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- | **feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at http galleryx, london uk autumn/ | + | **feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, London UK, from autumn/ |
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+ | Feral Trade http:// | ||
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===== 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 | + | Practical |
- | view of its visitors. | + | |
- | It would like to give exhibition goers something | + | 1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond, a business arena in the residential London borough of Haringey |
- | sustenance and conviviality, | + | |
- | Elongate visit. | + | 2. A service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood is changing - incoming small business and studios - the cafe would be an interface to that. A means of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and open, a softer and more everyday interface than the gallery. |
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+ | Conceptual | ||
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+ | 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' | ||
+ | Even at this small scale it has a polemic value. | ||
+ | [[feral_trade_economy]] | ||
- | Useful service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood is | + | Economic |
- | changing, it's a way of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and | + | |
- | open, a softer and more everyday interface than the gallery. | + | |
- | Demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology: so many shops deal with just money. | + | Profit is not a necessary motive, which opens up the operating territory considerably. |
- | | + | Although stock should still pay for itself plus provide surplus for office consumption. |
- | 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. | + | |
- | * income | + | * income |
+ | Slow start. | ||
All transactions logged and accounted for. | All transactions logged and accounted for. | ||
- | The cafe would be designed as financially self sufficient, although | + | The cafe will be designed as financially self sufficient, although seed funding |
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 | ||
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The investment is in the network. | The investment is in the network. | ||
- | * 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 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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Without affecting global warming. | Without affecting global warming. | ||
- | Patio bonfires | + | |
+ | Patio bonfires worth looking into. | ||
* 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. | When the gallery is open, there is someone always available to respond to visitors. | ||
- | Sat and sun have more dedicated invigilation, | + | Saturday |
- | Currently Ale (administration and coordination) does fri+sat, sun there is a paid invigilator. | + | Currently Ale (Furtherfield |
- | * roles for cafe: preparation, | + | Hazards: At what scale would the cafe interfere with other office activity? |
- | Cafe service role should be rotated amongst present core personnel. | + | * roles for cafe. |
- | 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: |
- | Probably Ale who deals with this kind of thing anyway. | + | 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 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 | ||
- | Initial investment | + | Initial investment |
+ | 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 potentially prime seating area. HTTP to 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 | + | 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. | + | Cafe would have its own publicity strand as a HTTP project. |
Also 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/ |
- | 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. |
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- | within a few blocks. People go for the sociability, | + | within a few blocks |
- | good tea and coffee, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social | + | good tea/coffee, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social |
networks. | networks. | ||
- | Leila' | + | Leila' |
http:// | http:// | ||
- | ===== | + | ===== HTTP structure |
- | Use existing premises regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or | + | Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett, |
- | | + | 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, | ||
- | ===== HTTP structure | + | ===== |
- | | + | [[uk_premises_regulations]] |
+ | Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project. | ||
+ | Use existing regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or compliance. | ||
+ | http:// | ||
- | Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett (unincorporated partnership). Tax entity, deals with rent and overheads, PAYE. | ||
- | HTTP & Furtherfield are not for profits with written constitutions. | ||
- | Furtherfield has an advisory board and is funded by ACE. | ||
- | HTTP is a furtherfield.org project. | ||
- | HTTP compound is zoned as mixed / live-work. | ||
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===== MENU ===== | ===== MENU ===== | ||
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- | Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu) | + | Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu). |
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- | Stock considerations include: regulatory perimeters, shelf life (perishability), | + | Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be |
- | network relations, | + | |
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- | These include seasonality, | + | - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters |
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- | + | - the facility of the food item to host information, | |
- | + | - information on source, relations with land, embodied by the transport | |
- | | + | - information on carriage, network and delivery |
- | to a shared set of connections | + | - seasonality, |
+ | - localness | ||
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+ | village model, | ||
like the scale-free hubs of the internet. | like the scale-free hubs of the internet. | ||
+ | [[common_products]] | ||
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+ | [[tea_from_bangladesh]] | ||
+ | Compared with Fair Trade which limits its communiques to the the iconic picture of | ||
+ | farmer/ | ||
+ | http:// | ||
- | [[common_products]] | + | and one that reverses earlier breaks with tradition in visualising agriculture |
+ | labour as a statement on rural poverty as opposed to example of pastoral virtue. | ||
+ | Gleaning: François Millet 1857 | ||
- | The commodity conceals its relations except for the money one; | + | http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ |
- | the product of the commons is filled with human relations, although including | + | |
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+ | Feral Trade takes food-labeling as a space for diverse communications as | ||
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+ | fresh and wild. | ||
+ | http:// | ||
- | Open up food-labelling | + | [[breakdown_of_expenses]]: |
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- | via sell/ | + | menu items via sell/ |
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- | Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable | + | |
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- | and list items currently in negotiation or pending. | + | |
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+ | ultra short seasons and microclimates. | ||
+ | Menu should be easily updated and transmitted (database-driven) and include | ||
+ | out of stock items - wishlisted, in negotiation or pending delivery. | ||
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- | to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones. Journey | + | to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones. Documenting these journeys |
- | documented, | + | relationships |
- | of origin or source to the broader ecology of supply. | + | of origin or source, to the broader ecology of supply. |
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- | incl city farm and allotment, home cultivation. | + | |
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- | Cream tea variations. | + | |
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+ | food projects, plus social connections to city farm, allotment, home cultivation | ||
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Feral Trade staples start menu. | Feral Trade staples start menu. | ||
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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 | ||
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- Mejor Vida Corporation, | - Mejor Vida Corporation, | ||
- Irational.org, | - Irational.org, | ||
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===== OUTPUTS ===== | ===== OUTPUTS ===== | ||
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- | + | possibly a harvest party / launch | |
- | local: table menu of contents | + | |
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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 is a cultural minority in a mainly working class and cafe free | ||
+ | residential area of NE London. The cafe will be very small scale and | ||
+ | modelled as a natural extension to office tea and coffee consumption. 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 UK, to conduct international grocery | ||
+ | trade by primarily social means. It expands the idea of food provenance | ||
+ | beyond a gourmet-style fetishisation of origins, to a critical broader | ||
+ | ecology 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, to a shared set of | ||
+ | connections and navigable transit routes, like the scale-free hubs of the | ||
+ | internet. | ||
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