Karen Mirza and Brad Butler have worked together since 1998, and in 2004 formed no.w.here, an artist-run space for the production, discussion and dissemination of practices engaged with the moving image, politics, technology and aesthetics. no.w.here’s role as a cooperative environment is directly related to the centering of Mirza and Butler’s own practice upon collaboration, dialogue and the social.

 

Karen Mirza's multi-layered practice consists of filmmaking, drawing, installation, photography, performance, publishing and curating.  Karen is currently a PhD Student in Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College undertaking a project which interrogates how moments of change, protest, non-alignment and debate intersect with the visual and its institutions. 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.

 

Brad Butler’s practice consists of filmmaking, installation, photography and performance. Brad has a doctorate in Experimental Ethnography from the London College of Communication. His doctoral 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. Prior to his PhD Brad studied film at the Royal College of Art and Anthropology at University College London.