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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 | ||
- | 1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond - a business park in the residential London borough of Harringay | + | 1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond - a business park in the residential London borough of Haringey |
- | A cafe would give exhibition visitors something to chew on to accompany | + | |
- | sustenance and conviviality; enriched space for contemplation, | + | |
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. |
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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 | + | The cafe would be designed as financially self sufficient, although seed funding |
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, | Saturday and Sunday have dedicated invigilation, | ||
- | Currently Ale (Furtherfiled | + | Currently Ale (Furtherfield |
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:// | + | http:// |
- | 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 | + | 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 |
**Management: | **Management: | ||
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Stock would be expected to cover itself. | Stock would be expected to cover itself. | ||
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- | Decking that runs along the side of HTTP building would be prime seating area. | + | Decking that runs along the side of HTTP building would be prime seating area. Sound the landlord out on this between rent payments. |
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- | 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' | + | formally HTTP' |
- | 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:// | + | Cafe Kino http:// |
- | 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. |
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within a few blocks. People go there for the sociability, | within a few blocks. People go there for the sociability, | ||
- | 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:// | + | HTTP is a http:// |
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, | + | - seasonality, |
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- | 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 | + | The commodity, as object produced for sale on the market, conceals its relationships |
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- | human relations, | + | human relations, including possibly unpleasant ones (Peter Linebaugh). |
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[[tea_from_bangladesh]] | [[tea_from_bangladesh]] | ||
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- | | + | farmer/producer/collective, a surprisingly homogenous landscape |
+ | http:// | ||
- | [[http:// | + | 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:// | + | http:// |
[[breakdown_of_expenses]]: | [[breakdown_of_expenses]]: | ||
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