Montez Press April News

April Interjection: Saturday 4th of February by Issy Wood

Issy Wood is an American artist known for her paintings and pop music who lives and works in London, England.

→ Read Issy’s writing here

New Scores imprint: Sam Cottington’s Phone Plays

Phone Plays is the first publication in Scores, a new imprint co-commissioned by Montez Press and London Performance Studios that publishes scripts and performance texts by artists, theatre-makers and performance-makers working between the visual and theatrical arts. Intended to be performed live over the phone, Sam Cottington’s Phone Plays invite readers and audience members alike to engage with a series of unclear relationships and scenarios, invoked and mediated by contemporary communication technology.

Sam Cottington is an artist and writer living between London and Frankfurt. Through interdisciplinary experiments in collage he often presents “reality” as contradictory and mutable; the product of specific historical and social economies. The production and trajectories of the theatre, the family, and desiring subjectivities are recurrent in his practice, often culminating in devised interventions which address their formal capacities as well as their audiences expectations. His first book ‘People Person’ was published by JOAN, and he’s presented work in London and internationally at Ginny on Frederick (London), Zaza (Milan), and Yaby (Madrid).

London Performance Studios is a queer container for the research, generation, and promotion of artistic voices that meet in the space between the white cube of the gallery and the black box of the theatre. LPS seeks to queer artistic process, operating within radically transparent and intersectional structures. We champion the politics of making a scene, whether on stage or out in the world.

Sam Cottington’s exhibition at London Performance Studios, BLANKS, is on from Thu 18 – Sun 28 April 2024 / 12-5 [removed];

→ Pre-order Sam Cottington’s Phone Plays
→ Visit Sam Cottington’s exhibition BLANKS

Poetry Book and Magazine Fair 

Visit us at the Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine fair hosted by The Poetry Society, this Saturday 20th from 11:30 – 18[removed];Browse our catalogue IRL and get an inside look at behind the scenes with Hasti at the Free Verse Editor’s Panel, on at 11[removed];

→ Visit us at the Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair
 

MPR April Schedule

Saturday 20th April live from Mexico City in collaboration with Materia Abierta, featuring Climate Collapse, Primal, Activists Talk, Camila Marambio, Tania Ximena, Panósmico, Guillermo Canek García, and Leslie García.

Wednesday 24th April over to NYC with Emmanuel Olunkwa, Johanna Zwirner, Geoffrey Mak, Stanley Schtinter, Timmy Simonds, Derek Baron, Anja Dietmann, Jef Lambrechts, Ran De Vos, Ruth Angel Edwards, Chloee Maguile, Domenick Ammirati, Ingo Niermann, Hanne Lippard, and more.

Thursday 25th April live from London with Robert Chesley, Kasra Jalilipour, D Mortimer, The Funambulist’s Thread of Translations, Hiren Parmar, Ashley Holmes, Hasti, Olivia Douglass, and nkisi. Then from our 46 Canal Street studio with Fugitive Materials, Judith Arcana, Catherine Liu, Michelle Lhooq, Jon Dieringer, and Jay Bulger.

Friday 26th April live from Tate Modern with students of Royal College of Art’s MA Contemporary Art. Back to NYC for Katherine Siboni, Madelon Vriesendorp, Simon Denny, Dunkunsthalle, [removed] audio arts, and more.

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MPR & Montez Press