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public_diet [2008-07-12 13:54] – katerichpublic_diet [2008-07-13 16:44] – katerich
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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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 Stock would be expected to cover itself. Stock would be expected to cover itself.
          
-Decking that runs along the side of HTTP building would be prime seating area. 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 
-formally HTTP's, included in rent. Cafe could serve from here with guests seating themselves informally. +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?+ 
 +{{: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.     Liability would need to be thought through or ignored.
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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: network relations, trade relations of delivery, embodied by courier. 
-   - information on carriage, netowrk relations, trade relations of delivery +   - seasonality, including microclimates 
-     embodied by courier. +   - locality
-   - seasonality +
-   - locality. +
  
    Expand understanding of localness beyond the territorially bounded, inland model of     Expand understanding of localness beyond the territorially bounded, inland model of 
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    The commodity (as object produced for sale on the market) conceals its relationships     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     except for the money relation; conversely the product of the commons is filled with 
-   human relations, although including possibly unpleasant ones: Peter Linebaugh.) +   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]] [[tea_from_bangladesh]]
 +    As opposed to the now common iconic picture of producer, which overriders other 
 +    relations
 +
 +[[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
  
-[[breakdown_of_expenses]]+[[http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~waste/timeline/story-pic1.html]]
  
-[[fair_trade_relations]]+[[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.
  
    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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 ===== 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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