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--- public_diet [2008-07-14 10:29] – katerich
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 Practical
-. HTTP is located in the back of beyond, a business arena 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.
+. 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.
 . 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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    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
    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.