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DÉCOUPÉ: Eva Stenram and Saint Laurent

SAD SACK: Sophia Al-Maria

THIS AIN’T CHINA: Allan Sekula

CLASS ACT: photography by Bloom Paris

ED FORNIELES: immersive role play and toxic masculinity

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TANK live

TANK BOOK TALKS 2019:

a series of discussions at the British Library’s Summer Pavilion

crisp, carbonated dance music from Toxe and Mechatok’s new collaborative project

Will Wiles on imaginary places and “the Microsoft Windows of cities”

TANK MIX | UMRU:

search-engine-optimised chaos from the PC Music producer

SOFT SCULPTURE:

photography by Dave Blackburn, styling by Bonnie Langedijk

NATHAN JURGENSON READING LIST:

ahead of his TANK Book Talk appearance, a primer on the Snapchat sociologist’s prolific writing on social media, visual culture and digital dualism

ANTICIPATORY NOSTALGIA:

read an extract from Nathan Jurgenson’s The Social Photo on how digital platforms transform the way we see ourselves, others and the world

“The atomic structure of a single day contains the whole structure of a society and, in a wider sense, the world.” A short story by Sarah Thomas

a poem and a love letter from artist and writer Sophia Al-Maria

Adam Thirlwell on Kim Kardashian’s strange and moving book of selfies. From TANK’s archive

Heather Gildroy’s short film is a story of a story of youth and isolation in rural America

a new retrospective at Marian Goodman captures the late photographer’s devoted attention to the forgotten spaces of the world

LEANNE SHAPTON:

the artist and writer on her latest publication Guestbook: Ghost Stories, painting from photographs and spectral social media

A PLAGUE OF MICROBES:

an extract from Argentine writer Ariana Harwicz’s new novel, Feebleminded

a new podcast on the evil and complicated men who don't quite fit into the mainstream history of gay liberation

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

Erwin Wurm in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist

“I think disorientation is the point of anthropology.”

PODCAST | MAN UP!

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

FORM, FEMINISMS, FEMININITIES:

Rose English complicates ideas of the female form in the first show of Richard Saltoun’s year-long “100% Women” program

“Artificial stupidity in the form of bots and production robots is also a force to reckon with, leading to job losses, distorted realities on social media and proliferating dysfunctional technology”

in a major new exhibition, the eminent British photographer Martin Parr takes a satirical lens to nationalism and nostalgia

ROYAL HIDEAWAY:

behind the scenes at the resort location of TANK’s “Bon Voyage” shoot

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.

THE TRIUMPH OF SOFTNESS OVER HARDNESS:

Dorothea Tanning at Tate Modern and her world of porous boundaries and formless objects

STORY TELLING FOR EARTHLY SURVIVAL:

Fabrizio Terranova’s understated portrait of feminist thinker Donna Haraway's exuberant imagination

WE ARE COSMONAUTS:

read an extract from Rosie Šnajdr experimental text on space flight and the paradoxes of transcendence

THE SOUND OF SILENT FILM:

an interview with Carl Davis, composer for television and film

TANK MIX | BABY BLUE:

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

the Chilean curator behind the Plataforma Atacama program on indigenity, cultural dialogue and the capacity of art to resist

virtual reality exploring the somatic connection between plant and human life

MOTION STUDIES:

read an extract from Jena Osman’s collection of poetic essays on the history of surveillance and scientific enquiry

a new generation of artists in Europe, with work spanning painting, sculpture, fashion, and video

an extract from Alia Trabucco Zerán’s debut novel, set in the Chilean city of Santiago

GENERATION NUMB:

producer/poet Palmistry returns with an icy and impressionistic anthem

Tom Morton on The Face and the the “Vortex” of ideas

photography by Bloom Paris, styling by Annabelle Jouot

ABSOLUTE MUSIC:

in conversation with the obscure Japanese composer June Chikuma

Rebecca Tamás’s poetry recasts language to feel more closely matched to human complexity

TINA READS FOOD OF THE FUTURE:

the strange legacies of the meal replacement, from early feminist fantasy to contemporary Silicon Valley reality

a triple-bill of female choreographers at the English National Ballet – Stina Quagebeur, Pina Bausch, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa

NO LOVE FOR WALMART:

can socialists learn lessons from Amazon, Uber and Walmart?

IS THIS TOMORROW:

30 artists and architects come together to present an uncertain future

electronic composer Holly Herndon collaborates with Spawn, an AI trained on collective vocal experimentation, on latest single “Eternal”

TANK MIX | MANG:

the latest TANK mix comes via London-based producer and DJ Mang, whose hi-res productions borrow from medieval RPG sound-design and 1990s hardcore

WORLDING READING LIST:

to imagine a world is to imagine it’s landscape - to render its trees, valleys, mountains and myths in concrete detail

BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO:

a sonic adaptation of Peter Strickland’s “Beberian Sound Studio” at the Donmar Warehouse

Stine Deja explores our ever-colliding real and virtual worlds through animation and digital image

the photographer documents graffiti artists in Paris

photography by Ali Mahdavi, styling by Catherine Baba. First published in the Blow-up issue, Autumn 2007

Matt Copson is a fox, who dreamt he was a man, who dreamt he was a fox, who makes some phone calls

Paolo Sorrentino returns to Italy of the early 2000’s to take on the myth and scandal of Berlusconi’s legacy

BIRDS OF PASSAGE:

a mythic tale of social collapse in the deserts of northern Columbia

Kettle’s Yard presents a monochrome set of images by the artist that play with chaos and order

a new reissue from Freedom to Spend provides a chance to revisit the bizarre and catchy 1980s music of Bomberman composer June Chikuma

photography by Roni Ahn, styling by Jo Heng

TIME OUT OF TIME:

William Basinski’s new album samples the the merging of two distant black holes

HERE AND NO ELSEWHERE:

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

a young trans ballerina struggles to make it through puberty and find acceptance as a woman

SOLIDARITY WITHOUT SAMENESS:

Patricia Reed asks what it might take to form meaningful political solidarity when our lives are increasingly shaped by impersonal, abstract systems

Rachel Rose’s cyclical film-installation chronicles the transformation of the English countryside from living cosmology into private property through the story of a 17th century witch

DEATH BECOMES HER:

Angel-Ho’s vocal debut is a bold and brazen assertion of self and an outspoken performance of trans-becoming

Michela De Mattei explores the little-understood, biocultural phenomenon of blushing

full of mistranslations and slippery meanings, Laure Prouvost’s new artist book is an index of the absurd

CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN:

the artist on her lifelong collaboration with her cat, Kitch.

BACK TO THE LAND READING LIST:

when nothing feels real yet everything feels like too much, the fantasy of retreat turns magnetic

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

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

five years after his cult-debut mixtape on Hippos for Tanks, Triad God is back with a new LP

THE ZAD AND NOTAV:

how resistance to high-speed infrastructures gives rise to new political horizons in the European countryside

a photographer rediscovers his old family printing press in a small Peak District village

DO YOU KEEP THINKING THERE MUST BE ANOTHER WAY:

Georgia Horgan employs 17th Century “political pornographies” to interrogate present social structures

Essarter éditions probes a collective utopic memory of the Soviet Union

Derek Jarman’s difficult excursion into myth and morality at the edge of life

DECEPTION AT EVERY TURN:

the new fashion of CGI models on sites like Instagram takes us even further from IRL meatspace

interviews spanning the author’s career chart her shifting self-image and long-standing values

ARTISTES À LA UNE:

the Paris exhibition imagines a series of Vogue covers featuring inspirational women in a collaboration with UN

burnt out hues and dreams of better days. Photography by Vince M. Aung, styling by Star Burleigh

PODCAST WITH OWEN HATHERLEY:

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

Ali Abbasi’s twisted fable of care and contamination

FEELINGS OVER MEANING:

Milan during fashion week was (maybe still is) in the grips of a dark but emotionally charged mood

an extract from the ground-breaking Spanish novel by Agustín Fernández Mallo

Sean Steadman’s warped paintings foam at the edges of abstraction

INVASIVE SPECIES:

Egyptian poet Marwa Helal on her new book, the pressure to write about “local colour” and the highs and lows of writing workshops

COPPER GEOGRAPHIES:

Ignacio Acosta invites the viewer on a journey of copper from raw material

a look at the British architect’s early sketchbooks. By Josie Mitchell

brands to look up to – new designs on the horizon

WHO KILLED MY FATHER:

read an excerpt from Édouard Louis’s searing indictment of the cruelty endured by the French working class

IDEA TO ACTION TO OBJECT:

a new exhibition of Walter De Maria’s sketches places his transcendent geometric sculpture within a more humanist context

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

IN CONVERSATION WITH ERWIN WURM:

on the occasion of Erwin Wurm’s largest solo exhibition in the UK at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, TANK spoke with the artist about comedy, eternity and everyday abstraction

a new exhibition confronts stereotypical notions of a single Latin-American identity

a translation of Yūichi’s avant-garde manga

POETRY FOR CORPORATIONS:

when humans learned to write like machines. Selected corporate copy by Bruna Mori

with the return of Levi’s Engineered design for spring/summer 2019, we look back to our 1999 collaborative publication celebrating the launch of the range

IN CONVERSATION WITH ADRIANO AMARAL:

TANK speaks with the Brazilian artist about cryogenics, ASMR and the blurring of the synthetic and the organic

in his latest photobook, German photographer Christian Werner peels past the celebrity skin of the city of dreams to uncover a golden-hued mundanity

CHARLOTTESVILLE:

punching Nazis in the face: a philosopher makes the case for violent resistance

IN THE BEGINNING:

a new exhibition of Diane Arbus’s early photographs at London’s Hayward gallery repositions the controversial artist’s oeuvre

IN CONVERSATION WITH STEPHEN JONES:

the British designer discusses Brighton as Mars, the Royal Pavilion as a fantasy land, and the transcendent possibilities of design

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?

TRANCE READING LIST:

both an emptied mind and an excess of feeling, a garish music genre and an ancient ritual activity, trance is ubiquitous and elusive

A new novel by British experimentalist Isabel Waidner set on the Isle of Wight

IN CONVERSATION WITH ERIN RILEY:

TANK spoke to the artist about how she processes digital culture through her craft and the idea of the disposable

DISGENDERED MOTION:

Marloes ten Bhömer imagines new possibilities in human kinematics at the Copenhagen Fashion Film Awards 2019

AMERICAN GENIUS:

read an extract on safety, slowness and other people’s stories from Lynne Tillman’s newly reissued tragi-comedy

LOST LOST LOST:

celebrating the humane, avant-garde work of American-Lithuanian film-maker Jonas Mekas

in a new publication from Loose Joints, Felicia Honkasalo documents her reimagining of her grandfather’s life in the mines of Cold-War-era Finland

on his most information-heavy release yet, live-code virtuoso Lil Data makes music for supercomputers

THE EDGE OF REASON:

photography by Brett Lloyd, styling by Sara Gilmour. From TANK’s City Limits issue, Autumn 2014

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INVASIVE SPECIES:

Egyptian poet Marwa Helal on her new book, the pressure to write about “local colour” and the highs and lows of writing workshops

AGAINST IMMERSION:

on the New York Film Festival’s VR documentary program and the awkward state of this nascent form. By Jackson Arn

BEHEADED BY iOS:

filter bubbles and the feminine touch in the photography of Josephine Pryde

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

a surprising reissue of the underground Spanish drug horror ‘Arrebato’ offers a chance to revisit a twisted tale of cinematic vampirism

FARSIGHT CORPORATION:

in a new project from architect-turned-artist Lawrence Lek at Bold Tendencies, a series of virtual-reality promotional videos grapple with the transformation of urban life by AI

NICOLAS ROEG (1928—2018):

Shumon Basar remembers the mercurial British filmmaker

REZA ABDOH AT MOMA PS1:

a rare retrospective of the late Iranian performer and artist

QANDEEL BALOCH:

how the death of a Pakistani social media star shook and changed a nation

fresh from the release of his second EP, ‘Sun, Sea and Sinini’, our latest mix is from London-based vocalist and producer Don Sinini

Urs Fischer’s sumptuously woozy silkscreen prints, made on his iPhone, call into question the effect of technology on memory

the divisive novelist returned this year with ‘Trip’, an intimate, nonfiction look into psychedelics. Watch a video of the interview with the author from 2013

THE HEART OF THE RACE:

a powerful record of black women’s lives under the “triple burden” of race, gender and class in Britain has been republished by Verso

LEEDS POSTCARDS:

a selection of darkly funny and irreverent political postcards, published by Four Corners Books, are forms of activism by design

Helen Hester’s new book makes a bold proposal to repurpose network-technologies for feminist ends

RHYTHM AND COLOUR:

Richard Emerson charts the life, work and loves of three extraordinary women and forgotten members of the Lost Generation: Hélène Vanel, Loïs Hutton and Margaret Morris

has launched his his own label PC Music for bedroom professionals and slick amateurs. You can expect as much from this dreamy Radio Tank Mix, punctuated with internet buzzwords – “a fast connection, unlimited wifi”

watch the video premiere for ‘Seedling’

a selection of extracts from Sarah Manguso’s elegant, confessional ode to the art of diary writing, motherhood and time

lovers of iconic Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami can continue to see his finest films at the Close-Up Film Centre, which shares a name with his 1990 masterwork of docufiction

THE GEOLOGY OF RESISTANCE:

the music of Elysia Crampton reorientates the political potentials of dance music from the future to the ancient geological past. By Milo Gooder

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Fashion

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

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

THE SILENCE OF KIRSTEN OWEN:

From TANK’s archive. Photography by Dario Catellani, styling by Vittoria Cerciello, words by Naomi Bikis

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

PERIPHERAL VISION:

Fashion from the outskirts. Photography by Bloom Paris

WORK EXPERIENCE:

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

brave new frills, strange new folds. Fashion from the Bubbles issue

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

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

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

MALTESE MEDITATIONS:

a woman walks alone in the Mediterranean archipelago. Photography by Stephanie Galea, styling by Sally Anne Bolton

“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

the New York-based label brings its off-beat vision to London’s Serpentine Gallery with a mesmeric performance and preview for their Spring/Summer 2019 collection

HEAVENLY BODIES:

a return to Palais Bulles, scene of one of Raf Simons’ final collections for Dior, alongside memories of his tenure from industry experts and beyond

YOU’RE MY FAVOURITE WORK OF ART:

Colour and form define this shoot set in David Hockney’s first London apartment. From the Realism Issue

NEW FALL NOT YET BORN:

bleached tones and traces of sportswear carry through late echoes of summer. Photography by Marek Chorzepa, styling by Kat Ambroziak

SEINE STROLLING:

Chanel’s autumn 2018 haute couture collection is an elegant love letter to Paris

Olivier Saillard’s unique collection makes Madame Grès-inspired haute couture out of €5 T-shirts

the ties that bind, the bloodlines that hold. From the archive: photography by Estelle Hanania, styling by Benoît Bèthume

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

SUPER SET MASTER:

an interview with the late, great Michael Howells, the celebrated production designer who worked at the cutting edge of fashion, theatre and film for over 30 years

REVOLUTION REVISITED:

Alessandro Michele’s reconceptualisation of Gucci continues to expound a new and insurgent baroque, captured by the heightened realism of Sarah Dobai’s photography. From the Gossip Issue

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TANK talks

“White people don’t encounter black people in Britain armed to the teeth with knives and guns.” Lubaina Himid is a Turner prize-winning artist

“Being a poet, words are often in your mind.” John Giorno is a poet and performance artist, and was a major feature of the New York underground scene of the 1960s

OLGA TOKARCZUK:

“Thinking for me means asking the right questions, paradoxical questions.” The Polish novelist discusses ‘Flights’, the novel that was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize

“It’s new in China to think of architecture as related to cultural identity” Yansong is a leading figure of a new generation of Chinese architects

ELYSIA CRAMPTON:

“Historically linear models conceal long and ancient channels of resistance.” Crampton’s densely allusive work is inflected by Andean tradition, critical theory and a legacy of trans resistance

LUCIANO BENETTON:

“Similarly, we came across an issue when featuring Algeria and Morocco, because they have populations of approximately 300,000 people living in exile in the desert”

GEORGE MONBIOT:

“Our task is not to change human nature; it’s to reveal human nature in all its wonderful colours” Monbiot is a writer, environmentalist and political activist

OTTESSA MOSHFEGH:

“I am interested in how we are both of those things: we are spiritual and we’re human poop machines.” Moshfegh’s lurid imagination and wry prose makes idiots of us all.

““It’s a blessing out of God’s hands. I’m pushing the standards.” An interview with hip-hop’s off-beat philosopher

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Podcast

PODCAST | A RADICAL HEART:

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

HERE AND NO ELSEWHERE:

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

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

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.

MONSTERS AND OUTSIDERS:

In conversation with the author Charlie Fox

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