Highlight: Festival Daytime Hub: Feral Trade Cafe
Kate Rich, Feral Trade Sandwich: exhibition and working café at HTTP Gallery, London, 2009.
FERAL TRADE CAFE: WHILE STOCKS LAST
For the first time, AV Festival has a daytime home and meeting point. The Feral Trade Café occupies Tyneside Cinema’s 3rd Floor Bar throughout the Festival, providing for your calorific needs with a transnational menu of drinks and snacks imported over social networks.
For live shipment information, have a look at the Feral Trade website here.
Kate Rich has been operating Feral Trade importexport out of Bristol since 2003. Feral Trade deals in small quantities of migrant groceries direct from their suppliers that are circulated by the movements of people and their excess baggage, primarily using other artists, curators, friends and relations as mules.
Open daily for Festival breakfast, light lunch and the occasional cocktail hour, the menu includes: coffee from El Salvador, tortillas from Mexico, light bites from Beirut, Moroccan energy balls, apple mush from Orchard of Avon, jugged British rabbit slain in Bristol, grappa from Croatia and fresh sweets from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Check the daily menu for ingredient arrivals, delays and shipping disasters.
Polytechnic present: The Shredder
Feral Trade Café guest artists Polytechnic invite you to bring in your old computer manuals to be shredded into useful organic matter. The resulting paper is then mixed with coffee grounds to create a compost to cultivate café ingredients. Click Shredder image below for more information.
Feral Trade Café: Cocktail Hour Talks
Between 5–6pm Cocktail Hour speakers present experiments and findings on the politics, economics and sociology of food, our most fundamental energy unit. Click images below for details of individual talks.
