Racheal Crowther: The Interjection Calendar: 011

Montez Press, 2026, softcover, 356 pages, 10 x 15.5 cm

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.