Feral Trade Cafe was an exhibtion and working cafe at HTTP Gallery, Furtherfield, 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 exhibition included a retrospective display of Feral Trade goods (2003-present) alongside ingredient transit maps, video, bespoke food packaging and other artefacts from the Feral Trade network. Feral Trade had been based in Bristol since 2003 and was well established among media arts practitioners and organisations, acting as couriers, diners and depots in the network.
Kate Rich’s Feral Trade Café at Furtherfield.org’s HTTP Gallery extends the model more deeply into the economy of the not-for-profit arts.