Montez Press October News

October Interjection: Nor’easter in Blue (Bird Changes) – Ryan Christopher Clarke

A tonal geologist from the northern rim of the Gulf of Mexico, Ryan Christopher Clarke notices the passage of time as both a trained coastal sedimentologist and artist-researcher as Editor and Director of Educational Programming at dweller electronics, a group dedicated towards providing afrological counterpoint within an otherwise eurologically dominant music industry. His individual works investigate local cultural objects and their metaphysical communications with their proximal geological landscape.

Knowing intimately the ways his home is at great risk of physical and social loss, he finds ways to not only document this loss quantitatively in scientific research, but qualitatively with works that aim to articulate the vernacular knowledges his people share with the Mississippi River Delta and its distributaries. By interpreting the various articulations of Black music as depositional phenomena, he views the progression of technology and culture at-large as downstream of Black innovation in dialogue with their surrounding environment under the proposition of geologizing blackness.

→ Read Ryan’s work here

Pre-order Prepositions by Timmy Simonds and Aaron Lehman 

We’re releasing our next artist book on Saturday 7th Dec at the The Performing Garage in [removed];

Prepositions enacts a distinction between what language says and what it does. A catalogue of exercises, interviews, essays and creative explorations, this workbook-compendium invites the reader to investigate how we practise empathy, understanding, and contact, by learning and teaching all at once. Building on the archive of Montez Press Radio show Tongue and Cheek, and featuring work from a stellar cast of previous participants in the broader project, Prepositions asks us what active and embodied participation really means, not just in teaching, but across a whole life.

This book will change your body—and your mind. Prepositions is a set of bite-sized propositions for being and thinking otherwise. Put it under your tongue and see what happens.
-Leah Pires

This compendium of witty exercises, moving personal reflections, curious propositions, and carefully selected graphics invites readers to explore what it means to inhabit a book. It is the product of many hands, a polyphonic choir, filled with immense care and a deep sense of friendship. As one feels its weight, moves around it, folds its pages, breaths with it, or reads it out aloud, one begins to wonder: what does the book need to be completed?
Prepositions—inscribed in the tradition of works as disparate as Robert Filliou’s Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts and CAConrad’s poetry rituals—is an exercise of radical pedagogy and readership. Everyone who enters this book becomes part of its contents.
-Alice Centamore

→ Pre-order your copy here

MPR October Schedule

Wednesday 23rd October, with Melanie Pérez Lázaro, Gideon Jacobs, Dean Kissick, Elise Macmillan, Lofoten International Art Festival, The Kitchen, Timmy Simonds, Yves Golden, Mutamur, and Random Man Editions.

Thursday 24th October, live from London with guest curator Anjali Prashar-Savoiefeaturing Opashona Ghosh, Kaajal Modi, Camille Sapara Barton, Lux Pyre, and Esmé Lewis-Gartside. Back to NYC for a screening by Michelle Lhooq presented in collaboration with Canal Projects (live from Canal Project only!)  

Saturday 26th and 27th October, live at 7pm from the corner of Forsyth and Canal with WINDOWS, a play written and directed by Salome Oggenfuss, produced in partnership with Canal Projects. Cast: Joel Dean, Lili Dekker, Gabriel Lyons Loeb, Alessandro Magania, Eva Nelson, Katiana Rangel. Bring your own binoculars/booze.

Monday 28th October, live from London with Sands Murray-Wassink, Saras, Radna Rumping, Essye Klempner, Phillip Edward Spradley, Aliaskar Abarkas.

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MPR & Montez Press