About this Event
The publication features contributions by artists and writers Eilidh Duffy, Ella Fleck, Solomon Garçon, Raheel Khan, Eileen Myles, Ethan O’Connor, Perfume Area, Bishwadhan Rai, R.I.P Germain, Ariana Reines, Shanzhai Lyric, and Elida Silvey. Spanning critical writing, diaristic texts, and photo essays, the publication takes scent as a departure point to trace how emotion, memory, and behaviour are experienced, governed, and mediated through the circulation of digital images and systems of mass production.
The event will feature readings from Racheal Crowther, Eilidh Duffy, Elida Silvey, Ethan O’Connor, and Bishwadhan Rai. Copies of the calendar will be available to purchase on the night alongside a scented bookmark, co-developed by Racheal Crowther and Cherry Cheng.
Racheal Crowther lives and works in London. Selected exhibitions include: Gebrauchsmusik, Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin, 2025; Royal Academy Schools Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2024; Managed Decline, 243 Luz, Margate, 2023; Qualified to Care, Ginny on Frederick, London, 2022; Intermission: White Noise Ballrooms, Camden Arts Centre Off-Site Programme, Cork Street Galleries, London, 2020; Hard Shoulder, Peak Gallery, London, 2019.
Eilidh Duffy is an editor, writer, and historian focusing on fashionable dress and its relationship to social and political upheaval. Her work has appeared in style and culture titles across the UK, US, and Europe, and she formerly held the position of Senior Writer at i-D. She holds an MA in the History of Design from the V&A/RCA and works closely with the artist Tenant of Culture, producing texts in conversation with her work, while editing the research-based digital magazine and blog Bog.
Ethan O’Connor is a writer of fiction and personal essays. In 2024, he performed his short story Dungeness at Factory International, Manchester, which focused on the cosmic nature of ageing, creative legacy, and collective cultural trauma inherited by gay men. He has collaborated with artists including his sister Evie O’Connor and Armando D. Cosmos to produce texts for their exhibitions. He is a graduate of the University of Glasgow’s Creative Writing MLitt and Central Saint Martins’ BA Fashion Communication program.
Bishwadhan Rai is an artist whose work records affect, memory, or atmosphere, valuing the vulnerable, incomplete, slight, and poetic as a form of rigour. In 2026, Rai was in residence as the Sainsbury Scholar in Fine Arts at the British School of Rome. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy Schools and a BA from the Slade School of Fine Art.
Elida Silvey is a self-taught Mexican-American writer, editor and artist based in London. 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.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
