||
+ | This kind of distributed culture is integral to the way Furtherfield works as a group. | ||
+ | [[http:// | ||
+ | Cafe service should be continuous with / accessory to natural office life and disinvest food service of any lowered status. Instead advance tea and coffee service as a communications medium or active interpretation of aristotlean ideas of [[householding]], | ||
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+ | **Management: | ||
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+ | Weekly stock management would be 1 person' | ||
+ | probably Ale who deals with this kind of thing anyway. | ||
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+ | * physical setup: service and storage spaces, equipment investment, utensil choices | ||
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+ | Initial investment would be an advantage (equipment, utensils, presentation media). | ||
+ | Stock would be expected to cover itself. | ||
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+ | Decking that runs along the side of HTTP building would be prime seating area. Sound the landlord out on this between rent payments. | ||
+ | Landlord relations are distantly friendly. There is a janitor who keeps a close eye | ||
+ | on the compound. If landlord rejects decking plans, the parking spaces in front are | ||
+ | formally HTTP' | ||
+ | Is the back garden an alt possibility? | ||
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+ | Liability would need to be thought through or ignored. | ||
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+ | * publicity | ||
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+ | Cafe would have its own publicity strand as a HTTP project. | ||
+ | Also promoted as background for exhibitions. | ||
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+ | * operating models (positive and negative) | ||
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+ | Cafe Kino [[http:// | ||
+ | Run by a collective of artists etc who also run the Here Shop/ | ||
+ | High proportion of customers are from their extended social networks & probably live | ||
+ | within a few blocks. People go there for the sociability, | ||
+ | good products, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social | ||
+ | networks. | ||
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+ | Leila' | ||
+ | http:// | ||
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+ | ===== REGULATION ===== | ||
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+ | Use existing [[uk_premises_regulations]] as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or compliance. | ||
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+ | Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project. | ||
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+ | ===== HTTP structure | ||
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+ | * Current conditions | ||
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+ | Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett, a partnership and tax entity, deals with rent and overheads, PAYE etc. | ||
+ | HTTP is a [[http:// | ||
+ | HTTP & Furtherfield are not for profits, with written constitutions. | ||
+ | Furtherfield has an advisory board and is funded by Arts Council England. | ||
+ | HTTP is located in a business arena zoned as mixed / live-work. | ||
- | * curatorial guidelines | ||
- | * food sources: search existing http networks for producers | ||
- | * new networks: city farm, green roof, guerilla garden and allotment relations | ||
- | * considerations: | ||
- | * integrate feral trade core aims | ||
- | * source and transport via organisational networks, use current affiliations and transits plus promote new ones (grocery callouts to allied orgs) | ||
- | * standard form for visiting artists/ | ||
- | * limits of biscuit | ||
- | * commissioning foods, seasonality | ||
- | * writeability: | ||
- | * staples: coffee, tea, milk, sugar, cola, ' | ||
- | * emergency sale items | ||
- | * cultivation | ||
- | * under the counter other | ||
+ | ===== MENU ===== | ||
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+ | * Curatorial guidelines | ||
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+ | Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu) | ||
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+ | - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters [[uk_premises_regulations]] | ||
+ | - shelf life / perishability | ||
+ | - the facility of the food item to host information | ||
+ | - information on source, relations with land, embodied by the transport of its produce | ||
+ | - information on carriage, netowrk relations, trade relations of delivery, embodied by courier. | ||
+ | - seasonality | ||
+ | - locality. | ||
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+ | the village, to a shared set of connections with known transit routes, | ||
+ | like the scale-free hubs of the internet. | ||
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+ | [[common_products]] | ||
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+ | The commodity (as object produced for sale on the market) conceals its relationships | ||
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+ | human relations, although including possibly unpleasant ones: Peter Linebaugh.) | ||
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+ | [[tea_from_bangladesh]] | ||
+ | As opposed to the singularised picture of producer which overriders other relations | ||
+ | [[http:// | ||
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+ | [[breakdown_of_expenses]] | ||
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+ | Feral Trade opens up food-labelling as a platform for discussion and adaptation, as VS | ||
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+ | the type of truth claim propagated by fresh ' | ||
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+ | menu items via sell/ | ||
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+ | ultra short seasons. | ||
+ | Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable, | ||
+ | and include a section for items not in stock eg. in negotiation or pending. | ||
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+ | to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones. Documenting these journeys and | ||
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+ | of origin or source, to a broader ecology of supply. | ||
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+ | Cream tea variations. | ||
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+ | Feral Trade staples start menu. | ||
+ | - Coffee from El Salvador | ||
+ | - Tea from Bangladesh (TBC) | ||
+ | - Cola from Bristol. | ||
+ | - Salt from Gujarat | ||
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+ | Other organisational contenders | ||
+ | - Fo.am Brussels. Grappa, Latvian cured meats, computer chocolate biscuits. | ||
+ | - Mejor Vida Corporation, | ||
+ | - Irational.org, | ||
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+ | ===== OUTPUTS ===== | ||
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- | **OUTPUTS** | + | |
- | * local: table menu of contents / protocols / products; launch/ | + | external: present at fo.am open sauces in brussels in november as part of public diet |
- | * external: present at fo.am open sauces | + | |