TANK BOOK TALKS:
Sema Kaygusuz in conversation with Maureen Freely and Nicholas Glastonbury
The I, Claudia Issue, Autumn 2009 | Issue 48
fronting
- EDITOR’S LETTER by Masoud Golsorkhi
- KOREA OPPORTUNITIES: Sung Hwan Kim’s art and opportunities
- COUNTRY CLUB: how a gaggle of guitar-plucking Virginians inspired a thoroughly modern movie
- ENDANGERED SPECIES: Richard Barnes on the disappearing history of man and beast
- JEWEL CITIZENSHIP: “Sayegh and the Middle East’s best art and design talent shine together in Damascus
- RUSSIAN GAMBIT: London is the scene of a new fashion force with global ambitions
- SCARLET AND BLACK: Pavel Pepperstein does Moscow, past, present and future
- IN THE BLACK: Tate Modern examines art and commerce
- FLOWER POWER: Frida Giannini on capturing the Gucci girl’s spirit in sense
- POWER RANGER: from playground to palace, artist Laurence Owen takes on megalomaniacs everywhere
- LETS GET PHYSICAL: showstudio’s latest steps beyond the virtual world
- FRINGE PHENOMENON: the other sky at night opens up the X-Files
- ALIEN VOICES: science firction and archive footage from the Otolith Group
- SUN KING: Christian Lacroix’s incredible visions transcend into the fashion industry’s pragmatic mood
features
- DAVID THOMAS BROUGHTON: finding method in musical madness
- FACTORY FLOOR: the London trio on work, art and mechanical production
- THE XX: where dubstep, Robert Smith and 1980s pop-soul collides
- MICHACHU & THE SHAPES: from an impressive musical education to wild innovation
- HYPE WILLIAMS: no hi-tech videos, just lo-fi tunes
- WILD BEASTS: the boys from Leeds are back, still red in tooth and claw
- FLASH FICTION: this issue’s offerings of 300 words or less
- SIZE ISNT EVERYTHING: Minsuk Cho and Mass Studies make buildings that eschew Dubai-style scale in favour of lateral thinking
- LICENSE TO THRILL: Sung-Joo Kim’s vision of a profitable and relevant luxury-branded future
- WASTE NOT WANT NOT: the cream of Korea’s contemporary artists make new worlds from old
- TIME MACHINE: Koolhas, Prada make architectural history in motion
- A DAY OF RECKONING: Peter Day, the BBC’s veteran business correspondent, on the financial crisis currently engulfing the world
- LOOK BACK ON ANGER: a tribute to the gritty charms of Korean cinema
- COUTURE AND CULTURE: Vivienne Westwood and Hans Ulrich Obrist talk punk myths, brand promises and the cult of consumption
- I WANT IT ALL AND I WANT IT NOW: as far as media old and new are concerned, this has been the year of real-time everything. Are we on the brink of a new kind of democracy or just universal Attention Deficit Disorder
- A VIEW STORY: Paulina Olowska on the ways we create and consume art
- THE DARK AND THE LIGHT: Viviane Sassen photographs a different vision of Africa
- LINDSAY’S WORLD: photograpahy by Julia Kennedy, styling by Pandora Lennard
- DO LOOK NOW: photography by Fletcher Cowan, curated by Elmgreen and Dragset
- PARIS IS BURNING: photography by Olivier Zahm, styling by Yasmine Eslami
- I CLAUDIA: photography by Luis Sanchis, Styling by Yasmine Eslami
- WHOS THAT GIRL: photography by Gilad Sasporta, styling by Daul Kim
talk
- MASON JUNG: “I've always had difficulty designing for the traditional fashion system”
- WERNER HERZOG AND BILL CALLAHAN: “I've never had a directors chair in my life”
- MICHAEL JOO: “Science isn’t afraid of failure, and neither is great art”
- LAMYA GARGASH: “Being an artist means having something to say and finding ways to represent it”
- SALLY POTTER: “The experts on the internet are children”
- DOUG AITKEN AND LISA PHILLIPS: “A museum can be the centre of a community and a living place”
- SARA ZIFF: “You never hear about the models who are in debt to their agencies”
- DOUGLAS COUPLAND: “Pay attention to the words that come out your mouth”
