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Exhibitions

Exhibition History (selection)

Caspar Below is an artist experimenting with our relationships to communities, technology and power.

Previous projects have involved audiences in re-enacting crowd control, finding new parent memories for orphaned family photos and answering a multitude of inquiries via text message as the SMS Oracle.

He set up pirate radio broadcasts in a Northern Irish village and used secret filming to map the no-go  aura  of governmental buildings by stepping into its sensitive zones. More recently he collected bad advice and disposed of it in a series of cleansing rituals as well as running workshops training South Londoners in DIY techniques of urban mass evacuation.

Selected exhibitions, events and screenings

2019

“Trilogy of Painful Changes”, video trilogy, Out Of Site – Philadelphia Tech & Design Week, Philadelphia/Pennsylvania, USA

2017

“Modern Rituals”, drawing installation, Common & Garden group show, Bermondsey Arts Group – CGP London

2016

  • “Portrait of the Artist Who Has a Day Job”, “Advice on Life” and “Lessons from the Incredible Radio Clock”, headphones trail, three locations at Sonophilia Festival, Lincoln
  • “Trilogy of Painful Changes”, video trilogy, Out Of Frame – Disruptive Tech, Philadelphia Tech Week, Philadelphia/Pennsylvania, USA
  • Screening of “Sidewinder”, g͠lͮi̔tc̝h̳ video screening at Portland Community Media, USA
  • “The End of Ebb and Flow”, Filmideo, Newark Museum, Newark/New Jersey, USA
  • “The End of Ebb and Flow”, ATHICA, Micromedia Fest, Athens/Georgia, USA

2015

  • “The Disjointed Changelog”, video, Art Language Location 2015, Centre for Computing History
  • “Trilogy of Painful Changes”, video trilogy, Art Language Location 2015, Anglia Ruskin University
  • “The End of Ebb and Flow”, Pool group show, Bermondsey Arts Group – CGP London
  • Collaboration: Soundscape production for multi-channel video show by Indian artist Parvathi Nayar, Chennai – India, March 2015

2014

  • Foundation of Camberwell Arts Archive, research residency Camberwell Arts & Lambeth Archives, to kick-off a festival archive, artefact collection and oral history interviews, London
  • “Vauxhall Festschrift”, celebratory zine and sticker e-book, Below Press, London

2013

  • “Commuter Audio Algorithm”, London Sinfonietta, #RSVP Postal Pieces, mail art exhibition, London
  • “Payday Loan Cenotaph”, pop-up memorial installation, Camberwell Open, London
  • Noise Intercepted, 6-month sound art challenge, Vancouver & online

2012

  • Screening of “Sidewinder”, Disposable Film Festival at the Cinema Museum, London
  • “Liquid Memorials”, commemorative cocktails event for festival opening, Camberwell Arts Festival, London

2011

  • Videoclub, Beyond Surveillance: video screening and panel discussion
  • South Hill Park
  • Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings
  • Aspex, Portsmouth
  • Bracknell
  • “OneDayOnearth”, global participatory video project, screenings worldwide, incl. United Nations headquarters NY

2010

  • Screening of “iDrone London”, pop-up cinema Camberwell Arts Festival, London  
  • Videoclub: Beyond Surveillance Lighthouse, Brighton  
  • “A Global Surveillance Society?” screening at conference at UCL, London

2009

  • “Self-Evacuation for Londoners”, presentation and participatory workshop at Volume Gallery, London  
  • “I Told You So – new rituals for the everyday” participatory project to archive and process bad advice, Camberwell Arts, London  

2008

  • “Time” presentation on artists’ time at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich University , London  
  • “21st Century Anxiety conference”, video screening, presentation and panel discussion, Nottingham University, Nottingham  
  • “The DIY Handbook for Political Painting”, installation and publication, Below Press , London  

2007

  • Video screening, Underground/Overground at Madame Lillie’s Gallery, London  
  • Video screening, Trampoline festival: The Surveillance City Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham  
  • “Pirate Radio Cushendall”, Residency at the Curfew Tower, Cushendall, Co Antrim, NI  
  • “Art and Anarchism”, The 2007 Almanac of Political Art, published by Sophie Hope
  • “SMS Oracle” at The Way I See it, live art festival, London
  • Video screening, Saison Video 2007 École regionale superieure d’expression plastique, Tourcoing, France
  • Art and Money, 5 short radio pieces for Resonance FM, Frieze Art and UBUweb

2006

  • Video screening, Clerkenwell Film and Video Festival at the Crypt on the Green, London
  • Anominal 2, improvised sonic collaboration between artists and musicians, Flea Pit Gallery, London
  • Made in Video, video festival by Chamber of Public Secrets , Copenhagen  
  • Anominal, improvised sonic collaboration between artists and musicians, Flea Pit Gallery, London

2005

  • Video screening at Video London, Espai Ubu , Barcelona, Spain  
  • “Black Park”, collaboration with Errol Francis for a2arts/DeptfordX, online
  • “SMS Oracle” performance at Coagulation, group show curated by Kim Fielding and Simon Mitchell, tactileBOSCH, House, Chapter, More Front Studios and online, Cardiff  
  • The Flag Project, 254 Bethnal Green Road, London  
  • Mobile, art on mobile phones, group exhibition, Arena Gallery, Liverpool
  • Counter Measure {Time] Florence Arts Trust, London
  • Re.Sound, Sounds like Trouble SVA, Stroud  

2004

  • 60 seconds, video screening, 291 Gallery, London and Darklight Film Festival, Dublin  
  • Counter Measures, Florence Arts Trust, London   

2003

  • Show Apartment, King’s Cross Maiden Lane Estate, London   
  • SOLD, group show Hanbury Gallery, London   
  • “Advice Commission”,  South-Bank Arts Trail, Bristol

Curatorial and Consultancies

  • 2013-2015 #hack4good London, hackathon coach for disruptive digital product development for social good (e.g. Fauna and Flora International, Department for Energy and Climate Change, Friends of the Earth, DEC)    
  • 2009-2010 Project Manager, “Freeasabird – peer support and media project for women in prison”. Peer support network for ex-offenders, Exec producer of 12 short documentaries, Media For Development and London Probation Trust
  • 2006-2008 Project Manager “Testimony – oral history of mental health care 1930s-1980s”. Facilitator of oral history archive. Producer of topical documentaries and co-curator of touring art exhibition on the history of mental health care, Mental Health Media
  • 2007 “Slice of Evidence”, sound art event, curated by Caspar Below and Bruce McClure, RampArt Social Centre, London
  • 2006 “Concrete Mass”, sound art event, curated by Caspar Below, RampArt Social Centre, London
  • 2005 “PopularArt – locating collective space”, curated by Caspar Below and Parvathi Nayar, Nehru Centre and Indian High Commission, London

Awards

  • 2013 Winner of Camberwell Open/Public Art installation, with the “Payday Loan Cenotaph”
  • 2013 London Sinfonietta, Special Commendation for “Commuter Audio Algorithm”
  • 2005 a2arts Ephemeral Cities Award for “Black Park”, London
  • 2003 Rebecca Smith Trust Award, Printmaking and Interdisciplinary Work, Bristol

2013

*London Sinfonietta,  #RSVP Postal Pieces (London)

*Payday Loan Cenotaph, Camberwell Arts Festival (London)

*Noise Intercepted (www)

2012

*Disposable Film Festival, exploding Cinema @ Cinema Museum (London)

*Liquid Memorials, Camberwell Arts Festival (London)

2011

  *Electric Palace cinema, Beyond Surveillance (Hastings)

  *Aspex Gallery, Beyond Surveillance -panel discussion and screening (Portsmouth)

  *South Hill Park arts centre, Beyond Surveillance (Bracknell)

2010

*Rooftop Cinema, screening, Camberwell Arts Festival 2010 (London)

*Beyond Surveillance, panel discussion and screening, video club (Brighton)

*Surveillance & Society Conference, screening (London)

2009

*Open Studios, drawing and live art project, Old Police Station (London)

*I Told You So, online and live art project, Camberwell Arts Festival 2009 (London)

2008

* 21st Century Anxiety, Nottingham University (Nottingham)

* Time, artist’s time talk (London)

2007

* Trampoline (Nottingham)

* Underground/Overground Madame Lillies (London)

* Pirate Radio Cushendall, Residency at the Curfew Tower,

   (Cushendall, Co Antrim, NI)

* The 2007 Almanac of Political Art Publication, Reunion Projects

* SMS Oracle @ The Way I see it Residency at the Way I See ii, live

   art festival. (London)

* Saison Video 2007 École regionale superieure d?expression

   plastique (Tourcoing, France)

* Concrete Mass (ongoing noise art project) on UBUweb online gallery

   UBUweb (www.ubu.com/sound/concretemass.html )

* Slice of Evidence, sound art event, curated by Caspar Below and

   Bruce McClure RampArt Social Centre (London)

2006

* Clerkenwell Film and Video Festival- London Special Crypt on the

   Green (London)

* Anominal 2, improvised noise collaboration between artists and

   musicians Flea Pit Gallery (London)

* Made in Video Chamber of Public Secrets (Copenhagen)

* Anominal, improvised noise collaboration between artists and

   musicians Flea Pit Gallery (London)

* Concrete Mass, sound art event, curated by Caspar Below and Kevin

   Quigley RampArt Social Centre (London)

2005

* Video London, Espai Ubu (Barcelona)

* Black Park, www.blackpark.org <http://www.blackpark.org/> online

   collaboration with Errol Francis for a2arts/DeptfordX (www/London)

* Coagulation, curated by Kim Fielding and Simon Mitchell

   tactileBOSCH, House, Chapter, More Front Studios and the www (Cardiff)

* The Flag Project, 254 Bethnal Green Road (London)

* Mobile, Arena Gallery (Liverpool)

* Counter Measure Time: Florence Arts Trust (London)

* Re.Sound, Sounds like Trouble, SVA (Stroud)

* Popularart, curated by Caspar Below and Parvathi Nayar, Nehru

   Centre, (London)

2004

* MA Fine Art Degree Show: Central Saint Martins (London)

* 60 seconds: 291 Gallery (London) & Darklight Film Festival (Dublin)

* Counter Measure: Florence Arts Trust (London)

* Peregrinations of a Ferret: Space Place (London)

2003

* Post Postal: Euroart Studios (London)

* Show Apartment: King?s Cross (London)

* SOLD: Hanbury Gallery (London)

* BA Degree Show, UWE (Bristol)

* Advice and Scheduling Commission: South-Bank Arts Trail (Bristol)

2002

* The Cave of Primal Matter: Spike Island (Bristol)

2001

* Photographien Wuppertal Stadthalle (Wuppertal)

Awards:

  *2013 especially commended composition, Postal Pieces #RSVP, London Sinfonietta

* 2013 Camberwell Arts Festival, site specific work award

* 2005 a2arts Ephemeral Cities Award for Black Park (London)

* 2003 Rebecca Smith Trust Award, Printmaking and Interdisciplinary

   Work (Bristol)