PAINTBALL FIELD | msdm editions
PAINTBALL FIELD (3,06 billion cycles per second:
paula roush New photoworks and installation
commissioned by Barreiro Photography Month
Red Gallery Auditório Municipal Augusto Cabrita 1 Nov 2018 – 10 Feb 2019
Paintball Field was made during a residency in the ‘schist’ mountain villages of Portugal. The area has become depopulated and is now being developed as a destination for tourists. The title of the work refers to a local recreation area where visiting families come with their children to play war games using guns firing balls of paint. The photographs conjure up a hunting scene in which a female figure wearing a cork mask – resembling those that were used by the original villagers during carnival – is being pursued. More than a simple ironic take on violence and war, the work draws on ethnographic connotations, evoking a dramatic encounter between the rural traditions of the past and present-day cultural practices.
(3.06 billion cycles per second is the clock speed of the computer used to create the photoworks, expressed in gigahertz: 3.06 GHz. The computer is only one of the mediating elements in this practice, connected to capturing, editing, printing and publishing devices. An underlying trauma is the feeling of loss: emotional, social and technological. Loss of loved ones, lived spaces and computing power)
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- PAINTBALL FIELD Soft Portfolio bag 60x 85cm White woven polypropylene sack with greyscale linen Paintball photo-print Twin shoulder carrier handles in yellow+black camouflage motif rubber Extra-long interior compartment 120cm 85cm open
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- PAINTBALL FIELD WEA Skirt-bag, Paintball field rubberised linen pleated photo-print 59 x 56 cm On Black non-woven poly garments bag with interior Zipped compartment 98 x 57 cm open Twin hand and shoulder carrier handles Created for the exhibition PAINTBALL FIELD (3,06 billion cycles per second) Red Gallery at AMAC Barreiro
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- PAINTBALL FIELD bookwork printed with a Monochrome Océ Laser on Xerox Bond paper shot (two tones) with a paintball gun (GBH collab) 118.9 x 84.1 cm each folio, installed on metal table with chipboard top Created for the exhibition PAINTBALL FIELD (3,06 billion cycles per second) Red Gallery at AMAC Barreiro
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- PAINTBALL FIELD Soft Portfolio bag 60x 85cm White woven polypropylene sack with greyscale linen Paintball photo-print Twin shoulder carrier handles in yellow+black camouflage motif rubber Extra-long interior compartment 120cm 85cm open styling and model hugo santos Styling and modeling: Hugo Santos CarPark magazine #13
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