TOKYO PRIVATE:
Harold Ancart’s keen-eyed travelogue of photos, anecdotes and micro-essays
The 10th Anniversary Special Issue, Autumn 2008 | Issue 45
fronting
- EDITOR’S LETTER by Masoud Golsorkhi
- TROUBLE: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
- AES+F: “A New Eden in which the Chinese cooks are not in the kitchen”
- AI WEIWEI: “I have never believed in the future”
- CAI GUO QIANG: “The city of Beijing will certainly form the outlook of my next 10 years”
- CARLOS AMORALES: “I chose to work in the field of fantasy rather than reality”
- CHRISTIAN LACROIX: “The connection between classical painting and contemporary art has been the most nurturing of foods”
- EYAL WEIZMAN: “What kind of urbanism would it be if we sought to affect only those first 10 centimetres?”
- FRANÇOIS ROCHE: “The witch hidden in the ghost house of my past 10 years shall form the outlook of my next 10”
- FRIDA GIANNINI: “Listening to music on a CD or computer is more practical, but on vinyl the songs sound more genuine and bring back memories more vividly”
- ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV: “How can we explain the magic in only a few words”
- JEPP HEIN: “Connecting people, art and social life will gain even more importance in the future”
- JOHN GALLIANO: “Ten years can seem like a lifetime or only a fleeting moment”
- KEVIN CARRIGAN: “The medium of communication, or the process of transferring information”
- LINDER STERLING: “We discovered the cut, the mark, the glue, the photocopier, and then we all gave birth to ourselves”
- LIZ BOUGATSOS: lead singer of Gang Gang Dance
- MARTINO GAMPER: “The possibility of being able to work with your friends is for me the most significant thing about the future”
- MAURIZIO CATTELAN: he never lost a chess match
- PHILIPPE RAHM: architecture can no longer build spaces
- RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE AND KD VYAS: fabulous stories of haunted warriors
- ROEMER VAN THOORN: reality demands a theory
- RYAN GANDER: “Cash Rules Everything Around Me – C.R.E.A.M., get the money, dollar, dollar bill y’all”—Wu-Tang Clan
- SANAA: the Tokyo-based architectural practice
- SHUBHANKAR RAY: “I am English first, but always Indian”
- STEPHEN GILL: “Learn to live in the present; it will do wonderful things for your eyes.”
- STEPHEN JONES: “Infinity has always been such a potent symbol to me”
- THOMAS HIRSCHHORN: “Creating a collage means creating a new world”
- TOM MCCARTHY: the significance of vapour trails
features
- LIFE IS A BATTLEFIELD: what is it like to grow up in war? The “Baghdad Blogger,” an Iraqi architect whose writing made him famous in the early years of Iraq’s latest war, tries to explain
- A BIGGER SPLASH: the Australian journeys of D.H. Lawrence and Trent Parke cast light on the past and future of photography
- SCALE MODELS: loft living and icons for the insecure – how Warhol’s “artistic” lifestyle has gone from skanky bohemia to linchpin of the economy
- POEMS: an artist’s project created exclusively for Tank
- NOW AND THEN: the underwater Venice Biennale, Pyongyang as the new Beijing, the Nokia Baltic Centre: what will the art world look like in 10 years?
- THE OUTSIDER: utterly unique, the photographs of Miroslav Tichy are the results of a life lived without compromise or co-operation with the world
- BEYOND BELIEF: religion gets the blame for all manner of modern conflicts, but blind faith in human progress is the most destructive cult of all
- ALL ABOUT YVES: photography by Juergen Teller, styling by Doro Olowu
- INNA DAYS: photography by Jamie Isaia, styling by Chloe Kerman
- MY SWEET ROXANE: photography by Christian Anwander, styling by Azza Yousif
- THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY-KATE: photography by Marc Hom
- ORIGINAL SHIRIN: photography by Alex Antitch, styling by Yasmine Eslami
- YASMIN C’EST BON: photography by Studio 88 styling by Chloe Kerman
- IPSO FACTO: photography by Cameron Smith, styling by Pandora Lennard
- SHE’S A DAUL: photography by Guto, styling by
- ALWAYS INES: photography by Paolo Roversi, styling by Chloe Kerman
talk
- KEN LIVINGSTONE: “There are a lot of dysfunctional people in the media”
- STEVE MCQUEEN: “I’ve always said that politicians will take care of politics and artists have to take car of the people”
- PILAR CORRIAS AND PHILIPPE PARRENO: “Cephalopds are, for me, the ultimate artists”
- ALAN ALDRIDGE: “I realised I spent most of my life alone and it really upset me”
- PHARRELL WILLIAMS: “I'm the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, I'm all of those things”
- PIERRE BISMUTH: “I'm not interested in narrative structure”
- THE ORACLE: “The beginning is now what it is and from here follows what comes”
- NICHOLAS BOURIAUD: “Art is an alternative editing table for reality”
- POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR: “It feels like when I write I inhabit a different self”
- OLE SCHEEREN: “You have to change your environment and yourself at the same time”
- BRYAN BOY: “I would like it to be known that Bryan Boy does not cruise”
- KEN JACOBS: “Jerry was a brilliant but broken mind”
- CHUCK PALAHNIUK: “Why is that we are so continually and so constantly reinventing violence”
