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
an imprint of msdm studio, msdm publications
explore mobile strategies of display & mediation,
where art publishing meets photographic research:
the book medium offering open, mobile spaces
that are potentially archival and narrative
for a recombinatory reading experience.
integrating photographic and book art processes,
msdm publications are guided by artistic research
and hybrid publishing formats
that combine the hand-made with digital tech.
curatorial projects held at msdm studio
and partner sites address exhibition formats
that emerge from issues specific to the display of book art,
photobook installation and social publishing.
Book Art Collections
Represented in public artists’ books collections worldwide,
msdm publications are accessed by a broader audience and `
used as educational resources for students and researchers
of photobook art.
Social publishing
Free and low-cost photobook making workshops support
art and humanitarian organisations, working directly with their artists to document, exhibit and publish their photographic archives. [more]
Biblioteca Universitaria de Vigo [+]
Bower Ashton Library
University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) [+]
bookRoom Collection at
UCA Library at Farnham [+]
Victoria & Albert Museum
National Art Library London [+]
Khio Oslo National Academy of the Arts
artist's books collection [+]
Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar
MENA artists’ books collection [+]
Women's Art Library Collections,
Goldsmiths, University of London [+]
The Metropolitan Museum
Thomas J. Watson Library [+]
The Swarthmore College Libraries
Book arts collection [+]
The Boston Athenaeum Library [+]
The School of Art Institute of Chicago Library
Joan Flasch Artists' Book collection
[+]
The Centre Pompidou Kandinsky Library
Artists' Books Collection [+]
The Drawing Room Outset Study
collection of artists' books [+]
MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani
de Barcelona collection [+]
Coleção de Arte Fundação EDP [+]
Biblioteca de Arte Gulbenkian [+]
Parasite collection at P74 Ljubljana [+]
Photobook cafe library [+]
The Brooklyn Museum
The Museum of Modern Art Library
contact
paula roush ::: paularoush@gmail.com
msdm studio ::: msdm@msdm.org.uk