Furtherfield Gallery presents Piratbyran & Friends (The Pirate Bay And Friends)

Furtherfield's 17 year history of artistic interventions and community building in digital networks makes them natural hosts for this exhibition.

Piratbyrån and Friends (The Pirate Bay and Friends) traces the stories of cultural sharing and affinity-building among the activities and values of the members of Piratbyrån (The Bureau of Piracy). This Swedish artist/activist group was established in 2003 to promote the free sharing of information, culture and intellectual property. The exhibition presents screenings, installations and artworks by founding and more recent members, keen to tell the story of the group on their own terms. It features newly commissioned work by artists Geraldine Juarez and Evan Roth, and a new networked audio collaboration which mediates their rich archive and foregrounds the role of piracy as an agent of innovative disruption and cultural transmission.

The exhibition features newly commissioned sculptures and installations by artists James Cauty, Geraldine Juarez and Evan Roth and a screening programme that includes Steal This Film by Jamie King and Piratbyrån and Friends by Geraldine Juarez.

Furtherfield Gallery is supported by Haringey Council and Arts Council England


About Furtherfield

Furtherfield is the UK’s leading organisation for arts, technology and social change. Since 1997 Furtherfield has created online and physical spaces and places for people to come together to develop and create critical experimental art and digital technologies on their own terms. Furtherfield Gallery and Commons are based in the heart of London’s Finsbury Park. This serves as a hub to connect and activate local and international communities of artists, technologists, thinkers and doers