Interjection Calendar
The Interjection Calendar is an online 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. The PDF can be downloaded for free and there are 12 releases per year, in line with the calendar theme. At the end of the year the collection is published, demonstrating a diverse range of collaborations and experimental works. The calendar reflects the current importance of online content media, pushing image/text relationships in this domain through contemporary art writing.

2025/06 Ella Fleck – ♥ Atmospheric Chemistry ♥

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Ella Fleck is a London based artist and writer. She works across online sleuthing, scent and chemo-signaling, audio, architecture and text to create large scale installations that look at hetero-male fantasies, biochemistry, technology and somatic infrastructures. Her work has been exhibited in London, New York, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Stockholm etc.

Her first solo exhibition, “Spray” at London gallery Season 4 Episode 6, revolved around a seven-month research project for which she developed the fictional character ‘Jonathan Michaels’ in a variety of online forums exploring a community of heterosexual men experimenting with the use of pheromones, neuro-linguistic programming, and other ‘subliminal’ manipulation techniques in attempts to ‘acquire’ sex and relationships from women. Fleck used her experiences as an interloper in these groups to produce a body of work involving an audio installation, a ducting pipe and fan network emitting pheromone fog in the gallery and a live stream to the Discord server’s general chat. A book of the same title will be published this summer.

2025/05 Shanzhai Lyric – Incomplete Poem (Scent)

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Shanzhai Lyric (est. 2015) is a body of research focusing on radical logistics and linguistics through the prism of technological aberration and nonofficial cultures. The project takes inspiration from the experimental Englishes of shanzhai t-shirts, mostly made in China and proliferating across the globe, to examine how the language of the counterfeit uses mimicry, hybridity, and permutation to both revel in and reveal the artifice of global hierarchies. Through an ever-growing archive of poetry-garments, Shanzhai Lyric explores the potential of mis-translation and nonsense as utopian world-making (breaking) and has previously taken the form of poetry-lecture, essay, and installation.

Image credits: @akidearest @womenshistorymuseum @erchenchang @migeuleandjello @gourdtimes @brunozhu @goodshirts @chinatshirts @2karatgold @gatarisk @violetlightandahum @babak2000 @uglydesign @flushingfinds @jonahbaseball @wm_10218

2025/04 Elida Silvey – Chemotaxis on a Zebra Crossing

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Elida Silvey is a self-taught Mexican-American writer, editor and artist living in London. Her work is concerned with post-internet visual theory as it relates to the concepts of reality, time and 'the self,’ experienced through (collective) memory. She regularly writes in experimental forms about this topic on her Substack, Through the Eye of a Needle. She is the assistant editor for Montez Press and runs her own writing/visual arts club called Exteriors.

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