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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 conceptions of food provision and service, and the resources, human and otherwise, required to run it. **  
 + 
 +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    +1. 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.  
-sustenance and conviviality, space for contemplation, information and reading.+A cafe would give exhibition goers something more to chew on such as    
 +sustenance and conviviality; enriched space for contemplation, information and reading.
 Elongate visit. Elongate visit.
  
-Useful service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood is +2. A 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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     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.
  
-  * income scenarios + 
 +Financial 
 + 
 +[[feral_trade_economy]]  
 +Profit is not a motive, which opens up the terms of engagement considerably. 
 + 
 +  * income scenario 
  
 All transactions logged and accounted for. All transactions logged and accounted for.
-The cafe would be designed as financially self sufficient, although application for seed funding agreed as ok. +The cafe would be designed as financially self sufficient, although seed funding agreed as probable.
  
    Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms.    Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms.
 +   It operates in an absence of the principle of least effort,
 +   excluding it from basic capitalist forms of success. 
    The investment is in the network.     The investment is in the network. 
    
   * hrs of operation, visitor patterns, winter plan    * hrs of operation, visitor patterns, winter plan 
  
-Gallery hours are currently 12-5PM fri-sun, possibly extending to thurs. +Gallery hours are currently 12-5PM Fri-Sun, possibly extending to Thurs. 
-Average 15-20 visitors per weekend. Mainly they arrive via Manor House tube. +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  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 has cheap and good espresso and a largely Portuguese clientele).
  
 The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows. 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 [[http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib6/summer_of_folk.shtml]] and Feral 
 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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 When the gallery is open, there is someone always available to respond to visitors. When the gallery is open, there is someone always available to respond to visitors.
-Sat and sun have more dedicated invigilation, fri can be more hectic. +Saturday and Sunday have dedicated invigilation, Fridays can be more hectic. 
-Currently Ale (administration and coordination) does fri+sat, sun there is a paid invigilator. +Currently Ale (administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sunday there is a paid invigilator. 
  
-    * roles for cafe: preparation, service, cash-taking, cleaning up, stock management.+Hazards: At what scale would the cafe interfere with the basic running of other office activity?
  
-Cafe service role should be rotated amongst present core personnel. +    * roles for cafe.  
 + 
 +Service: preparation, waiting, cash-taking. 
 +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. 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 +[[http://www.furtherfield.org/about.php]] 
-lowered status, advance tea and coffee service as a communications medium.+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]], which can be defined as production for use as opposed to production for gain. 
  
-Weekly stock management would be 1 person's responsibility.  +Management: Feral Trade would remain involved in the politics and practicalities of supply. 
-Probably Ale who deals with this kind of thing anyway.+Weekly stock management would be 1 person's responsibility, 
 +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
  
-Initial investment would be an advantage.+Initial investment would be an advantage (equipment, utensils, presentation media). 
 +Stock would cover itself.
          
-Decking. Sound the landlord out on this between rent payments. +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  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 
-legally HTTP's, paid for within rent. Cafe could serve from here.+formally HTTP's, paid for within rent. Cafe could serve from here with guests seating themselves informally.
 Is the back garden an alt possibility? Is the back garden an alt possibility?
  
-    Liability would need to be thought through either way.+    Liability would need to be thought through or ignored.
  
   * publicity   * publicity
  
-Cafe would have its own publicity strand, as a HTTP project.+Cafe would have its own publicity strand as a HTTP project.
 Also promoted as background for exhibitions. Also promoted as background for exhibitions.
  
   * operating models (positive and negative)   * operating models (positive and negative)
  
-    Cafe Kino in Bristol. Vegetarian cafe, opens weekdays 11-5, longer on weekends. +    Cafe Kino [[http://www.cafe-kino.com/about/index.htm]], Bristol.  
-    Run by a collective of artists etc who also run the Here Shop and Gallery over the road. +    Run by a collective of artists etc who also run the Here Shop/Gallery over the road. 
-    High proportion of customers are their extended social networks who probably live  +    High proportion of customers are from their extended social networks & probably live  
-    within a few blocks. People go for the sociability, decor, free wireless,  +    within a few blocks. People go there for the sociability, decor, wifi,  
-    good tea and coffee, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social +    good products, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social 
     networks.      networks. 
  
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 =====  REGULATION ===== =====  REGULATION =====
  
-    Use existing premises regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or      +Use existing [[uk_premises_regulations]] as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or compliance.  
-    compliance. Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research result / art project. + 
 +    Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project. 
  
 ===== HTTP structure  ===== ===== HTTP structure  =====
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   * Current conditions   * Current conditions
  
-Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett (unincorporated partnership). Tax entity, deals with rent and overheads, PAYE. +Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett, a partnership and tax entity, deals with rent and overheads, PAYE etc. 
-HTTP & Furtherfield are not for profits with written constitutions. +HTTP is a [[http://furtherfield.org]] project. 
-Furtherfield has an advisory board and is funded by ACE. +HTTP & Furtherfield are not for profits, with written constitutions. 
-HTTP is a furtherfield.org project. +Furtherfield has an advisory board and is funded by Arts Council England. 
-HTTP compound is zoned as mixed / live-work.+HTTP is located in a business arena zoned as mixed / live-work.
  
    
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    Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu)    Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu)
  
-   Stock considerations include: regulatory perimeters, shelf life (perishability),  +   Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be  
-   network relations, the facility of the food item to host information. +   primary or exclusionary.    
-   Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. +   Stock considerations include 
-   These include seasonality, locality, information on source, information on carriage, + 
-   trade relations with source, trade relations of delivery (embodied by courier). +   - compliance with or skirting regulatory perimeters  
-  +   - shelf life / perishability 
-   +   - exploration of network relations 
-   Expand conception of localness beyond the territorial village model  +   - the facility of the food item to host information 
-   to a shared set of connections plus swift transit routes +   - information on source, relations with land, embodied by the transport of its produce 
 +   - information on carriage, trade relations of delivery, embodied by courier. 
 +   - seasonality 
 +   - locality.  
 + 
 +   Expand conception of localness beyond the territorially bounded, inland model of  
 +   the village, to a shared set of connections plus swift transit routes 
    like the scale-free hubs of the internet.     like the scale-free hubs of the internet. 
  
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    source information. The priority is to expanding the product monologue to articulate a     source information. The priority is to expanding the product monologue to articulate a 
    larger picture of the world it moves through.    larger picture of the world it moves through.
 +Eg. [[tea_from_bangladesh]]
  
 [[common_products]] [[common_products]]
  
-   The commodity conceals its relations except for the money one; +   The commodity (as object produced for sale on the market) conceals its relationships  
-   the product of the commons is filled with human relations, although including  +   except for the money relation; conversely the product of the commons is filled with  
-   possibly unpleasant ones: Peter Linebaugh.) +   human relations, although including possibly unpleasant ones: Peter Linebaugh.) 
  
 +[[breakdown_of_expenses]]
  
-   Open up food-labelling as a platform for discussion and adaptation, as VS righteous  +[[fair_trade_relations]] 
-   boasting and promotion of purity fetish. + 
 +   Feral Trade opens up food-labelling as a platform for discussion and adaptation, as VS  
 +   righteous boasting and promotion of purity fetishes. 
    Undercut profit-motivated product aryanism of fresh 'n' wild.    Undercut profit-motivated product aryanism of fresh 'n' wild.
  
    Read-write menu. Open to intervention from random vendors eg. customers can contribute     Read-write menu. Open to intervention from random vendors eg. customers can contribute 
-   via sell/trade/gifting stock.+   menu items via sell/trade/gifting stock.
  
  
-   Economy of miniaturisation. Enables hosting small batches/single items: ultra seasonality. +   Economy of miniaturisation / low scale. Enables hosting small batches/single items 
-   Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable +   ultra short seasons. 
-   perhaps database-driven  +   Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable, perhaps database-driven,  
-   and list items currently in negotiation or pending.+   and include a section for items not in stock eg. in negotiation or pending.
  
  
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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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