Karen Mirza
06 - 12 Jul 2015
KAREN MIRZA
fig-2 27/50
6 – 12 July 2015
‘The Ectoplasm of Neoliberalism’ is the first solo exhibition of Karen Mirza after two decades. Taking a step further to experiment with her ongoing exploration of positions that concentrate on women, bodies and sites of resistance, Mirza brings forth a confluence of occult and radical politics. Her large scale collages are drawn from her research in radical and psychic archives, her set of photo-prints are outcomes of studies of dissonance. Alongside the recent video piece ‘Everything for Everyone and Nothing for Us’, made with her long-standing collaborative partner Brad Butler, Mirza invites co-investigators to delve into private and public conversations on the theory of Ectoplasm of Neoliberalism from their angles of Astrology, Radical Politics, Kundalini Yoga among others. Conversations with Alice Knowles, Zach Blas, China Miéville, Siri Sadana Kaur, Darby Costello, Sim Elif Kaplan, will charge the space with intention, meditation and process. The week will cultivate a setting for elaboration and a zone for unleashing the potential of progressive thinking and provocation around the possibility of evoking a new stance, and will conclude with a workshop for ideas that pulls together fragments from the discoursive and semantic production.
fig-2 would like to thank Forest for their generous support.
As part of Karen Mirza’s solo exhibition at fig-2 entitled 'The Ectoplazm of Neoliberalism’, Siri Sadhana Kaur will hold a Kundalini yoga and gong sitting. According to Kaur, through music, mantra, gong and meditation, the body and mind begin to calm and rejuvenate, taking the listener into a deeply healing place. Through listening and participating one experiences kinesthetic sensation, vibrating sound washes over and penetrates thought structure dissolving it. It gives the power to move through blocks. Integrative sound stimulates energy centres, releasing and clearing old patterns and moving vital energy Through Kundalini yoga we will warm our bodies to prepare for deep relaxation as the participant goes on a sound current journey.
Due to limited capacity of this sitting, please book your places in advance. We will appreciate if you can inform us ahead in case you will not be able to attend, after booking. Please wear loose clothing. Yoga mats will be provided.
Siri Sadhana Kaur encourages others to experience themselves as joyful instruments of expression and transformation. She is a PGCE/Cert Ed teacher qualified Tai Chi Chuan and Nia blue belt instructor. Siri produces music mantra Cds, teaches yoga + singing, gives concerts and is a Kundalini Yoga associate trainer with the Karam Kriya school in London.
Neoliberalism is in the first instance a theory of political economic practices that proposes that human well-being can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterised by strong private property rights, free markets, and free trade.
Karen Mirza’s solo exhibition at fig-2 entitled ‘The Ectoplasm of Neoliberalism’ occupy the premises as a site of manifestation, in order to bring together and to bring about communal knowledge on the thought form of political ectoplasm, drawing on soft and hard sciences, literature, philosophy, politics and body practices. The exhibition cultivates a series of non-visible and public conversations, charged by intention, mediation and process. On Sunday afternoon, artist Karen Mirza will put forward collection of ideas that have emerged through her conversations with co-investigators Alice Knowles, Zach Blas, China Miéville, Siri Sadana Kaur, Darby Costello, Sim Elif Kaplan at the closing event of her solo exhibition. In dialogue with Fatos Üstek, the audience will be invited to evaluate the materials and think collectively whilst placing these fragments into discourse around the ectoplasm of Neoliberalism.
Karen Mirza (b. 1969, Evesham, UK). Lives and works in London. Mirza works in collaboration with Brad Butler with a practice centred upon dialogue and the social, which includes The Museum of Non Participation since 2007. Recent solo exhibitions include: The Unreliable Narrator, Whitechapel Gallery (2015); The New Deal, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2013); and The Guest of Citation, Performa 13, New York (2013). Mirza and Butler have exhibited internationally, including FACT, Liverpool, Centro de Arte Dos De Mayo, Madrid, La Capella, Barcelona, Arnolfini, Bristol, and Serpentine Gallery, London. In 2014 they were nominated for the Artes Mundi 6 Award for artists engaging with a social practice.
fig-2 27/50
6 – 12 July 2015
‘The Ectoplasm of Neoliberalism’ is the first solo exhibition of Karen Mirza after two decades. Taking a step further to experiment with her ongoing exploration of positions that concentrate on women, bodies and sites of resistance, Mirza brings forth a confluence of occult and radical politics. Her large scale collages are drawn from her research in radical and psychic archives, her set of photo-prints are outcomes of studies of dissonance. Alongside the recent video piece ‘Everything for Everyone and Nothing for Us’, made with her long-standing collaborative partner Brad Butler, Mirza invites co-investigators to delve into private and public conversations on the theory of Ectoplasm of Neoliberalism from their angles of Astrology, Radical Politics, Kundalini Yoga among others. Conversations with Alice Knowles, Zach Blas, China Miéville, Siri Sadana Kaur, Darby Costello, Sim Elif Kaplan, will charge the space with intention, meditation and process. The week will cultivate a setting for elaboration and a zone for unleashing the potential of progressive thinking and provocation around the possibility of evoking a new stance, and will conclude with a workshop for ideas that pulls together fragments from the discoursive and semantic production.
fig-2 would like to thank Forest for their generous support.
As part of Karen Mirza’s solo exhibition at fig-2 entitled 'The Ectoplazm of Neoliberalism’, Siri Sadhana Kaur will hold a Kundalini yoga and gong sitting. According to Kaur, through music, mantra, gong and meditation, the body and mind begin to calm and rejuvenate, taking the listener into a deeply healing place. Through listening and participating one experiences kinesthetic sensation, vibrating sound washes over and penetrates thought structure dissolving it. It gives the power to move through blocks. Integrative sound stimulates energy centres, releasing and clearing old patterns and moving vital energy Through Kundalini yoga we will warm our bodies to prepare for deep relaxation as the participant goes on a sound current journey.
Due to limited capacity of this sitting, please book your places in advance. We will appreciate if you can inform us ahead in case you will not be able to attend, after booking. Please wear loose clothing. Yoga mats will be provided.
Siri Sadhana Kaur encourages others to experience themselves as joyful instruments of expression and transformation. She is a PGCE/Cert Ed teacher qualified Tai Chi Chuan and Nia blue belt instructor. Siri produces music mantra Cds, teaches yoga + singing, gives concerts and is a Kundalini Yoga associate trainer with the Karam Kriya school in London.
Neoliberalism is in the first instance a theory of political economic practices that proposes that human well-being can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterised by strong private property rights, free markets, and free trade.
Karen Mirza’s solo exhibition at fig-2 entitled ‘The Ectoplasm of Neoliberalism’ occupy the premises as a site of manifestation, in order to bring together and to bring about communal knowledge on the thought form of political ectoplasm, drawing on soft and hard sciences, literature, philosophy, politics and body practices. The exhibition cultivates a series of non-visible and public conversations, charged by intention, mediation and process. On Sunday afternoon, artist Karen Mirza will put forward collection of ideas that have emerged through her conversations with co-investigators Alice Knowles, Zach Blas, China Miéville, Siri Sadana Kaur, Darby Costello, Sim Elif Kaplan at the closing event of her solo exhibition. In dialogue with Fatos Üstek, the audience will be invited to evaluate the materials and think collectively whilst placing these fragments into discourse around the ectoplasm of Neoliberalism.
Karen Mirza (b. 1969, Evesham, UK). Lives and works in London. Mirza works in collaboration with Brad Butler with a practice centred upon dialogue and the social, which includes The Museum of Non Participation since 2007. Recent solo exhibitions include: The Unreliable Narrator, Whitechapel Gallery (2015); The New Deal, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2013); and The Guest of Citation, Performa 13, New York (2013). Mirza and Butler have exhibited internationally, including FACT, Liverpool, Centro de Arte Dos De Mayo, Madrid, La Capella, Barcelona, Arnolfini, Bristol, and Serpentine Gallery, London. In 2014 they were nominated for the Artes Mundi 6 Award for artists engaging with a social practice.