karen.mirza@no-w-here.org.uk
brad.butler@no-w-here.org.uk

Education
• Karen Mirza / Royal College of Art MA – 1995-1997 / Camberwell College of Arts BFA – 1992-1995
• Brad Butler / Royal College of Art MA – 1995-1997 / University College London Bsc – 1992-1995 / Currently in completion: PHD in Film University of the Arts London 2006-2010

Exhibitions / Talks / Events 2008/11
For URL links 2008/2010 see 'news' page
http://www.mirza-butler.net/index.php?/1/news/

• February 2011. The Exception and the Rule screens as part of Hors Pistes 2011 at Centre Pompidou Hors Piste

• December 2010. The Exception and the Rule screens as part of: What is to be done ? art/film/politics at Centre Pompidou Que Faire?

• November 15th - January 2011. Karen Mirza and Brad Butler take up residence at the Townhouse Gallery Cairo

• November 2010. VIVID: The Daily Battle. Karen Mirza & Brad Butler are occupying a column space in the UK/Urdu newspaper The Daily Jang (translated back into English as: The Daily Battle) as a temporary site of creative contemporary cultural discourse about the role of art in society. Each day of the exhibition a different cultural thinker will publish a text that is their own interpretation of this context. The Daily Jang is the Uk's largest newspaper dedicated to news between Pakistan and the UK, it is available in many newsagents across the UK and 100 copies will be delivered to VIVID each morning as the focus of an installation within the exhibition. Vivid

• October 27th: The lure of the lens in art practice and research methods Cultural Heritage, Mobility and Visual Practices. Talk at Tate Britain.

• The Showrooms: 21st October 2010: 2010 Turner Prize nominees Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar of The Otolith Group join forces with Karen Mirza and Brad Butler from no.w.here to discuss the distinguishing principles of artistic practice that features research, curation and polemic as well as film and video production.

• September 25th: The Exception and the Rule screens at Video_Dumbo: Choosing Sides.

• Strategies of Participation: OK Talk – Design dialogues between Helsinki and London. Ok Talk

• Mirza/Butler are shortlisted for a FLAMIN production award for a new work: Direct Speech Acts: on language as violence.

• July 2010: Article: Artists at Work: Karen Mirza and Brad Butler. interview by Gemma Sharpe for Afterall online

• July 2010: The Space Between at Modern Art Oxford Colour

• June 2010: The Exception and the Rule is the Festival Award winner First Prize at The 22nd Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival

• June 2010: The Voyage of Non Such by Karen Mirza and Ruth Beale opens at the Whitstable Biennale.

• May 2010 Profile & Front cover on Mirza and Butler. Article by Maxa Zoller Art Monthly (336)

• April 2010 Mirza and Butler Performance intervention All that Remains... the Teenagers of Socialism at Waterside Project Space entitled: What will the next revolution look like?

• March 2010 Art Review Issue 39: The Future Now Greats: What artists are interested in today …

• March 2010 Doha, Art Dubai: Debate, 'The 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’.

• March 2010 The Museum of non Participation Performance at Casa Encendida, Madrid.

• February 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.

• February /March 2010 The Museum of Non Participation is the main feature in Kaleidoscope Magazine.

• January/February 2010 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.

• January 2010 The Space Between at Dundee Contemporary Arts as part of the Martin Boyce exhibition

• January 2010 The Exception and the Rule at The Festival Les Inattendus, Lyon.

• 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

• December 2009 Artists presentation of The Museum of non Participation at Arab Shorts.net in Cairo

• 12th November 2009 Karen Mirza artist talk at 'Atmospheres of participation: art, media, politics' at Goldsmiths

• November 2009 The Exception and the Rule at The Cinema Project Portland, at DIM cinema in Vancouver and the Courtisane festival in Ghent Belgium

• November 2009 Artists talk Brad Butler at International Documentary Festival Amsterdam

• November 2009 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam: screening of The Exception and the Rule.

• November 2009 The Exception and the Rule is Nominated for the Transmediale Award in Berlin

• October 9th 2009 Performance and exhibition at .move new european media art festival Halle (Saale), Germany

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• May 2009. Artists Talk : Efeito Cinema Maio: Karen Mirza e Brad Butler, Museu Da Imagem E Do Som

• Saturday 7th March 2009. Artists Talk : The General and the Specific, 3-6pm, Gasworks

• Friday 27th February 2009. The Museum of Non Participation performance commissioned by Fatos Ustek for the Immortality Exhibition at TENT Rotterdam

• Selected for the EMARE 2009 residency at Werkleitz.

• Winner of the 2008/9 production grant of the The Museum of Contemporary Cinema Foundation Madrid
10th January 2009 The Museum of Non Participation intervention gallery talk at the Indian Highway exhibition the Serpentine Gallery London

• 2008 Vasl Residency Karachi Pakistan in collaboration with Gasworks

• 2008 The Space Between Rotterdam International Film Festival

Exhibitions up to 2007

• Filmische Wahrheiten - Hedelberger Kuntsverein Novemeber 2007
• Instructions for Films – Zoo Art Fair London October 2007
• They Do Things Differently There – St Pancras Parish Church, London September 2007
• Roza Mira, Moscow September 2007
• The Glass Stare, presented by Lumen April 2007
• The Expanded Eye. Stalking the Unseen – Kunsthaus Zürich September 2006
• Moving Frame – Royal College of Art September 2006
• Magazine – Edinburgh Sculpture Workshops August 2006
• Angles of Projection – Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art & Design July 2006
• New Work UK – The Chemical Effect curated by Will Rose, Whitechapel Gallery March 2006
• Light Reading no.w.here retrospective at Nova, Brussels, December 2005
• Architecture & Film Biennale, Graz November 2005
• Chronic Epoch, Beaconsfield Gallery November 2005
• A Certain Tendency in Representation, Thomas Dane Gallery, London September 2005
• Vertical and Horizontal, Serpentine Gallery Pavillion, London September 2005
• Actual Space II – Kingsgate Gallery September 2005
• Sound Track – The Space Between, Expanded film performance, Bullion Theatre, Hackney August 2005
• Young Masters – The Glass Stare – Group show Clerkenwell July 2005
• Light Reading Karen Mirza and Brad Butler retrospective at Site Gallery Sheffield, June 2005
• Light Reading Karen Mirza and Brad Butler retrospective at Lumen, Leeds May 2005
• Mementoes and Curiosities – London Architecture Biennale June 2004
• Open(ed) Spaces - Hudson Valley College, New York April 2004
• Where a Straight Line Meets a Curve - Ikon Gallery Birmingham October 2003.
• Two Places and One Material - Monasterio de la Cartuja. Sevilla. October 2003.
• Sculpture of The Screen - Expanded cinema, and single screen programme. Tate Britain, July 2003.
• Where a straight Line meets a Curve sound piece. Days Like These: Tate Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary British Art – Tate Britian Febraury 26 - May 26 2003.
• Where a Straight Line Meets a Curve twin screen film installation. Lux Open – Lower Gulbenkian Gallery, RCA 24th April - 28th April 2003
• Site/Non Site – Goliath Visual Space, New York. May 2002.
• Non Places – solo show. Marble Arch subway intersection London. 11th November 1999. Presented as part of Architecture Week, sponsored by the Arts Council of England. Site specific film and sound installation.

Screenings / International Film and Video festivals up to 2007
• Sound Source, ICA London August 2007
• Where a Straight Line Meets a Curve, Architecture & Film Biennale, Graz December 2005
• The Space Between London Film Festival October 2005
• The Space Between New York Film Festival September 2005
• Experiments in Moving Image, Where a Straight Line Meets a Curve Twin screen film installation. Westminster, July 2004
• Where a Straight Line Meets a Curve, Channai India July 2004
• Where a Straight Line Meets a Curve, Experimenta Mumbai India February 2004
• The Electric Cinema Birmingham.
• Hudon Valley College, NYC.
• 291 Gallery, Light Reading, London.
• E-m arts, Naples.
• The San Francisco Art Institute, USA.
• Gian Carla Zanutti Gallery, Rome.
• Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bergamo.
• 291 Gallery. Light Reading, London.
• Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Rarely seen established and emerging British Artists Film and Video. New York.
• Lux Centre for Film, Video & Digital Arts, “Real and Imaginary Spaces”. London.
• Royal College of Art. “Playing amongst the ruins”. London.
• Hedah, Amsterdam.
• Filmwaves launch at The Lux Centre for Film, Video & Digital Arts, “Mute Loops”. London.
• Lux Centre for Film, Video and Digital Arts, “D-Net”. London. Supported by the Arts Council of England.
• Institut Francais d’Architectur, Paris.
• Architecture Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• BBC British Short Film Festival, London.
• National Film and Television Theatre, “Other British Cinema,” London.
• ICA, “Uncut”. London.
• Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne, Australia.
• Cinema de Balie, “New British Cinema,” Amsterdam.
• Lux Centre for Film, Video and Digital Arts, “Monuments and mise-en-scene”, London.
• Stuttgart Media Art Festival, Germany.
• Dokument Art Film Festival, Germany.
• The Tate Gallery, London.

Selected curatorial projects up to 2003 / For curatorial 2004-10 see www.no-w-here.org.uk
• Early and Recent Work by Peter Gidal – RCA 13th Feb 2003
• After Duchamp – William Raban 291 Gallery, 10th Jan 2003
• Experimenta [2003-2006] British Council Auditorium, Mumbai, India
• Very Fast Films & Very Slow Films – David Cunningham, 291 Gallery, 10th Dec 2002
• Jayne Parker Chaired by A.L. Rees, LR at 291 Gallery 26th Nov 2002
• Multiplying Mirrors, London International Film festival at 291 Gallery, 16th Nov 2002
• West Australian Experimental Screen Work – Light Reading at 291 Gallery 25th June 2002
• Far From Vietnam, curated by Brad Butler Light Reading at 291 Gallery 24th April 2002
• Light Reading, Group show from the 70s, 20th March 2002
• William Raban, Documentary films past and present, LR at 291 Gallery 6th Dec 2001
• Simon Payne – Light Reading at 291 Gallery 27th Nov 2001
• Steven Eastwood – Light Reading at 291 Gallery 13th Nov 2001
• Nicky hamlyn, Guy Sherwin and Greg Pope – LR at 291 Gallery, 6th Nov 2001
• Light Reading – curated by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler 291 Gallery, 23rd Oct 2001
• The Battle of Britain – The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, June 2001. New York.

Published texts in Books / Journals
• The Museum of Non Participation is the main feature in Kaleidoscope Magazine
• Art Review Issue 39: The Future NOW Greats: What artists are interested in today
• Art Monthly Profile & Front cover on Karen Mirza and Brad Butler. Article by Maxa Zolle
• Artists at Work: Karen Mirza and Brad Butler. interview by Gemma Sharpe for Afterall online
• Cinema of Prayoga: Indian Experimental film and Video, no.w.here 2007
• Jackie Hatfield, Experimental Film and Video, Publisher: John Libbey 2006
• This must be the place Vertigo Magazine Vol 3. No.1 Summer Quarterly.
• Event Horizon: Angles of Projection Vertigo online Magazine Vol 3. No2 Summer/Autumn 2006
• Art in-sight Reflections on Emerging: New British Artists Film and Video, Filmwaves issue 30
• Close Up, Filmwaves issue 29
• Nicky Hamlyn, Film Art Phenomena, BFI 2003
• Reading the Light – Filmwaves Issue 17 Volume 1/2002 Publisher: Obraz productions Ltd.
• Kodak Incamera – Filmwaves Issue 17 Volume 3, 2001. Publisher: Obraz productions Ltd
• New York New York – Filmmaker Update, Oct 2000. Issue 10.

Competitions / Awards / Grants
• 2010 The Exception and the Rule is the Festival Award winner First Prize at The 22nd Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
• 2009 The Exception and the Rule is Nominated for the Transmediale Award in Berlin
• Selected for the EMARE 2009 residency at Werkleitz.
• Winner of the 2008/9 production grant of the The Museum of Contemporary Cinema Foundation Madrid
• 2008 Film London Grant
• 2008 Vasl Residency Karachi Pakistan in collaboration with Gasworks
• LAFVA 2007
• Westminster Arts Council: Film, Video, Photography Award
• The Arts Council of England: Artists Film and Video Fund.
• Artsadmin Bursary award.
• The Arts Council of England: £12,500 Artists Film and Video Fund.
• Awarded first prize, The Chris Garnham award for the most creative use of photography.
• City – International media art award, channel Arte. Broadcast date 2nd November, 2001.
• London Arts – Public Art research and development grant 2003
• London Arts – Organisational and development grant 2003
• Arts Council RFO grant 2004

Selected Talks
• December 2009 Artists presentation of The Museum of non Participation at Arab Shorts.net in Cairo
• 12th November 2009 Karen Mirza artist talk at 'Atmospheres of participation: art, media, politics' at Goldsmiths
• November 2009 Artists talk Brad Butler at International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
• May 2009. Artists Talk : Efeito Cinema Maio: Karen Mirza e Brad Butler, Museu Da Imagem E Do Som
• Saturday 7th March 2009. Artists Talk : The General and the Specific, 3-6pm, Gasworks
• 10th January 2009 The Museum of Non Participation intervention gallery talk at the Indian Highway exhibition the Serpentine Gallery London
• Morris’ Mirrors – Monika Spruth Philomemne Magers June 2008
• Imagined Futures – Camden Art Centre Febuary 2008
• Mise-en-Scene – VASL, Karachi 2007
• Angles of Projection symposium, Chelsea College of Art & Design July 2006
• Vivid – June 2006
• Experimental Video Art – Kettles Yard Febuary 2006
• Screen Tests – Byam Shaw – November 2005
• Sweatshop, Serpentine Gallery – September 2004
• Crossing Boundaries – Tate Modern July 2004
• Screen Studies Symposium – Birbeck, June 2003
• Diverse Practices – KIAD Febraury 2003
• Common Place, Royal College of Art, November 2001.
• Real and Imaginary Spaces – the Lux Centre for Film, Video and Digital Arts, February 2001.