Man From Below TV (2006-2008)


Man From Below TV is a series of three videos and a sustained set of site specific performances where the alter ego developed subversive plans for re-designing particular sites, this included re-wilding the Excel Centre, London and City Airport and proposals for sites such as Bern, Switzerland during dragged down into lowercase (2008) (Selected by Clementine Deliss and Oscar Tuazon) at Zentrum Paul Klee Sommerakademie, Bern, Switzerland.

The first video Man From Below TV - Episode 1 was selected for Bloomberg Contemporaries 2007.

Bloomberg New Contemporaries Selectors' Comments:
Charlie Tweed gives new meaning to civil disobedience, full disclosure - and underground. His Man from Below TV is more like a message from the boy-child you hope will never grow up. He's too smart for his own good, but you know you'd never let him get away with his astutely, acutely damning enactments if you took him for an adult. Check out his graphic for the video Man from Below TV: a literal kid's rendition of his instructions for its display: '7 inch screen with live aerial extending as if live broadcast.'

Is funny. He lives on nothing much but the idea of rebellion, off grid, down below. The expanse at the edge of London. Near City Airport perhaps is the basecamp for his pioneering media and eco activism. The props are limited, the hole not big, but the encouragement is surely convincing. Everyone should do it now, go there, dig, rebel, and then pass it on.

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