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PLEASURE AND PERMANENCE: David Shrigley and Ruinart

THE DUST: Tianzhuo Chen

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PODCAST | ST ELSEWHERE:

the internet was supposed to negate geography; in reality, it turned it into another currency of exchange, maybe the most commonly traded commodity of the new millennium.

read an extract from Sam Riviere’s novel of plagiaristic contortions

FASHION TRUST ARABIA 2021:

fostering a new generation of MENA megabrands

PODCAST | THE FINAL FRONTIER FOR EXTREME WEALTH:

the market for contemporary art has expanded exponentially beyond what anyone could have imagined, but what is it expanding into?

Anicka Yi’s cyborgs and the usefulness of disappointing art

PERMANENCE AND PERFECTION:

the shokunin philosophy of Akoni Eyewear

GUCCI’S A GO GO:

discover the new David Adjaye-designed Gucci Circolo space in Shoreditch

WITH THE CLICK OF A FINGER:

one flash of many moments that go into capturing the VLogo Signature bag from Valentino

Lynne Tillman’s catalogue of underperformed intimacy

THE FIFTH ELEMENT:

Lucy A. Sames reports on the communal alchemy of Wysing Polyphonic: Under Ether

BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS:

Nensi Dojaka takes home the 2021 LVMH prize with a formidable set of runner-ups

a new ballet production probes the unsteady relationship between technology and the human form

PODCAST | HATTY NESTOR:

the complex role of portraiture within the invisible cruelties of the criminal justice system

a celestial text-image collage from MJ Harding and Nisha Ramayya

OBJECT, SCENE, ACTION:

photography by Alys Morrison, styling and casting by Gabriella Rowland

WYSING POLYPHONIC:

art collective and mobile performance space CAMPerVAN on first love and queer utopia

Cartier launches a pop-up exhibition dedicated to its most famous collections and those who wear them

the SVBKVLT artist on “new cringe” and world-building while the world collapses.

PODCAST | DUBRAVKA UGRESIC:

the shape-shifting author speaks with with Lisa Appignanesi about truth-telling in fiction, edenic stories and pursuits of home in literature

AUTOMATION AND RESILIENCE:

Benjamin Bratton on why all post-pandemic politics is by definition a political economy of automation

WYSING POLYPHONIC:

Marissa Malik and Yeshe Bahamon-Beesley on the transformative possibilities of dancefloor rituals

hitting replay with Montblanc and Maison Kitsuné

Dubravka Ugrešić speaks with Lisa Appignanesi about her shape-shifting novel Fox

the London-based producer and artist builds a bridge between the ethereal and the material realms in her TANK mix

FOX: read an extract from Dubravka Ugresic’s genre-bending masterpiece

CARRIER BAG FICTION:

Anna Tsing on Urusla K. Le Guin’s “carrier bag theory of fiction” and collaborative survival

Gabby Laurent’s photo-book reimagines falling as virtuosic activity

JEREMY POYNTING: a rich time for Caribbean writing

EARTHLY SOLIDARITY:

photography by Valentin Fabre, styling by Manon del Coll

GABBER MODUS OPERANDI:

a new mix and and interview from the Indonesian duo upending globalisation’s flattening effects

CELEBRITY CENTURY:

marking the centenary of Chanel No. 5, a new film from the house reflects on what the next 100 years of celebrity might bring

the acclaimed poet on mythology, metamorphosis and the paradoxes of justice

a zine collecting secret rituals and strange creatures from Celia Croft and Rory Mullen

ETHICAL PORTRAITS:

Hatty Nestor on forensic portraiture and the ties between contemporary facial recognition technologies and 19th-century physiognomy

photography by Florent Tanet, styling by Gemma Bedini

N.H Pritchard’s “sound poems” bypass discursive meaning in pursuit of the “transreal”

K Allado-McDowell speaks to Nora N. Khan about writing with GPT-3 and the poetics of artificial intelligence

PODCAST | SUSAN PLOETZ:

the artist-researcher on world-building and how LARP protocols might suggest alternatives to a social sphere marked by distrust and disintegration

AFTER THOUGHTS: Atom Egoyan and Nadifa Mohamed discuss problems of translation and trauma in The Sweet Hereafter

a blooming 6-minute hypermix from the Amsterdam-based musician

KILLING A KOUROS:

the vulnerability of an Ancient Greek beefcake

EYES ON THE PRIZE:

We catch up with some of our favourites among the LVMH Prize 2021 semi-finalists

23-year-old artist Grace Carter is taking the music industry and its necessary adaptations in her stride

muffled hauntology and hard-hitting club functionalism collide on the Stockholm-based producer’s TANK Mix

PODCAST | EMILY SEGAL:

the writer and trend forecaster on cons, atemporal culture and her first novel Mercury Retrograde

MARYANNE AMACHER:

a rare interview with the pioneering experimental composer from her newly assembled archive

a millennial enters a ménage à trois in this darkly humorous debut

PODCAST | KELLER EASTERLING:

the architect and author of Medium Design on thinking beyond the fatal flaws of technosolutionism

WHO WAS CHANGED AND WHO WAS DEAD:

Barbara Comyns’ neglected parable of contagion and community

THE LONGUE DURÉE:

our round-up of our favourite collections over Paris Fashion Week’s Autumn/Winter 2021 season

MISS YOU: photography by Chris Calmer, styling by Emma Thorstrand

DADRAS X EARTHEATER:

the close friends and frequent collaborators discuss nu-metal and the making of their track “Fontanel”

the author of Indelicacy on Amazon reviews, imaginary places and women speaking their minds

an all-originals mix of unreleased productions from the Shanghai-based sound sculptor

read a herbal potion from artist Ayesha Tan Jones ahead of the annual New Suns Literary Festival this weekend

Danny L Harle in search of the eternal rave

SEEING BEYOND THE SCREEN:

our selections from Milan Fashion Week

PLAYING THE BLUES:

Lisa Brice’s cool-headed compositions redresses the artistic tradition of the female nude

DRESS FOR THE WORLD YOU WANT:

our picks from the first post-Brexit London Fashion Week

MARSELL FINDS ITS MUSE:

a master of both understatement and daring reinvention, Eliot Sumner is the face of Marsèll spring/summer 2021

JULIA ARMFIELD:

Julia Armfield on rites and rituals, Greek myths, and the literary cliché of the “messy woman”

listen to a digital valentine from Himera and Instupendo

AGAINST THE SHRINKING PRESENT:

Paul Rouphail’s measured still-life paintings recompose time as much as they do objects

EXOTHERMIC BODY REACTIONS:

the late pop futurist SOPHIE’s music was plastic – as in sculptable, mouldable, but also as in explosives

AN EYE TO THE PAST:

a look of love and longing became one of the weirdest trends in 19th-century miniatures

THE FUTURE IS BETWEEN US:

two dream-poems from Jackie Wang

CANDY LOLITA HEAD:

Claire Barrow on aliens, the afterlife and the show she staged in a field near Hackney Marshes last year

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TANK talks

LAUREN BERLANT:

“A city is as a laboratory for inventing life, for being a regular who's known in all different ways”

LINA KHAN: “Efficiency is not a good proxy for competition”

SIANNE NGAI: “It is impossible to sever the negativity we feel towards capitalist gimmicks from our begrudging admiration of their social power”

"I think disorientation is the point of anthropology"

"When a species leaves the earth it takes all of its sounds with it"

JENNY OFFILL: “One of the difficulties of trying to engage with climate change is that you feel complicit in it”

WENDY LIU: “We can't just turn off all the computers and go back to the way things were”

HODA KATEBI: “There are no clothes without labour. Everything in the fashion industry comes back to the labour”

“I try to engage with not only ancient but also futuristic materials in a non-linear way”

“The first term Obama administration was still Clinton’s Democratic Party. The second term was full of people from Google”

“I’m interested, I guess, in what makes people want a thing that will undoubtedly lead them to lose control”

ANDREA LONG CHU: “Everyone is female and everyone hates it”

“A garden is first and foremost a long-term process, a mediation between the human and non-human worlds”

“Artificial stupidity in the form of bots and production robots is a force to reckon with”

“I intended Born in Flames as agitprop”

DANIEL TRILLING:

"some people’s experiences are visible and other people’s experiences are not"

“It takes a special courage to be unaware that you’re different”

“It seems to relegate the book’s queer relationship to the category of ‘gal pals’”

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TANK mixes

GABBER MODUS OPERANDI:

a new mix and and interview from the Indonesian duo upending globalisation’s flattening effects

rising producer and arpeggio angel Himera delivers an exclusive-heavy “tribute to MIDI” in their TANK mix

BOD [包家巷]:

a mix and a conversation on mania, ritual and world-building form the Berlin-based musician

an interview and dizzying mix from the Cretan musician

a club-ready mix for clubless times from the Slagwerk founder

30 minutes of giddy euphoria from the Berlin-via-Shanghai producer

listen to a fragmented archive from the London-based producer

widescreen emotion and black-heart emojis courtesy of the French ambient producer in this week’s TANK mix

in the latest instalment of the TANK mix series, Jay Mitta brings you accelerated dance music from the streets of Dar es Salaam

dizzying multi-track edits and anti-fascist hardstyle from the Philadelphia-based producer

the latest instalment in the TANK mix series comes courtesy of the producer Firaasbeats

jagged hardware techno by way of hardcore punk from the Montreal-based duo

effervescent synth melodies and propulsive dembow drum tracks from Tokyo-based producer WRACK

the Stockholm-based producer delivers a TANK mix full of unreleased instrumentals and hazy but occasionally euphoric hooks

pneumatic reggaeton from the South London producer and Bala Club co-founder

an exclusive mix and Q&A with Vancouver-based producer and it-girl Baby Blue

search-engine-optimised chaos from the PC Music producer

an exclusive mix and Q&A with the Berlin-based producer with an affinity for the unexpected

this instalment of the TANK mix series features the NYC-based producer Dasychira and comes paired with a Q&A and exclusive video-premiere

this instalment of the TANK mix series comes courtesy of Swan Meat, offering a unique blend of baroque club music

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Podcast

PODCAST | THE FINAL FRONTIER FOR EXTREME WEALTH:

the market for contemporary art has expanded exponentially beyond what anyone could have imagined, but what is it expanding into?

PODCAST | HATTY NESTOR:

the complex role of portraiture within the invisible cruelties of the criminal justice system

PODCAST | DUBRAVKA UGRESIC:

the shape-shifting author speaks with with Lisa Appignanesi about truth-telling in fiction, edenic stories and pursuits of home in literature

PODCAST | SUSAN PLOETZ:

the artist-researcher on world-building and how LARP protocols might suggest alternatives to a social sphere marked by distrust and disintegration

PODCAST | EMILY SEGAL:

the writer and trend forecaster on cons, atemporal culture and her first novel Mercury Retrograde

PODCAST | KELLER EASTERLING:

the architect and author of Medium Design on thinking beyond the fatal flaws of technosolutionism

PODCAST | CHE GOSSETT:

the politics and poetics of abolition

PODCAST | SUSPENDED SENTENCE:

Faisal Devji on politics, citizenship and Covid-19

PODCAST | WENDY LIU:

the author of Abolish Silicon Valley sets out her vision for how technology can be a force of liberation rather than capitalist extraction

PODCAST | MATT COLQUHOUN:

Mark Fisher, mourning and cultivating post-capitalist desire

PODCAST | RANA FOROOHAR:

the award-winning journalist on surveillance capitalism, taking sneers at Davos and visions of a post-FAANG world

BOOK TALK | SEMA KAYGUSUZ:

the author of Every Fire You Tend discusses the afterlives of trauma and the violent consolidation of the Turkish state

PODCAST | ALEXANDER ZEVIN:

the author of Liberalism at Large discusses the shaping role of The Economist in the making of financial capitalism

PODCAST | ZEN AND THE ART OF FORGETTING:

Brexit has awoken a very particular very English passive-aggressive nationalism, a sorry beast of tremendous rage, uncertain claim and impossible ambition

PODCAST | DEEP FUTURES:

Uzma Z. Rizvi surveys the ways cities and states create their own dream cartography

PODCAST | JEN RUBIO:

the co-founder of luggage disruptor Away talks evolving travel trends and building brands beyond the algorithm

PODCAST | END OF THE ROAD:

capitalism and the car’s fervent romance, as read by Tina

BOOK TALK | ANN PETTIFOR:

one of the key authors of the Green New Deal speaks with an Extinction Rebellion activist

PODCAST | NOTES FROM THE FRONT:

Tina reads Ana Maria Nicolaescu on the Roblox multiverse

BOOK TALK | VICTOR BURGIN:

the artist and writer discusses his latest web-based work Afterlife

PODCAST | SHALLOW TIME:

Tina reads Will Wiles on geological time, high weirdness and the the horrible sense that events are accelerating

BOOK TALK | NISHA RAMAYYA:

the poet and lecturer discusses her new collection States of the Body Produced by Love

PODCAST | DOUBLE BUBBLE:

Tina reads Kai Freise on Peter Sloterdijk’s philosophy of bubbles

PODCAST | HEATHER DEWEY-HAGBORG:

the biohacker and information artist discusses AI, epigenetics and creating portraits of people she has never met using their DNA sequences

WALKING AND TALKING | LUKE TURNER:

the author of Out of Woods guides us through the trails and vast expanses of Epping Forest

PODCAST | SLIPS, LAPSES AND LITERATURE:

Tina reads Eugenia Lapteva on the uncanny power of slips of the tongue

PODCAST | OPEN HOUSE:

Rory Olcayto, director of Open House, discusses the history of the event, the overlooked architecture of London’s outer-boroughs and some of the highlights of this year’s program

PODCAST | OMENS:

Tina reads Peter Lyle on the use and nature of prophetic visions

PODCAST | NATASHA LENNARD:

the writer discusses her book Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life with BBC journalist Razia Iqbal

PODCAST | MIKE JAY:

the writer and thinker discusses his new book Mescaline, a cultural and scientific history of the world’s first psychedelic

PODCAST | NICOLE FLATTERY:

the Irish writer discusses purposeful confusion and her debut collection of short stories Show Them a Good Time

PODCAST | AFTER VENICE:

the TANK team debrief on the 2019 Venice Biennale

PODCAST | MAN UP!

Adam All and Baby Lame – co-hosts of drag-king competition Man Up! – join us to discuss drag culture and performance.

PODCAST | A RADICAL HEART:

Fatima Bhutto joins TANK to discuss her latest book, The Runaways, which explores how modern alienation drives radicalisation

PODCAST WITH OWEN HATHERLEY:

the writer and journalist discusses the complex legacy of the USSR 15 years after the end of history

are the days of human translators numbered, or will translation technology’s lack of linguistic nuance continue to be a flaw that’s impossible to ignore?

IN CONVERSATION WITH JOE KENNEDY:

writer and cultural theorist Joe Kennedy discusses his concept of "authentocracy" and the reactionary folksiness of British culture

SOMETHING MORE THAN SUPERFICIAL PERFECTION:

a reading by Tina, TANK's full time voiceover artist

HERE AND NO ELSEWHERE:

the forces of today prefer a lesser, not greater, outdoors

IN CONVERSATION WITH JOEY ZWILLINGER:

the co-founder of the much buzzed about footwear startup Allbirds speaks to Caroline Issa about making the jump from biotech to fashion, building a mission-led business and embedding purpose into your product

IN CONVERSATION WITH LYNNE TILLMAN:

following her TANK Book Talk, the American author and critic discusses virulent masculinity and the process behind her latest novel, Men and Apparitions.

a reading from Tina, TANK'S full-time voiceover artist, excerpted from our latest Travel issue

IN CONVERSATION WITH PATRICK DEWITT:

the Man-Booker shortlisted author discusses his latest novel ‘French Exit’, which offers a surreal take on the comedy of manners

IN CONVERSATION WITH MARK FORD:

the poet discusses his autobiographical turn, growing up across the world, being drugged on a train to Madrid, meeting Allen Ginsberg and more

IN CONVERSATION WITH JAMES BRIDLE:

the artist and writer discusses his latest book, New Dark Age, which tackles how technology has led us into a world of ever-increasing incomprehension

IN CONVERSATION WITH LUBAINA HIMID:

Ismail Einashe speaks to the artist about the aftermath of winning the 2017 Turner Prize and the enduring need to address Europe’s colonial legacy

IN CONVERSATION WITH MADELINE MILLER:

the Orange Prize-winning novelist reads from her latest book, Circe

ANTON VIDOKLE ON COSMISM:

the artist and filmmaker charts the unexpected revival of the Russian philosophy

IN CONVERSATION WITH DANIEL TRILLING:

In this episode of the TANK magazine podcast, Ismail Einashe talks to the journalist and editor of New Humanist, Daniel Trilling

FLASH FICTION FROM NADIFA MOHAMED:

"The Maid" is a caustic story of abuse and inequality

RUSSIA IN THE LATE SUMMER:

the academic and children's author Katherine Rundell returns to the ever-changing beauty of St Petersburg

BOOKS AND DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL:

in conversation with Carl Williams

LIBERALISM AND IGNORANCE:

the philosopher Daniel DeNicola speaks to the author Edmund Fawcett.

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One work

IT’S THE SCISSORS:

on severed realities and Kembra Pfahler

on desire, control, and the tacky luxury of Issy Wood’s car interior paintings

Alexa Karolinski and Ingo Niermann’s vision of post-scarcity romance

ATTACK OF THE CHAIRS:

Jesse Darling makes the familiar strange at the Venice Biennale

Elizabeth Peyton’s shimmering depiction of vampire love

strategic emotions and nonsense in the paintings of Jamian Juliano-Villani

WAITING FOR FALC:

the desire for the mechanical and the mechanisms of desire in Frieda Toranzo Jaeger’s paintings

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Fashion

EARTHLY SOLIDARITY:

photography by Valentin Fabre, styling by Manon del Coll

photography by Florent Tanet, styling by Gemma Bedini

MISS YOU: photography by Chris Calmer, styling by Emma Thorstrand

CANTE JONDO: photography by Rafa Yuste, styling by Carmen Bellot

photography by Vanessa Zican Feng, CGI art by Andy Tai, styling by Jahulie Elizalde

NOT MAKE-UP BUT MAKE-UP:

eleven desginers hide themselves with their own creations in an exploration of masks and the perils of digital overexposure

VITAE SANCTORUM:

photography by Suleika Muller, styling by Fabio Merche

sameness and difference in earthy tones. Photography by Yuji Fukuhara, styling by Rumiko Koyama

PERIPHERAL VISION:

Fashion from the outskirts. Photography by Bloom Paris

OUTSIDE THE RING:

photography by JP Bonino, styling by Giulia Meterangelis

LASTING INFLUENCE:

Photography by Yuki Kumagai, styling by Masayo Kishi

THE MOST RADICAL GESTURE:

with the arrival of Alessandro Michele in 2015, Gucci experienced a profound détournement. With a painterly eye, Hellen van Meene envisioned a new future for the house. From TANK's Realism Issue

ALL DRESSED UP:

photography by Charlotte Krieger, styling by Marie Gibert

IT DIDN’T SEEM TO BE REAL:

photography by Joanna Wierzbicka, styling by Kat Ambroziak

INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED:

the problem with our plastic consumption isn’t just a practical one - it’s deeply psychological too

COMMERCIAL BREAK:

photography by Pietro Cocco, styling by Francesca Crippa

from TANK’s archive. As Maria Grazia Chiuri’s new vision of Dior proposes a radical departure for the house, the award-winning video artist Laure Prouvost propounds an heroic femininity.

photography by Roni Ahn, styling by Jo Heng

subtle layers beneath a crisp sun. Photography by Pierre Lequeux, Styling by Carolina Augustin

looks that lead you up the garden path. Photography by Charlotte Krieger, styling by Marie Gibert

WORK EXPERIENCE:

our latest fashion editorial is an ode to the intern. Photography by Sophie Tajan, styling by Gemma Bedini

PLAYING THE FIELD:

town meets country through traditional tweeds and checks in our latest autumn/winter editorial

visceral tones contend with heat of late summer in this still life from Barcelona. Photography by Javi Dardo, styling by Eva Bernal

struggling to find an affordable home? Find a perfect house and outfit to match in this fashion video from the Gossip Issue

“The sphere is the interior, disclosed, shared realm inhabited by humans”, says the philosopher Peter Slotterdijk. In this shoot from the archive, styles are inspired by the rich metaphorical world of bubbles

A WORD IN YOUR SHELL-LIKE:

from earrings to ears, information travels fast. Photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, styling by Hamish Wirgman. Fashion from the Gossip Issue

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Art

NOT QUITE GALLERY WEEK IN BERLIN:

Sanja Grozdanic on Juliana Huxtable and Ziúr at Trauma Bar, and the myopic present

the multi-disciplinary artist on working in the Serpentine’s historic space and the intersecting structures of identity

RE-DIT-EN-UN-IN-LEARNING CENTER:

Laure Prouvost plays at the weird edges of meaning

ROOM OF SOLITUDE:

Boris Camaca’s photographs capture the stilted weirdness of lockdown

HANNAH QUINLAN & ROSIE HASTINGS:

mapping the radical edges and reactionary mainstream of contemporary queer culture

FREDERIK HEYMAN:

the digital artist who renders real clothes on virtual bodies

CORNELIU PORUMBOIU:

TANK spoke to the director about his latest film The Whistlers

SIMON STARLING:

the conceptual artist on his latest exhibition and the bizzare histories of some of the objects it contains

the founder of New Suns discusses this year’s instalment of the literary festival and feminist myth-making

6 MONTHS WITHOUT:

Nastja Säde Rönkkö on how the internet is the taboo of our times

CHRISTINA QUARLES:

TANK speaks to the artist about her gestural, abstract paintings and why she sees herself as “racially multiple”

the multimedia artist discusses his latest project Cel, an immersive role play in which the protocols of hierarchical masculinity are enacted and interrogated

MEGAN PLUNKETT:

the LA-based artist discusses working as an unlicensed private investigator, the site-specific internet and dogs that talk

MARTHA KIRSZENBAUM:

the curator of the French Pavilion of the 58th Venice Biennale talks about “Frenchness”, utopia and driving around Los Angeles

the British artist on fan-fiction, the joy of artifice and characters stuck in time

AUGUSTAS SERAPINAS:

in conversation with the youngest artist showing at this year’s Venice Biennale

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