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6 unusual facts about Temporary Autonomous Zone


Dave Stitch

Heavily influenced by Hakim Bey's Temporary Automous Zone concept and by DIY culture, David was instrumental in the creation of the early Temporary Autonomous Art (TAA) exhibitions held in various squatted venues in London between 2001-2005 as part of the Random Artists collective.

Patri Friedman

Since attending the Burning Man festival in 2000, Friedman imagined creating a water festival called Ephemerisle as a Seasteading experiment and Temporary Autonomous Zone.

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Bill Laswell produced an album featuring Hakim Bey reading excerpts from TAZ with music by Material featuring Wu Man, Nicky Skopelitis, and Buckethead.

With lyrical pattern and subject matter similar to The Wild Party, the three song cycle of "Just the Best Party," "Go WIth It Girl" and "The Naughty Little Rat Makes New Friends" on The World/Inferno Friendship Society's 2002 album Just the Best Party details a story of love and loss from within a temporary autonomous zone.

The ideas which inspired the "Gone to Croatan" chapter—i.e. the disappearance of the Roanoke Colony—were later used as the basis for the book Gone To Croatan: The Origins of North American Dropout Culture, edited by Ron Sakolsky and James Koehnline.

Bey's line "art as crime; crime as art" from "Poetic Terrorism" was sampled by Negativland in their song "Downloading" from their album No Business.



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