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-**feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at http galleryx, london uk autumn/winter 2008** +**feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, london uk, autumn/winter 2008. A platform for presentation for feral trade goods and protocols; and an exploration of food service as communications system, this research involves testing the regulatory limits and political contexts of food service, and the resources, required, human and otherwise, to run it. **  
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 +Feral Trade [[http://feraltrade.org]] 
 +HTTP [[http://www.http.uk.net]]
  
 ===== CAFE motives, structure and infrastructure ===== ===== CAFE motives, structure and infrastructure =====
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   * Motives for opening a cafe as an art project.   * Motives for opening a cafe as an art project.
  
-HTTP  [[http://www.http.uk.net]] is located in the back of beyond from the point of  +Practical 
-view of its visitors. + 
-It would like to give exhibition goers something more to chew on, such as   +HTTP is located in the back of beyond - a business park in the residential London borough of Harringay [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harringay]] from the point of view of its visitors.  
 +They would like to give exhibition goers something more to chew on, such as   
 sustenance and conviviality, space for contemplation, information and reading. sustenance and conviviality, space for contemplation, information and reading.
 Elongate visit. Elongate visit.
  
 Useful service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood is Useful service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood is
-changing, it's a way of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and +changing, it's is a way of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and 
 open, a softer and more everyday interface than the gallery.  open, a softer and more everyday interface than the gallery. 
 +
 +Conceptual 
  
     Demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology: so many shops deal with just money.     Demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology: so many shops deal with just money.
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     capitalism. Feral Trade is an economy based on other peoples' activities and how you     capitalism. 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.     get from A to B. Even at this small scale it has a polemic value.
 +
 +[[feral_trade_economy]]
  
   * income scenarios    * income scenarios 
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     Use existing premises regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or          Use existing premises regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or     
-    compliance. Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research result / art project. +    compliance. Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project. 
  
 ===== HTTP structure  ===== ===== HTTP structure  =====
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   -    Tea from Bangladesh (TBC)   -    Tea from Bangladesh (TBC)
   -    Cola from Bristol.   -    Cola from Bristol.
- +  -    Salt from Gujarat
  
   Other organisational contenders   Other organisational contenders
   -    Fo.am Brussels. Grappa, Latvian cured meats, computer chocolate biscuits.   -    Fo.am Brussels. Grappa, Latvian cured meats, computer chocolate biscuits.
   -    Mejor Vida Corporation, Mexico City. Hot chocolate   -    Mejor Vida Corporation, Mexico City. Hot chocolate
-  -    Irational.org  food for free apple mush +  -    Irational.org, Bristol. Food for Free apple mush 
  
 ===== OUTPUTS ===== ===== OUTPUTS =====
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