Karen Mirza and Brad Butler's artistic practice is based on collaboration and dialogue. This manifests itself in a multi-layered practice of filmmaking, drawing, installation, photography, performance, publishing and curating www.mirza-butler.net Their work is engaged with challenging and interrogating terms such as participation, collaboration, the social turn and the traditional roles of the artist as producer and the audience as recipient www.no-w-here.org.uk. Karen Mirza and Brad Butler have been actively involved in the London art scene for over thirteen years and have participated in many exhibitions in leading institutions in Europe and abroad. They recently received the 2009 production grant from the Museum of Contemporary Cinema Foundation Madrid, they were Festival Award winners at The 2010 Chicago Film and Video Festival and were nominated for the 2010 Transmediale Award Berlin. Their current body of work, The Museum of Non Participation, commissioned by Artangel, proposes a museum as a conceptual (geo)political construct of gesture, image and thresholds of language. This ongoing body of work has since been the main feature in Kaleidoscope Magazine, the front cover of Art Monthly and the subject of Future Now Greats in Art Review whilst their first film made in this context The Exception and the Rule has screened in over 16 major international festivals. Karen Mirza and Brad Butler's forthcoming work opens at Vivid in Birmingham on 3rd November 2010 and they are invited artists in residence at Townhouse Gallery in Cairo 2010/11.

Karen Mirza is an influential figure in artist film and video, known both for her work and her curatorial practice. She has also been a tutor in film and video at the Royal College of Art for several years. Karen Mirza’s art practice started within a background in painting from Camberwell College of Art and continued through her MA in film and video at the Royal college of Art. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1997 she has created site specific and site conditioned works for galleries, public spaces and the cinema that foreground the sculptural qualities of projection and the architectonics of film and video. Karen is currently working on solo and collaborative work that utilises printmaking, photography and film to explore themes of ‘the imagination and the everyday’, ‘the psychoanalytical and the political’. Karen is currently a PhD Student in Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College. Karen and Brad's collaborative work was the winner of the 2008/9 production grant of the The Museum of Contemporary Cinema Foundation Madrid. They are also nominated for the Transmediale award 2010. Karen is the co-founder of the artist platform www.no-w-here.org.uk.

Karen Mirza Solo Work 		Brad Butler graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Documentary Filmmaking. He also has a 1st class degree in Anthropology. In September 2000 he was the winner of BBC2’s Documentary talent 2000 competition. Since 1998 he has been creating a body of work in collaboration with Karen Mirza that has moved between the documentary form and artists film. This ongoing dialogue about practice has manifested itself in artistic work presented in exhibitions, events and the cinema as well as the creation of the unique space www.no-w-here.org.uk. Brads most recent work is a return to issues raised in Anthropology having spent 10 years as an active participant in the ideas of experimental film and Brad is currently completing a PhD thesis in Film at University of the Arts London linking Structural Film with Experimental Ethnography, a body of work that has informed The Museum of non Participation. His research considers the potential cross-fertilisation of a structural film practice with experimental ethnography to challenge dominant assumptions about cultural representation in anthropology and to suggest ways in which anthropology can actively interrogate visual systems as a means of renewing the avant-gardism of structural film. This includes the crossover of these terms with minimal and conceptual art, experimental aesthetic systems and/or artworks that blur fact and fiction Experimental film and Anthropology

Brad Butler Solo Work