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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 alternate 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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 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.  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 visitors something more to chew on than the art, 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.
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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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    - shelf life / perishability     - shelf life / perishability 
    - the facility of the food item to host information    - the facility of the food item to host information
-   - information on source, relations with land  +   - information on source, relations with land, embodied by the transport of its produce 
-     embodied by the transport of its produce +   - information on carriage, netowrk relations, trade relations of delivery, embodied by courier.
-   - information on carriage, netowrk relations, trade relations of delivery +
-     embodied by courier.+
    - seasonality    - seasonality
    - locality.     - locality. 
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    larger picture of the world it moves through.    larger picture of the world it moves through.
 [[tea_from_bangladesh]] [[tea_from_bangladesh]]
 +    As opposed to the singularised picture of producer which overriders other relations
 +[[http://feraltrade.org/fair]]
  
 [[breakdown_of_expenses]] [[breakdown_of_expenses]]
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-[[fair_trade_relations]] 
  
    Feral Trade opens up food-labelling as a platform for discussion and adaptation, as VS     Feral Trade opens up food-labelling as a platform for discussion and adaptation, as VS 
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