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| Title: Fantasy |
| By (author): Julie Bena |
| ISBN10-13: 3945247381 : 9783945247389 |
| "Fantasy is the first monograph dedicated to the work of French artist Julie Béna. Featuring contributions by Michal NovotnyÌ , Eva Barois de Carvel, Laura Herman, Rose English, and Nicoletta Lambertucci, this book explores over twenty years of Bénaâ s work, from early site-specific performances and post-conceptual gestures, to the development of theatrical alter egos through narrative sculptures, subversive performative acts, and moving-image works. Fantasy is...a tool through which Béna lucidly reads reality, through which she confronts social roles, and imagines emancipatory possibilities. It is a way to work through traumaâ a struggle to live, and to live in line with oneâ s beliefs. We hope that this volumeâ through a dense and dynamic repertoire of images, humorous drawings, unexpected movements, caricatural type design, and critical textsâ will become, for you, a space in which to explore the rich and intricate world of an artist, and the layered meanings of fantastical transformations. A book which, in the artistâ s own words, can become â a place to return to, which is never quite the same. A book which moves with us.â (From 20 Years of Fantasy, by Silvia Franceschini)" |
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Pages: 320
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| Published: Montez Press - October 2025 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 30.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 39 |
| Title: 1 of: 14 |
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| Title: Fantasy (French Edition) |
| By (author): Julie Bena |
| ISBN10-13: 394524739X : 9783945247396 |
| "Fantasy is the first monograph dedicated to the work of French artist Julie Béna. Featuring contributions by Michal NovotnyÌ , Silvia Franceschini, Eva Barois de Caevel, Laura Herman, Rose English, and Nicoletta Lambertucci, this book explores over twenty years of Bénaâ s work, from early site-specific performances and post-conceptual gestures, to the development of theatrical alter egos through narrative sculptures, subversive performative acts, and moving-image works. Fantasy is...a tool through which Béna lucidly reads reality, through which she confronts social roles, and imagines emancipatory possibilities. It is a way to work through traumaâ a struggle to live, and to live in line with oneâ s beliefs. We hope that this volumeâ through a dense and dynamic repertoire of images, humorous drawings, unexpected movements, caricatural type design, and critical textsâ will become, for you, a space in which to explore the rich and intricate world of an artist, and the layered meanings of fantastical transformations. A book which, in the artistâ s own words, can become â a place to return to, which is never quite the same. A book which moves with us.â â Silvia Franceschini, 20 Years of Fantasy" |
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Pages: 318
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| Published: Montez Press - November 2025 |
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| List Price: 30.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 2 of: 14 |
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| Title: Jaw Filler |
| By (author): Maz Murray, Charlie Markbreiter |
| ISBN10-13: 3945247403 : 9783945247402 |
| "You don't need dysphoria to be trans. You don't need a body at all.â When Detective Sean Hastings is asked to investigate the disappearance of Character, he enters the First Trans Commune in Sim World, a virtual reality cult community imagineered by transfluencer Kevin, and bankrolled by a mysterious tech company, VSI. Haunted by the death of his cis gayguy college bestie and their shared diasporic dilemmas, Taylor, VSIâ s token QTPOC face, sees potential in Kevinâ s ability to Release trauma into the virtual world. Meanwhile, Casey, Seanâ s ex, hopes Releasing will cure their Long Plague. Then femme fatale Mitchelle reappears. And the plot twists. A pulpy neo-noir romp through the anxiously assimilated transmasculine id, Jaw Filler asks: who is VSI, and what do they really want? Can you be your own dad? And if Characterâ s mind is trapped in Sim World, then where is his body? â Thereâ s something faintly Brazil about Jaw Filler: wilful and breakneck, self-aware yet never cynical, paranoiac but always coyly â unarguably â plausible. Calling it a pastiche would be stupid. To do so would overlook not only the ravenous delight Jaw Filler takes in the melange of its genre conventions, but also, more importantly, its surgical commitment to grounding a narrative in what I can only succinctly describe as genocide-reality. Murray & Markbreiter have achieved the extremely contemporary and impossible to falsify: true camp darkness.â - Hesse K., author of Disquiet Drive 'Jaw Filler instantly joins the canon of outlier literature: jaw-dropper, more like.â - Isabel Waidner, author of Sterling Karat Gold 'Jaw Filler strikes a rare and clever balance: it lampoons its genre while flawlessly exemplifying it. Filled with femme fatales, hard-boiled detectives, and corrupt corporate supervillains, Charlie and Maz have crafted an immersive, twisting neo-noir that surprises to the very last word. Hilarious as it is riveting, Jaw Filler exploits the most exciting themes of the classic crime thriller, like mistaken identity and loversâ scorn, and applies them to contemporary queer life in a way that feels surprisingly natural and profound. Itâ s like The Sluts meets Double Indemnity but everyone is trans. I had an absolute blast.â - Macy Rodman â Maz Murray and Charlie Markbreiterâ s Jaw Filler is a sharp, satirical neo-noir that blends pulp detective tropes with the surreal textures of online trans culture, skewering influencer economies, corporate DEI doublespeak, and queer assimilation while still capturing the raw ache of longing, shame, and desire. Weird, funny, and unsettling.â - P. Eldridge, Worms World CIC 'With Jaw Filler, Charlie Markbreiter and Maz Murray offer a searing, noir-flavored lens into the world of terminally online guys and our insecurities, fantasies, and wild imaginations of ourselves and each other. I will be discussing this in therapy and billing Charlie and Maz for the expense.' - James Tom â Against the fashion of autotheory and autofiction, Markbreiter and Murray prove how parody, genre fiction and a good plot have become more unnervingly suitable forms for cultural critique in trans literature. Whilst never letting dystopia stop a good joke, Jaw Filler ribs the unflattering and often narcissistic consequences of a liberal trans politics without losing sight of the more insidious infrastructures that propagate them, exemplifying post-identity trans literature in the disconcerting era of Big Tech.â - Donna Marcus Duke, TISSUE" |
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Pages: 352
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| Published: Montez Press - December 2025 |
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| List Price: 15.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 3 of: 14 |
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| Title: Oliver Reed |
| By (author): Hannah Regel |
| ISBN10-13: 3945247292 : 9783945247297 |
| In Hannah Regelâ s brilliant collection, Oliver Reed, the figure of the horse becomes an object for languageâ s brutality and the all too familiar subjugation of womenâ s voices, bodies, and labour. An impressive hyperbolic pastiche of pleasurable misbehavior guides a girl named Sorry through her own undoing while naming new tools for calculated resistance. â Kill the language. Kill it. Get the shovel. Weâ re making a belt.â I would gladly do whatever she tells me to do and wouldnâ t think of doing otherwise. Regel creates a new order for the ecstatic wreckage of obedience. â Cassandra Troyan, author of Blacken Me Blacken Me, Growled Regel doesnâ t really sound like anyone. Oliver Reed introduces a poetic sensibility that seems as at odds with convention as it is equal to the moment: fully formed, virtuosic, kind of lethal. These are pitiless, discomforting poems that explore our own creatureliness with a deadly curiosity. Each is a transformation: the actor becomes a strange muse and guiding presence, to â smoulder a mobile furnaceâ ; the horse, another of the bookâ s recurring figures, becomes more than an emblem of eros, labour and suffering; the young girlâ s bratty insolence turns defiant and stricken. The voice wills these changes into being even as she â wills herself barrenâ . As much as they trouble and seduce, the poems are also watchful, vigilant â they seem to offer a means of protection. Oliver Reed is an astonishing, masterful first book. â Sam Riviere, author of 81 Austerities The second edition of Oliver Reed, published February 2024, includes a newly commissioned introduction by Olivia Kan-Sperling. In Oliver Reed, growing-up happens naturally, clip clip clop, at the same time as it requires someone or somethingâ line break or literal incisionâ to break you in. Oliver Reed is about how a pony body gets trained and a pony mind gets educated, over and over and over again. Time, in this book, loops more than it progresses: â Sorry attends her Birthâ after â Sorry is a Girl, Grown Up.â I wish Iâ d read Oliver Reed at fourteen or eighteen; then again, I sort of feel like I did. This we already know: if looking at young girls never gets old, writing about them doesnâ t, either. â Olivia Kan-Sperling, editor at The Paris Review and author of Island Time |
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Pages: 104
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| Published: Montez Press - January 2024 |
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| List Price: 14.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 4 of: 14 |
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| Title: Pay It Forward |
| By (author): SoiL Thornton |
| ISBN10-13: 3945247314 : 9783945247310 |
| SoiL Thorntonâ s practice engages with the underlying conditions of the exhibition, presentation and representation of artistic production. Who represents what? And what is it that constitutes meaning and value? With Pay It Forward, Thornton questions these processes, and the ways by which a society constitutes agreed norms and sets up established power relations. Thornton presents three different materials: firstly, an acquired original script of the film Pay It Forward, which shares character Trevorâ s principle of â pay[ing] it forward,â where one should do something good, so that the good deeds snowball. This material is then confronted with reproductions of Thorntonâ s Covid-19 shelter in place fecal photo archive, depicting the product of a recovery process produced by the body itself. The third set of material contains images scanned from Der, Die, Das: The Secrets of German Gender, a book outlining the principles of the three grammatical genders in the German language. Thorntonâ s work has an abiding interest in questions of how things appear and how meaning comes to be. The image material is accompanied by an introductory text by Nadine Droste. This artist book follows Thorntonâ s first European solo exhibition entitled Decomposition Evaluation at Kunstverein Bielefeld. SoiL Thornton was born 1990 and lives and works in New York. They have recently had solo exhibitions at Secession Vienna (2023), Kunstverein Bielefeld (2022), Essex Street, New York, and Morán Morán, Los Angeles (both 2021). |
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Pages: 592
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| Published: Montez Press - October 2024 |
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| List Price: 30.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 39 |
| Title: 5 of: 14 |
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| Title: PFEIL #18 - BODY |
| By (author): NINA KUTTLER, ANJA DIETMANN |
| ISBN10-13: 3945247357 : 9783945247358 |
| From its anatomy and autonomy to its death and diet, this issue focuses on the motif Body and all its meanings, direct and indirect, for instance as in relation to human and non-human bearers of bodies, its inhabitants like bacteria and organs, its social, medical and juridical conditions, its intoxications, chemical processes, traumas, transitions, well-being, replacements, weaknesses, and its opposites. Within the format of a magazine, each page of Pfeil represents the floor, walls, or ceiling which together create an imagined room displaying a printed exhibition. Each issue is dedicated to a specific word, and artists are invited and given space to work on and with this term, and to construct or deconstruct the architecture around it. Combined, the contributions transform into an organic display surrounding the leitmotif. Contributors: Adam Dickinson, Andrea à va GyŠri, A.L. Steiner, Alexandra Ivanciu, Barak Zemer, Bernhard Willhelm, Clara Lena Langenbach, Clémentine Bedos, Constance DeJong, Daisy Hildyard, Fanny Howe, Hanne Loreck, Hasti, Holly Hunter, Ingrid Jäger, Jannis Marwitz, Jess Arndt, Johannes Kuczera, Jolanta Nowaczyk, Henriette Maier, Mag Gabbert, Maja Smrekar, Manuel Vason, R.I.P. Germain, Rebekka Endler, Sonja Yakovleva Edited by Anja Dietmann and Nina Kuttler |
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Pages: 56
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| Published: Montez Press - December 2024 |
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| List Price: 12.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 23 |
| Title: 6 of: 14 |
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| Title: Pfeil Magazine Issue 17 - High |
| ISBN10-13: 3945247276 : 9783945247273 |
| From bottom to top and back again, this issue is dedicated to the motif High, with all its connected meanings. We encounter physical, mental, and social states of up and down, high and low, how they relate to each other and yet constantly contradict. Inside are tales of drug history, addiction, the reproduction crisis, hopes and disappointments, radiation with benefits, high-pitched dolphin tones, and even a frightened cupcake. Within the format of a magazine, each page of Pfeil represents the floor, walls, or ceiling which together create an imagined room displaying a printed exhibition. Each issue is dedicated to a specific word, and artists are invited and given space to work on and with this term, and to construct or deconstruct the architecture around it. Combined, the contributions transform into an organic display surrounding the leitmotif. Contributors: Alejandra López, Bod Mellor, Cecilia Gentili, Christiane Blattmann, Claire DeVoogd, Cordula Ditz, Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann, Jac Common, Jan Matthé, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Jakob Tanner, Jasmin Werner, Katie Della-Valle, Katy Lewis Hood, Leah Jun Oh, Lila de Magalhaes, Lucy Beech, Masha Silchenko, Marina Pinsky, Michael Kent, Michelle Esther Oâ Brien, Moesari, Nina Kuttler, Paige Emery, Paul Niedermayer, Penny Goring, Riar Rizaldi, Sands Murray-Wassink, Silvia Federici, Tang Han, Tina Kämpe Edited by Anja Dietmann |
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Pages: 68
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| Published: Montez Press - January 2023 |
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| List Price: 12.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 66 |
| Title: 7 of: 14 |
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| Title: Phone Plays |
| By (author): Sam Cottington |
| ISBN10-13: 3945247322 : 9783945247327 |
| 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 Cottingtonâ 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. This collection of plays explore what critic Sianne Ngai has called the â gimmicks of productionâ : those moments when an object or person performs too much or too little; when itâ s too easy, undeserving of praise or overly produced, trying too hard, camp; and how in those moments, the sublimated labour in everyday judgements of taste or aesthetic value are revealed. Channelling conventions of soap opera and sci-fi, these plays explore the experiences of desire, subjugation and alienation inherent in communication. |
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Pages: 48
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| Published: Montez Press - April 2024 |
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| List Price: 13.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 14 |
| Title: 8 of: 14 |
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| Title: Prepositions |
| ISBN10-13: 3945247330 : 9783945247334 |
| 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. |
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Pages: 516
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| Published: Montez Press - December 2024 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 40.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 60 |
| Title: 9 of: 14 |
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| Title: Sinkhole: Three Crimes |
| ISBN10-13: 1838376062 : 9781838376062 |
| A novel in three parts, Sinkhole: Three Crimes submerges readers in a grotesque and comical world on the edge of collapse â much like our own. Britain is immersed in a toxic swamp, and sinkholes are opening up in the ground with alarming frequency. Amid the mayhem, three crimes take place: Stonehenge has been stolen, a porn-addicted ghost writer faces the phantoms of her past, and a murder takes place among ex-pats in a Goan village. |
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Pages: 192
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| Published: Montez Press - November 2023 |
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| List Price: 14.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 18 |
| Title: 10 of: 14 |
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