PAULA ROUSH (Lisbon, Portugal) is an artist, researcher and teachercurrently based in London, UK. She is the funder of msdm (mobile strategies of display and mediation), a platform for research and collaboration on art,technologies and politics. Relying on intertex...tual approaches, she uses video, photography and performative installation, linked to critical-theory discourses to explore social and gendered aspects of (historical) representation.Examples of her projects are: Browser Landscapes, Participatory Architectures (Archive, Memory, Revolution), Soundtrack for a citv, Bowville, Arphield Recordings, the b*LOAN project, Protest Academy (What are we doing? What is happening to us? What needs to be done? I prefer not to); SOS:OK (Save Our Souls: Zero Killings);
She exhibited at: the Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau; the Living Art Museum, Reykjavik; GAK - Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen; the Biennial of Prague; Centre of Modern Art - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; P74 Gallery, Ljubljana;Transmediale and Sparwasser, Berlin; EV+A, Limerick; K3, Zurich and Kunsthalle Exerngrass, Vienna. She co-curated Local Worlds: Spaces,Visibilities and Transcultural Flows, Centro Cultural de Lagos (2008),Welcome Goodbye Adeus Obrigada: Journeys, Dislocations and Imaginary Nations, Blue Elephant Theatre, London (2006), Postscript: Portuguese LiveArt in the Age of Scripted Reality, Space, London (2004) and Outsourcing:Creative Collision Between Artist and Curator, in IVA, London (2002). She is senior lecturer of digital photography at the London South Bank University,where she teaches courses on archives and counter-archival strategies, post-subcultures, artists' placements, artists publications and self-publishing practices, performativity and surveillance space. She also teaches the theory module for the MA in Art and Media practice at the University of Westminster.