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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 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. ** +**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, in line with the other public communications of the gallery. This 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 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.+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.
  
 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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 The feral trade courier process uses moving social networks, including The feral trade courier process uses moving social networks, including
-known and funded cultural travel to UK, to conduct international grocery+known and funded cultural travel, to conduct international grocery
 trade by primarily social means. In documenting this process it expands the  trade by primarily social means. In documenting this process it expands the 
-idea of food provenance beyond a gourmet-style fetishisation of origins, to a  +idea of food provenance beyond a gourmet-style fetishisation of origins, to  
-socially-situated, broader ecology of supply. +broader relationships of supply. 
  
 The cafe hopes to promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, The cafe hopes to promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers,
 local and foreign, and to expand a definition of localness beyond the local and foreign, and to expand a definition of localness beyond the
-territorial boundaries of the village or state, to a shared set of +territorial boundaries of the village or state.
-connections and navigable transit routes.+
  
  
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