Scrap Club: The Art of Getting Smashed

During the holiday season, our thoughts often turn to one thing: breaking stuff.

Whether it's stomping on a toy on Christmas morning or tearing into a wall with the back of a hammer, there's something unbelievably cathartic and exhilarating about it, even if the thing being broken was worthless anyway.

Now artists in London have taken the urge to destroy and made an event out of it, holding regular "Scrap Club" gatherings at a warehouse in the city.

What do they break? (After the Jump)

Joel Cahen and Wajif Yaseen collect discarded items like computers, pianos and even cars and regularly hold "Scrap Club" events where partiers can get out their aggression by whaling on inanimate objects with sledgehammers and crowbars.

A description from the group's website: "Products everywhere. Look around you. How many products do you see. Count them. There are tools to aid you. You know that you must have them. You are always reaching out to them throwing old ones away taking new ones. Always the instigator. Always the initiator of your special relationship. Now every once in a while. you have to smash them up. Show your appreciation. Respect them as entities of your imagination...and retaliate."