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The often depleted environs encountered by the contemporary arts practitioner, | The often depleted environs encountered by the contemporary arts practitioner, | ||
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In 2005, Berlin artist Natascha Sadr-Haghighian and I imported 25 electric ricecookers to UK and Germany from their factory source in Iran, and distributed them to a network of subscribers. Social and family connections helped negotiate the direct export from the Pars Khazar ricecooker factory. The import was designed to enlarge the options for basic cooked foods where self-catering is otherwise unavailable. | In 2005, Berlin artist Natascha Sadr-Haghighian and I imported 25 electric ricecookers to UK and Germany from their factory source in Iran, and distributed them to a network of subscribers. Social and family connections helped negotiate the direct export from the Pars Khazar ricecooker factory. The import was designed to enlarge the options for basic cooked foods where self-catering is otherwise unavailable. | ||
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The interfaces where artist and institution collide can show up the extremes of organised culture. Last winter I flew from a two month residency in Bangladesh direct to a one month placement at the Banff Centre, Canada. | The interfaces where artist and institution collide can show up the extremes of organised culture. Last winter I flew from a two month residency in Bangladesh direct to a one month placement at the Banff Centre, Canada. | ||
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Cube-Cola, a cola manufacturing collaboration with Kayle Brandon, shows how a major beverage can be produced and distributed out of a small cinema. Using an open source recipe developed over four years and an accumulated store of equipment, ingredients and supplier relations, we have found ourselves to be world-leading open source cola developers. Cube-Cola has worldwide distribution in concentrate form via internet order, paypal, hand baggage and mail. External media attention (newspapers and blogs) keeps the project publicly active without any need for publicity or marketing - although sales at this scale only generate enough cash to cover ingredient and equipment costs. A batch of concencentrate taking approximately 2 hours to prepare will make up around 120 litres of cola. An advantage of the project is our own independence from the beverage mainstream - with a 6-month inventory of ingredients, | Cube-Cola, a cola manufacturing collaboration with Kayle Brandon, shows how a major beverage can be produced and distributed out of a small cinema. Using an open source recipe developed over four years and an accumulated store of equipment, ingredients and supplier relations, we have found ourselves to be world-leading open source cola developers. Cube-Cola has worldwide distribution in concentrate form via internet order, paypal, hand baggage and mail. External media attention (newspapers and blogs) keeps the project publicly active without any need for publicity or marketing - although sales at this scale only generate enough cash to cover ingredient and equipment costs. A batch of concencentrate taking approximately 2 hours to prepare will make up around 120 litres of cola. An advantage of the project is our own independence from the beverage mainstream - with a 6-month inventory of ingredients, | ||
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== Disaster | == Disaster | ||
The aesthetics of emergency and survival have more normally been monopolised by other interests: the military, outdoor adventure catalogues, NASA, or memories of WWII (hoarding flour, eggs, lard etc). The above techniques for alternate emergency provisioning have been rehearsed from position of luxury (IE. choice), although as training they could be prescient. The collapse of the Bristol flagship store of Fresh and Wild in September 2008 - a luxury foods supermarket in Bristol owned by the US giant Wholefoods, whose core values include creating wealth through profits & growth - signals a singular tremor in the fine food market. | The aesthetics of emergency and survival have more normally been monopolised by other interests: the military, outdoor adventure catalogues, NASA, or memories of WWII (hoarding flour, eggs, lard etc). The above techniques for alternate emergency provisioning have been rehearsed from position of luxury (IE. choice), although as training they could be prescient. The collapse of the Bristol flagship store of Fresh and Wild in September 2008 - a luxury foods supermarket in Bristol owned by the US giant Wholefoods, whose core values include creating wealth through profits & growth - signals a singular tremor in the fine food market. | ||
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In Fresh and Wild's absence, more inspiring suppliers in Bristol include the Womens Institute - a UK rebel network of highly organised cake and scone makers. And November 2008's Cube-Cola Producers' | In Fresh and Wild's absence, more inspiring suppliers in Bristol include the Womens Institute - a UK rebel network of highly organised cake and scone makers. And November 2008's Cube-Cola Producers' | ||
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Photos show Castle Park cherry and cheese pierogis supplied for the Cube Outdoors Riverxing Exercise (Bristol); and unlicensed sandal espresso stand at a northern England food fair (Gateshead). | Photos show Castle Park cherry and cheese pierogis supplied for the Cube Outdoors Riverxing Exercise (Bristol); and unlicensed sandal espresso stand at a northern England food fair (Gateshead). | ||
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