liquid memories
DOWNLOAD EDITION
Once all sections are downloaded to your computer, print the files
and follow the instructions to read with water
INSTRUCTIONS
TO READ WITH WATER
CAPTURE
Scan a section using a zig zag motion to
create light waves along its path.
CHAOTIC GEOMETRY
VORTICE PATTERNS OF WATER
Get a tray of water with ink and place the pamphlets in direct contact with the surface, to render visible the liquid flow.
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LIQUID WORDS
Come up with new liquid words, find a blank page to write and smudge them somehow.
SUSPENDED WATERS
On a windy rainy day, toss this pamphlet to the wind
LIQUID POEMS
Cut out your favorite words and collage them with weather reports
WATER SAMPLES & JERRY CANS
WET PAMPHLET
Walk to the river, lake, or reservoir, that is the source water for your local water treatment plant, and collect water samples.
LIQUID EXPERIMENTS
Rephotograph the portraits through a bag filled with water.
DECONSTRUCTION
After freezing the poster, let the ice
crystals melt.
EXERCISE OF FELT SENSE
Practice wateryquery,
choose one of the cards
and follow the instructions
FLUID WRITING
WITH TWO STONES IN HAND
Write with ice cubes on the granite page.
MARBLED PATH
Wrap the print around a street stone
and immerse it in salt water
DEVELOPING A TOPOLOGY
OF POST AUTONOMY
Use the diagrams in the pamphlet to map your reading journey through the loose sections
Raul Pinto Simões
À MEMÓRIA DE LUÍS “VAREIRO”
(‘TO THE MEMORY OF LUIS VAREIRO’),
Add a tear to the saddest story
PASTELEIRA ECOTONE
Place the photographs as bookmarks in your favourite sections
EMOTIONAL SOLVENT
Throw the loose photographs onto a stream, follow their course, and look at what is left, from a different angle
SUSPENDED WATERS.FLUID LANDSCAPES
Boil water and read the misty landscape through the vapour.
SILVER SKY
Immerse in rainwater, 1 minute for each person that dies crossing the ocean
A CALL TO ACTION
Add your own liquid stains to the pamphlet
INFILTRATIONS
Apply the wet poster over a wall with infiltration and let wall, paper, and water merge
WATERED DOWN (APAISADO)
Pulp a pamphlet and shape it to look
like a faraway island
O DIA EM QUE EU MORRI (THE DAY I DIED)
Practice ocean breathing whilst reading
breathe in and imagine the wave rolling in,
breathe out and imagine the wave rolling out.
GUSH
Wash your family’s clothes in the river
O LAGO (THE LAKE)
Look at your childhood photos for one of you by the water and tip it in the book
CONNECTING WATERS
Select a section in this publication to
immerse in a bag filled with water.
CONNECTING WATERS
Use the blank pages to write your
watery memories
CONNECTING WATERS
Chose one of the cards and transform it
into a daily mantra
DEPURA A ÀGUA (PURIFY THE WATER)
Use water from a local stream to treat
your photographs
CEDRUS FALSUS RENATI
Water a dead tree
LAMA DE MORTE (DEATH MUD)
Be a water guardian for a day
SKIN
Immerse the poster in water and place
it over your wet skin
ESTADO DE IMERGÊNCIA
/ STATE OF IMMERGENCY
Write down a number: on a scale of 1 to10, how liquid do you feel today?
contact
paula roush ::: paularoush@gmail.com
msdm studio ::: msdm@msdm.org.uk