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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.

Exhibition History (selection)

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:

    * 2005 a2arts Ephemeral Cities Award for Black Park (London)
    * 2003 Rebecca Smith Trust Award, Printmaking and Interdisciplinary
      Work (Bristol)