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on the set of 1979ff: Filming a discussion with the sociologist Asef Bayat on the Iranian revolution. A collaboration with artist Sandra Schäfer. Asef Bayat
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July: Article: Artists at Work: Karen Mirza and Brad Butler. interview by Gemma Sharpe for Afterall online Afterall Online
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July: The Space Between at Modern Art Oxford Colour Field Frames Modern Art Oxford
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June: The Exception and the Rule is the Festival Award winner First Prize at The 22nd Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival Chicago Film Festival
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June 19th - 17th July: Experimental Ethnography at Tate Modern: Nowhere are the politics of image-making more debated than in contemporary anthropology. This five-week course led by Brad Butler explores the tension between the rawness of the documentary image and the impossibility of anthropological 'truth'.
Experimental Ethnography
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June 2010 The Voyage of Non Such by Karen Mirza and Ruth Beale opens at the Whitstable Biennale. This new commission was filmed in and concerns maritime and film archives. The Voyage of Non Such
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June 2010 New Sixpenny commissioned by Ruth Beale in response to a series of 1939 Hogarth Press pamphlets held in her Pamphlet Library. New Sixpenny Pamphlets
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May 2010 Art Monthly Profile & Front cover on Karen Mirza and Brad Butler. Article by Maxa Zoller Art Monthly (336)
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May 5th, Festival of Animated Film, Stuttgart 2010, The Space Between shows in the Animated Architecture programme curated by Cornelia and Holger Lund Animated Architecture
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May/June 2010 The Free Cinema School returns in residence at the Serpentine Gallery's Centre for Possible Studies with an invitation into a contemporary practice based experiment in film pedagogy Free Cinema School II
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May 2010 Disturbances Pre Planned from the Museum of non Participation is installed with Waterside Project Space at the Vienna Art Fair Europe’s only international trade fair for contemporary art focusing on Central and Eastern Europe. Vienna Art Fair
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April 27th: The Exception and the Rule screens in Osnabruek. The Emperor's New Clothes: Clothes make the man. They follow the dictates of fashion and the fashion of dictators. The movie camera observes and brings to light the naked reality of political power.
The Emperor's New Clothes
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April 15 2010 Filmarmalade Presents The Exception and the Rule and Where a Straight Line Meets a Curve at IMT Gallery. Followed by a round table discussion with Andrew Fisher (associate editor of the journal Philosophy of Photography), Eyal Weizman (Director of the Centre of Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University) and Gordon Shrigley (Filmarmalade) IMT Gallery
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April 11 2010 6pm : Performance intervention All that Remains... the Teenagers of Socialism at Waterside Project Space What will the next revolution look like?
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April 8 2010 Talk / Response to John Smith's Hotel Diaries with filmmaker Eyal Sivan. Followed by a discussion chaired by Yesomi Umolu Hotel Diaries
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April 2 2010: Screening of Mirza/Butler works: Les Seances du collectif Jeune Cinema: Carte blanche à la revue Dérives: le travail du document Collectif Jeune Cinema
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March Art Review Issue 39: The Future NOW Greats: What artists are interested in today The Future NOW Greats:
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March 2010 Performance and screening at Courtisane Festival, Gent, Surface Tension, An evening on ... Friction
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March 2010, Doha, Art Dubai: Discussion, 'Institution As Moment' is a continuation of the Global Art Forum’s exploration of ‘crucial moments’, gathering representatives from various international projects which test the definition and boundaries of the word ‘institution’. Chairperson is Anton Vidokle, artist and founder of e-flux. He is joined by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler from The Museum of Non Participation in London, Janna Graham and Amal Khalaf from The Centre for Possible Studies at London's Serpentine Gallery and Khalil Rabah, creator of The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind. Global Art Forum pdf
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March 2010 Performance at Casa Encendida, Madrid
Play. Festival de cine en directo
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Feb 2010 SCREENING IN GENERAL#15 Images I wish I had filmed but couldn’t - The screening is a live-production with a set of components performed at General Public, Berlin
General Public, Berlin
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The Space Between plays in the Bricks and Mortar programme at Star and Shadow cinema. Bricks and Mortar
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Feb 2010 The Museum of Non Participation is the main feature in Kaleidoscope Magazine
Download article (pdf)
Kaleidoscope Magazine website
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Jan / Feb 2010 First ever Artangel podcast. Jem Finer reflects on ten years of his 1000-year long composition Longplayer, followed by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler discussing their Karachi- and London-spanning Artangel Interaction project The Museum of Non Participation. the_artangel_podcast
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12.01. - 20.02. Group show Berlin; Indian Blend curated by Anke M. Ulrich. Galerie Alexandra Saheb www.alexandrasaheb.de
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January 2010 The Space Between is shown at Dundee Contemporary Arts as part of the Martin Boyce exhibition www.dca.org.uk
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January 2010 The Exception and the Rule is shown in The Festival Les Inattendus, Lyon.
http://www.festival-inattendus.com
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January 2010 Performance of The Museum of non Participation at Le Centre de la Photographie Genève in context of 'Act of state: Une histoire photographiée de l’occupation israélienne 1967 — 2007'
http://www.centrephotogeneve.ch
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December 2009 Artists presentation of The Museum of non Participation at Arab Shorts.net in Cairo
http://www.goethe.de
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12th November 2009 Karen Mirza presents and participates in 'Atmospheres of participation: art, media, politics' at Goldsmiths
http://www.gold.ac.uk
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November 2009 The Exception and the Rule is shown in The Cinema Project Portland, at DIM cinema in Vancouver and the Courtisane festival in Ghent Belgium
www.dimcinema.ca
www.cinemaproject.org
www.courtisane.be
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November 2009 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam: the making of Paradocs. Brad Butler's presentation starts 4min.55 sec into this documentation
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November 2009 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam: screening of The Exception and the Rule. www.idfa.nl
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November 2009 The Exception and the Rule is Nominated for the Transmediale Award in Berlin
www.transmediale.de
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October 9th 2009 Performance and exhibition at .move new european media art festival Halle (Saale), Germany
www.werkleitz.de
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October 3rd 2009 New York Film Festival premiere of The Exception and the Rule followed by October 25th Uk premiere at the London Film Festival
www.filmlinc.com
www.bfi.org.uk
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Karen Mirza and Brad Butler's Artangel commission The Museum of Non Participation explores how violence inherent in political structures are played out in social spaces working with Pakistani communities in Karachi and London.
www.artangel.org.uk
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July - September 2009. no.w.here – working with actors Khalid Abdalla and Cressida Trew – are in residence at the Serpentine Gallery’s Centre for Possible Studies (CfPS). Part of the Serpentine’s Edgware Road Project, the CfPS hosts collaborations between artists, local residents, shopkeepers, students and community activists.
http://www.serpentinegallery.org
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May 2009. Artists Talk : Efeito Cinema Maio: Karen Mirza e Brad Butler, Museu Da Imagem E Do Som
www.mis-sp.org.br
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Saturday 7th March 2009. Artists Talk : The General and the Specific, 3-6pm, Gasworks
www.gasworks.org.uk
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Friday 27th February 2009. The Museum of Non Participation performance commissioned by Fatos Ustek for the Immortality Exhibition at TENT Rotterdam
immortality-tentrotterdam.blogspot.com
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Selected for the EMARE 2009 residency at Werkleitz.
www.werkleitz.de
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Winner of the 2008/9 production grant of the The Museum of Contemporary Cinema Foundation Madrid
www.moccfoundation.org
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The Museum of Non Participation intervention gallery talk at the Indian Highway exhibition the Serpentine Gallery London 10th Jan 2009
