House-Studio-Gallery: Publishing Mobile Strategies of Display & Mediation
paula roush (CSNI/London South Bank University, United Kingdom)

The publication HOUSE—STUDIO—GALLERY brings together zines, pamphlets, cards, newspaper works, photographic editions, found objects, that were part of research, exhibitions, performances, events in and around the four buildings that the project mobile strategies of display & mediation (msdm) has occupied since 2015. These are buildings with unique architectural features that have been converted into spaces defined by a triple purpose of “live-work-exhibit” for the past seven years. A late 19th century Industrial warehouse previously used for self-storage, a warehouse unit that had been a printer’s workshop in the 1980s, a 1940s art deco electricity showroom that had also been the UK border agency in the 1990s and, currently, a community day center with its own nursery now converted into an art publishing library.

This presentation will address how printed matter offers a felt sense of the links between photography, architecture, installation, studio production, and everyday living through the medium of publishing, asking the question: what are the boundaries between the spaces of life, creation, and exhibition?

Presented at the Museums Without Walls conference, during the “Curating Across Media” panel, Queen’s University, Aug 15, 2022.

Museums Without Walls is a survey on virtual art institutions and communities supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Queen’s University, Screen Cultures and Cultural Studies Program, and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

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