TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ART LONDON 2011
Massive thank you to all who helped fix up a derelict nightmare and turn it into a fabulous expanse of artistic/festive fun! Massive thanks to all performers, artists, skill sharers and film makers! Massive big up to everyone who turned up and helped create a friendly and enriching atmosphere. Massive Massives to all the Massive!
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Ideas for TAA London 2011: Not kids any more! (Initial thoughts for debate)
TAA has long been a vehicle to imagine social change for the better. Whilst the environment we face today presents a stiff challenge, we should rise to the occasion, and expand the scope of our ethical and social aspirations. Bring it on!
Many in our audience may not have been exposed to extended periods of social upheaval, swinging financial cuts and stark social inequalities as experienced in the 1970s and 1980s. Nor will they have been accustomed to making a stand for rights, social alternatives, equality, our environment, personal liberties and creative freedom.
Therefore it is important that we should encourage debate, nurture experimentation and enable those with enthusiasm to facilitate the exchange of creative, social, ethical and political information and skills., and to respond to a new environment of politics, media, funding, space, and social conflict.
As a group we have stood together in adversity and proven repeatedly that we can achieve stunning results, mount fantastic shows, and collaborate to produce more than we expected. As a team, we have a wealth of experience in logistics, organising, curating, emboldening and daring to dream. I believe we should attempt to look beyond those resources which we have in London to the wider UK network, networks of networks, like minded overseas groups, and the wider world, to achieve more. To invite skills and thoughts from professionals, who will provide new challenges to rise to, to move on and upwards, sharing tasks and learning.
We have the opportunity at this moment of change to look back upon our history and move ahead, where we harness goodwill and experience to create a lasting legacy we are proud of. Where we make a difference.
TAA
Temporary Autonomous Art Events and Exhibitions were born in London in 2001 to the Random Artists collective. Taking influence from Temporary Autonomous Zones that believe in building fleeting pirate utopia's, TAA utilises DIY culture tactics to create space for art and expression outside of the establish artworld elites. Reclaiming and reusing derelict urban spaces TAAs host a hotbed of emerging arts crossing all disciplines, fusing and collaborating between traditional and contemporary media. The artwork is diverse and uncurated, but the combined effect is one of hope and beauty, unified through the use of free space.
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