Revolutions 06 - 09: 'Hold Your Ground': Karen Mirza & Brad Butler

9 May-25 May 2013

Overview

Vivid Projects presents Deep State, a new film by Jarman Award 2012 nominees Karen Mirza and Brad Butler scripted in collaboration with author China Miéville, as the central work to the exhibition. Framed by the voices of Egyptian activists and the art of the streets, Hold Your Ground re-thinks the act of protest as a cultural gesture owned by no one, and visible to all. Hold Your Ground is presented as part of 33 Revolutions, an eight-month programme that asks the question; can culture be a catalyst for social change? Thought provoking encounters between new works and archive from 1960s to the present will address the ways in which filmmakers and artists from a diverse range of cultural situations and societies have protested. 33 Revolutions takes the audience on a journey through film, print, performance and song, celebrating personal acts of protest and resistance from the dance floors of 70s NYC to the anti-institutional spirit of 60s-70s Britain, right up to the simmering Arab Spring and Occupy!