ABSTRACT
Since 1998, Karen Mirza and Brad Butler have been creating a body of work that is centered upon collaboration, dialogue, and the social, and their early works emerged from their interest in seminal avant-garde film. The non allowed us to take up a position where we could speak about issues that are very tangible and real but that also allowed for subversion, imagination, and insurrection. The concrete has those resonances of barricades, of roadblocks—it’s a very strong architectural form, bringing the outside inside. Since 2007, they have pursued a strain of practice entitled The Museum of Non Participation. The non allowed us to take up a position where we could speak about issues that are very tangible and real but that also allowed for subversion, imagination, and insurrection.
