 |
|
January Interjection: Other Side – Travis Jeppesen
Travis Jeppesen is an American writer and artist living in Berlin. His books include Settlers Landing, Bad Writing, Poems I Wrote While Watching TV, See You Again in Pyongyang, and Victims. He is known as the creator of object-oriented writing, a metaphysical approach to art writing that attempts to inhabit the art object. His first major object-oriented writing project, 16 Sculptures, took the form of an audio installation and was featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and later, as a solo exhibition at Wilkinson Gallery in London, and finally published in book format by Publication Studio. A former editor at Artforum and Art in America, he is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. His calligraphic and text-based artwork has been exhibited internationally. From 2019 to 2022, he served as assistant professor at the Institute for Cultural and Creative Industry at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he helped establish an MFA program in Curating. In 2023, his play Ghosts of the Landwehr Canal was premiered to critical acclaim at the Berliner Ringtheater. His new collection of short stories and fictocriticism, For Those Who Hate a Little Bit of Everything, is out in 2026 from Schism.
This year’s Interjection Calendar is edited by Christopher Whitfield.
→ Read Travis’ work here
|
|
| |
|
February Interjection: How Does the Voice Travel? – Cole Lu
Cole Lu (b. Taipei) lives and works in New York. Working across sculpture, installation, drawing, and writing, Lu’s practice explores myth, memory, and the architectures of displacement. His work engages material translation through wood burning, fire, linen, copper, found objects, and concrete, activating poetics of survival, orientation, and coded refusal. Language operates not only as text but as texture, carving lexicons into matter and myth into structure.
Lu has presented solo and two-person exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA (Portland), Herald St (London), Each Modern (Taipei), and the Bangkok Art Biennale. His work will be featured in upcoming 2026 exhibitions at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University (Cambridge) and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Recent group exhibitions include Aranya Art Center (Qinhuangdao), Kunsthal N (Copenhagen), Bortolami (New York), Tina Kim Gallery (New York), and Nova Contemporary (Bangkok).
His writing has appeared in Coffee House Press, Inpatient Press, and WONDER, with forthcoming work from Montez Press. His work is held in the collections of DIB Bangkok Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Library, and has been featured in Frieze, Artforum, Flash Art, ArtReview, and ArtAsiaPacific.
He was recently Artist-in-Residence at Bangkok Kunsthalle.
Guest edited by Christopher Whitfield.
→ Read Cole’s work here
|
|
| |
|
Montez Press is pleased to announce our book commissions for 2026 and 2027.
In 2026 we’re releasing a novel by Jordan/_Hell, an artist book by Shola von Reinhold, performance texts by JJ Pálka Johnson, Kasra Jalilipour, and Edward Thomasson, and a contribution from our team by Thomas [removed];
In 2027 we’re releasing a novel by Sean Burns, artist books from Vivienne Griffin and P. Eldridge, performance texts from Lily McMenamy and Unfinished Histories, and a contribution from our team by Elida [removed];
→ Keep up to date with announcements via our social
|
|
| |
|
Paris! Join us at Fondation Pernod Ricard to launch Julie Béna’s Fantasy on Saturday, 28 February.
Montez Press will be at Fondation Pernod Ricard for the Parisian launch of Fantasy on Saturday, 28 February from 4:30 to 6pm. Featuring a Q&A with Julie Béna and Madeleine Pleinex [removed];
Copies of Fantasy will be available on the night in either French or English language. Copies are always available online via our website.
→ Can’t make it? Order Fantasy here
|
|
| |
|
New year, new Pfeil! Pfeil Magazine #19 is now available for preorder via our website.
All preorders will include a previous Pfeil for free to help you get your collection [removed];
There is no pause without prior exertion, and this issue of the magazine explores rest and all its associated contexts and contradictions. Amidst increasing environmental pollution, a tenuous global political climate, and a performance-oriented society demanding ever-greater productivity, the balance between rest and labour becomes skewed. Pausing carries the risk of falling behind, but this risk can be mitigated by knowing when to rest. This issue examines rest as activity and as resistance. It questions how the individual body, in cohesion with a community, can generate weight through relaxation and distribute it.
Featuring contributions by: Asma Ben Slama, Camila Cañeque, Christiane Blattmann, Eileen Myles, Federico Tosi, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Hanne Loreck, Hans-Christian Dany, Hyemin Yang, Ingrid Jäger, Jenni Bohn, Jochen Lempert, Julia Schulze Darup, Mariona Berenguer, Matthias Schubert, Mikołaj Sobczak, Mirene Arsanios, Nat Raha, Nicholas Grafia, Niclas Riepshoff, Omar Hahad, Sarah Drath, Stacy Skolnik, Thomas Laprade, and Vir Andres Hera.
→ Preorder your copy here
|
|
|
|
|