msdm ESCRITA
Escrita a partir de práticas artísticas e editoriais, onde a publicação funciona como metodologia e a escrita como espaço de montagem entre imagem, arquivo, território e corpo. A prática desenvolve-se entre ensaio crítico, fragmento, correspondência e composição editorial, articulando processos de investigação situada,
autoetnografia e tecnobiografia. A escrita emerge tanto como forma autónoma como integrada em projetos, operando entre infraestruturas institucionais, ecologias mais-que-humanas e arquivos instáveis.
msdm WRITING
Writing from within artistic and editorial practices, where publishing operates as a methodology and writing as a space of assembly between image, archive, territory, and body. The practice unfolds across critical essay, fragment, correspondence, and editorial composition, bringing together processes of situated research, autoethnography, and technobiography. Writing emerges both as an autonomous form and as embedded within projects, operating across institutional infrastructures, more-than-human ecologies, and unstable archives.
Escrita / Writing
1. Ensaios e textos críticos / Essays and Critical Texts
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. 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. Porto: msdm publications, 2022.
roush, paula (ed.). Liquid Memories: To Read with Water. Porto: 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.
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