About Temporary Autonomous Arts – TAA

Due to unforseen logistical issues, TAA 2010 has been postponed

Apologies for any inconvenience, a new date will be announced soon

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2009 saw another successful and inspiring Manchester TAA! The event saw a great collection of art and a full day programme with an enormous variety of workshops. The evening events, such as poetry & film night, junk fashion, and cabaret were particularly well attended. We had some lovely dishes in the café at pretty much any hour in the day and a brilliantly stocked bar. New areas like Tech Corner and light graffiti got lots of people involved and got very positive responses. People came to check out the event not just from Manchester, but from all over the country and even some international appearances were made!

An event like this doesn’t just happen but is the result of many, many people’s hard work. We would like to thank everyone who was involved and contributed in any way, shape or form, including the London crew and the squatting posse who kept the building clean & safe. And of course thanks to all those who attended.

Love from Manchester TAA x

ROOTS

Inspired by London collective ‘Random Artists’, over the past few years collective groups in Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh and Brighton have been coming together to create a cultural, interactive, autonomous space where people are free to be, free to create, and free to express themselves.

‘I have to admit, this was one of the most inspiring weeks I’ve had in years. For the first Manchester Temporary Autonomous Art Exhibition it was a trooper and the response was so positive that the next one is set to be huge!’ – www.randomartists.org

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 art world 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 has a dark and ominous undertone, whilst sharing a hope and beauty unified through the use of free space.

Manchester’s Forbidden Arts collective has so far hosted 2 full TAAs and 2 smaller one day events. All events have been an overwhelming success and have received very positive feedback.

GET INVOLVED!

Reclaiming space that has no other immediate purpose, we will be repairing, making safe and improving the building we use before transforming it into a vibrant, organic, techno artistic statement. Artists, musicians, writers, designers and performers, who otherwise would have no outlet, are invited to display their work uninhibited by the normal constraints placed on the current artistic climate. The space will be used respectfully and intelligently, for genuine community development, creating fields op opportunity for a future at no cost or harm to anyone else.

We want to exhibit all forms of artwork: drawings, paintings, sculptures big and small, photography, installations, designs and more. Showcasing poets and vocalists, films and performance, words and concepts.

Born out of the free party underground movement, these spaces of reclaimed freedom have been making a significant contribution to an alternative art world and Manchester Forbidden Arts are bringing it back to Manchester this NOVEMBER: 4th – 7th 2009!