Join Montez Press for a conversation with Racheal Crowther, guest editor of the Interjection Calendar 011, and Eilidh Duffy at Claire de Rouen's new location in 11A Kingsland Road, E2 8AA.
We’ll look at the coercive capabilities of scent, their use in militarized systems and the scope of scent-related work explored within The Interjection Calendar 011. Copies of the calendar will be available to purchase on the night alongside a limited edition scented bookmark, co-developed by Racheal Crowther and Cherry Cheng from Jouissance.
The night will be hosted by Elida Silvey.
The Interjection Calendar is a 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. At the end of the year the collection is published, demonstrating a diverse range of collaborations and experimental works, mapping the year in contemporary art writing, with equal space held for the emerging and the established. The Calendar reflects the current importance of online content media, pushing the relationship between image and text in this domain.
From the Editor’s Note by Racheal Crowther:
‘Scent cannot be mediated through digital platforms or photographic documentation. It relies on physical presence to inhale air and to internally process ingested molecules. Odour perception begins only after molecules have entered the body and altered it. The vibration theory of olfaction describes how scent molecules interlock with receptors and vibrate at specific frequencies, triggering quantum tunnelling and distinct neural responses. These processes alert the body ~ consciously or unconsciously ~ to the presence of molecules. This information is sent directly to the limbic system, specifically the amygdala and hippocampus. This is the part of the brain that regulates emotions, memory, behaviour and motivation.
Scent, so often treated as peripheral, emerged as fundamental to orientation, safety, appetite, pleasure, intimacy, and presence.’
To represent the immaterial quality of scent, The Interjection Calendar 011 features a transparent cover.
Contributors:
Solomon Garçon, Ariana Reines, Eilidh Duffy, Elida Silvey, Shanzhai Lyric, Ella Fleck, Ethan O’Connor, R.I.P Germain, Raheel Khan, Bishwadhan Rai, Eileen Myles, Perfume Area
Racheal Crowther is a London-based artist whose practice examines governance, surveillance, and institutional power, tracing their entanglement with systems of care. Her work repurposes technical apparatus and industrial objects charged with memory to reveal failures in bureaucracy and the persistent grip of institutional structures on daily life. Her current line of enquiry investigates the politics of scent as a tool of influence and social control. Tracing the many roles of sensory manipulation across time and space—from the imperceptible conditioning of commercial environments to its deployment within military and policing apparatuses—her practice conceptualises olfactory manufacturing as a medium through which atmospheres are engineered and behaviours directed.
Forthcoming presentations include a solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London, and participation in the group exhibition Flare-Up at Goldsmiths CCA, London (both 2026).
Eilidh Duffy is an editor, researcher and critic who is obsessed with dress and the body and its relationship to social and political upheaval both historically and in the present day. She’s written a fair bit for style titles in the UK (how she makes most of her money) while producing essays for journals and galleries (for less money but significantly more fun). She edits-slash-curates the fashion history journal-slash-project Bog (@bog.100) which is currently ‘on ice’ while she finishes her MA in the History of Design at the RCA/V&A. One day she will make a website where you can see all of her work in one place but for now she is working out how to make one.
Elida Silvey is a self-taught Mexican American writer, editor and artist based in London. Her work explores visual theory and its relationship with identity, time and the construction of ‘the self’ as shaped by (collective) memory. Silvey regularly writes about these themes and her research practice on her Substack, Through the Eye of a Needle.
Silvey is an Editor at Montez Press and 1/2 of Dream Sequence, an experimental film club dedicated to non-linear and hybrid cinematic practices. Her writing spans personal essays, poetry, criticism and experimental forms that explore how visual culture mediates lived experience. Her debut novel will be published by Montez Press in 2027.