Hi Marc, Congrats on the successful opening! I wish I could have been there.
xx Renee On Jun 15, 2009, at 3:06 PM, marc garrett wrote: > RE: Feral Trade Café Opening. > > A warm thank you from the Furtherfield/HTTP Gallery crew and Kate > Rich, > to all those who managed to make it to the Feral Trade Café Opening > this > Saturday. The official time was for 4 - 7pm, but it got so busy with a > constant influx of people that it went on until 8pm. We had over 80 > visitors through the afternoon till early evening, the setting was > convivial and the sun was shining. > > For those who are still interested in visiting it will be open until > 2nd > Aug - Fri, Sat & Sun, 12 - 5pm. > > -----------------------------> > > An art exhibition that is also a working café, Feral Trade Café > opens at > HTTP Gallery for 8 weeks during Summer 2009. Serving food and drink > traded over social networks, Feral Trade Café by artist Kate Rich (AU) > provides a convivial setting from which to contemplate broader changes > to our climate and economies, where conventional supply chains (for > food > delivery and cultural funding) could go belly up. > > The term 'feral' denotes the project's wilful wildness (as in pigeons) > as opposed to romantic or nature-wildness (wolves): it offers > street-wise survival tactics for urban environments. Since the first > registered Feral Trade import of 30kg of coffee direct from the > growers > in El Salvador to the Cube Microplex in Bristol in 2003, Kate Rich has > used social networks to traffic edible produce from around the world. > Feral Trade participants become mules, carrying food items with them > on > trips they would have taken anyway and delivering them to depots > (usually friends’ and colleagues’ flats or workplaces) in the growing > network. > > more info about the show & how to get there: > http://www.http.uk.net/exhibitions/FeralTradeCafe/index.shtml > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
