TAA - Temporary Autonomous Art London - Exhibition Open

[T]EMPORARY [A]UTONOMOUS [A]RT LONDON
The TAA exhibitions are free, open-access art exhibitions that take place in reclaimed squatted spaces throughout the UK.

London
WEDS 16 - SAT 19 MAY 2007
This is your invitation to our private,
but open-access art exhibition at:

15-25 New North Road, London N1 6BB

See http://www.taaexhibitions.org

Map of the location here

The nearest tube station is Old Street
Which is on the Northern Line and carries
overground services from Moorgate
Buses: 76, 141, 271
Other buses stopping nearby: 43, 55, 243, 394

IF YOU WANT TO CONTRIBUTE YOU STILL CAN
BUT JUST GET YOURSELVES DOWN TO THE BUILDING
AS WE ARE NOT ON THE INTERNET!

Or check out the websites from people who have made TAAs happen already:
London - www.randomartists.org
Bristol - www.bristolinsurgentart.co.uk
Manchester - www.forbiddenartsmanchester.org.uk

Final programme for the London
TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ART
WEDS 16 - SAT 19 MAY

Gallery space open throughout

Artists
Although Random Artists is a core collective of diverse artists it is also the name for everyone; you, your family, even your dog can get involved. Showcasing artworks, films, performance, audio art and musicians and much more, TAA is home to over a hundred artists in just one week, and the list grows each day of the event.

London TAA 2007
This year we have taken a slightly different approach and used the wide Random Artists related network to organise some of the programme before the event. However, this guide won’t cover everything happening at TAA as there will be plenty of un-announced artists and performers.

This is still an open-access event free from the constraints and commercialism that most cultural events suffer from. We don’t wish to deter artists and performers from exhibiting just because there is some semblance of a lineup. This is still your show - enjoy it!

Wednesday

Films
8pm Short films
9.30pm - 51/2 ROOFS - Sepp Brudermann
Documentary film following several groups of London squatters
www.myspace.com/sepprb
11.00pm - A few more short films

Performance
8.30pm - OPEN STAGE: OPEN MIC
Come along, step up, plug in… with some already arranged performances from: Peter Rockmount – performance with adapted double cassette radio player/recorder... o(h)m lightning - a performance of body-gesture-sound, voice and electricity... Live jam session – bring an instrument or use your voice, this is a free stage... and we finish with Zwingaro nine piece hip-hop act

Workshops
10pm - Self-modeled life drawing

Thursday

Films
8pm - THE PROJECTION GALLERY
Experimental work from up-and-coming film artists.
www.theprojectiongallery.com

Performance
7.30pm - EXPERIMENTAL NOISE STAGE

Flangemagnus feat Am Not (ILL FM) - Will be presenting a VERY intermediate introduction to circuitbending and then doing a short performance. It incorporates suffering circuit boards, snivelling noise, pitiful karaoke and shameless cheating...

Zero Point Energy (Noise=Noise) - A chance to see this prolific noisician and organiser demonstrate his “Movement and Gesture Interface”...

Dj Tendraw and the Gypsie’s Dog (The Gluerooms) - The patrons of New Cross based experimental club THE GLUEROOMS shall be dropping by to perform with their mutant electronic creations...

The Devotchka’s Connundrum (www.devotchkasconundrum.com) - Refurbished sound/orchestrated noise/destruction/construction/contraction/reaction...

The Serota Tendancy (Hard Feelings UK) – super-abundant sounds...

Cinning Bao (Bobby’s Beats) - From Casio Italo-disco through to generative breaktronica this sonic chameleon promises to bring a varied palette of sounds to the TAA arena.

10pm - LAPTOP JAM
There will be a mixing desk, MIDI clock and a conductor.
Please bring cables, connectors and noise!

Workshops
5pm - Screen printing (bring clothes to print on)
7.30pm - Intro to circuit bending
9pm - Stencil making

Friday

Films
8pm - EXPLODING CINEMA presents an evening of low/no-budget shorts
www.explodingcinema.org

Performance

8pm - THIS ISN'T CABARET, IT'S PERFORMANCE!

Vic Lambrusco - Old skool political performance poet with a comic edge... Sir Gideon Vein - Gothic spoken word on sedatives... Andrew O’Niell - come n upping circuit stand up... Skat Injector (www.skat-injector.com) - Extreme, expletive kickdrum turd noise from deepest, darkest, most degraded Croydonia. Pink trousers, masks and guitars are also to be expected of this delightful duo... The Digitariat (Assemblage Point) - A variety of defective, abused and adapted electronic devices are the ingredients to the Digitariats sound. From walkman glitch through to nosebleed rhythmic noise he spans a world of tinnitus inducing textures... Cut a shine - Leave your K wraps at home for this Anarchist Barn dancing madness – come and have a go if you think you’re fit enough!...Ed Cox – ClownCore - Dance until you have a fucking heart attack... and then go home or to the hospital… ambulance and taxi numbers will be available.

Workshops
6pm - Activist legal advice
7.30pm - A history of bunting

Saturday

Films
2pm - Matinee of twisted films for the kids
4pm -‘i’ - feature documentary examining the relationship between media and power as manifested by the Indymedia network
www.ithefilm.com

Performance

7pm - MUSIC STAGE

Toxic Pijin – still to be confirmed and placed in lineup...

Daniel Jones (Ad Hoc) - improvised and laptop-based, taking the form of a sound collage using a custom-built software interface using open source hardware...

Konstruct and Bumerangwelt (www.Konstruct.org) - Expect a high quality live performace from this well seasoned trio, featuring story telling, live instrumentation and many shades of electronica. If you havent heard them already check out their excellent archive at www.illfm.net...
Jamka (Urb Sounds- slovakia) - This hard working and dynamic duo will be bringing their formidable live set up featuring pure data processing and hardware to give TAA a taste of their unique sound...

Hardfeelings UK (www.myspace.com/hardfeelingsuk) London based art funk group Hardfeelings throw down punk funk electronics guitars choreography freeform disco and electronic progressive music. Hardfeelings are collaborating with floridian rap-riot girl group Yo Majesty with whom they have just finished a US tour...

London Breakbeat Orchestra - A 30 piece full-on-as-you-like-it orchestra playing D’n’B and Breakbeat - like you’ve never heard before! At least not live! Well, not unless you’ve seen the LBO in action before...

The Superimpozer (www.dubiousaudio.com.uk) - An atmospheric and beat driven electronica act drawing from a variety of influences including Miles Davis, Harry Partch, Throbbing Gristle and Jeff Mills. Also features live trumpet...

Pin Stickers – The hottest new band on the block will rock your socks off with their own brand of fresh Punk/D’n’B. Not to be missed....

plus a special MYSTERY BAND to round the night off.

7pm - PERFORMANCE STAGE
(In cinema after films have finished)
Dionysian Underground feat Clown Army – Pagan Ritual theatre with fetish manoeuvres... The not so Daz white COTTON – High Priestess of the nursery rhyme/erotic performance poerty sub genre... Male Geisha Performance Art – Challenge your understanding of your own sexuality… cover your mouths, eyes and any unseemly bulges in your underwear… Maxwell – Post modern punk rock story telling... Yap – Punk rock ranting spoken word... Plus other character acts and more cool stuff as yet to be defined by the human mind.

Workshops
2pm - Guerilla gardening
3pm - Gentle self-defence
6pm - Art Not Oil

Extra goodies

• Self-managed kidspace
Parents are invited to bring their kids and help manage the proposed kids space. Most kids activities will be happening on the Saturday which starts with a kids matinee in the cinema. Space permitting we will also have a bouncy castle, a soft-play area and there is also the drawing party.

• The Hand Baked Arcade
The Hand Baked Arcade will be an 8bit paradise, a space for people to gather, to put names to faces and to try and get past that damn end of level boss! Expect 4 player megadrive games on an 8ft screen, all the classics from golden axe to mega bomberman. Also to feature is the ghetto cabinet, a 2 player stand-up arcade machine made entirely from parts sourced off the street. www.myspace.com/handbaked

A full programme with running times will be given out at the event.

This is an open access show and we are now accepting pledges of artwork, submissions of short films and live performance acts.

There are no restrictions or conditions but we ask all contributors to help manage the space - THIS IS YOUR EVENT!

Weds 16th is the final day for putting up work and opening evening.

To contribute call 07092 012299 or email:
info < at > randomartists . org

[T]emporary [A]utonomous [A]rt London

Edinburgh - AUGUST 2007

More info to come on an Edinburgh section of the TAA site
For now you can check this poster
or email edinburgh taaexhibitions org

Although just started, www.taaexhibitions.org hopes to bring all the TAA events together and ensure that all the separate groups communicate and work together on each other's shows.

Soon www.taaexhibitions.org will host a blog, forum and lots of webspace with uploading capabilities which any group who wish to make a future TAA, (or the groups which have already made the leap) will be able to use.

For now, to get in touch please email
info < at > taaexhibitions.org