The Bristol insurgent art collective is a group of artists who put on temporary autonomous art exhibitions
VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.bristolinsurgentart.co.uk


The key to these exhibitions is that anyone can get involved, it is NON PROFIT. We take over an empty building and turn it into art...

Temporary Autonomous Art exhibitions are happening all over the country!!!!

London Random Artists

For Temporary Autonomous Art in London: The Random Artists:
www.randomartists.org




What is insurgent art?????
The concept of Temporary Autonomous Art originated with the Random artists in London. The idea is to take over a disused building for a few days and to use it to exhibit art - art in any form - a creative interactive alternative open social cultural space where all artists and performers are welcome to contribute. This concept relates to Hakem Bey's Temporary Autonomous Zone (www.hermetic.com/bey/taz3.html). In the end the building that is used becomes a political statement in itself. So what is art?

Art is expression.

Art is life.

Through time unlimited, art has been a visual exploration, expression and refection of society, and therefore life itself.
A subconscious socio-political-philosophical commentary.


Art is always about the world surrounding the artist...however different or far removed it may seem. At whatever level and in whatever format, we are driven and inspired by what we see and experience day to day in the world around us.
This is true whether we find inspiration in the joy of living (Gustav Klimit, Robert Mapplethorpe, Freidensreich Thunderthasser, Albert Oetien) in world issues, (Banksy) or in the torment of depression (Fancis Bacon).

So at what point exactly did Art become elitist?!
At what point did the general population decide it is not for them?
Possibly at a similar time that I decided that 70% of the stuff in galleries - Not to mention the galleries themselves - was a pretentious pile of shite. Maybe it was the most detrimental and degrading fact concerning the Art world as we know it:
Whosever can afford the correct advertising group (mentioning no names here, I think most of us know who you are)... can and most likely - statistically will - win the Turner Prize. (!)

Art is advertising.

Art is publicity

the 'right' Art school

( if you can kiss enough ass or

your parents can afford to send you).

Or the 'IN' crowd.

Well, fuck that.

And art is life!

You'll find it where ever we dare to put it.

On a street corner...

in a disused warehouse...

hung from a bridge...

chained to a fence...

In unexpected places,

Expect freedom of expression.

Since the beginning of the time Artists and craftspeople have been valued as important members of society. Now where are we? Seen as either elitist sharks that people don't understand or students too lazy and uncommitted to do anything other than art?!!
Our carpenters are made redundant to mass produced furniture, just as our artists are redundant to 10p prints in the Ikea sale unless they sell their soul and paint the same old shit that the galleries can sell. The same old shit that the galleries can sell. (what is it with bold line and pebbles at the mo?!)
What we do can't be found in a textbook and looked up later, it comes from the heart.

Art is life.

Not advertising-

Art

Real, raw and comin' atcha from the streets...We're making Art accessible to all, inspiring to all. Life is not a commodity and our world is not for sale. OK, some of our Art might be - but you won't find all of it locked up in a bleak, impersonal gallery...