TEXTOS msdm / msdm TEXTS
Textos que emergem de, atravessam e se relacionam com a prática artística e editorial de msdm e paula roush.
Texts that emerge from, move through and engage with the artistic and editorial practice of msdm and paula roush.
Esta secção reúne ensaios e textos críticos, escrita desenvolvida no interior de projetos, conversas e formas processuais de escrita, juntamente com textos de artistas, curadores, investigadores e escritores que têm acompanhado, interpretado e situado o trabalho. A escrita funciona aqui tanto como prática e metodologia como espaço de encontro crítico — entre imagem, publicação, arquivo, território e corpo; entre a minha própria voz e as vozes que entram em diálogo com o trabalho.
This section brings together essays and critical texts, writing developed within projects, conversations and processual forms of writing, alongside texts by artists, curators, researchers and writers who have accompanied, interpreted and situated the work. Writing operates here both as practice and methodology and as a space of critical encounter — between image, publishing, archive, territory and body; between my own voice and the voices that enter into dialogue with the work.
1. Ensaios e textos críticos / Essays and Critical Texts
roush, paula. Terrain Vague Ecologies. Computational Readings of Ignasi de Solà-Morales' Terrain Vague. msdm publications 2026 (english cartographic essay emerging from the project: Solar Printing in Post-Industrial Landscapes, Experimental 26 Photo Festival Barcelona)
roush, paula. Metabolic Herbarium: Plant–Body Relations, Image Making and Ecologies of Care. Corpo Editorial, Substack, Apr. 2026. (Bilingual essay emerging from the workshop Metabolic Herbarium, HerbFest 2026.)
roush, paula. Working Without Cure: Editorial Counter-Infrastructures and Fabulated Infra-Technobiography After Academic Capitalism. Forthcoming. Culture Machine, vol. 25, Forthcoming 2026.
roush, paula. ‘paula’ & Work: Trying to Build Feminist Counter-Infrastructures in the Algorithmic University. In: Deepwell, Katy (ed.). Re-evaluation in Feminism and Contemporary Art. Vernon Press, forthcoming, 2026.
roush, paula. Counter-Infrastructures. Entry for the online glossary Institution(ing)s. Eds. Cindy Sissokho and Luísa Santos. Forthcoming 2026.
roush, paula. Al-Yom, Third Edition: Re-Editing an Unstable Correspondence. Corpo Editorial, Substack, 19 Feb. 2026.
roush, paula. A Vida como Mistura: Ler Emanuele Coccia a partir de uma Biblioteca Viva, entre Plantas, Arquivos e Práticas de Cuidado. Corpo Editorial, Substack, 22 Dec. 2025.
roush, paula. A Chegada de um Novo Corpo ao Meu Estúdio: Um Ensaio sobre Conviver com uma Inteligência Local. Corpo Editorial, Substack, 9 Dec. 2025.
roush, paula. A Visita da Fabiana Bruno à Casa-Estúdio msdm: Quando Duas Paisagens se Encontram. Corpo Editorial, Substack, 5 Dec. 2025.
roush, paula. Selected Works & Critical Review. Swapnil Patil: Floating Fallacy & The Empty Spaces.
roush, paula. Figuring Liquid Memories: Mobile Aesthetics of Wateryquery. In: roush, paula (ed.). Liquid Memories: To Read with Water. London: msdm publications, 2021.
roush, paula. Torn, Folded, Curled: Orphan Photographs Sourced from the Arab Image Foundation. Crafting an Archaeology of the Recent Past, One Photobookwork at a Time. In: Super-Private: Sourcing from the Arab Image Foundation Photographic Collections. Beirut/London: msdm publications, 2023. (Original presentation: Lebanese American University, Byblos, 2019).
roush, paula. Chaos of Memories: Surviving Archives and the Ruins of History According to the Found Photo Foundation. In: Knape, Gunilla; Wolthers, Louise; Östlind, Niclas (eds.). Order and Collapse: The Lives of Archives. Gothenburg: Hasselblad Foundation / Art and Theory Publishing, 2016.
roush, paula. The Past Persists in the Present in the Form of a Dream (Participatory Architectures, Archive and Revolution). msdm publications; also in: Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics, issue 3, 2012.
roush, paula. TV-Essay: Demystifying the Means of Reproduction in the Broadcast Medium. In: Peters, Britta (ed.). Multitudes: The Art-TV Clash. Hamburg / Lüneburg / Paris: Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof / Halle für Kunst / CNEAI, 2010.
roush, paula. Estéticas Migratórias / Conceitos Viajantes / Epistemologia do Lugar Nómada. In: Soter, Dani; Miranda, Mónica de (eds.). Pensão Ibérica | Artistas em Residência. Lisboa: Projeto Figura, 2010.
roush, paula. Xis Tempo. Tempo que Já Foi Tempo: Um Preâmbulo em Dois Capítulos. In: Ferreira, Eduarda et al. (eds.). Percursos Feministas: Desafiar os Tempos. Lisboa: UMAR / Universidade Feminista, 2015, pp. 74–83.
roush, paula. Spaces, Visibilities and Transcultural Flows: Diasporic Strategies in the Local Worlds. In: Roush, Paula; Marques, Lúcia (eds.). Mundos Locais / Local Worlds. Lagos: Centro Cultural de Lagos, 2008.
roush, paula; Brown, Ruth. Publishing with Friends: Exploring Social Networks to Support Photo Publishing Practices. In: Lambropoulos, Niki; Romero, Margarida (eds.). Educational Social Software for Context-Aware Learning. Hershey: IGI Global, 2009.
2. Escrita em projetos (editorial / artística) / Writing within Projects (Editorial / Artistic)
roush, paula. Um Olho Verde Outro Azul: Herbário do Antropoceno. Porto: msdm publications, 2025 (2.ª ed. 2025).
roush, paula. Al-Yom (Today) Torn Curled Folded. Beirut / London: msdm publications, 2015–2026 (3.ª ed. 2026).
roush, paula; Stoll, Tamara; Santos, Hḗrā. Follow Y / Our River Lea-Minal Edges: Prompts for Transitory States of Being. London: msdm publications + Road Less Travelled Press, 2023.
roush, paula; Stoll, Tamara. Follow Y/Our River: A Manual for Deep Mapping in the Lower Lea Valley. London: msdm publications, 2022.
roush, paula. Water Prints. London: msdm publications, 2022.
roush, paula (ed.). Liquid Memories: To Read with Water. London: msdm publications, 2021.
roush, paula. Super-Private: Sourcing from the Arab Image Foundation Photographic Collections. London: msdm publications, 2023.
roush, paula. Photobook Is / Did You Mean Photo Book Is. London: msdm publications, 2020.
roush, paula; Lusitano, Maria. Queer Paper Gardens. Lisboa: Fundação EDP, 2013.
roush, paula. The Past Persists in the Present in the Form of a Dream. msdm publications, 2012.
3. Escrita processual, conversacional e metodológica / 3. Processual, Conversational and Methodological Writing
roush, paula. Super-Private: A Conversation Between PR and EPS. In: Super-Private. London: msdm publications, 2023.
roush, paula;. Lara Gonzalez:The Scales of Publishing. In: ə/uh/-books #1. London: msdm publications, 2016.
roush, paula. Atlantus Newspapers: An Ocean Between High- and Low-Brow Indie Publishing. In: ə/uh/-books #2. London: msdm publications, 2016.
roush, paula. Amy Warwick: Blame Your Parents. In: ə/uh/-books #3. London: msdm publications, 2016.
roush, Paula; Lusitano, Maria. A Field (of Interconnected Realities): Cyber Drawing and Mash-Up Electronic Goodness. In: ISEA 2011 Proceedings. Istanbul: Sabanci University, 2011.
4. Sobre msdm e paula roush / On msdm and paula roush
Textos de artistas, curadores, investigadores e escritores que acompanham, interpretam e situam a prática de msdm e paula roush, incluindo ensaios críticos, entrevistas, textos curatoriais e recensões de exposições e publicações.
Texts by artists, curators, researchers and writers who accompany, interpret and situate the practice of msdm and paula roush, including critical essays, interviews, curatorial texts, and exhibition and publication reviews.
Prática editorial e artística (resumo) / Editorial and Artistic Practice (Summary)
paula roush:
Fundadora da msdm — mobile strategies of display & mediation, plataforma editorial e de investigação artística que opera como estúdio móvel, arquivo vivo e laboratório de experimentação.
Fundadora da Found Photo Foundation, arquivo experimental de fotografias vernaculares e “órfãs”, mobilizado em exposições, publicações e projetos participativos.
Contact
paularoush@gmail.com
4. Sobre msdm e paula roush / On msdm and paula roush
Textos de artistas, curadores, investigadores e escritores que acompanham, interpretam e situam a prática de msdm e paula roush, incluindo ensaios críticos, entrevistas, textos curatoriais e recensões de exposições e publicações.
Texts by artists, curators, researchers and writers who accompany, interpret and situate the practice of msdm and paula roush, including critical essays, interviews, curatorial texts, and exhibition and publication reviews.
Library of Artistic print on demand
Annette Gilbert and Andreas Bulloff
reflect on paula roush use of print on demand
in the classroom [here]
and in her practice [see here]
PEDRA-PAPEL-AGUA, OS LIVROS DE ARTISTA COMO LUGARES DE ENCONTRO (STONE-PAPER-WATER, ARTIST'S BOOKS AS MEETING PLACES). Written by Joana Nascimento, an essay on her collaboration with msdm project liquid memories for Jornal 1. Jornal, If it walks like a duck and it talks like a duck it’s a duck'
Francisco Varela The Expanded Practice of the Artist’s Book:
Immersion in the Artist’s Museum
Francisco Varela The Expanded Practice of the Artist’s Book: Immersion in The Artist’s Museum, video-essay, London, 2020
Photobook: Work Week Workshop. A conversation about photobook publishing with Beate Cegielska, Galleri Image and paula roush, msdm studio.. By Ane Bonde Rolsted. KATALOG Journal of Photography & Video 32.1 [get it here]
PEDRA-PAPEL-AGUA, OS LIVROS DE ARTISTA COMO LUGARES DE ENCONTRO (STONE-PAPER-WATER, ARTIST'S BOOKS AS MEETING PLACES).Written by Joana Nascimento, an essay on her collaboration with msdm project liquid memories for Jornal 1. Jornal, If it walks like a duck and it talks like a duck it’s a duck'
"Um momento de publicação independente: paula roush apresenta Hypnotic Highway" [A moment of independent publishing: paula roush presents Hypnotic HIghway]. Amanda Ribeiro. O Publico/ P3 magazine. Aug 2020 [live page] [see pdf here]
ACTIVATING THE ARCHIVE. Alejandro Acin & Isaac Blease reflect on sex’n’database: a corporeal taxonomy for Activating the Archive PH museum July 24- Sept 24 2018. [see curatorial project here]
Margarida Carvalho reflects on cctvecstasy in A Obra “Faça-você-mesmo”: Estética da Participação nas Artes Digitais. Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências da Comunicação, Especialidade de Comunicação e Artes,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2014
[see dissertation here]
Art Nomadism. Extract from a conversation between Martina Poiana and paula roush. The full conversation is here
Artists in Fieldwork. Rael Artel reflects on Mud d' Artiste in "Artists in Fieldwork: Anu Vahtra,Jaanus Samma, paula roush, Pilvi Takala." Peateema Magazine, May 2006, pp 39-43. see magazine here [40-41][42-43]
See also Mud d'Artiste in the book
Global Tour: Art Travel & Beyond
companion to the exhibition at W139 Amsterdam
[pdf here]
Paradigm Store at Howick Place. 3rd Dimension Sculpture Magazine reflects on the installation Participatory Architectures commissioned for Paradigm Store at Howick Place [read REVIEW here]
Radio as Exhibition Space. Extract from the essay by Doreen Mende "Radio as Exhibition Space". In Heidi Grundmann et al. (eds.) Re-Inventing Radio Aspects of Radio as Art. Revolver 2008 [see ESSAY]