[spectre] Reminder: Feral Trade Café by Kate Rich at HTTP Gallery opens on Saturday.

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Reminder: Feral Trade Café by Kate Rich at HTTP Gallery.

Feral Trade Opens this Saturday afternoon 4 - 7pm 13th June.
http://www.http.uk.net/exhibitions/FeralTradeCafe/index.shtml

Exhibition: Free entry
13 June – 2 August 2009

Feral Trade Café, an art exhibition that is also a working 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.

Feral Trade uses social and cultural hand baggage to transport grocery
items between cities, often using other artists and curators as mules.
The exhibition includes a retrospective display of Feral Trade products
(2003-present), alongside ingredient route maps, bespoke food packaging,
video and other artefacts from the Feral Trade network. The café will
stock and serve a selection of Feral Trade goods from a menu including
coffee from El Salvador, hot chocolate from Mexico and sweets from
Montenegro, as well as locally sourced bread, vegetables and herbs.
Along with their food and drink, diners will be served waybills
detailing the socially facilitated transit of goods to their plate.

Feral Trade - http://www.feraltrade.org
Kate Rich - http://bureauit.org/data/krcv/

Contact:
Ruth Catlow, HTTP Gallery
email:ruthATfurtherfieldDOTorg

HTTP Gallery
Unit A2, Arena Design Centre
71 Ashfield Road
London N4 1NY
+44(0)7737002879
map - http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml

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HTTP Gallery is based near North London's thriving Green Lanes area is
Furtherfield.org’s (www.furtherfield.org) dedicated space for media art.
Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing
and learning about experimental practices in art, technology and social
change. Furtherfield.org and HTTP Gallery are supported by Arts Council
England, London.