Karen and Brad are two of the UK’s most interesting, thoughtful (expanded ¹ ) film artists and part of the invaluable film production/ critical dialogue/ image making resource no.w.here. Nabil is an artist, writer, and musician; he often deals with issues of immigration and human rights; he’s a member of Call & Response.

Brad and Karen first thought of The Museum of Non Participation in 2007 when – during the Pakistani Lawyers movement in Islamabad – they viewed the protests and subsequent state violence from a window in The National Art Gallery.

The Museum of Non Participation is an expanded film performance/ lecture/ intervention of texts, slides, narration, video and film; the performance charts the coming into being of The Museum of Non Participation, as an artistic, social and political experiment to define the boundaries of non-participation and resistance. ²

The performance brings together different materials (film, text, speech) and temporarily constructs a filmic space to think through questions of resistance, and the choice and consequence of action vs. inaction: what does it mean to choose to not take part?