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ELECTRIC BRINE: Jennifer Teets
VOYAGE AROUND MY ROOM: Xavier de Maister
SAVAGE BAROQUE: Boris Camaca
UNKNOWN LANGUAGE: Huw Lemmey
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Live

OUR THOUGHTS, UNITED:
Jennifer Teets on collective knowledge, the poetics of fluids and her upcoming anthology Electric Brine.
RISK AND REVELATION:
Qasimi’s spring/summer 2021 collection implores us to feel at home in the unfamiliar
POSTCAPITALIST DESIRE:
the late Mark Fisher’s vision of “acid communism”, as sketched in his final lectures
FIRST LIGHT:
Alexander McQueen spring/summer 2021 is a dazzling play of contradictions
TORUS:
the Dutch producer delivers oxytocin bath atmospherics in his TANK mix
GRATITUDE, FORTITUDE, FAMILY:
in a year of global upheaval, Gabriela Hearst has accumulated accolades
GHOST WITNESS:
Mårten Lange’s forensic photographs of Chinese megacities
SHIFTING THE SILENCE:
Etel Adnan on fire and finitude
THE UNDERSTORY OF THE UNDERSTORY:
Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos on the entangled worlds of ground, land, Earth and soil.
WAIT FOR IT:
photography by Pierre Lequeux, styling by Carolina Augustin
FOOTNOTES:
Amia Srinivasan’s foreword to the first ever anthology of Russian feminist poetry
MAKE IT A DOUBLE:
Prada returns to post-lockdown retail with not one but two London pop-up stores
UNKNOWN LANGUAGE:
Huw Lemmey in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist
THE POETRY OF LIMITS:
the challenges of working through lockdown bring a renewed sense of clarity to Salvatore Ferragamo’s Resort 2021 collection
SOCIABLE DISTANCE: fragmented intimacy in Roy Andersson’s You, the Living
CANTE JONDO: photography by Rafa Yuste, styling by Carmen Bellot
THINK ABOUT IT:
Haich Ber Na’s new music video sets an escapist fantasy within a dizzying cascade of karaoke stock footage
LIFE WITHOUT AIR:
poetry by Daisy Lafarge
FORM OF LIFE:
photography by Vanessa Zican Feng, CGI art by Andy Tai, styling by Jahulie Elizalde
SEANCE ON THE QUEEN MARY:
Dasychira’s “B340” marries tender expression and saccharine terror aboard the Queen Mary ghost-ship
NOT QUITE GALLERY WEEK IN BERLIN:
Sanja Grozdanic on Juliana Huxtable and Ziúr at Trauma Bar, and the myopic present
ROOM OF SOLITUDE:
Boris Camaca’s photographs capture the stilted weirdness of lockdown
HIMERA:
rising producer and arpeggio angel Himera delivers an exclusive-heavy “tribute to MIDI” in their TANK mix
HEAVEN IS A PRISON:
Mark McKnight’s stark photographs hold together the pastoral and the pornographic in an unresolved union
FRUTTI DI MARE:
in conversation with Sia Arnika
LIVING IN A SYMBIOTIC WORLD:
Earth is an incessant space of relationships between organisms and non-living objects, a space where humans are not the centre
UNKNOWN LANGUAGE:
an extract from Huw Lemmey and Hildegard of Bingen’s work of uncanny authorship
FORM, FUNCTION, FANTASY:
Veronica Leoni on her latest womenswear collection for 2 Moncler 1952 and combining accountability with escapism
A TENDER ASCENT:
Maëva  Berthelot and Coby Sey discuss their new collaborative piece created for Wysing Polyphonic festival
EVERYTHING SO DEMOCRATIC AND COOL:
Christian Werner’s disparate photographs imbue the chance happenings of the world with a subtle coherence
OWED TO SAUDADE:
a new mix and exclusive interview from Hannah Catherine Jones, presented as part of the 11th edition of Wysing Polyphonic festival
JOHN WAS TRYING TO CONTACT ALIENS:
how do you make yourself communicable without the luxury of a shared context?
UNSOUND:UNDEAD:
an exclusive interview and speculative sonic collage from collective AUDINT, presented as part of the 11th edition of Wysing Polyphonic festival
DINGY UTOPIAS:
the congealed glamour of DeSe Escobar’s deep-fried prints
COLLECTIVE DELIRIUM:
a new mix and exclusive interview from Brazilian vocalist and producer LYZZA, presented as part of the 11th edition of Wysing Polyphonic festival
A. G. COOK:
on 7G, his 49-track album, A. G. Cook invites listeners to fall in love with a complex system
II:
an all-originals mix and interview courtesy of mobilegirl, presented as part of the 11th edition of Wysing Polyphonic Festival
PODCAST | CHE GOSSETT:
the politics and poetics of abolition
INTROLUDO INFERNO:
a new mix and exclusive interview courtesy of CRYSTALLMESS, presented as part of the 11th edition of Wysing Polyphonic Festival
SPACESHIP EARTH:
a bizarre experiment in which eight volunteers lock themselves in a biodome for two years is a reminder of the messy work of building better worlds
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TANK mixes

HIMERA:
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
ABYSS X:
an interview and dizzying mix from the Cretan musician
OTIS:
a club-ready mix for clubless times from the Slagwerk founder
RUI HO:
30 minutes of giddy euphoria from the Berlin-via-Shanghai producer
OXHY:
listen to a fragmented archive from the London-based producer
MALIBU:
widescreen emotion and black-heart emojis courtesy of the French ambient producer in this week’s TANK mix
JAY MITTA:
in the latest instalment of the TANK mix series, Jay Mitta brings you accelerated dance music from the streets of Dar es Salaam
ESTOC:
dizzying multi-track edits and anti-fascist hardstyle from the Philadelphia-based producer
FIRAASBEATS:
the latest instalment in the TANK mix series comes courtesy of the producer Firaasbeats
PELADA:
jagged hardware techno by way of hardcore punk from the Montreal-based duo
WRACK:
effervescent synth melodies and propulsive dembow drum tracks from Tokyo-based producer WRACK
DINAMARCA:
the Stockholm-based producer delivers a TANK mix full of unreleased instrumentals and hazy but occasionally euphoric hooks
KAMIXLO:
pneumatic reggaeton from the South London producer and Bala Club co-founder
BABY BLUE:
an exclusive mix and Q&A with Vancouver-based producer and it-girl Baby Blue
UMRU:
search-engine-optimised chaos from the PC Music producer
ZIUR:
an exclusive mix and Q&A with the Berlin-based producer with an affinity for the unexpected
DASYCHIRA:
this instalment of the TANK mix series features the NYC-based producer Dasychira and comes paired with a Q&A and exclusive video-premiere
SWAN MEAT:
this instalment of the TANK mix series comes courtesy of Swan Meat, offering a unique blend of baroque club music
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TANK talks

SIANNE NGAI: “It is impossible to sever the negativity we feel towards capitalist gimmicks from our begrudging admiration of their social power”
ANNA TSING:
"I think disorientation is the point of anthropology"
CACONRAD:
"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”
JENNA SUTELA:
“I try to engage with not only ancient but also futuristic materials in a non-linear way”
ADAM TOOZE:
“The first term Obama administration was still Clinton’s Democratic Party. The second term was full of people from Google”
NATASHA STAGG:
“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”
ISABEL LEWIS:
“A garden is first and foremost a long-term process, a mediation between the human and non-human worlds”
LAUREN BERLANT:
“A city is as a laboratory for inventing life, for being a regular who's known in all different ways”
HITO STEYERL:
“Artificial stupidity in the form of bots and production robots is a force to reckon with”
LIZZIE BORDEN:
“I intended Born in Flames as agitprop”
DANIEL TRILLING:
"some people’s experiences are visible and other people’s experiences are not"
HILTON ALS:
“It takes a special courage to be unaware that you’re different”
SALLY ROONEY:
“It seems to relegate the book’s queer relationship to the category of ‘gal pals’”
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Podcast

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
CODEBREAKERS:
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.
ORIGINAL COPY:
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
MECHANOPHILIA:
on desire, control, and the tacky luxury of Issy Wood’s car interior paintings
ARMY OF LOVE:
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
TWILIGHT:
Elizabeth Peyton’s shimmering depiction of vampire love
FRENEMIES:
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

CANTE JONDO: photography by Rafa Yuste, styling by Carmen Bellot
FORM OF LIFE:
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
IN UNIFORM:
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
HERLAND:
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.
BETTER DAYS:
photography by Roni Ahn, styling by Jo Heng
UNDER WRAPS:
subtle layers beneath a crisp sun. Photography by Pierre Lequeux, Styling by Carolina Augustin
VANISHING ACT:
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
COLOUR BLOCK:
visceral tones contend with heat of late summer in this still life from Barcelona. Photography by Javi Dardo, styling by Eva Bernal
HOT PROPERTY:
struggling to find an affordable home? Find a perfect house and outfit to match in this fashion video from the Gossip Issue
IN THE BUBBLE:
“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
PATRICK STAFF:
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
SARAH SHIN:
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”
ED FORNIELES:
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
MATT COPSON:
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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Furniture for the Mind |  Issue 10

fronting

  • LANDSCAPING WITH A VIEW: photography by Kutlu
  • SPEER OF DESTINY: by Will Self
  • REM KOOLHAAS AND OMA: by Masoud Golsorkhi

features

  • JUNKSPACE: by Rem Koolhaas
  • TANK ARCHITECTURE AWARD
  • ANIMAL BRIDGE PROJECT: art by Dan Holdsworth, words by Claire Canning
  • TRAVEL AGENCY TO THE FUTURE PROJECT: by AES group
  • BIGNESS OR THE PROBLEM OF LARGE: by Rem Koolhaas
  • ART: by Rut Blees Luxemburg
  • SOLITUDE IS NOT NECESSARILY A LONELY THING: by Edy Poppy
  • PHOTOGRAPHY: by Mie Takahashi
  • ART: by Pete Benson
  • FOUR WALLS: by Dominic Moore
  • WETMAN: a short film by tank
  • PHOTOGRAPHY: by Kate Plumb
  • CACTUS TOWN: by Aamer Hussein
  • ART: by Jamie Harris
  • ART: by Jillian Lochner
  • ART: by Merlin Glozier
  • BUILDING MINARETS: by Trevor H.J. Marchand
  • SET CONSTRUCTIONS: by Miriam Bäckström
  • LE.GO: photography by Thierry Van Biesen
  • LETS GO: Illustrations by Roy Wilkinson
  • PHOTOGRAPHY: by Pascal Gillet
  • ROCKING THE CRADLE: by Patricia Estanguet
  • INTERSPORT: by Greg Stogdon
  • THE FLATTENED IDENTITY OF GOOD INTENTIONS: suburban life by Clive Priddle, Jo Glanville and Markie Robson-Scott
  • PHOTOGRAPHY: by Chris Dunlop
  • COME AS YOU ARE: photography by Matthieu Deluc

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