Montez Press April News

Cartography: Celebrating 10 Years of Montez Press at Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg

In celebration of the past ten years of Montez Press from 2012 to today, Galerie Karin Guenther in Hamburg will be hosting a show illustrating Montez Press’s ongoing transformation and evolution, and will feature brand new publication Cartography, which maps out our journey over the past ten [removed];

The show will be running from its soft opening night on the 13th of April, through the main opening night on the 20th April, until May 6th. Hope to see you there!

→ Visit us at Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg

Launch of Interjection Calendar 008 at South London Gallery on April 28th

Come and celebrate the launch of the Interjection Calendar 008, guest edited by artist Onyeka Igwe. Join us for a night of contributor performances from Olivia Douglass, Isaac Kariuki and Moya DeYoung, hosted by Montez [removed];

Isaac Kariuki is a visual artist and writer from Nairobi, based in London. His work centres on surveillance, language, borders, internet culture and the black market, in relation to the Global South. His writing has appeared in publications including Dazed Magazine, Garage, and New York [removed];

Olivia Douglass is a British-Nigerian writer and poet. They are the author of Slow Tongue, a verse/lyric-essay hybrid that responds to the work of M. NourbeSe Philip. Their writing is concerned with articulating alternative visions of liberated Black queer experiences, away from colonial frameworks.

Moya DeYoung is a (sometimes) London based interdisciplinary writer, artist, producer and collaborator. Moya’s practice stems from a background in health activism, medical anthropology and community public health first in Zimbabwe, and later, Palestine. The unifying features within Moya’s practice are empathy, truth seeking, expressing subjugation and the sharing of experiences with the aim of giving body and voice to marginalised communities.

The Interjection Calendar 008 is still available for preorder online. Free and pay what you can ticket options are available for the launch event.

→ Book tickets to the IC008 launch at the SLG

April Interjection: If luck ever comes, let it be backdated by Daisy Thomas

Daisy Thomas is a Welsh poet & barista in London. She graduated from Goldsmiths with an MA in Creative Writing in 2020. Poems in Ludd Gang, Penny Thoughts, Poetry London, and others.

Read Daisy’s poems at the link below:

→ Interjection-009-04_Daisy [removed]

Dive Lounge x Ormside Projects on Thursday 18th May 

Montez Press Radio is celebrating the two-year anniversary of its London broadcasts with a day of live radio at South Bermondsey venue Ormside Projects on May 18th. This event will feature London station regulars Performing Borders, Gabriela Cala-Lesina, Maggie Matić, Maria Mahfooz & Hugo Hutchins and angelicaaa, and culminate with a special performance broadcast: Dive Lounge with Nicky [removed];

Queering and subverting the classic BBC Radio 1 ‘Live Lounge’ format, Dive Lounge invites musicians, performers and live artists to perform a set of their own songs and cover versions. Taking performances like Lady Gaga’s ‘Poker Face’ as inspiration, the project seeks to highlight the queer cabaret roots that the ‘Live Lounge’ format draws on. Acts confirmed include Isabel Muñoz-Newsome and Cassandra, with a special guest TBA.

Dive Lounge is devised by Nicky Harris in collaboration with Montez Press Radio. It is produced by Emily Pope and Poppy Moroney, and supported by Arts Council England.

→ Book your tickets to Dive Lounge x Ormside Projects on May 18th

Help us support Nala & Ava, the creators of Cape

As part of our ongoing residency with The Kitchen, we’d like to share this fundraising campaign by Nala Duma and Ava Elizabeth Novak, the co-directors and co-writers of Cape, a play sponsored by The Kitchen and Montez Press Radio, to be performed at Abrons Arts Center on June 24th.

Cape follows five characters who live on an unnamed coastal landmass in the early 1500s. One day, a portal door materializes on the cape; the passageway allows one to instantly traverse thousands of miles of global distance. Braced against this new apprehension of the world, the five characters (the Lovers, the Cartographer, the Spinner, and the Voice) grapple with world-mapping, self-coordination, and relation in a suddenly global world.

Having already secured funds for artist fees, production design, and COVID safety protocol, they’re raising money to cover venue and staffing costs to sell show tickets to Black queer/trans folks at little to no cost. Please consider contributing if you can!

→ Support Nala & Ava here

MPR April Schedule

Tuesday April 18th at 7pm, tune in for Info/Eco: The Nature of Information with Richard Lowenberg. On this segment, presented in partnership with The Kitchen, Richard Lowenberg will be in conversation with The Kitchen’s archivist, Alex Waterman to discuss Richard’s work in the context of Bio-Art, Ecology, Second Order Cybernetics, and the inaugural years of The [removed];

On Sunday April 23rd, we’ll be broadcasting from 8pm NYC time or 10am Monday 24th April Melbourne/Naarm, Australia, live from Melbourne Now Festival, with a day of shows curated by MPR London producer & host Miranda Shutler in collaboration with NGV Australia, featuring Amita Kirpalani, Olivia Koh, Liang Luscombe, Clare Coleman, Jen Rae, Australian Queer Archives, Murrundindi, Moorina Bonini, Deanne Gilson, Fiend Bookshop, Verve Zine, Liquid Architecture, noom and more.

Monday April 24th at 7pm, Oral Rinse Zine hosts a reading celebrating its seventh and final issue. This bon voyage will feature dedicated contributors Anya Wiggins, Nande Walters, Eliana Szabo, Jamison Lung x True Young, Zoey Greenwald, Andy Nappi, Lydia Matthews, Sydney Wildman, Dakotah Jennifer, and Cassandra [removed];

Tuesday April 25th, 7:30pm, Seoul-based gallery White Noise journeys to our studio at Canal Street to record food’s journey to our [removed];

Wednesday April 26th from 11:30am-9pm with Extra Extra, TNT, Mutamur, Nick Klein, Reilly Davidson, Olivia van Kuiken, LMListening, James Hannaham, John Tsung, Downtown Critic, and more.

Thursday April 27th we’ll be rebroadcasting our shows from the NGV from 1pm-8pm London time. At 7pm, we’ll be screening Taylor Ervin’s “Art Boy 2: The Undead”, a home movie for the New York art world that tackles big questions like “What is art?” “What is it for?” “Is progress in art desirable or even possible?”, etc. The screening will be followed by a discussion moderated by Caesura magazine. The movie features contributions from Victoria Campbell, Rafael Foster, Aaron Lehman, Chris Mansor, Clint Montgomery, Sean Tatol, Olivia van Kuiken, Allison Hewitt Ward, as well as work from Taylor Ervin and Gabriel Almeida.

On Friday April 28th, we’ll be broadcasting from 46 Canal Street with NYRB Classics editor Edwin Frank at 5pm and performances from Dissensus and Shots at 7pm. Immediately following these performances, we’ll switch over to our Mexico broadcast which will be live from  Veri Bari with Susana Varges Cervantes, Victor Costales, Gaby Cepedas, Delirio Tropical, Sonido Apokalitzin, and [removed];

And meet us on Saturday April 29th at 4pm at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Education Center for Colloquy #5: Translating the Caribbean with Kaiama Glover, Aaron Coleman, and Urayoán Noel. This series, presented by World Poetry Books, provides a forum for translators to engage with live audiences in an exploration of the art of translation. Each Colloquy event brings together a group of two to four translators of recently published works for short readings and extended conversations moderated by Colloquy’s curator C. Francis Fisher, followed by Q&A’s with the [removed];
 

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With love,

MPR & Montez Press