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
ATELIER POPUP YOUTUBE ARCHIVE OF LIVE ZOOM
[ SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2020]
For the online launch of Photobook Is Did You Mean Photo Book Is PHOTOBOOK IS DID YOU MEAN PHOTO BOOK IS
WORKING WITH FOUND TEXT (and BRAS):
CONCEPTUAL WRITING, AUTOMATION
AND PHOTOBOOK PUBLISHING
For the online launch of Photobook Is Did You Mean Photo Book Is
ATELIER POPUP invited photobook lovers
self- isolating under covid restrictions
to join paula roush, founder of msdm publications
for a conversation about the new msdm release
PHOTOBOOK IS DID YOU MEAN PHOTO BOOK IS
The talk integrated a tour of msdm gallery,
with a peek at two other publishing projects
that also use found text alongside photography:
“O.C.E.A.N. LIBRARY of confidential and privileged information”
"Tender cups (10 found bras with 10 poems about absent breasts)”
The performance took place in zoom, mediated by susana paiva who introduced the audience to the rules of interaction with the work, namely, the ability to resize the two windows where the performance took place, switch cam and mike off and place questions via chat. The screenshare window featured an animation of the book pages, synchronous with its reading out loud by Victoria (The Received Pronunciation automated voice in Acrobat Pro). msdm studio window featured video stream of four actions {rehearsed with the support of Hugo Santos) related to visualising, editing, publishing and distributing of the book.