DIM CINEMA MON NOV 23 | The Exception and The Rule: Karen Mirza & Brad Butler

The Exception and The Rule: Karen Mirza & Brad Butler
Brad Butler in attendance
Monday 23 November 2009, 7:30pm
Pacific Cinematheque [1131 Howe]
Tickets $9.50/$8 students + $3 membership

UK artists Karen Mirza and Brad Butler’s artistic practice challenges and interrogates participation, collaboration, the social turn, and the traditional roles of the artist as producer and the audience as recipient. This investigation currently manifests in The Museum of Non Participation, a cross-cultural artistic intervention and appraisal of standard forms of representing and experiencing the everyday in Karachi and London. The Exception and the Rule is Mirza and Butler’s most recent film from this ongoing series. Conscious of their outside perceptions of the city and its geo-political weight, they investigate the everyday patterns of Karachi’s inhabitants and social architecture.

Their earlier work, Non Places, The Space Between, and The Autonomous Object? provide history and context to Mirza and Butler’s commitment to questioning the objectivity of the cinematic frame and its implications in anthropology, ethnography, and architecture.

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Experimental Ethnography
Saturday 21 November 2009, 12-6pm
Cineworks Studio [1131 Howe, back lane entrance]
$50 for member, $75 for non-members
info@cineworks.ca for registration

Led by Brad Butler, this workshop will draw on the genre of experimental ethnography. Participants will consider the ambiguous relationship between image, narration, sound, and text and explore ways of re-contextualizing or disrupting visual evidence through the creative use multiple audio and visual voices.

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Outside the Museum of Non-Participation
Participatory Artist Talk and Dinner Party with Brad Butler
Sunday 22 November, 5-10pm
Cost is $10 and includes a delicious hot meal. BYOB.

Pre-registration is required. Please send a message to programming@dimcinema.ca to confirm your seat.

Brad Butler, UK filmmaker and programmer of the no.w.here media arts centre in London, will present an artist talk on his curatorial, pedagogical and social filmmaking practices. In light of Butler's practice, dinner guests are encouraged to participate, sharing their own experiences as cultural producers and bringing a curiosity about how to expand their own practices in light of our shared stories.

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Co-Presented by Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society, The Pacific Cinematheque, and VIVO Media Arts Centre
www.dimcinema.ca | www.cineworks.ca | www.cinematheque.bc.ca | www.vivomediaarts.com

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