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DEFECTIVE HOLIDAY: Kim Laughton

NO SPACE, JUST A PLACE: Gucci

BLUEPRINTS: Cao Fei

WANDERING AND WONDERING: Akinbode Akinbiyi

ROOM WITH A VIEW: the Ballet National de Marseille

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Live

season two of TANKtv is here

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

VARIATIONS ON MUSHROOMS:

for John Cage, famed composer of the post-war avant-garde, mycology was for more than a mere hobby

MEMORIES OF THE TERRITORY:

Boris Camaca finds uncanny beauty in the hinterlands of Red Dead Redemption 2

CREATIVE DESTRUCTION:

the practised imperfection of Ottolinger

NO SPACE, JUST A PLACE:

being together without being identical

DEFECTIVE HOLIDAY:

Kim Laughton’s cryptic holiday simulation

the awkward and the profound are equally present in artist David Blandy’s online video tutorial

NEW ADVENTURES:

William Kherbek’s extreme rendering of the contemporary experience economy

Lawrence Lek’s speculative vision of Singapore in 2065 intervenes in our present imagination of possible futures

JULIET JACQUES:

we speak to the writer and filmmaker about her recently relaunched Suite (212) podcast and building cultural democracy after Corbyn

DREAMING IN TECHNICOLOUR:

sketches and snapshots from Gherado Felloni of Roger Vivier

Imran Perretta’s disquietening exposition of the violence of the colonial state

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

twelve writing assignments from Wayne Koestenbaum

the chance-based ideology of Scandinavian online poker players in Bangkok

PODCAST | MATT COLQUHOUN:

Mark Fisher, mourning and cultivating post-capitalist desire

CAIN AND ABEL CAN'T AND ABLE:

Athena Papadopoulos gives voice to the strange binaries that structure our experience

TIME AFTER TIME:

the new CHANEL J12 collection provides timepieces fit for our uneven present

John Divola’s photographs of the unphotographable

HATEFUCK THE READER:

read Penny Goring’s bracing longform poem

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

A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE:

Cartier announces the 21 finalists of the Cartier Women’s Initiative

HANDBOOK OF THE SPONTANEOUS OTHER:

Aikaterini Gegisian's pleasure-seeking collages

speculative strategies to reconnect with the ocean

STANDARD BALLAD:

Steve Bishop’s study in generic emotions

Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s investigation into Bassel Abi Chahine’s past lives and the suppressed history of the Lebanese Civil War

PODCAST | RANA FOROOHAR:

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

THE GREAT SILENCE:

the human search for extraterrestrial life, as told by a Puerto Rican parrot

PEOPLE OF THE MUD:

Luis Alberto Rodriguez’s tightly choreographed photographs of Irish tradition

CONTAGION | READING LIST:

key takes on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and the possibility of collective resilience

listen to a fragmented archive from the London-based producer

OUR PINK DEPOT:

queer histories from the London Underground

backstage with the Ballet National de Marseille

STILLNESS AND SPECTACLE:

in conversation with Akinbode Akinbiyi

GHOSTS OF HONGXIA THEATRE:

Cao Fei’s first UK solo exhibition maps the fraught relationship between memory, technology and selfhood

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TANK talks

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

"I think disorientation is the point of anthropology"

“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”

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

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

LAUREN BERLANT:

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

“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

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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Fashion

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

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

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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One work

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

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

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

ATTACK OF THE CHAIRS:

Jesse Darling makes the familiar strange at the Venice Biennale

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Podcast

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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