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 contemporary artist paula roush

TITLE WORK: Blackchapel Woundings 
AUTHOR: paula roush
MEDIUM: photobookwork
PAGES: 140  pages
DIMENSIONS: 28.5 × 20.5 cm (40 pages) 
22.5x 16.3 cm (88 pages) and 29.7 x42 cm
(4 pages) 
PAPER: Fabriano and recycled papers
BINDING: 4 unbound sections in slipcover
in a  box
PROCESS: Toner printing with
HP LaserJet CP5225 
COLOUR: Colour and monotone 
TEXT: Text In a visual Index 
PUBLISHER: msdm publications
Published for the exhibition 
Evidencing the East End
Whitechapel London, May 2017
[see here
Some of the  materials shown in the
book were part of the exhibition
Undisclosed Location: paula roush,
Teresa Paiva and  Zeigam Azizov 
Whitechapel London, February 2016



ABOUT THE WORK
One of a collection of bookworks inspired by location of the house-studio-gallery. For two years,  msdm occupied a 40,000sf warehouse space in Whitechapel. Photographic practice and research traced signs of everyday spatial practice, past and present, as well as ley lines of psychic architectural and urban resonance.

The house-studio-gallery occupied stock traders's grading rooms, where
cocoa and coffee beans from around the world were quality tested.
The strategic significance of this location in relation to the City was
uncovered when juxtaposing the planning application for the site with
the occult geography of East London.
A diagram of secret power lines emerged, connecting the Protected Vistas
to Iain Sinclair’s pentagram in Lud Heat and Alan Moore and Edi Campbell’s book From Hell.
A backdoor in a neighbouring warehouse, provided a portal into another
time and space.  A pop-up staging of 1888 by an immersive theatre
company, recreated the Whitechapel murders for queuing audiences.

Read and see Francisco Varela reflection on the Blackchapel work
Essay:
The Expanded Practice of the Artist’s Book: Immersion in The Artist’s Museum
 
Video:  
The Expanded Practice of the Artist’s Book: Immersion in The Artist’s Museum (11m 05”, English )




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Tuesday  October 31, 2016

Strolling around the perimeter of the site
I pass by a black door
with a metal house number:1888.
It wasn't here before yet feels uncannily familiar:
the year that Jack the Ripper attacked. 
The first victim was  found  just around the corner,
across Whitechapel Road, 
next to where  is now Sainsbury’s supermarket
and car park.

contact

paula roush   :::   paularoush@gmail.com
msdm studio :::      msdm@msdm.org.uk