2025/12 Perfume Area – Fall/Winter 2025
Perfume Area is a fragrance review project written and directed by Sydney Shen (b. 1989) and Laurel Schwulst (b. 1988). Each review is a “prose pocket world,” lyrical and written in second person, like a tour through an imagined landscape.
Sydney Shen (b. 1989) is a visual artist living and working in New York. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2011. Recently, Shen exhibited her first large-scale public sculpture at Riverside Park, New York, through the Works in Public Program at the Art Students League in partnership with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Shen has an upcoming solo exhibition at Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai. Select solo exhibitions and projects include First Chair, Gallery Vacancy at Art Basel Hong Kong 2023; Cupio Dissolvi, Gallery Vacancy at Liste Art Fair Basel, 2021; Strange But True, Queens Museum, New York, 2021; Misery Whip, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2021; Every Good Boy Does Fine, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, 2019; and Onion Master, New Museum, New York, 2019. Select group exhibitions include G Museum, Nanjing, 2023; Simone Subal Gallery, New York, 2022; Lubov, New York, 2022; Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2022; 47 Canal, New York, 2022. She received the 2019–2020 Jerome Foundation Queens Museum Emerging Artist Fellowship, and was a 2019–2020 resident of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program. Shen’s works are in the collections of Asymmetry Art Foundation, London; G Museum, Nanjing; Longlati Foundation, Hong Kong; Macalline Art Center, Beijing; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; and Sigg Collection, Basel.
Laurel Schwulst (b. 1988) is an artist, designer, writer, educator, and technologist. She is interested in ambient forms of design and literature, public works, and the poetic potential of the web. She is recognized for her experiential projects-as-worlds, her expanded writing practice, her creative direction leadership, her websites, her innovative learning materials and educational environments, and her ongoing collaborations. Her writing (published in venues including The New York Times, The Creative Independent, and Art in America) has taken the form of essays, perfume reviews, and interviews with other artists. For over a decade, she has taught classes and workshops (at universities including Yale and Princeton) and has presented internationally at cultural, academic, and internet-native institutions (at venues including BBC Radio 4, RISD, University of Seoul, Google, and Wikipedia). Schwulst currently teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
2025/11 Eileen Myles – Rot/We’re Not Done
Cuthwulf Eileen Myles (they/them, b. 1949) is a poet, novelist and art journalist widely known for their practice of vernacular first-person writing across genres. They are the author of 25 books, including Chelsea Girls. Pathetic Literature and a Working Life (poems). Forthcoming from Fonograf in April 26 is Birdwatching, a long unpublished poem from 1978 plus three early books. They live in New York & in Marfa, TX.
2025/10 Bishwadhan Rai – Internal Notes
Bishwadhan Rai (b. 1999, Sunsari, Nepal) is an artist who lives and works. He is preoccupied with making a diagram of a feeling. His work records affect, memory, or atmosphere, valuing the vulnerable, incomplete, slight, and poetic as a form of rigour.
Currently the Sainsbury Scholar in Fine Arts at British School of Rome, he recently completed a Postgraduate Diploma at Royal Academy Schools, and previously studied BA Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.
2025/09 Raheel Khan – Expensive Sh-it
2025/08 R.I.P Germain – Nose Buster
2025/07 Ethan O'Connor – The Knights Templar
2025/06 Ella Fleck – ♥ Atmospheric Chemistry ♥
2025/05 Shanzhai Lyric – Incomplete Poem (Scent)
2025/04 Elida Silvey – Chemotaxis on a Zebra Crossing
2025/03 Eilidh Duffy – Beauty from Below: Heaux Cosmetics and the Power of Pheromones
2025/02 Ariana Reines – Gain
2025/01 Solomon Garçon – D & G
2024/12 Cheryl Clarke – Four Poems
2024/11 Yi Wei – THIS MANIFESTO IS A PROJECTION
2024/10 Ryan C. Clarke – NOR’EASTER IN BLUE (BIRD CHANGES)
2024/09 Abiba Coulibaly – KINOPOLITICS
2024/08 Ladin Awad – Read: Anger
2024/07 Octavia Bürgel – A Play on Words
2024/06 Taha Afefe – First Letter To My Mother
2024/05 Tiana Reid – I Hear a Noise
2024/04 Issy Wood – Saturday 4th February
2024/03 Oisín Roberts – An Email From Sunday, Describing Saturday
2024/02 raphaëlle red – (STANDING IN) THE WAY
2024/01 Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro – Hegemon
2023/12 andriniki mattis – SONGBOY
2023/11 Pear Nuallak – ESEA FOLKS 4...?
2023/10 Amalia Tenuta – Glowbades
2023/09 Racheal Crowther – The Eternal Pursuit of the Unattainable
2023/08 Rosa-Johan Uddoh – REGISTRATION - Notes after Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes
2023/07 Waj Hussain – Brutal Lust
2023/06 Jaakko Pallasvuo – The Body of A Painting
2023/05 Chloe Filani – A Lady Of The Night, A Victorian Tale
2023/04 Daisy Thomas – If luck ever comes, let it be backdated
2023/03 Aliaskar Abarkas – Falling
2023/02 Carlos Mauricio Rojas – EL BOSQUE CARDINAL THE CARDINAL FOREST
2023/01 Kasra Jalilipour – AGATHA'S REVENGE
2022/12 Isaac Kariuki – Pop, Dip and Spin
2022/11 Kondo – Orange
2022/10 Johanna Owen – Diogenes, 21st Century
2022/09 Olivia Douglass – New Light
2022/08 Alice Theobald – IL Y AURA (THERE WILL BE); THE LINES
2022/07 Ingrid Banerjee Marvin – Private Investigator
2022/06 Yaniya Lee – MUNIMENT ELEVATION
2022/05 Ellie Hoskins – BROKEN LITTLE THINGS
2022/04 El Salem – The Chase
2022/03 Amy Ching-Yan Lam – Protection
2022/02 Gelare Khoshgozaran – That The Sunset Is A Lie
2022/01 Moya DeYoung – Green Car
2021/12 Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley – After They Did It
2021/11 Matilde Cerruti Quara – EMPTINESS IS THE RESTING PLACE
2021/10 Audrey Ryan – Buried, Alive
2021/09 Gabi Davies – CISLESS
2021/08 Spinelli – Friends and Comrades:
2021/07 Mark Schoenfeld – A Million Miles Off
2021/06 Pete MacHale – Born Actor
2021/05 Tanaka Fuego – SWEETBITTER/BITTERSWEET
2021/04 Jamie Steedman – One Flew Over The Seagull's Nest (And Stayed For A Rave)
2021/03 leah coughlan – her visceral interior
2021/02 Lizzie Homersham – Dear Kleptomania
2021/01 Hassnat Sikander & Jon Edgley – SAFAR
2020/12 George Nesbitt – Time Capsule: Celebrating 20 Years of Sugababes
2020/11 Elif Saydam and Maxi Wallenhorst – Very Caterpillar
2020/10 Rhea Dillon – DONALD DAHMER
2020/09 Yasmine Akim – Personal Issues Surrounding Notions of Status
2020/08 Onyeka Igwe – Shit, Another Love Poem
2020/07 Róisín Tapponi – The Sea More than Moaned
2020/06 Miranda Shutler – The Daydreamer and the House
2020/05 Saucy Sez (Sarah Smith) – Most People Prefer Lies
2020/04 Elise Wortley – Have You Ever Listened to a Waterfall Until You No Longer Hear It?
2020/03 Jasmine Gibson – Only Shallow
2020/02 Hava Carvajal and Maz Murray ‘The Right Lube’ – Gender Capitalism
2020/01 Tingying Ma 马汀滢 – 1993, Roster Year
2019/12 Lisa Selby and Elliot Murawski @bluebaglife – Gin-dependent Woman / It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Crackmas
2019/11 Rene Matić – For Every Year of my Life
2019/10 Alix Jean Vollum – Wish List
2019/09 Son Kit – Anthro Piscine War Machine / Appendix I&II
2019/08 Georgina Tyson – Prosicute
2019/07 Bella Milroy – It Smells Just As Sweet (A Rose Of A Different Name)
2019/06 Lætitia Paviani – Dawn & Dusk
2019/05 Claudia Pagès – Take Root Nena, Take Root
2019/04 Sondria – RANU
2019/03 Adrianna Whittingham – Applist
2019/02 Hatty Nestor – I Hadn't Met Chelsea in Person
2019/01 sabrina soyer & Lisa Robertson – Per joi que d’amor m’avegna
2018/12 Kerry Campbell – Curatorial Practice and Social Class: Challenging a Culture of Exclusion
2018/11 Chanel Vegas – London Seriously, Kill Me More
2018/10 Douglas Kearney – Over Deluxe AF
2018/09 Gjergji Shkurti – One White Contact Lens
2018/08 Caspar Heinemann – Nothing Else But
2018/07 Cara Levine – This Is Not A Gun
2018/06 Punch Viratmalee – Fatima, A Foot Play, Fatima
2018/05 vei darling – GODDESS I
2018/04 James Lawrence Slattery – Love 2 Hate You: Jouissance Between Identity and Capital
2018/03 The White Pube – B2B OBJ// SUBJ// ECTIVITY
2018/02 Porpentine Charity Heartscape – The Maximum Softness Capable of being exerted by all Machinery
2018/01 Daisy Parris – Now That I'm A Person
2017/12 Harmony Grunge –
2017/11 Georgia Anderson – Oral History
2017/10 Penny Goring – Notes For Damaged Gods
2017/09 Sarah Gail – Love Letters I Never Sent
2017/08 Adam Gallahger – 2) Extrajudicial Killing 5) What did I do to deserve this?
2017/07 Aaron Lehman and Thomas Laprade – Vats of the Storied Sun
2017/06 Hans-Christian Dany – When The Present Moment Gets Lost In The Desert
2017/05 Ruth Angel Edwards – Insurrection Sunrise / A New Light on the Emergency
2017/04 Tiziana La Melia – Mouth Wash
2017/03 Liv Fontaine – Selected Performance Texts And Thoughts On Sluttery And Fuckery
2017/02 James Loop – In The Apartment Of Divine Love
2017/01 Rosanna McNamara – Productive Mimesis and Parler-Femme: A Theory Towards Becoming A Siren
2016/12 Audrey B – Contradictions
2016/11 Harman Bains – The Bathroom Cabinet
2016/10 Benjamin Edwin Slinger – A Nationalist's Semiotics
2016/09 Laura Morrison – The Burning Of The Coops
2016/08 Stacy Skolnik – Contact Call
2016/07 Artun Alaska Arasli – Apocalypse Later
2016/06 Alex Margo Arden – She Didn't Follow The Stage Directions
2016/05 Daniella Valz Gen – Naked Tangle Self
2016/04 Samuel Kenswil – If I Come Can I Bring My Kid Too?
2016/03 Skye Arundhati Thomas – Amrita Sher-Gil: The Portraits
2016/02 Erin Eck – Reflecting Pool / Your Eyes Are So Grand And Golden
2016/01 Rebecca Jagoe – Judith / Holofernes
2015/08 Emily Pope – Pri Madonna Post Madonna Embodiment
2015/07 Hatty Nestor and Hannah Regel – Corposants
2015/06 Maria Toumazou – Conversions
2015/05 A.M.Bang & Linetype – Lovely Little Hostages
2015/04 Niclas Riepshoff – Hinoki
2015/03 Chloe Stead – Summer
2015/02 Ivna Zic – Die Menschen Passen Nicht In Die Landschaft
2015/01 Simon Speiser – Inside The Lacuna
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