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- | == feasability study for sustained sustenance: Feral Trade Cafe at http gallery | + | **feasability study for sustained sustenance: |
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- | ===== HTTP structure, business plan, financial model ===== | ||
- | Current conditions | + | Feral Trade http:// |
- | + | HTTP http://www.http.uk.net | |
- | Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett (unincorporated partnership). | + | |
- | Tax entity, deals with rent and overheads, PAYE. | + | |
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- | Furtherfield has an advisory board and is funded by ACE. | + | |
- | HTTP is a furtherfield.org project. | + | |
- | HTTP compound is zoned a s mixed / live-work. | + | |
===== CAFE motives, structure and infrastructure ===== | ===== CAFE motives, structure and infrastructure ===== | ||
- | Motives for opening a cafe as an art project. | + | * Motives for opening a cafe as an art project. |
- | 1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond from the point of view of its visitors. | + | Practical |
- | Would like to give exhibition goers something more to chew on, such as | + | |
- | sustenance and conviviality, | + | |
- | Elongate visit. | + | |
- | 2. Useful service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood | + | 1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond (an industrial estate in the residential London area of Haringey http:// |
- | changing, it's a way of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and | + | |
- | open, a softer | + | |
- | 3. Demonstrate an alternate economy | + | 2. A service for local residents |
- | Promote free processes and experiences other than those governed by hegemonic global | + | Conceptual |
- | capitalism. Feral Trade is an economy based on other peoples' | + | |
- | get from A to B. Even at this small scale it has a polemic value. | + | |
- | | + | http: The cafe will demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology that promotes 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' | ||
+ | activities and how you get from A to B. | ||
+ | Even at this small scale it has a polemic value. | ||
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+ | ((Feral Trade relies on a moving network of social connections for the transportation of goods. Trade managed through an intricate time-space-personal system covering thousands of miles, linking hundreds of people, like the Trobriand islanders of yore. The orderly distribution of goods via a variety of motives, of which gain is not prominent.)) | ||
- | All transactions logged and accounted for. | + | Economic |
- | The cafe would be designed as financially self sufficient, although application for seed funding from ACE London agreed as ok. A feral trade project: kate to put in the application, | + | |
- | Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms. | + | Profit is not a necessary motive - which opens up the operating territory considerably. |
- | The investment is in the network. | + | Although stock should still pay for itself plus provide a heady surplus for office consumption. Seed funding will be required for start-up equipment and utensils: HTTP or external. |
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+ | feral trade:Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms. | ||
+ | It operates in an absence of the principle of least effort which excludes it from | ||
+ | basic market measures of success. | ||
- | * hrs of operation, visitor patterns, winter plan | + | * hours of operation, visitor patterns, winter plan |
- | Gallery hours are currently 12-5PM | + | Gallery hours are currently 12-5PM |
- | Average 15-20 visitors per weekend. Mainly they arrive | + | Average 15-20 visitors per weekend, mainly arriving |
There is no cafe between the tube and HTTP although it is possible to take a | There is no cafe between the tube and HTTP although it is possible to take a | ||
- | detour to Costa Coffee. Portuguese cafe in the other direction. | + | detour to Costa Coffee, a commercial chain in the business mall on Green Lanes. |
+ | Portuguese cafe in the other direction | ||
- | | + | The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows. |
- | The gallery has an exhibit approximately 3/4 of the year. | + | The gallery has an exhibit approximately 3/4 of the year. |
- | There are gaps between shows. In winter and gaps, the distributed library and Feral | + | There are gaps between shows. In winter and gaps, the distributed library |
- | Trade cafe could occupy the gallery space. People would visit for the library, or for meetings. | + | 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. | + | Library visitor numbers are low but it's the intensity of the experience that counts. |
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- | It would be a coup to overcome geography and keep the cafe open in winter. | + | |
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- | Patio bonfires | + | Patio bonfires worth looking into. |
- | In winter it could be a kiosk, menu devised for creating heat or utilising refrigeration. | + | |
* caretaking: human resources as they currently stand | * caretaking: human resources as they currently stand | ||
- | | + | When the gallery is open, there is someone always available to respond to visitors. |
- | | + | Saturday |
- | Currently Ale (administration and coordination) does fri+sat, sun there is a paid invigilator. | + | Currently Ale (Furtherfield |
- | * roles for cafe: preparation, service, cash-taking, | + | Hazards: The main anticipated hazard is success, with too many customers impacting staffing. |
+ | At what scale would the cafe interfere with other office activity? | ||
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- | This kind of distributed culture is integral to the way Furtherfield works as a group. | + | |
- | Cafe service should be continuous with natural office life. Disinvest food service of | + | |
- | lowered status, advance tea and coffee service as a communications medium. | + | |
- | Weekly stock management | + | **Service: |
- | | + | 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 natural office life, disinvesting refreshment service of any separate lowered status. [[householding]] | ||
+ | **Management: | ||
+ | probably Ale who deals with this kind of thing anyway. | ||
* physical setup: service and storage spaces, equipment investment, utensil choices | * physical setup: service and storage spaces, equipment investment, utensil choices | ||
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+ | Initial investment for equipment, utensils, presentation media. | ||
+ | At a minimum, tables, chairs, umbrellas and signage to communicate cafe presence to the nighbourhood. | ||
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- | Decking. Sound the landlord out on this between rent payments. | + | The decking along the side of HTTP building is potential cafe seating area, although in terms of afternoon sun gets a total eclipse. HTTP to sound the landlord out on decking |
- | Landlord relations are distantly friendly. There is a janitor who keeps a close eye | + | 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 | + | on the compound. If landlord rejects decking plans, the parking spaces in front are |
- | | + | formally |
- | Is the back garden an alt possibility? | + | |
- | Liability would need to be thought through | + | Liability would need to be thought through |
* publicity | * publicity | ||
- | | + | Cafe would have its own publicity strand as a HTTP project, as well as being promoted as background for exhibitions. |
- | Also promoted as background for exhibitions. | + | |
- | * operating | + | * other models (positive and negative) |
- | Cafe Kino in Bristol. Vegetarian | + | Cafe Kino http://www.cafe-kino.com/ |
- | | + | Many of their customers are from their extended social networks, probably |
- | High proportion | + | within a few blocks |
- | within a few blocks | + | good tea/coffee, |
- | | + | networks.)) |
- | sense of investing in own social networks. | + | |
- | Leila' | + | Leila' |
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- | Individual collection of ingredients and served foods, seem to be sourced by social | + | |
- | guarantee / personal knowledge rather than by certification, | + | |
- | gravitas. Boutique aesthetics and gourmet territorial fortressing plus confident | + | |
- | overpricing is the anti-attraction, | + | |
- | barter, contribution etc. Hard to tell if the hospitality feels real or staged. | + | |
- | ===== | + | ===== HTTP structure |
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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 use (typically integrating residential, | ||
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+ | ===== REGULATORY STRUCTURE ===== | ||
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+ | [[uk_premises_regulations]] | ||
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+ | Use existing regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or compliance. | ||
+ | Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project. | ||
+ | http:// | ||
- | Use existing premises regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or | ||
- | compliance. Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research result / art project. | ||
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===== MENU ===== | ===== MENU ===== | ||
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- | Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu) | + | * Stock Options |
- | Stock considerations include: regulatory perimeters, shelf life (perishability), | + | All menu items should be also available to buy as take-home groceries, where possible. |
- | | + | Stock selection |
- | Selection | + | |
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- | trade relations with source, trade relations of delivery (embodied by courier). | + | |
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- | to a shared set of connections plus swift transit routes | + | |
- | like the scale-free hubs of the internet. | + | |
+ | - shelf life: avoid sales incentive or waste | ||
+ | - the facility of the food item to reveal information ((The commodity, | ||
+ | as object produced for sale on the market, conceals its relationships | ||
+ | except for the money relation. The product of the commons is filled with | ||
+ | human relations, including possibly unpleasant ones (Peter Linebaugh). | ||
+ | Commoning produces social relations in the form of commons, freely associated humanity. | ||
+ | Sarai Reader http:// | ||
+ | - information on source, relations with land, embodied by the transport of its produce | ||
+ | - information on carriage, network and delivery relations embodied by courier/s. | ||
+ | - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters | ||
+ | - seasonality, | ||
+ | - locality | ||
- | | + | All cafe goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu). |
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- | [[Common_products]] | + | * Information |
- | The commodity conceals its relations except for the money one; | + | Ingredients and products with questionable or complex ethics should be included on the menu, along with their product information. |
- | the product | + | to articulate a broader picture |
- | | + | [[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example. |
- | Open up food-labelling | + | |
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+ | * Other Menu Information | ||
- | | + | [[breakdown_of_expenses]]: |
- | via sell/ | + | |
+ | Cafe receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent of product information, | ||
- | Economy of miniaturisation. Enables hosting small batches/ | + | * Reciprocity |
- | Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable | + | |
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- | and list items currently unavailable, | + | |
+ | Read-write menu. Open to intervention from random vendors eg. customers can contribute | ||
+ | menu items via peddling stock (sale, trade or gift). | ||
- | Courier process. Use moving social networks including known and funded travel to HTTP | + | * Seasonality |
- | to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones. Journey and relationship | + | |
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- | of origin or source to the broader ecology of supply. | + | |
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+ | Economy of miniaturisation. Enables hosting small batches/ | ||
- | | + | * Localness |
- | Mejor Vida Corporation, | + | |
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- | Challenge fresh+wild | + | Expand the notion of localness beyond the territorial boundaries of the village |
+ | or nation state, | ||
+ | of connections and navigable routes like the scale-free hubs of the internet. | ||
+ | * Suppliers | ||
+ | Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks, commission or collect artists' | ||
- | Commission or collect artists' | + | * Delivery |
+ | Courier process. Use moving social networks including known and funded travel to HTTP | ||
+ | to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones, and document this process via the Feral Trade Courier database, http:// | ||
+ | Actively promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, local and foreign. | ||
- | Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks (cake, jams, herbs, sprouts) | + | * Regulations |
- | incl city farm and allotment, home cultivation. | + | |
+ | Regulatory limits: Define | ||
+ | * Basics: Feral Trade staples start menu. | ||
- | | + | - Coffee from El Salvador |
- | Cream tea variations. | + | - Tea from Bangladesh (TBC) |
+ | - Cola from Bristol. | ||
+ | - Salt from Gujarat | ||
+ | - Zaytoun olive oil and other products | ||
+ | http:// | ||
- | Feral Trade staples start menu. | + | * Other organisational contenders |
- | - Coffee from El Salvador | + | |
- | - Tea from Bangladesh (TBC) | + | |
- | - Cola from Bristol. | + | |
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- | ===== OUTPUTS ===== | + | - http:// |
+ | - Mejor Vida Corporation, | ||
+ | - Irational.org, | ||
- | proposed start time mid-september ( for jeremey bailey show) | + | Challenge fresh+wild to a duel. |
- | | + | ===== OUTPUTS ===== |
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- | + | ===== SHORT VERSION ===== | |
+ | Feral Trade cafe at HTTP gallery | ||
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+ | Feral Trade http:// | ||
+ | HTTP http:// | ||
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+ | HTTP gallery (media- and net-art) is a cultural minority in a mainly working | ||
+ | class / cafe free residential area of NE London. The cafe will start off very small | ||
+ | scale and is modelled as a means of extending natural office tea and coffee service | ||
+ | to gallery visitors and locals. It is not motivated by cash profit, although goods | ||
+ | should cover their own costs. | ||
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+ | All goods will be served with information about source and/or delivery, | ||
+ | including the materiality of cash transactions performed to procure them. | ||
+ | Visitors should be able to buy coffee etc either by the cup or in bags to | ||
+ | take home. | ||
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+ | The feral trade courier process uses moving social networks, including | ||
+ | known and funded cultural travel, to conduct international grocery | ||
+ | trade by primarily social means. In documenting this process it expands the | ||
+ | idea of food provenance beyond a gourmet-style fetishisation of origins, to | ||
+ | broader relationships of supply. | ||
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+ | The cafe hopes to promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, | ||
+ | local and foreign, and to expand a definition of localness beyond the | ||
+ | territorial boundaries of the village or state. | ||
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