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<span style="font-size:small">Paula Roush and Maria Lusitano</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:9px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;width:400px">
<span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-weight:normal">Curated by Maria M Kheirkhah</span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:9px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;width:400px">
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<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><span style="font-size:small">Installation with video, photography, mixed media collage salon, publications and archive, 2013</span></span></p>
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</span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:9px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;width:400px"><a href="https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=198+Contempary+Arts+%26+Learning,+194-198+Railton+Road,+Dulwich,+London&aq=0&oq=198&sll=51.528642,-0.101599&sspn=0.381045,0.95993&vpsrc=0&ie=UTF8&hq=198+Contempary+Arts+%26+Learning,&hnear=194-198+Railton+Rd,+London+SE24+0JT,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.457216,-0.099993&spn=0.01345,0.035148&t=m&z=15&iwloc=A&cid=11431232060977729423" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:small">198 Contemporary Arts & Learning</span></a><span style="font-size:small"><br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
198 Railton Road London SE24 0JT<br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">Opening times: Mon. - Fri. 11:00 - 17:00<br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
4th of April – 18th of May</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:9px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;width:400px"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:9px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;width:400px">
<em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">Dreaming through –on & into the exotic</em> is a mixed media collage salon, which explores travel and collage as interlinked cultural feminine practices in its relationship to contemporary art.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:9px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;width:400px">Multilayered visual essays and publications, revisit narratives, which combine historical archive and speculative fiction into the study of the modernist collage- novel.<br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
The main subjects of these works range from Mary Delany’s invention of botanical collage (Flora Delanica, 1772-1782), to Max Ernst’s collage novel Une Semaine de Bonté (A Week of Goodness, 1934) and Valentine Penrose’ poem-collage Dons des Feminines (Gifts of the Feminine, 1951). <br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
This journey makes visible ways in which collage creates spaces that facilitate experiments with botanical taxonomies as metaphors for gender and sexuality and also a critique of the domestic setting conveyed through escapist dreams and travel to exotic locations.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:9px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;width:400px">These works were developed in residency at Stockwell Studios (former Annie McCall’s hospital) and are a tribute to the artist’s community that built the studios’ wild life garden, as a constant source of inspiration that is being now destroyed by the Lambeth Council to make space for luxury flats.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:9px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;width:400px">-------------------------</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:9px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;width:400px">
<span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-left:0px;width:400px">As part of the exhibition '<a href="http://www.msdm.org.uk/index.php?/publications/dreaming-through-/" alt="" title="Dreaming through " style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Dreaming through –on & into the exotic'</a> at the 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, Paula Roush and Maria Lusitano ran a micro- publishing workshop working with artists and artists- educators to create their own publication (in the weekend 6-7 april 2013). Resulting works are being showcased alongside the exhibition in the street facing displays.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-left:0px;width:400px">A printed newspaper with a selection of the works is also available on demand (£36) by emailing: <b>paularoush at <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a></b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-left:0px;width:400px"><b>Participating artists in the workshop/newspaper:</b></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-left:0px;width:400px">
<b><span>Mario Lautier Vella<span style="font-weight:normal">: front and back cover, pages 2 - 3</span><br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
Romen Gouveia<span style="font-weight:normal">: pages 4 - 5</span><br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
Mireille Ribière<span style="font-weight:normal">: pages 6 – 7</span><br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
Maria Kheirkhah<span style="font-weight:normal">: pages 8 – 9</span><br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
Sireita Mullings<span style="font-weight:normal">: pages 10 - 11</span><br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
Roberta Gotti<span style="font-weight:normal">: pages 12 - 13</span><br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
Giulia Valenti<span style="font-weight:normal">: pages 14 - 15</span><br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
Maria Claudia Bada<span style="font-weight:normal">: pages 16 - 19</span><br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
Manuela São Simão<span style="font-weight:normal">: pages 22 - 35</span></span></b></p></span><p>
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Additional images with the kind support of the Museu Botanico da Universidade de Coimbra.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:9px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;width:400px">
Performance: eunice gonçalves duarte</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:9px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;width:400px">Further info:</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:9px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;width:400px">
<a href="http://www.msdm.org.uk/index.php?/publications/dreaming-through-/" target="_blank">http://www.msdm.org.uk/index.php?/publications/dreaming-through-/</a></p><div><span style="font-size:x-small"><a href="http://www.msdm.org.uk/index.php?/publications/198-self-publish-workshop/" target="_blank">http://www.msdm.org.uk/index.php?/publications/198-self-publish-workshop/</a></span><br>
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