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


  Queer paper gardens, 2013

  Museu da Electricidade Lisbon
  198 Contemporary Arts and Learning London

 

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Artistic research into the history of collage culminating
in an artists' book,  an installation made up of a collage salon, two double-screen video-essays and two large-scale charcoal drawings. The work explores travel and collage as interlinked cultural queer and feminist
practices in its relationship to contemporary art.
Focused on collage created across three centuries, ranging from Flora Delanica (1772-1782), Mary Delany's botanical collage work considered a pioneering instance of collage on paper, to the photographic collages of the Victorian era and, finally, to the Modernist collage-novels that constitute the exhibition's fulcrum: Max Ernst's Une Semaine de Bonté (1934), and Valentine Penrose's Dons des Féminines (1951).

 


paula roush
maria lusitano

 

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queer paper gardens or the wildlife of symbols
queer paper gardens or the wildlife of symbols
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Related workshops:


Queer Paper Gardens: exploring the relationship between collage and self-publishing. Workshop for artists and educators. EDP Foundation, Lisbon

Dreaming Through: Self-publishing workshop for artists and educators.  Resulting works showcased alongside the exhibition in street facing displays at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning Gallery, London

Queer paper gardens: guided visit to the exhibition. 
The Lisbon Consortium. III Lisbon Summer for the Study of Culture Programme

True Tales: Queer artistic strategies. With: Ana Pérez-Quiroga, Patrícia Guerreiro, paula roush, Maria Lusitano, João Manuel de Oliveira and Nuno Crespo. Part of "hetero q.b." program at  The National Museum of Contemporary Chiado,  Lisbon


Related works:

 

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paula roush: queer paper gardens, photography
paula roush: queer paper gardens, photography
Queer Paper Gardens HD, 21m, colour, sound: video-essay by Maria Lusitano and paula roush. Research onto the history of collage. Historical archive, worked through artistic research, in a process of continuous production of collaged narratives. Valentine Penrose collage-book Dons des Féminines (1951), Max Ernst’s roman-collage Une Semaine de Bonté (1934) and Mary Delany's botanical-collage Flora Delanica (1772-1782), amongst other references. Performed by Eunice Goncalves Duarte.
Queer paper gardens, photography and photobookwork
paula roush: queer paper gardens, photography and photobookwork
Queer paper gardens, photography and photobookwork
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contact

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