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-**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. ** +**feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, London UK, from autumn/winter 2008. A platform to present feral trade goods; and develop 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 crossover; 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. ** 
  
  
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 Practical Practical
  
-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 visitors something to chew on alongside the art: sustenance and conviviality, enriched space for contemplation, information and reading. +1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond, an industrial estate in the residential London borough of Haringey http://www.haringey.gov.uk, from the point of view of its public. A cafe would offer visitors something to chew on alongside the art: sustenance and conviviality, enriched space for contemplation, information and reading, oppportunity to elongate visit.
-Elongate visit.+
  
 2. A service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood is changing - incoming small business and studios - the cafe would be an interface to that. A means of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and open, a softer and more everyday interface than the gallery.  2. A service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood is changing - incoming small business and studios - the cafe would be an interface to that. A means of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and open, a softer and more everyday interface than the gallery. 
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 Conceptual  Conceptual 
  
-    http: The cafe will demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology, that promotes free    +    http: The cafe will demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology that promotes free    
-    processes and experiences other than those governed by hegemonic global  +    processes and experiences other than those governed by hegemonic global capitalism: 
-    capitalism: so many shops deal with just money. +    so many shops deal with just money. 
     Feral Trade is an economy based on 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.
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 Profit is not a necessary motive, which opens up the operating territory considerably. Profit is not a necessary motive, which opens up the operating territory considerably.
 +Although stock should still pay for itself plus provide surplus for office consumption.
  
   * income scenario    * income scenario 
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 Slow start.  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 needed for start-up equipment and utensils.+The cafe will be designed as financially self sufficient, although seed funding required 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.
    It operates in an absence of the principle of least effort, excluding it from basic     It operates in an absence of the principle of least effort, excluding it from basic 
-   capitalist measure of success. +   market measure of success. 
    The investment is in the network.     The investment is in the network. 
    
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 The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows. The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows.
 The gallery has an exhibit approximately 3/4 of the year. The gallery has an exhibit approximately 3/4 of the year.
-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.
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     Without affecting global warming.      Without affecting global warming. 
          
-Patio bonfires are worth looking into.+Patio bonfires worth looking into.
  
   * caretaking: human resources as they currently stand   * caretaking: human resources as they currently stand
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 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 accessory to natural office life, disinvesting refreshment service of any lowered status. Instead take tea and coffee service as an interpretation of aristotlean idea of [[householding]]: production for use instead of for gain. +Cafe service should be continuous with natural office life, disinvesting refreshment service of any separate lowered status. [[householding]]
  
-**Management:** Feral Trade would remain involved in the politics and practicalities of supply. Weekly stock management would be 1 person's responsibility,+**Management:** Feral Trade would remain involved in the politics and practicalities of supply. Day to day 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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     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.
-    Mnay of their customers are from their extended social networks & probably live  +    Many of their customers are from their extended social networks, probably from  
-    within a few blocks. People go there for the sociability, decor, wifi, +    within a few blocks radius. People go there for the sociability, decor, wifi, 
     good tea/coffee, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social      good tea/coffee, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social 
     networks.      networks. 
  
-    Leila's Shop, Shoreditch. Review covers the for & againsts pretty effectively:+    Leila's Shop, Shoreditch. Groceries and cafe, review covers the for & againsts: 
     http://londonreviewofbreakfasts.blogspot.com/2008/04/leilas-shop-shoreditch.html     http://londonreviewofbreakfasts.blogspot.com/2008/04/leilas-shop-shoreditch.html
- 
-=====  REGULATION ===== 
- 
-[[uk_premises_regulations]] 
-    Use existing regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or compliance.  
-    Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project.  
  
 ===== HTTP structure  ===== ===== HTTP structure  =====
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 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.
-HTTP is located in a business arena zoned as mixed / live-work.+HTTP is located in a business arena zoned as mixed use (typically integrating residential, retail, commercial and social amenities) / live-work. 
 + 
 +=====  REGULATORY STRUCTURE ===== 
 + 
 +[[uk_premises_regulations]]    
 +    Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project.  
 +    Use existing regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or compliance.  
 +http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=jello+mold&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
  
-  
 =====  MENU =====   =====  MENU =====  
  
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    Promote Feral Trade experimental trader aims.    Promote Feral Trade experimental trader aims.
  
-   Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu)+   Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu). 
 +   Customer receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent of product information.
  
    Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be     Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be 
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    - shelf life: to avoid sales incentive or waste    - shelf life: to avoid sales incentive or waste
    - the facility of the food item to host information, including    - 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 in delivery, embodied by courier/s.+   - information on carriage, network and delivery relations embodied by courier/s.
    - seasonality, including transportation seasons    - seasonality, including transportation seasons
    - localness    - localness
  
    Expand understanding of localness beyond the territorially bounded, landlocked     Expand understanding of localness beyond the territorially bounded, landlocked 
-   village model, to a shared set of connections and navigable transit routes, +   village model, to a shared set of connections and navigable transit routes 
    like the scale-free hubs of the internet.     like the scale-free hubs of the internet. 
  
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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]]
-    Compare with Fair Trade which limits its communiques to the the iconic picture of  +    Compared with Fair Trade which limits its communiques to the the iconic picture of  
-    farmer/producer/collective, a surprisingly homogenous landscape+    farmer/producer/collective, a restricted landscape
 http://feraltrade.org/fair http://feraltrade.org/fair
  
-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+    and one that reverses earlier breaks with tradition in visualising agriculture  
 +    labour as a statement on rural poverty as opposed to example of pastoral virtue.  
 +    Gleaning: François Millet 1857
  
 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~waste/timeline/story-pic1.htm 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.+   Feral Trade takes food-labeling as a space for diverse communications as   
 +   opposed to righteous boasting / the promotion of purity fetishes.  
 +   Undercut profit-motivated product constructions, elevated origins and destinies 
 +   (gourmet, organic, fairdom, health) in the truth claims propagated by the likes of 
 +   fresh and wild. 
 +http://feraltrade.org/research/righteous_products
  
-   Feral Trade opens up food-labelling as a platform for discussion and adaptation, as VS  +[[breakdown_of_expenses]]: The cafe menu to also include itemisations in the transit of cash as witnessed in the goods' procurement: particularly obstacles, as the materiality of money in small quantities generally defies the idea of the smooth movement of finance across global networks.
-   righteous boasting and promotion of purity fetishes.  +
-   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 
    menu items via sell/trade/gifting stock.    menu items via sell/trade/gifting stock.
  
- +   Economy of miniaturisation / smallscale. Enables hosting small batches/single items, 
-   Economy of miniaturisation / small-scale. Enables hosting small batches/single items +   ultra short seasons and microclimates. 
-   ultra short seasons. +   Menu should be easily updated and transmitted (database-driven) and include  
-   Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable, perhaps database-driven,  +   out of stock items - wishlisted, in negotiation or pending delivery.
-   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. Documenting these journeys and    to deliver goods from afar, including store-bought ones. Documenting these journeys and
-   relationships expands attention on food provenance beyond a gourmet-style fetishisation  +   relationships expands attention to food provenance beyond a gourmet-style fetishisation  
-   of origin or source, to a broader ecology of supply. +   of origin or source, to the broader ecology of supply. 
    Promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, local and foreign.                   Promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, local and foreign.               
  
-   Challenge fresh+wild to a duel. +   Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks, commission or collect artists'  
- +   food projects, plus social connections to city farm, allotment, home cultivation  
-   Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks    +   (cake, jams, herbs, sprouts etc).  
-   including city farm and allotment, home cultivation (cake, jams, herbs, sprouts) .  +    
-   Commission or collect artists' food projects.  +   Regulatory limits: Define and stock emergency food products; define emergency; outer  
- +   limits of biscuit; cream teas. 
-   Regulatory limits: Define and serve emergency food products; outer limits of biscuit. +
-   Cream tea variations. +
  
    Feral Trade staples start menu.     Feral Trade staples start menu. 
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   -    Mejor Vida Corporation, Mexico City. Hot chocolate   -    Mejor Vida Corporation, Mexico City. Hot chocolate
   -    Irational.org, Bristol. Food for Free apple mush    -    Irational.org, Bristol. Food for Free apple mush 
 +
 +   Challenge fresh+wild to a duel.
  
 ===== OUTPUTS ===== ===== OUTPUTS =====
  
    proposed demo for mid-september ( jeremey bailey show)    proposed demo for mid-september ( jeremey bailey show)
-   possibly a harvest party / launch in oct? +   possibly a harvest party / launch in oct
- +
-   local: table menu of contents / protocols / products; launch/event+
  
    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
 +
 +
 +===== SHORT VERSION =====
 +Feral Trade cafe at HTTP gallery
 +
 +Feral Trade http://feraltrade.org
 +HTTP http://www.http.uk.net
 +
 +HTTP gallery (media- and net-art) is a cultural minority in a mainly working 
 +class / cafe free residential area of NE London. The cafe will start off very small 
 +scale and is modelled as a means of extending natural office tea and coffee service
 +to gallery visitors and locals. It is not motivated by cash profit, although goods 
 +should cover their own costs.
 +
 +All goods will be served with information about source and/or delivery,
 +including the materiality of cash transactions performed to procure them. 
 +Visitors should be able to buy coffee etc either by the cup or in bags to 
 +take home.
 +
 +The feral trade courier process uses moving social networks, including
 +known and funded cultural travel, to conduct international grocery
 +trade by primarily social means. In documenting this process it expands the 
 +idea of food provenance beyond a gourmet-style fetishisation of origins, to 
 +broader relationships of supply. 
 +
 +The cafe hopes to promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers,
 +local and foreign, and to expand a definition of localness beyond the
 +territorial boundaries of the village or state.
 +
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