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**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 culture. 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. ** | **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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networks. | networks. |
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Leila's Shop, Shoreditch. Grocery outlet and cafe, review covers the for & againsts: | 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 |
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===== REGULATION ===== | |
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[[uk_premises_regulations]] | |
Use existing regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or compliance. | |
Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project. | |
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===== HTTP structure ===== | ===== HTTP structure ===== |
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. |
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| ===== REGULATORY STRUCTURE ===== |
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| [[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 |
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===== MENU ===== | ===== MENU ===== |
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Promote Feral Trade experimental trader aims. | Promote Feral Trade experimental trader aims. |
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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. |
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Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be | Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be |
- 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 |
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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 homogenous landscape | farmer/producer/collective, a restricted landscape |
http://feraltrade.org/fair | http://feraltrade.org/fair |
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reversing earlier breaks with tradition in visualising agriculture labour as a | and one that reverses earlier breaks with tradition in visualising agriculture |
statement on rural poverty as opposed to example of pastoral virtue. Gleaning: | labour as a statement on rural poverty as opposed to example of pastoral virtue. |
François Millet 1857 | Gleaning: François Millet 1857 |
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http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~waste/timeline/story-pic1.htm | http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~waste/timeline/story-pic1.htm |
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Feral Trade opens up food-labelling as a space for communication, as | Feral Trade takes food-labeling as a space for diverse communications as |
opposed to righteous boasting and promotion of purity fetishes. | 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 | http://feraltrade.org/research/righteous_products |
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Undercut profit-motivated product constructions, elevated origins and destinies, | [[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. |
the type of truth claim propagated by fresh and wild. | |
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[[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. | |
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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. |
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Economy of miniaturisation / small-scale. Enables hosting small batches/single items | Economy of miniaturisation / smallscale. Enables hosting small batches/single items, |
ultra short seasons. | ultra short seasons and microclimates. |
Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable, probably database-driven, | Menu should be easily updated and transmitted (database-driven) and include |
and include a section for items not in stock: wished for, in negotiation or pending. | out of stock items - wishlisted, in negotiation or pending delivery. |
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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. |
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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. | |
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Feral Trade staples start menu. | Feral Trade staples start menu. |
- 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 |
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| Challenge fresh+wild to a duel. |
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===== OUTPUTS ===== | ===== OUTPUTS ===== |
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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 |
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local: table menu of contents / protocols / products; launch/event | |
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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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