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The new year has finally arrived, and we’re excited to let you into our plans for what’s to come in 2022 at Montez Press. Read on to find out more about Onyeka Igwe, our new guest editor for this year’s Interjection Calendar, learn about some of our new collaborations in this month’s Montez Press Radio schedule, and for more information on our publishing timeline for the first half of 2022.

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Installation Image of the names have changed, including my own, and truths have been altered in One+The Other, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK, 16 November-21 November 2021. Photo by Nelta Kasprian.

Introducing our new guest editor for the Interjection Calendar: Onyeka Igwe 

Onyeka Igwe is an artist and researcher working between cinema and installation, and born and based in London, UK. Through her work, Onyeka is animated by the question —  how do we live together? — with particular interest in the ways the sensorial, spatial and non-canonical ways of knowing can provide answers to this question.

Onyeka uses embodiment, voice, archives, narration and text to create structural ‘figure-of-eights’, a format that exposes a multiplicity of narratives. The work comprises untying strands and threads, anchored by a rhythmic editing style, as well as close attention to the dissonance, reflection and amplification that occurs between image and sound.

Her most recent work, a so-called archive (2020), imagines the ‘lost’ films of both the former Nigerian Film Unit in Lagos, one of the first self-directed outposts of British visual propaganda engine the Colonial Film Unit (1932–1955), as well as the former British Empire and Commonwealth Museum (2022-2009), previously housed in the vaults of one of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s most famous railway designs in Bristol Temple Meads, UK. Onyeka uses distinctive soundscapes, choral arrangements, and a radio play within the confines of images from an archive building’s exquisite corpse, to reveal a colonial residue and point to evidence of a broader attitude towards Britain’s colonial past.

→ Read more about Onyeka Igwe’s work on her artist site

In the publishing pipeline for 2022

New Mind Mapping Forms

is a handwritten diary by Eva Ďurovec, who works as a software tester forty hours a week while also studying art. For her, there are never enough hours in the day to complete everything, to comply with everything. And then there is also her desire to have children of her own. The question is: how can all of this be reconciled within the profession of artist? Ďurovec investigates the possibilities that arise from different class formats, and asks what we produce and reproduce — with our bodies, through our routines, trapped between the recurring desires and cruelties of daily life.

Pfeil #15 – Bread

As one of the oldest human-made staple foods, and with a strong significance rooted in the dawn of agriculture and the settling of land, this issue focuses on the meaning of “Bread”, from its seeds to the crumbs, directly and indirectly, as in economy, circulation, disposal, nurture, as a meaning of life, as a component for rituals, as a good to be shared. With contributions by: Adnan Softić, Alice Creischer, Aseel AlYaqoub, Beat Bächi, Christian Parenti, Clara Alisch, Julien Fargetton, Lauralee Pope, Lexie Smith, Lila de Magalhaes, Lucia Graf, Maia Schall, Małgorzata Fonfria-Pereda, Mladen Stilinović, Mirna Bamieh, Nina Beier, Nina Kuttler, Peter Wächtler, Rustum Kozain, Schwester Ruth, Vincent Ramos.

Interjection 007

Our Interjection 2021 (007) publication, guest edited by Ashleigh Williams, will be released in March of this year, and celebrated with a launch event featuring newly commissioned performances from contributors Pete MacHale, Hassnat Sikander and Leah [removed];

→ Keep up to date with our 2022 releases

Montez Press Radio January Broadcast
 

This month we’ll be broadcasting from the 25th to the 29th of January, from our studio in NYC and from our London studio on Thursday the [removed];

January 25th we’ll be hosting some programs from the Year of Uncertainty at Queens [removed]; 

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January 26th we will be broadcasting from 11am-8pm, starting with Important Books (or, Manifestos Read by Children) from Stanley Schtinter, and leading into shows with Meetka Otto, Gryphon Rue, Dena Yago and Anton van Dalen (who has been raising pigeons on New York’s Avenue A since 1971), Niloufar Emamifar with Benjamin Hirte and Pujan Karambeigi, Joanne Robertson and Kool Music, and Channel PTP.

January 27th, from [removed] UK time or [removed] NYC, MPR will be broadcasting from London with shows from Frances Whorrall-Campbell, Quay Airo, Enya Sullivan and Cat, angelicaa, Maria Mahfooz and Hugo Hutchins, December 2021’s Interjection writer Matilde Cerruti Quara, and Terribilis. We’re back in NYC at 6pm for Das Audit and Real No [removed];

January 28th we’re on from 11am-8pm, with a morning set from Glass and Andrea Larry, followed by Swiss Institute with Jose Segebre, Angharad Williams and Carolina Mendoça, Edition Erich Schmid from Asha Sheshadri, Mattin, yyed and Duncan Harrison, Scrump Runt research with Maya Ben David, Jessica Price Eisner, Iain Soder and Claudia Slogar Rick, and closing out the day with shows from Guy Weiwei and Mom Weiwei, Nídia and Kaitlin Philips.

January 29th from 1-11pm we’ll be showcasing recurring New York contributors Tongue and Cheek, Art Against Displacement,TNT, Mutamur, The Psychic Liberation Show, The Radio Show, Sibling Gardens, Civilization, and Noise & [removed];

A big New Year thank you to all of you who continue to support Montez Press and MPR. A reminder that you can listen back to all our shows on our global playlist, or gain access to our entire archive by signing up as an official Supporter for $25. Here’s to 2022!

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