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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, autumn/ |
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+ | Feral Trade [[http:// | ||
+ | HTTP [[http:// | ||
===== 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 | + | 1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond - a business park in the residential London borough of Harringay |
- | sustenance and conviviality, space for contemplation, | + | A cafe would give exhibition |
+ | sustenance and conviviality; enriched | ||
Elongate visit. | Elongate visit. | ||
- | Useful | + | 2. A service for local residents and studio occupants. |
- | 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. | + | |
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Promote free processes and experiences other than those governed by hegemonic global | Promote free processes and experiences other than those governed by hegemonic global | ||
- | capitalism. Feral Trade is an economy based on other peoples' | + | capitalism. So many shops deal with just money. Feral Trade is an economy based on |
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+ | [[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. | ||
- | * income | + | * income |
All transactions logged and accounted for. | All transactions logged and accounted for. | ||
- | The cafe would be designed as financially self sufficient, although | + | 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, | ||
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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 | + | Current average |
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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It would be a coup to overcome geography and keep the cafe open in winter. | It would be a coup to overcome geography and keep the cafe open in winter. | ||
Without affecting global warming. | Without affecting global warming. | ||
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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, | + | Saturday |
- | Currently Ale (administration and coordination) does fri+sat, sun there is a paid invigilator. | + | Currently Ale (Furtherfiled |
- | * roles for cafe: preparation, | + | Hazards: At what scale would the cafe interfere with the basic running of other office activity? |
- | Cafe service role should | + | * roles for cafe. |
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+ | **Service: | ||
+ | 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 | + | [[http:// |
- | lowered status, advance tea and coffee service as a communications medium. | + | Cafe service should be continuous with / accessory to natural office life and disinvest |
- | Weekly stock management | + | **Management: |
- | Probably Ale who deals with this kind of thing anyway. | + | |
+ | Weekly stock management would be 1 person' | ||
+ | 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 |
+ | Stock would be expected to cover itself. | ||
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- | Decking. Sound the landlord out on this between rent payments. | + | 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 | ||
- | legally | + | formally |
Is the back garden an alt possibility? | 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 models (positive and negative) | * operating models (positive and negative) | ||
- | Cafe Kino in Bristol. Vegetarian | + | Cafe Kino [[http:// |
- | 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 | + | High proportion of customers are from their extended social networks |
- | within a few blocks. People go for the sociability, | + | within a few blocks. People go there for the sociability, |
- | 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 ===== | ||
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===== HTTP structure | ===== HTTP structure | ||
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* Current conditions | * Current conditions | ||
- | Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett | + | Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett, a partnership |
- | HTTP & Furtherfield are not for profits with written constitutions. | + | HTTP is a [[http:// |
- | 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, | + | |
- | Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. | + | |
- | 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 | |
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- | to a shared set of connections | + | - information on carriage, |
+ | embodied by courier. | ||
+ | - seasonality | ||
+ | - locality. | ||
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+ | the village, | ||
like the scale-free hubs of the internet. | like the scale-free hubs of the internet. | ||
+ | [[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]] | ||
- | [[common_products]] | + | [[breakdown_of_expenses]] |
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- | The commodity conceals its relations except for the money one; | + | |
- | the product of the commons is filled with human relations, although including | + | |
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+ | [[fair_trade_relations]] | ||
- | Open up food-labelling as a platform for discussion and adaptation, as VS righteous | + | 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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- | via sell/ | + | menu items via sell/ |
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- | Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable | + | ultra short seasons. |
- | perhaps database-driven | + | Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable, perhaps database-driven, |
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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 a broader ecology of supply. |
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- | Commission or collect artists' | + | |
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- | Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks (cake, jams, herbs, sprouts) | + | Commission or collect artists' |
- | incl city farm and allotment, home cultivation. | + | |
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Cream tea variations. | Cream tea variations. | ||
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Feral Trade staples start menu. | Feral Trade staples start menu. | ||
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