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- | **feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, | + | **feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, |
- | Feral Trade [[http:// | + | |
- | HTTP [[http:// | + | Feral Trade http:// |
+ | HTTP http:// | ||
===== CAFE motives, structure and infrastructure ===== | ===== CAFE motives, structure and infrastructure ===== | ||
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Practical | Practical | ||
- | HTTP is located in the back of beyond | + | 1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond |
- | They would like to give exhibition goers something | + | |
- | sustenance and conviviality, | + | |
- | Elongate | + | |
- | Useful | + | 2. A service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood is changing |
- | 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. | + | |
Conceptual | Conceptual | ||
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- | | + | processes and experiences other than those governed by hegemonic global |
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+ | [[feral_trade_economy]] | ||
- | [[feral_trade_economy]] | + | Economic |
- | Financial | + | 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. | ||
+ | Seed funding will be required for start-up equipment and utensils: HTTP or external. | ||
- | Profit is not a motive, which opens up the terms of engagement considerably. | + | feral trade: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 | |
- | * income scenario | + | |
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- | All transactions logged and accounted for. | + | |
- | The cafe would be designed as financially self sufficient, although seed funding agreed as necessary. | + | |
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- | 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 | + | |
- | 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 Fri-Sun, possibly extending to Thurs. | Gallery hours are currently 12-5PM Fri-Sun, possibly extending to Thurs. | ||
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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, a commercial chain in the business mall on Green Lanes. | 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, largely | + | Portuguese cafe in the other direction has cheap and good espresso |
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. |
+ | http: It would be a coup to overcome London geography and keep the cafe open in | ||
+ | winter. Without affecting global warming. | ||
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- | It would be a coup to overcome geography and keep the cafe open in winter. | + | Patio bonfires worth looking into. |
- | Without affecting global warming. | + | |
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* 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. | ||
- | Saturday and Sunday have more dedicated invigilation, | + | Saturday and Sunday have dedicated invigilation, |
- | Currently Ale (administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; | + | Currently Ale (Furtherfield |
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+ | Hazards: At what scale would the cafe interfere with other office activity? | ||
* roles for cafe. | * roles for cafe. | ||
- | Service: preparation, | + | **Service:** preparation, |
- | Cafe service role would be rotated amongst present core personnel. | + | 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. |
- | [[http:// | + | http:// |
- | Cafe service should be continuous with natural office life. Disinvest food service of any | + | Cafe service should be continuous with natural office life, disinvesting refreshment |
- | lowered status, advance tea and coffee service as a communications medium. | + | |
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- | As with the principle of householding | + | |
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- | Weekly stock management would be 1 person' | + | |
- | Probably Ale who deals with this kind of thing anyway. | + | |
+ | **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 potential cafe 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, 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/ |
- | 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 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). Customer receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent of product information. |
- | Stock considerations include: regulatory perimeters, shelf life (perishability), | + | Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. |
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- | Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. | + | |
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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. | + | |
+ | - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters [[uk_premises_regulations]] | ||
+ | - shelf life: to avoid sales incentive or waste | ||
+ | - the facility of the food item to host information [[common_products]], | ||
+ | - information on source, relations with land, embodied by the transport of its produce | ||
+ | - information on carriage, network and delivery relations embodied by courier/s. | ||
+ | - seasonality, | ||
+ | - localness | ||
- | Ingredients and products with questionable ethics can be included, along with their | + | Expand understanding of localness beyond the territorial boundaries of the village |
- | source information. The priority is to expanding the product monologue to articulate | + | or nation state, |
- | larger picture | + | connections and navigable transit routes like the scale-free hubs of the internet. |
- | [[common_products]] | + | * Fairness |
- | The commodity conceals its relations except for the money one; | + | Ingredients and products with questionable ethics can be included, along with their |
- | the product of the commons is filled with human relations, although including | + | source information. |
- | possibly unpleasant ones: Peter Linebaugh.) | + | larger picture |
+ | [[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example. | ||
+ | Fair Trade in comparison limits its communiques to the the iconic picture of the farmer/ | ||
+ | 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 http:// | ||
- | Open up food-labelling | + | Feral Trade takes food-labeling |
- | boasting and promotion of purity | + | http:// |
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- | | + | [[breakdown_of_expenses]]: |
- | via sell/ | + | |
+ | Read-write menu. Open to intervention from random vendors eg. customers can contribute | ||
+ | menu items via peddling stock (sale, trade or gift). | ||
- | Economy of miniaturisation. Enables hosting small batches/ | + | Economy of miniaturisation |
- | Menu should be easily | + | |
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- | and list items currently | + | |
+ | Courier process. Use moving social networks including known and funded travel to HTTP | ||
+ | to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones. Documenting these journeys and relationships expands attention to food provenance beyond a gourmet-style fetishisation | ||
+ | of origin or source, to the broader ecology of supply. Promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, local and foreign. | ||
- | | + | Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks, commission or collect artists' |
- | to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones. Journey and relationship | + | (cake, jams, herbs, sprouts etc). |
- | documented, expands attention to food provenance beyond gourmet-style fetishisation | + | |
- | of origin or source to the broader ecology of supply. | + | Regulatory limits: Define and stock emergency |
- | Promote inter-organisational | + | |
- | Balkan and baltic states are a good place to start. | + | Feral Trade staples start menu. |
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+ | - Tea from Bangladesh (TBC) | ||
+ | - Cola from Bristol. | ||
+ | - Salt from Gujarat | ||
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+ | - Fo.am Brussels. Grappa, Latvian cured meats, computer chocolate biscuits. | ||
+ | - Mejor Vida Corporation, | ||
+ | - Irational.org, | ||
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- | | + | ===== OUTPUTS ===== |
- | Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks | + | proposed demo for mid-september |
- | incl city farm and allotment, home cultivation. | + | possibly a harvest party / launch in oct |
- | Regulatory limits: Define and serve emergency food products; outer limits | + | external: present at fo.am open sauces in brussels in november as part of public diet |
- | Cream tea variations. | + | disucssion |
- | Feral Trade staples start menu. | + | ===== SHORT VERSION ===== |
- | - Coffee from El Salvador | + | Feral Trade cafe at HTTP gallery |
- | - Tea from Bangladesh (TBC) | + | |
- | - Cola from Bristol. | + | |
- | - Salt from Gujarat | + | |
- | Other organisational contenders | + | Feral Trade http:// |
- | - Fo.am Brussels. Grappa, Latvian cured meats, computer chocolate biscuits. | + | HTTP http://www.http.uk.net |
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- | - Irational.org, Bristol. Food for Free apple mush | + | |
- | ===== OUTPUTS ===== | + | 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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