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public_diet [2008-07-13 08:13] – 81.179.15.206public_diet [2008-07-13 20:58] – 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 social conceptions of food 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, for autumn/winter 2008. A platform to present feral trade goods and examine the protocols of refreshment service as accessory to the other public communications of the gallery. The research emerges from an interest in the public diet of cultural organisations where foods for thought and consumption might align; and includes testing the regulatory limits and social expectations for a cafe, as well as preparing the resources, human and otherwise, required to run it. ** 
  
-Feral Trade [[http://feraltrade.org]] + 
-HTTP [[http://www.http.uk.net]]+Feral Trade http://feraltrade.org 
 +HTTP http://www.http.uk.net
  
 ===== CAFE motives, structure and infrastructure ===== ===== CAFE motives, structure and infrastructure =====
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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 public.  +1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond - a business park in the residential London borough of Haringey [[http://www.haringey.gov.uk]] - from the point of view of its public. A cafe would offer exhibition visitors something to chew on alongside the art: sustenance and conviviality, enriched space for contemplation, information and reading.
-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.+
 Elongate visit. Elongate visit.
  
-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.+2. Additionally provide 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.
  
 Conceptual  Conceptual 
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     Demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology.     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. So many shops deal with just money. Feral Trade is an economy based on  +    capitalism: so many shops deal with just money.  
-    other peoples' activities and how you get from A to B. +    Feral Trade is an economy based on other peoples' activities and how you get from A to B. 
     Even at this small scale it has a polemic value.     Even at this small scale it has a polemic value.
 [[feral_trade_economy]]  [[feral_trade_economy]] 
  
-Financial+Economic
  
-Profit is not a motive for the cafe, which opens up the territory considerably.+Profit is not a necessary motivation, which opens up the territory considerably.
  
   * income scenario    * income scenario 
  
 +Slow start. 
 All transactions logged and accounted for. All transactions logged and accounted for.
-The cafe would be designed as financially self sufficient, although seed funding agreed as probable.+The cafe would be designed as financially self sufficient, although seed funding needed for start-up equipment and utensils.
  
    Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms.    Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms.
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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 and a largely Portuguese clientele).+Portuguese cafe in the other direction has cheap and good espresso and a largely Portuguese clientele.
  
 The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows. The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows.
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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 (Furtherfiled administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sunday there is a paid invigilator. +Currently Ale (Furtherfield administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sunday they pay an 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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 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://www.furtherfield.org/about.php]] +http://www.furtherfield.org/about.php 
-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 an active communications medium / 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.
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 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.
 Is the back garden an alt possibility? Is the back garden an alt possibility?
 +
 +Tables, chairs, umbrellas, signage would be important to communicate cafe presence to the nighbourhood.
  
     Liability would need to be thought through or ignored.     Liability would need to be thought through or ignored.
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   * operating models (positive and negative)   * operating models (positive and negative)
  
-    Cafe Kino [[http://www.cafe-kino.com/about/index.htm]], Bristol.  +    Cafe Kino http://www.cafe-kino.com/about/index.htm, Bristol.  
-    Run by a collective of artists etc who also run the Here Shop/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 from their extended social networks & probably live +    Mnay of their customers are from their extended social networks & probably live 
     within a few blocks. People go there for the sociability, decor, wifi,      within a few blocks. People go there for the sociability, decor, wifi, 
-    good products, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social +    good tea/coffee, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social 
     networks.      networks. 
  
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 Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett, a partnership and tax entity, deals with rent and overheads, PAYE etc. Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett, a partnership and tax entity, deals with rent and overheads, PAYE etc.
-HTTP is a [[http://furtherfield.org]] project.+HTTP is a http://furtherfield.org project.
 HTTP & Furtherfield are not for profits, with written constitutions. HTTP & Furtherfield are not for profits, with written constitutions.
 Furtherfield has an advisory board and is funded by Arts Council England. Furtherfield has an advisory board and is funded by Arts Council England.
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    - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters [[uk_premises_regulations]]    - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters [[uk_premises_regulations]]
-   - shelf life / perishability  +   - shelf life: essential for a slow-sales charter 
-   - the facility of the food item to host information+   - the facility of the food item to host information, including
    - information on source: relations with land embodied by the transport of its produce    - information on source: relations with land embodied by the transport of its produce
    - information on carriage: network relations, trade relations of delivery, embodied by courier.    - information on carriage: network relations, trade relations of delivery, embodied by courier.
-   - seasonality, including microclimates +   - seasonality, including transportation seasons 
-   - locality+   - localness
  
-   Expand understanding of localness beyond the territorially bounded, inland model of  +   Expand understanding of localness beyond the territorially bounded, landlocked model  
-   the village, to a shared set of connections with known transit routes, +   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]] [[common_products]]
  
-   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. The product of the commons is filled with  
-   human relations, although including possibly unpleasant ones: Peter Linebaugh. +   human relations, 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 expand the product monologue to articulate a +   source information. The main thing 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  +    Compare with Fair Trade which limits its communiques to the the iconic picture of  
-    relations+    farmer/producer/collective, a surprisingly homogenous landscape 
 +http://feraltrade.org/fair
  
-[[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+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: François Millet 1857
  
-[[http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~waste/timeline/story-pic1.html]]+http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~waste/timeline/story-pic1.htm
  
 [[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. [[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.
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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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