PAINTBALL FIELD [blue+yellow]
PAINTBALL FIELD bookwork, 2018
photographs by paula roush printed with a Monochrome Océ Laser>>>
life
msdm studio featured in Tee Byford video + Tony Njoku track ‘Through this Darkness’
‘Through this Darkness’ directed by Tee Byford, 3min 2019
Taken from the 2nd Tony Njoku LP,>>>
COURSES/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES
paula roush is a photographer, designer and educator who lives in London. She teaches art>>>
The Archive symposium in al-Nahar:
LAU begins discussion on regional design archiving
Sally Farhat and Mai Al Khouri
April 6,>>>
Torn, Folded,Curled… in The Archive: Visual Culture In The Middle East Symposium.
Torn, Folded, Curled is a working term used at the Arab Image Foundation to categorise heavily>>>
Publishing as Artistic Practice: participatory skill share and talk at CMR Redruth.
Publishing as Artistic Practice: participatory skill share and talk. Conjunction Event from The>>>
Order and Collapse: Found Photo Foundation
Order and Collapse: The Lives of Archives
Editors: Gunilla Knape, Niclas Östlind, Louise>>>
RS FILES: backstory
RS FILES London – Munich To Be Continued is a collective photobookwork, based on a set of rules>>>
Photo-editions: multiple explorations
UNTITLED#1: Photo Editions and multiples
Copeland Gallery, London
December 11- 13 2017
The photoworks>>>
ABOUT
about the studio
msdm [mobile social design matter] is an award-winning art, design and>>>
STUDIO
msdm former studio at Electric House (CR02AG)
(…) like the artists’ studios analysed by>>>
Working with future art tech leaders in St Charles Square, West London
A photographic project based around a contemporary health centre
The project
We have been commissioned>>>
Fellowship Higher Education Academy
This is the report on my teaching practice I presented to the Higher Education Academy to become a>>>
TALKS/PRESENTATIONS
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2019
Torn, Folded, Curled: Orphan Photographs Sourced From the Arab Image>>>
COMMISSIONS/ RESIDENCIES/ PROJECTS
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_2018
PAINTBALL FIELD (3,06 billion cycles per second ): paula roush photography and>>>
RESEARCH
msdm [mobilesocialdesignmedium] is a studio dedicated to photographic research and creation and>>>
ART PUBLISHING/ PHOTOBOOK FAIRS
Blind Date Convention
with: 585 ZINES, Beli sladoled, Look Backandlaugh, Sergej Vutuc, Rostfrei>>>
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
ə/uh/-books
Artist-run project and programme of exhibitions, workshops and publications. Founded>>>
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Boston Athenaeum Boston, MA United States
Kandinsky Library, Musée National d’Art>>>
SUPER – PRIVATE : SCENES 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
SUPER – PRIVATE : SCENES 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Leporello bookwork in six volumes
Editing and design:>>>
Torn Folded Curled: exhibition at Makan
Torn, Folded, Curled is a working term used at the Arab Image Foundation to categorise heavily>>>
BUS-SPOTTING + A STORY INSTALLATION
A STORY table edition
21 single section books 148 x 210 mm each, duotone toner prints on>>>
TEXTS
_2018
Alejandro Acin & Isaac Blease
Activating the Archive
PH museum July 24- Sept 24 2018
paula>>>
Residency with the Arab Image Foundation
Hala Tawil report to the Arab mage Foundation, Beirut 2015
paula roush residency with the Arab Image>>>
found photo foundation
Found Photo Foundation was set up in 2008 to rescue work produced by professional, amateur, and>>>
kneeling (memorial gardens)
Three “photographic rubbings” made with graphite crayons on toner monochromatic prints (80gsm>>>
Orphan Series
Each work in the Orphan series explores a particular approach to publishing the printed material in>>>
PAINTBALL FIELD (3,06 billion cycles per second) 2018
Installation commissioned by Barreiro Photography Month at AMAC
Photoworks printed monotone with>>>
Super-Private on Artdaily
Online art collection Infinite Multiple have enlisted msdm publications for its new>>>
Sex’n’database featured in
Membrana magazine 3
Cabinet issue Collecting Photographic Images
Editor: Jan Babnik
SOS:OK
Temporary public artwork with Coleman Project Space in the site of former Biscuit town, Bermondsey>>>
PAINTBALL FIELD photographs shot with paintball gun by GBH
PAINTBALL FIELD photoworks, 2018
photographs by paula roush printed with a Monochrome Océ Laser>>>
on Photography and Education
This issue of Photographies co-edited by Andrew Dewdney and Martin Lister focus on photography>>>
KISSS Revealed in n.paradoxa international feminist art journal
Katy Deepwell
KISSS Revealed: Deej Fabyc, paula roush and Camilla Brueton on Kinship>>>
FAKE NEWSPAPER
Newspaper work created for the exhibition And Then Again
curated by Ana Fonseca and Liz>>>
Protest Academy in Re-Inventing Radio
Words by Doreen Mende
In addition to their pieces for the show at the Kunsthalle, several of>>>
Protest Academy in dérive N ° 27
review by Axel Stockburger
Module 01: Tactical Audio , a collaborative effort between London>>>
SOS:OK in Southwark Weekender
Will Pavia
Taking the biscuit
Southwark Weekender
15 oct 2004
Former workers from former Peek>>>
MEMORY FACTORY
Zeigam Azizov
Memory Factory at Coleman Project Space
Published in SOS:OK guide
msdm publications>>>
sos:ok in THE GUARDIAN, SOCIETY
Annie Kelly, The Guardian, Society supplement
Bermondsey takes the biscuit Former Peek Frean>>>
mud d’artiste included in
Global Tour: Art Travel & Beyond
Book designed by Mircea Cantor as a companion to the exhibition>>>
Participatory Architectures reviewed
3rd Dimension Magazine
Paradigm Store at Howick Place
23 October 2014
Paradigm Store, features>>>
Unstable media projects in
Portuguese Small Press Yearbook 2017: Feminist editorial positions
Editors: Catarina Figueiredo>>>
msdm books & installation part of
All Inked up
Book fair, symposium, workshops and exhibition
Kentʼs International Artist Book &>>>
Nothing to undo: between the photobook and the book in its materiality
in Maria Jose Prada Rodriguez Doctoral thesis. El libro en abismo.
Relaciones y transferencias>>>
The past persists in the present in the form of a dream
The past persists in the present in the form of a dream (participatory architectures, archive,>>>
participatory architectures
The past persists in the present in the form of a dream (participatory architectures, archive and>>>
Queer Paper Gardens: an approach to art writing
Wayne Burrows writes in Backlit Gallery meets Nottingham Writers’ Studio: When writing and>>>
ə/uh/-books: teaching and research editions and design
Selected to be part of PRINTed #4, ə/uh/-books project space participated in small-format fair>>>
UNBOUND
Unbound, Herbert Read Gallery, University for the Creative Arts Canterbury
The exhibition comprises>>>
EVIDENCING THE EAST END
IN THE SOON TO BE LOST WAREHOUSE
paula roush (blackchapel) & Julie Cook: East London Stripper>>>
DEAR ABY WARBURG
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
Dear Aby Warburg: What can be done with images? Dealing with>>>
bowville
Temporary public artwork commissioned by SPACE for the Bow Wireless Festival , in East London.
As the>>>
QUEER PAPER GARDENS [ROMAN]
Queer Paper Gardens: paula roush & maria lusitano
curated by Joao Pinharanda
June 6 – September 8>>>
DREAMING THROUGH
Dreaming Through –On & Into the Exotic: paula roush & maria lusitano
curated by Maria Kheirkha,
198>>>
ə/uh/-books
ə/uh/-books is an artist-run project and programme of exhibitions, artists’ talks and publications>>>
SOS:OK KIT
SOS:OK EMERGENCY KIT contains:
SOS:OK guide + SOS:OK biscuit
SOS:OK guide + SOS:OK biscuit
SOS:OK guide
40 pages duo tone>>>
found photo foundation
Found Photo Foundation/FPF, newspaper #1 published to accompany the presentation of FPF in the>>>
flora mccallica
Flora McCallica
32 pages 38 x 26 cm approx. with folded colophon 16x 18 cm
laser printed black &>>>
LISBON VERNACULAR
Orphan #2
Lisbon Vernacular
Edited and designed by paula roush
16 pages with various gate folds>>>
BUS SPOTTING + A STORY
BUS-SPOTTING + A STORY is a 4-part photo-essay.
Parts 1 and 2 (Bus Ride) comprise a sequence of 32>>>
NOTHING TO UNDO
Nothing to undo, handbound artist’s book with slipcase, japanese stab binding with gatefold>>>
queer paper gardens or the wild life of symbols
Five softcover volumes, in a customised, numbered and signed grey board slipcase, with a numbered>>>
DECOMPOSITION
The Beauties of DECOMPOSITION
paula roush & Michael Hampton
Foil-stamped grey board box 32x23cm>>>
rositta
Rositta by paula roush
Nine piece table book which when completed is 121.5 x 85.5 cm, 3 x 3>>>
A field of interconnected realities
A field (of interconnected realities), or, The week of mash-up goodness : roman, paula roush & maria>>>
CLASSOP
Classop (papeis varios).
Bookwork for the exhibition “Classop (papeis varios).”
Ink-jet print on>>>
Protest Academy: What Are We Doing / What’s Happening To Us / What Needs To Be Done / I Prefer Not To
Protest Academy: ‘What are we doing? What’s happening to us? What needs to be done? I prefer not to’
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areopagitica (milton’s nose)
Areopagitica (Milton’s Nose)
John Milton (1608- 1674) was a student at St Paul’s School, and wrote>>>
Al-Yom / Today
Photo-text composed of photographs of a collection of damaged photographs from the Al-Yom newspaper>>>
SCHISTIME
SCHISTIME (schist that has already been time) : photobook by paula roush. 152 pages, 83 photographs,>>>
Pink Press
Pink Press, series of 17 hand-made collages with cut-outs from portuguese gossip magazines>>>
RS FILES
RS FILES London – Munich To Be Continued collective photobookwork, based on a set of rules created>>>
PHOTOBOOK POP-UP
Photobook Pop-up
The photobook pop-up is a project initiated by artist and lecturer paula roush, and>>>
THE BOOK DISPERSED
The Book Dispersed is a space for practitioners to come together, read, think and discuss a highly>>>
Art in a bookshell
A survey of artists working with and inspired by books
Milton Gallery, St Paul’s School London
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decomposition and other large scale works
paula roush: Decomposition and Other Large Scale Works
09 – 23 December 2017
UN8 London
The Page Turner at the V&A National Art Library
SHORT COURSE: The Page Turner: photographic archives, photobook works and self-publishing
3 days>>>
political maneuvering
ms dm + dino
political maneuveringBlurring The Lines
URBANAUTICA presents the catalog of ‘Blurring The Lines’, curated by Steve Bisson & Lisanne van>>>
AMAC
Off the s{h}elf: the self and subjectivity in the artist’s book
Off the s{h}elf: the self and subjectivity in the artist’s book
Stockwell Studios, 7 -9 December 2012
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zinefest
Atelier 3|3 is preparing the 4th edition of ZineFestPt, will have place in 1, 2 and 3 november 2018,>>>
flora mccallica silkworks
Neja Tomšič: Tea for Five. Opium Clippers
Neja Tomšič: Tea for Five. Opium Clippers
Performance with hand painted ceramics
msdm studio-gallery,>>>
THINGS WE DO
Thursday 4/10/2018 – 15.20 – 17.00 K2-VG06
Guest Lecture: Things we do, things we’re planning to>>>
theoretical collage
BOWVILLE featured in
Watched! Surveillance, Art and Photography
Exhibition and publication project by Louise Wolthers
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Page-Turner at the Lisbon Photobook Fair
Photobook publishing workshops with artists and photographers aiming at publishing their photobook>>>
Joburg Fringe
Joburg Fringe
25 October – 3 November
The Art Room No 22 – 4th Ave, Cnr 7th St, Parkhurst,>>>
LONDON ART BOOK FAIR 6-9 SEPT
msdm + friends at the London Art Book Fair 2018
with: Afterall, Akerman Daly, AND, Aperture, Archive>>>
RUSSIAN BALLET RIOT
Russian Ballet Riot, 2012
newspaperwork, 64 pages, colour, digital offset on newsprint paper, 29 ×38>>>
tender cups
The bookwork focus on the breast as content and visual structure, amplifying it with additional>>>
hetero qb
Hetero q.b.: a programme of debates and video/performance works created by thirty three women from>>>
PAINTBALL FIELD
CAMPO DE PAINTBALL | PAINTBALL FIELD
Photographed in the Góis Paintball Field
Schist Villages of>>>
SCHIST | XISTO
SCHIST | XISTO
Photographed during Schistories | Xistorias, documenting the trail through the Schist>>>
SCHIST PAINTBALL FIELD: Time that has already been time
SCHIST PAINTBALL FIELD:
Time that has already been time – a preamble in two chapters
The uses of time>>>
Flora McCallica featured in
Carpark Magazine #12: an exploration of FEAR
Art Director: Philip Groth-Tsaparilas
Editor:>>>
BOOKI
SKALA Gallery , Poznan, Polland
Booki. Studying Photobooks
Curated by Jarosław Klupś & Honza Zamojski>>>
THE FOUND PHOTO FOUNDATION, TANJA VERLAK
The Found Photo Foundation
Tanja Verlak, Dear Aby Warburg: What Can Be Done With Images? 2012
The>>>
SUPER-PRIVATE
A new edition of Super-Private scenes I-VI, a series of six bookworks commissioned by Jon Fawcett>>>
Bayroumi (4,600 questions)
Photobook made of a collection of images of photographic negatives – Bayroumi collection- held at>>>
brunch at UN8
Brunch at UN8 for the london residency of
Pau Cata (Barcelona) and Helga Oskardottir (Reykjavik)
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Tadej Pogačar + Dejan Habicht: HU? Pre-Brexit Tour
Tadej Pogačar + Dejan Habicht HU? Pre-Brexit Tour, 25 April – 26 May 2017 ə /uh/-books project>>>
Soundtrack for a CCTV
photobook story-telling at Llotja
Post-digital Publishing and Story-telling in the Photobook
ARTS LLIBRE WORKSHOP
Contemporary>>>
Summer of Love
[supsystic-gallery id=’2′]
msdm publications – now based at UNit8 in a warehouse that used to be a>>>
London Road Photobook Pop-up
Photobook Pop-UP #2
With: 2nd year Photography at the School of Arts and Creative Industries (London>>>
launch of infinite multiple
Launch of Super-Private (open edition) with the infinite multiple project at carrol/ fletcher. Check>>>
Activating the Archive
Alejandro Acin & Isaac Blease, PH museum July 24- Sept 24 2018
Activating the Archive presents the>>>
BUS SPOTTING + A STORY reviewed in
Jan Baetens: A Book, An Endless Love Affair
Read review here
Cultural Studies Leuven, 10 August>>>
Space for thinking between the images
Ludwig Seyfarth, Dear Aby Warburg, what can be done with images? Dealing with Photographic Material
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Fatal women and others as such, Luisa Soares de Oliveira
Fatal women and others as such: A visit to the surrealist museum through collage. Luisa Soares de>>>
Collage and collision, CELSO MARTINS
Collage and collision An artistic collaboration around the dances and counterdances of gender,>>>
A journal of one’s own
a journal of one’s own, a text dedicated to mary, margaret, valentine, alice, paula, maria and>>>
super-private: artist’s talk
The process of researching a photographic collection is a subtle negotiation of understandings: the>>>
Torn curled folded exhibition reviewed
Marwan El Tibi
paula roush fait revivre les archives du journal Al-Yom
Alayam Magazine
Beirut October>>>
To leave is a bit like dying, Maria Caudia Bada
To leave is a bit like dying
Maria Caudia Bada, comments on nothing to undo 2015
To leave is a bit>>>
a story
Nothing to undo, Meg Beaumont
Nothing to undo
Meg Beaumont, Kaleid sunday readings, 2016
“There were no ‘on the road’ shots. We>>>
Undermining the surrounding world, João Pinharanda
Undermining the Surrounding World
João Pinharanda, Museum of Electricity Lisbon 2013
This>>>
Héloïse Bergman: The Dying Art
Héloïse Bergman: The Dying Art Guest Lecture + Private view March 28th 2017 ə /uh/-books project>>>
Andreia Alves de Oliveira> River Boats & Inner Thoughts
Andreia Alves de Oliveira: River Boats & Inner Thoughts March 21st 2017 ə /uh/-books project>>>
Flora McCallica at Queer Paper Gardens
Flora McCallica, installation view of 28 framed photo-collages, exhibition Queer Paper Gardens,>>>
page turner #2: LISBON PHOTOBOOK FAIR 2016
PAGETURNER #2 PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: María Alves, Ana Alvim, Ana Fonseca, Silvia Goncalves, >>>
lisbon photobook fair
Checking Lisbon’s photobook fair programme/ checkando o programa da feira fotolivro lx, full on!
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BLAME YOUR PARENTS: DOING IT YOURSELF WITH VINTAGE FILM CAMERAS + GOOD OLD PAPER ZINES
download the (12 pages A5 zine) pdf here
BLAME YOUR PARENTS: DOING IT YOURSELF WITH VINTAGE FILM>>>
WORKSHOPS
2017 KHiO National Academy of the Arts Oslo, Nothing to undo: Guest Lecture and 5-day>>>
ATLANTUS NEWSPAPERS: AN OCEAN BETWEEN HIGH- AND LOWBROW FORMATS OF INDIE PUBLISHING
download the (20 pages A5) zine pdf here
ATLANTUS NEWSPAPERS: AN OCEAN BETWEEN HIGH- AND LOWBROW>>>
Opening TUESDAY at ə-books project space: Lara Gonzalez madeandpublished ProCreate Projet
Lara Gonzalez: madeandpublished ProCreate Project
Artist Reception and tour
May 24th 3-8pm
ə-books>>>
BUS-SPOTTING+ A STORY: WHERE TO BUY
BUS-SPOTTING+ A STORY has been published by paula roush’s own imprint msdm publications, in>>>
BUS-SPOTTING-COMMENTS
I perhaps don’t have the words to describe what I’m seeing, since I work on film rather than>>>
bus-spotting: flip-through
photo-text index (extract)
In 2007 I dragged my family to Sweden We were all tired of our country that (it was said) was>>>
kaleid 2015
On July 18, nothing to undo is exhibited in Kaleid Editions 2015 at the London Art Academy.>>>
Short listed for the Kassel Fotobookfestival 2015
nothing to undo has been shortlisted for the Kassel Fotobookfestival 2015 and is on>>>
super private
We’re opening The Arab Image Foundation for a meeting on Thursday, July 2nd at 6:30 pm.
We titled>>>
PHOTO BOOK THING
photo book thing
photo book thing
flip-through reception
thursday 14 may 4-8 pm
digital gallery 103 borough>>>
nothing to undo (book dummy)
I’m currently working on the book dummy for Nothing To Undo, a project photographed in 2011 in a>>>
Paradigm Store
New installation of Participatory Architectures included in Paradigm Store exhibition: the decorative>>>
Feminist University: ebook
The Lisbon-based Feminist University has just launched the much anticipated ebook Feminist Routes:>>>
art in a bookshell: exhibition views
Views of the exhibition Art in a bookshell: a survey of artists working with and inspired by>>>
WORK PLACEMENT OPPORTUNITIES ACAVA photobook project
WORK PLACEMENT OPPORTUNITIES
ACAVA photobook project in partnership with the Venture Community>>>
Art in a bookshell: a survey of artists working with and inspired by books
Wed 25 Feb 6.30-8.30 | MILTON GALLERY | You are invited to Art in a bookshell: a survey of artists>>>