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-**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. ** +**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 alternate communications system, this research involves testing the regulatory limits and social conceptions of food service, and the resources, human and otherwise, required to run it. ** 
  
 Feral Trade [[http://feraltrade.org]] Feral Trade [[http://feraltrade.org]]
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 Practical Practical
  
-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.  +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 public.  
-A cafe would give exhibition goers something more to chew on such as   +A cafe would give exhibition visitors something to chew on to accompany the art, such as   
 sustenance and conviviality; enriched space for contemplation, information and reading. sustenance and conviviality; enriched space for contemplation, information and reading.
 Elongate visit. Elongate visit.
  
-2. A service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood is +2. A service for local residents and studio occupants. A way of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and open, a softer and more everyday interface than the gallery. The neighbourhood is changing - cafe would be an interface to that.
-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 
  
-    Demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology: so many shops deal with just money.+    Demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology.
     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' activities and how you +    capitalism. So many shops deal with just money. Feral Trade is an economy based on  
-    get from A to B. Even at this small scale it has a polemic value. +    other peoples' activities and how you get from A to B.  
 +    Even at this small scale it has a polemic value. 
 +[[feral_trade_economy]] 
  
 Financial Financial
-[[feral_trade_economy]]  + 
-Profit is not a motive, which opens up the terms of engagement considerably.+Profit is not a motive for the cafe, which opens up the territory considerably.
  
   * income scenario    * income scenario 
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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 Fri-Sun, possibly extending to Thurs. Gallery hours are currently 12-5PM Fri-Sun, possibly extending to Thurs.
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 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  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.
-    +
     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.
 Saturday and Sunday have dedicated invigilation, Fridays can be more hectic. Saturday and Sunday have dedicated invigilation, Fridays can be more hectic.
-Currently Ale (administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sunday there is a paid invigilator. +Currently Ale (Furtherfiled administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sunday there is a paid invigilator. 
  
 Hazards: At what scale would the cafe interfere with the basic running of other office activity? Hazards: At what scale would the cafe interfere with the basic running of other office activity?
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     * roles for cafe.      * roles for cafe. 
  
-Service: preparation, waiting, cash-taking.+**Service:** preparation, waiting, cash-taking.
 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.
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 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.  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. 
  
-Management: Feral Trade would remain involved in the politics and practicalities of supply.+**Management:** Feral Trade would remain involved in the politics and practicalities of supply. 
 Weekly stock management would be 1 person's responsibility, Weekly stock management would be 1 person's responsibility,
 probably Ale who deals with this kind of thing anyway. probably Ale who deals with this kind of thing anyway.
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   * 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 be expected to 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, included in rent. Cafe could serve from here with guests seating themselves informally. Decking get no sun in gallery hours so parking might anyway be preferable.  
-Is the back garden an alt possibility?+
  
-    Liability would need to be thought through either way.+{{:krich:http_decking.jpg|}}  
 +{{:krich:http_front_decking.jpg|}}  
 + 
 +Is the back garden an alt possibility?  
 + 
 +    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 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. Stock considerations include: 
-   Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. + 
-   These include seasonality, locality, information on source, information on carriage, +   - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters [[uk_premises_regulations]] 
-   trade relations with source, trade relations of delivery (embodied by courier). +   - shelf life / perishability  
-  +   - the facility of the food item to host information 
-   +   - information on source: relations with land embodied by the transport of its produce 
-   Expand conception of localness beyond the territorial village model  +   - information on carriage: network relations, trade relations of delivery, embodied by courier. 
-   to a shared set of connections plus swift transit routes +   - seasonality, including microclimates 
 +   - locality 
 + 
 +   Expand understanding of localness beyond the territorially bounded, inland model of  
 +   the village, to a shared set of connections with known transit routes, 
    like the scale-free hubs of the internet.     like the scale-free hubs of the internet. 
  
 +[[common_products]]
 +
 +   The commodity (as object produced for sale on the market) conceals its relationships 
 +   except for the money relation; conversely the product of the commons is filled with 
 +   human relations, although including possibly unpleasant ones: Peter Linebaugh.
  
    Ingredients and products with questionable ethics can be included, along with their     Ingredients and products with questionable ethics can be included, along with their 
-   source information. The priority is to expanding the product monologue to articulate a +   source information. The priority is to expand the product monologue to articulate a 
    larger picture of the world it moves through.    larger picture of the world it moves through.
 +[[tea_from_bangladesh]]
 +    As opposed to the now common iconic picture of producer, which overriders other 
 +    relations
  
-[[common_products]]+[[http://feraltrade.org/fair]] fair trade iconography for example reversing earlier radical trajectory of visualising agriculture labour - in the case of gleaning - as a statement on rural poverty as opposed to example of pastoral virtue, enacted by François Millet back in 1857
  
-   The commodity conceals its relations except for the money one; +[[http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~waste/timeline/story-pic1.html]]
-   the product of the commons is filled with human relations, although including  +
-   possibly unpleasant ones: Peter Linebaugh.) +
  
 +[[breakdown_of_expenses]]: menu to also include itemisations in the transit of cash involved in the goods' procurement, particularly its obstacles, as the materiality of money in small quantities generally defies the idea of the smooth movement of finance across global networks.
  
-   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  
-   boasting and promotion of purity fetish.  +   righteous boasting and promotion of purity fetishes.  
-   Undercut profit-motivated product aryanism of fresh 'n' wild.+   Undercut profit-motivated product constructions of elevated origins and destinies,  
 +   the type of truth claim propagated by 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 / small-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.
  
  
    Courier process. Use moving social networks including known and funded travel to HTTP     Courier process. Use moving social networks including known and funded travel to HTTP 
-   to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones. Journey and relationship  +   to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones. Documenting these journeys and 
-   documented, expands attention to food provenance beyond gourmet-style fetishisation  +   relationships expands attention on food provenance beyond a gourmet-style fetishisation  
-   of origin or source to the broader ecology of supply.  +   of origin or source, to a broader ecology of supply.  
-   Promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, local and foreign. +   Promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, local and foreign.               
-   Balkan and baltic states are a good place to start.               +
  
    Challenge fresh+wild to a duel.    Challenge fresh+wild to a duel.
  
-   Commission or collect artists' food projects  +   Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks    
- +   including city farm and allotment, home cultivation (cake, jams, herbs, sprouts) .  
-   Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks (cake, jams, herbs, sprouts)    +   Commission or collect artists' food projects. 
-   incl city farm and allotment, home cultivation. +
  
    Regulatory limits: Define and serve emergency food products; outer limits of biscuit.    Regulatory limits: Define and serve emergency food products; outer limits of biscuit.
    Cream tea variations.     Cream tea variations. 
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    Feral Trade staples start menu.     Feral Trade staples start menu. 
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 ===== OUTPUTS ===== ===== OUTPUTS =====
  
-   proposed start time mid-september ( for jeremey bailey show)+   proposed demo for mid-september ( jeremey bailey show) 
 +   possibly a harvest party / launch in oct?
  
    local: table menu of contents / protocols / products; launch/event    local: table menu of contents / protocols / products; launch/event
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    external: present at fo.am open sauces in brussels in november as part of public diet     external: present at fo.am open sauces in brussels in november as part of public diet 
    disucssion    disucssion
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