msdm a nomadic house-studio-gallery for photographic art and curatorial research, an expanded practice of the artist's book, photobook publishing and peer-to-peer collaboration created by artist researcher paula roush
unfolding programme may — july 2026
Da Lenta Travessia das Raízes: Lançamento da publicação Cadavre Exquis — Fotografar em Continuidade Sábado, 9 de Maio de 2026, 15:00 MUDE — Museu do Design
photoworks
Entangled: Humans & Plants in Presence (Exercises of attention with found photographs) Anozero / Convergentes (Coimbra) 30 May 2026
WORKSHOPS
projects
One Green Eye, the Other Blue: Herbarium of the Anthropocene
Artistic Research
Follow Y/Our River: Riverine Ecologies and Deep Mapping
Artistic Research
Liquid Memories: Water as an epistemic system
Artistic Research
paula & work A document on machinic enslavement in academic capitalism
Artistic Research
Torn, Folded, Curled
Archival publishing project
Artistic Research
ə / uh-BOOKS project space: experimental space for photobook publishing
artist's book
Water in the library: a guide to fluid publishing na 15a Feira do Livro de Fotografia de Lisboa, 30 nov 2025
library as practice
paula roush: PAINTBALL FIELD (3,06 billion cycles per second) installation for the Red GAllery at Auditório Municipal Augusto Cabrita, commissioned by Barreiro Photography Month, 1 Nov 2018–10 Feb 2019 Barreiro Portugal
installation
workshops
TUTORIALS Group and Individual Tutorials: Studio-based and on Zoom
WORKSHOPS
Metabolic Herbarium / Potions HERB FEST 1-3 May 2026
WORKSHOPS
Book of Water (Tidal Lea) Livro da Água (Marés do Lea)
WORKSHOPS
ARQUIVO PESSOAL, corpo de trabalho / Personal Archive, Body of Work
WORKSHOPS
CREiA — Creative Attentive Studio (mindful art practice / attention / body–mind ecologies)
WORKSHOPS
Wanderings in Space and Time (Andamentos no Espaço e no Tempo), MIRA Galleries, Campanhã Porto, Sept 19- Oct 26, 2025
installation
Fitogramas e eco-tinturaria na horta comunitária: “This Is Not a Herbarium!” Galeria Alberg’arte, September 18 to October 19, 2025
photography
photoworks
Da Lenta Travessia das Raízes: Lançamento da publicação Cadavre Exquis — Fotografar em Continuidade Sábado, 9 de Maio de 2026, 15:00 MUDE — Museu do Design
photoworks
Protocolo generativo (i): cartografias fabris abstração territorial e regimes de posse
photoworks
Protocolo generativo (ii): infraestruturas da memória e as mulheres nas tecnologias têxtil e elétrica
photoworks
publications
UM OLHO VERDE OUTRO AZUL: HERBÁRIO DO ANTROPOCENO monograph
msdm publications
The expanded practice of the artist’s book: Immersion in the artist’s museum
msdm publications
Follow y / our river lea-minal edges | prompts for transitory states of being
msdm publications
Follow y/our river: a manual for deep mapping in the Lower Lea Valley
msdm publications
Photobook Is Photobook Is Did You Mean Photo Book Is
msdm publications
SUPER-PRIVATE Sourcing from the Arab Image Foundation Photographic Collections
msdm publications
The Empty Spaces | Personal Absolute Space Point
msdm publications
The Beauties of DECOMPOSITION Displayed In bibliographical, historical, and descriptive pulp, interspersed with anecdotes of the arts
msdm publications
DOMENEST 21 cards for mobile strategies of display & mediation
msdm publications
Tender Cups: Ten found bras with ten poems about absent breasts
msdm publications
WIDE LOAD [ BRED LAST ] A House Moved (artist's edition)
msdm publications
SUPER – PRIVATE : SCENES 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
msdm publications
Queer Paper Gardens or The Wild Life of Symbols
msdm publications
The past persists in the present in the form of a dream (Participatory Architectures, Memory, Revolution)
msdm publications
News from NowhereLockdown (or An Epoch of Unrest)
msdm publications
News from NowhereLockdown (or An Epoch of Unrest) -photobook edition
msdm publications
Paintball field (3.06 billion cycles per second) newspaper work - Duplicate
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