Montez Press March News

Interjection Calendar 008 guest edited by artist Onyeka Igwe available for preorder

The Interjection Calendar is a project devised and hosted by Montez Press. Each month an artist or writer is commissioned to produce a new piece of work for release on our website. At the end of the year the collection is published, demonstrating a diverse range of collaborations and experimental works, mapping the year in contemporary art writing, with equal space held for the emerging and the established. The Calendar reflects the current importance of online content media, pushing the relationship between image and text in this domain.

Contributors to the Interjection Calendar 2022: Isaac Kariuki, Kondo, Johanna Owen, Olivia Douglass, Alice Theobald, Ingrid Banerjee Marvin, Yaniya Lee, Ellie Hoskins, El Salem, Amy Ching-Yan Lam, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Moya DeYoung.

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.

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March Interjection: Falling by Aliaskar Abarkas

Aliaskar’s practice spans various mediums such as docufiction writing, visual art & site-specific installations. In addition, he conducts lectures, hosts radio shows and leads community whistling choirs. Aliaskar is an associate artist at Open School East. He completed a BA and MA in Fine Arts and Theory of Art at the Goldsmiths University of London and from the University of Tehran. Aliaskar was an associate artist and researcher at Advanced Practices, The New Centre for Research & Practice and Syllabus V, amongst other international programmes.

Read Aliaskar’s contribution at the link below:

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Montez Press’ first record is here: Anja Dietmann’s LP nicorette

The LP nicorette contains 10 performative songs, which deal with everyday situations in an uncanny light, like a cat with no swimsuit, a dog with no watch but a sharp view, or failed eye contact on a Skype call. As with Anja Dietmann’s motifs, the instruments on the recording often include articles of daily use and invert expectations. Saltshakers serve as percussion instruments; a midi Casio guitar substitutes the sound of a piano. The result is an auditory space in which—without much vocal technical interference—the narrative stands in the foreground.

“The performative as well as pictorial aspect of the work is also visible in the leaflet that comes with the LP, which shows the artist’s staging alongside text images. Anja Dietmann slips into roles and creates images that are characterised by a captivating accessibility. Her art is based on the idea of understanding language as something through which society not only communicates, but also constantly questions its [removed]#8221; – Nadine Droste, Director of Kunstverein Bielefeld

Enabled by art grants from the Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, in cooperation with the Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg (Germany).

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MPR March Schedule

Thank you to all who came out yesterday and joined us in the lobby of Seward Park Cooperative for Comte Des Cierges, a play written by Carlos Cotto which draws from his decade of experience as a former doorman.

Comte Des Cierges was directed and organized by Salome Oggenfuss, and starred professional and amateur doormen and actors, Jim Fletcher, Anthony Delfi, Emily Davis, Sophie Becker, Gordon Landenberger, Lluca Huatuco, Timothy Allan, John Ayala, Nile Harris, and Pamela Mondezie, and was produced in collaboration with The Working Theater and presented by The Kitchen as part of our residency for The Kitchen Without Walls.

Thank you so much, it was so special to be there with you! If you missed it, keep an eye on our archive where we’ll be uploading the audio of the performance next week.

Friday the 24th, tune in or stop by 46 Canal Street for “Eternal and Sacred”, a 10 hour broadcast curated by Tati au Miel with shows from Suutoo, Nunguja, Orlando, Fela Gucci, M Lamar, Loka, nudo, Embaci, Bryce Barnes, and Tati au Miel.

Saturday the 25th with Ernie Glam of Project X Magazine.

Sunday the 26th with Storefront for Art and Architecture. This segment, Threshold, is the first of a four part collaboration we are producing as part of Storefront’s On The Ground, a yearlong research project and exhibition series about New York City’s ground floor. Through a close look at the urban typology of the storefront, this expansive endeavor presents newly commissioned artistic explorations and dialogues about the critical role storefronts play in shaping public life. The project will unfold through three exhibitions, a radio series, an open call, a public program, and a thematic reader.

Monday the 27th from London with RCA Contemporary Art Practice.

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With love,

MPR & Montez Press