ADIADO Emaranhados: humanos e plantas em presença, exercícios de atenção com fotografias encontradas
30 May
[POSTPONED]
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the event has been postponed to July 4.
With paula roush/msdm (mobile strategies of display & mediation)
Type: Participatory performance
Emaranhados: humanos e plantas em presença, exercícios de atenção com fotografias encontradas unfolds in public space around an editorial table that brings together photographs of humans in coexistence or entanglement with plants. The images belong to the Found Photo Foundation, a living archive of vernacular and orphan photographs, activated in this proposal not as a stabilised collection, but as a relational and sensory device. The public is invited to bring a photograph, old or recent, their own or found, in which a person is in relation with plants: caring for them, touching them, inhabiting them or becoming entangled with them. They may also bring only the memory of a photograph. Here, images are held, shared and returned. The stories may be real or fabulated. In short cycles, members of the public choose and hold an image, from the Foundation or brought by themselves, and share narratives associated with that encounter. These stories are recorded on site, by hand or with a typewriter, and incorporated into a lambe-lambe action, forming a temporary collective mural on Rua Direita, in downtown Coimbra.
Paula Roush is an artist and researcher whose practice unfolds through workshops, participatory processes and fieldwork. She works with photography, publishing and situated editorial practices, activating archives, landscapes and local ecologies as living material. She is the founder of MSDM, Mobile Strategies of Display & Mediation, a mobile platform for collective experimentation. Her work connects artistic, pedagogical and community practices, favouring slow, collaborative and sensory methodologies.
Location: Rua Direita, 69