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exercise sos:ok

save our souls: zero killings

by paula roush msdm publica(c)tions

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Flexible, high-gloss laminated cover
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Linen cover with full-color dust jacket and flaps
Hardcover, ImageWrap
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About the Book
Artist book, 120 pages, 25 × 20 cm, 2007

based on the performative installation in the P74 gallery, Ljubljana

photography: paula roush and Dejan Habicht



"the highly politicised artist paula roush visited the gallery p74 for the exercise sos:ok (save our souls: zero killings). her company msdm (mobile strategies of display and mediation) staged the largest ever simulation of a terror attack in central slovenia to test the readiness of its emergency services. policemen, firefighters and ambulance personnel were involved in the mock chemical gas attack, which was held in the art gallery in ljubljana, the largest city in slovenia.



during the exercise, around 400 volunteers from the army and red cross pretended to be victims of a nerve gas attack and underwent a decontamination procedure, which involved having their clothes cut off and entering a special disinfecting shower, with the more seriously injured taken to hospital.

a l jubljana police spokesman said the exercise was as realistic as possible."
Features & Details
  • Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
  • Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
    # of Pages: 120
  • Publish Date: Jan 08, 2007
  • Keywords artist book, performative installation, photobook, simulation, intervention, photography
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About the Creator
msdm
paula roush
London, uk

paula is a photographer, and in her practice interweaves her own photography with orphan photographs, found objects and archival research to draw links between experiences of contemplative photography and synchronicity in everyday life. She is also Senior Lecturer in Art Photography and Photobook Publishing in the School of Arts and Creative Industries at the London South Bank University, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. paula created msdm —the acronym for mobile strategies of display & mediation—as a nomadic project space for artistic and curatorial experimentation, social publishing and shared learning experience. Since 2015 the msdm project has been focused on developing a live-work method articulated around the model of house—studio—gallery, a project space with its own imprint: msdm publications— a micro-publishing platform encompassing photographic and book art processes.

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