RUPTURE

Zine for and about free parties, squats and social centres

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May 08

A sigh for the try in vain to get in your vain

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  • A new presence on the airwaves + radio news
  • Squatters Estate Agents
  • Bulletproof (fiction)
  • Music Reviews: Ey Muff/Tantrum, Barry Lynn, Broken Note, Meat eat Manifesto, Krumble, Kamikaze Club

April 08

For the event with no name

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  • Housing Matters on the Planet Earth building site
  • London Coalition Against Poverty
  • London Street Blitz
  • Rampart 2.2
  • Infousurpa + Offline

March 08

Somewhere over the shamebow

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  • Stupid Property Rights - part 2 of main article from Feb
  • Anger projection
  • Legislation update
  • Bunch of LEZers
  • Music Reviews: Frogs, Eustachian/The Teknoist, Ghislain Poirier, Various Production

February 08

Loose lips equals slips

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  • Sailing the seas of piracy in this digital age - file sharing and intellectual property
  • Resist Now #4 - Food
  • Hackney Social Centre
  • Music Reviews: Rotator, Electric Lifeform, Clark, Autechre, The Flashbulb
  • Film review: Steal This Film pt 2

January 08

Shh, it's January - Everyone's asleep!

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  • Resist Now#3 - Land ownership
  • Call for articles - for zine produced for April days of action
  • Fossil Fools Day - 1 April 2008
  • Rampart social centre eviction update
  • Music Reviews: RAoul Sinier, edIT, Forbidden Society/DJ Hidden/Slacknote, Ital Tek
  • Film review: No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers)

December 07

How do K-heads time travel? In a retardis.

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  • Resist Now#2 - Setting up a co-op
  • Decentralised days of action for squats and autonomous centres
  • Dutch squatting ban threatened
  • I'm not unclean, I use L-lysine
  • Zeecreative website
  • Music Reviews: King Cannibal, Scorn, Amon Tobin, Boxcutter, Stivs/Johnny Clash

November 07

Too many cones, not enough work

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  • Low emission zone
  • Cheese Factory food nights
  • Message from the ASS
  • Operation Catsnip - the issue of pet neutering
  • You do the math - a reasonable explanation on why to get rid of banking
  • Music Reviews: Statement of Intent CD, Ebola, Anorak, Starkey/Bong Ra

October 07

Poor service due to lack of available brains

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  • Less wailing, more gnashing - turning churches into social centres
  • Resist Now - part 1 of an article on self-sufficiency and autonomy
  • Familiar Speak - from The Plot Thickens
  • NO:ID gallery
  • Music Reviews: Mu-Ziq, Daedelus, Venetian Snares, The Bug

September 07

Battalions of riot police with rubber bullet kisses

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  • FREAK prepare for Edinburgh TAA
  • Ravers besiege Norfolk pig pen - ruckus outside a police station
  • Decibel Breach radio show back on air - new season on Resonance FM
  • Rave Idle 2007 - 12 producers battle it out on ILL FM
  • Let's get tanked - roundup of Dsei protests
  • Euroteknival roundup
    • Music reviews: Aaron Spectre, Machinochrist album, Milanese remixes, Starkey, Shitmat, Modeselektor

Summer 07

Rupture took a break from monthly editions during June-August 2007

May 07 - bumper issue for London TAA

Gumption stuck to our souls

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Review of Bristol TAA

  • German Police lash out in pre-G8 raids
  • Fuck the 2012 Olimpdicks
  • Street Blitz introduction
  • These Four Walls, fiction by Keefer Reefer
  • Aisle Land Conflict, more fiction from The Plot Thickens
  • Reviews: Luke's Anger, Warlock, Terminal 11, Shotgun Wedding, Si Begg, MRK1 + The Lives of Others

April 07

i'm not sexist, i shag berds!

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  • Free4Alternatives
  • If You Go Down to the Woods Today... (You'll be Section 63'd!)
  • Reader's Digest by Tom De Plume
  • RECLAIM THE FUTURE 4
  • A Randomix review
  • Music Reviews
    • DJ Hidden - The Later After [Ad Noiseam]
    • FFF - It Gets No Ruffer EP [Zero71 Recordings]
    • V/A - A Tasteless Gallery of Dead Celebrities [Neurotic Waste]
    • El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead [Def Jux]
    • Drop The Lime - Sky City Rising [Broklyn Beats]
    • Michael Forshaw - Blackpool Rock EP [SMB]

March 07

clean your grubby mitts

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  • TAA
  • Blink and You'll Miss 'Em
  • Squatters Practical Network
  • Violent Eviction Sparks Riots Across Europe
  • UK Legislation Update
  • Using your mobile as a modem
  • My divorce from reality
  • Vinyl Reviews

February 07

dynamic mendacity

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  • The Lymph Mob
  • The Vortex Social Centre
  • How to Re-create that Teknival Experience
  • Stray Cinima
  • There's Magic In Our Family
  • The Party
  • Vinyl Reviews

January 07

finding the start of another tether

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  • Name Your Price - a guide to shopping in the 21st century
  • Doppelgangers
  • A Toast To Being Happy
  • The Found
  • Vinyl Reviews
    • Frogs 07 [Frogs Records]
    • Shitmat - Hang the DJ [Wrong Music]
    • Dr Bastardo - When a Dub Plate Attacks [Peace Off]
    • Hellfish - Now Thats What I Call Hellfish [Deathchant]

December 06

the elastication of the syncopation

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  • Sexing up regeneration The Projection Gallery at Liverpool Biennial arts festival 2006
  • Sustainable Communities Bill
  • Breakfast First Then Enter
  • New God Same Shit
  • Vinyl Reviews
    • V/A - Squat Breaks CD#1
    • V/A - When the Shit Hits the Fan [Hex 8]
    • The Flashbulb - Flexing Habitual [Sublight]
    • Venetian Snares - Hospitality [Planet Mu]
    • Doormouse/Albelcain - Ghosts [Addict018]

November 06

from rupture to rapture

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  • Manchester TAA
  • Dalston Lane Theatre evicted
  • Waste want not not
  • Vinyl Reviews
    • H - The Sonic Brothers of the Absolution [Coven H07]
    • V/A JungleTek Movement 4
    • CCP - Ystoar Danfan [Anarmonia01]
  • DVD Reviews
    • SCRAP Multimedia Release 1: SCRAPKILLARROADMOVIES

October 06

styes, shys and porkie pies

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  • The attempt to sack Parliment
  • 'i' the film
  • Put up your Words
  • A New Radio Show for the Broken Noise Moo Sieve
  • Buy your existence juice here

September 06

blood leaks from the derision

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  • If Only We Got On With The Neighbours
  • August Bank Holiday Roundup
  • A New Squatted Artspace for Bristol
  • Monkies Can't Clap
  • Vinyl
  • Links & Listings

08 July 06

how many rocks can you get for 3310?

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  • Outdoor Party report: Lea Valley, North London 24 June
  • Russell Square Social Centre dissolved
  • Critical Mass wins in the courts
  • Record Reviews
    • Ely Muff & Ronin - Resting on Laurels [B2K records]
    • Bass Force One - Dynamite and Fire [Praxis]
    • Kovert - Hybrid Riddim [Sozialistischer Plattenbau]
    • Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett [Planet Mu]
    • Rotator [Broklyn Beats 23]
    • AbelCain ¿ The Garden [Zhark]

14 April 06

dead skin, dead weight, dead dead heads

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  • Starting Your Own Zine
  • Last breath of hope in the smoke...
  • News: Three controversial and liberty-taking (literally) Bills
  • Review: V for Vendetta

February 06

less images, less articles, less everything really

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  • Hackney Council at it Again Occupation of 34 Broadway Market
  • Nice A.S.S.
  • 56a Info Shop - Still Open
  • London Infousurpa
  • Links & Listings

NYE 05

New Years Eve 2005

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  • Free Flicks Spotlight
  • COPYitRIGHT As an artist
  • Heresy Exibition Pics
  • News: St.Agnes dis-placed
  • Sent

NYE05, Nov, Oct, Sept, July, Apr, Feb 06

kit and kaboodle

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London TAA pics

Jog yer memories or see what you missed, the first batch of pics from the highly successful (if somewhat curtailed) London Temporary Autonomous Art exhibition ...

If you have pictures from the Edinburgh event, or any others for that matter, we would love to see them and publish them with the rest.

Email us at info@randomartists.org or use the link above

See below for previous events



Event Archive


  • London TAA - 16th-19th May 2007 - New North Rd
  • TAA 13 - Forbidden Arts Manchester - Temporary Autonomous Art Exhibition 11th - 14th Oct 2006
  • Bristol TAA 7 - 10 JUNE 2006 Cumberland Road, Bristol
  • TAA 9 - May 2005- Bristol
  • Firenze Italy - March 2005
  • Taa 8 October 2004 - Commercial Rd, London
  • Transfuse - Summer 2004 - Romania and Bulgaria
  • Fuse June 2004 - Mare St, Hackney, London
  • TAA 7 October 2003 - Goswell Rd, Hackney, London
  • Respect Festival Millenium Dome - July 2003
  • Czech and Poland - summer 2003
  • TAA 6 December 2002
  • Liverpool Bennale Art Festival - September 2002
  • Flowers East Summer 2002 - Richmond Rd, Hackney London
  • Cleanse Summer 2002 - Richmond Rd, Hackney London
  • TAA 5 May 2002 - Commercial St, London
  • TAA4 Feb 2002 - Farringdon Rd,London
  • TAA 3 Oct 2001 Hackney, London
  • Bright Stars Nursery July 2001- Lea Bridge Rd, Leyton, London
  • TAA 2May 2001 - Stoke Newington, London
  • The Liquid Spiral Collective Easter party and gallery space - March 2001 - London Bridge
  • TAA 1 Feb 2001 - Farringdon, London