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PRINS: Dinamarca

BEAST TYPE SONG: Sophia Al-Maria

BOOK OF ROY: Neil Drabble and Lynne Tillman

ECHOES OF NARCISSUS: Elizabeth Bick

MECHANISMS OF DESIRE: Frieda Toranzo Jaeger

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TANK live

TANK BOOK TALKS 2019:

Ann Pettifor and George Barda

Werner Herzog’s suitably restless tribute to his friend Bruce Chatwin

PODCAST | SHALLOW TIME:

Tina reads Will Wiles on geological time, high weirdness and the the horrible sense that events are accelerating

FRAME BY FRAME:

Hannah Frank’s radical recalibration of cinema studies

FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE:

Togetherbess, Cooperativeness, Synergism: photography by Pietro Cocco, art direction by Alice Ray, styling by Nina Hollensteiner

BEAST TYPE SONG:

Sophia Al-Maria’s video installation at the Tate examines trauma and communicability

MARTHA KIRSZENBAUM:

the curator of the French Pavilion of the 58th Venice Biennale talks about “Frenchness”, utopia and driving around Los Angeles

LIBIDINAL AND UNPRODUCTIVE:

Anne Imhof, Ottessa Mofengh and the dark euphoria of the present

NORWEGIAN DAYS:

musical prose from Jon Fosse, from his new Septology trilogy

DJ LAG AND OKZHARP:

this South-Africa-via-South-London TANK mix comes via gqom pioneer DJ Lag and frequent collaborator Okzharp

BOOK TALK | NISHA RAMAYYA:

the poet and lecturer discusses her new collection States of the Body Produced by Love

watch Stockholm-based producer Dinamarca drift forever in the music video for new single “Prins”

THE DIVERS’ GAME:

an extract from Jesse Ball’s new novel, his latest exploration of institutionalised violence.

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

Lynne Tillman on childhood and Neil Drabble’s new photobook

FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE:

Echoes of Narcissus. photography by Elizabeth Bick, styling by Luca Smorgon

DYING OF THIRST:

Andre Perry on listening to Kendrick Lamar, from his new essay collection

BAUHAUS IN LONDON:

a new exhibition traces the impact of three émigré architects on British architecture

our pick of the not-to-miss booths at Frieze London 2019

a new video and Q&A from London-based musician Organ Tapes, master of muffled euphoria

PODCAST | DOUBLE BUBBLE:

Tina reads Kai Freise on Peter Sloterdijk’s philosophy of bubbles

photography by Dave Blackburn, styling by Bonnie Langedijk

Susan Finlay in the home office.

BIRD EAT BIRD WORLD:

a new carnivorous exhibition from Oscar Murillo at Carlos/Ishikawa

CHANEL GABRIELLE ESSENCE:

discovering the source of CHANEL’s new scent in Grasse

The western lands. Images by Gourau & Phong, styling by Natacha Voranger

THE LEXICOGRAPHER PRIEST:

contemplations on language, myth and etymology by Nisha Ramayya

the founder of New Suns discusses this year’s instalment of the literary festival and feminist myth-making

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

showing at London Film Festival, Corneliu Porumboiu’s madcap Romanian crime thriller

a film written and directed by a woman, based on an essay written by a woman, about a group of women who tricked a load of men out of a load of money

fire and destruction breaks out on the runway in this creepy 3D fashion cartoon from animation duo Team Rofles

HAPPINESS DOESN'T WRITE WHITE:

Dolly Wells's debut as a director is a novel take on the epistolary form

PAUL COCKSEDGE:

the designer talks about how sculpture influence what is possible in public space

PORTRAIT OF A LADY:

a painter falls in love with her subject in a period drama by Céline Sciamma

new work from the Scottish painter based in Trinidad

WAITING FOR FALC:

the desire for the mechanical and the mechanisms of desire in Frieda Toranzo Jaeger’s paintings

PODCAST | ORDER & CHAOS:

the harder we look into physics to tell us the real nature of time, the less we find ourselves convinced of its existence

fashion in film – Galliano at Givenchy

an album of unreleased music by the late experimentalist Susumu Yokota

in her debut solo show at Christophe Guye Gallerie, the photographer shows images of unfazed fantasy

Marion Hume on the 1990s fashion documentary that captured the industry at a defining moment.

DEAD FASHION GIRL:

Fred Vermorel's Situationist detective story

photography by Jules Moskovtchenko, styling by Hamish Wirgman

effervescent synth melodies and propulsive dembow drum tracks from Tokyo-based producer WRACK

an exclusive advance stream of Anne Imhof’s industrial opera

WALKING AND TALKING | LUKE TURNER:

the author of Out of Woods guides us through the trails and vast expanses of Epping Forest

EXQUISITE MARIPOSA:

Fiona Alison Duncan’s lurid account of self-making in art-world-adjacent LA

enough about the apocalypse, please. London’s Design Awards 2019

the post-Mao painter probes China’s unregulated urban architecture and sprawl

a new video and Q&A from the eclectic Muscovite musician

OMAHA SKETCHBOOK:

contemplating masculinity in heartland America

CYBORG DETECTIVE:

new poetry from anti-Haraway cyborg Jillian Weise

DRIES VAN NOTEN:

fashion in film – the independent sprit of Dries Van Noten

WE NEED NEW STORIES:

Nesrine Malik on the toxic myths that structure our society

LAND OF THE RISING CAT:

Japanese journalist Manami Okazaki explores her country’s national fascination with cats

KINDRED COLLECTIVE:

the Filipino design collective presents work at France’s Maison et Objet fair

PODCAST | SLIPS, LAPSES AND LITERATURE:

Tina reads Eugenia Lapteva on the uncanny power of slips of the tongue

Marine Serre’s film short Radiation, released for AW19 PFW, revels in a sartorial post-apocalypse.

MY MOTHER LAUGHS:

Chantal Akerman’s intimate portrayal of things silently acknowledged between mother and daughter

an experimental journal mapping precarious places and states of being

malfunction and breakdown at Tom McCarthy's new exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery

CORNETTO OR SYNTH:

Period instruments and historically sensitive performance practice for all.

TANK MIX | LORAINE JAMES:

ahead of the release of her debut album on Hyperdub next month, Loraine James delivers a pulsing mix which crackles with a thermal glow

A. G. Cook returns with his signature brand of extreme amateurism

PODCAST | OMENS:

Tina reads Peter Lyle on the use and nature of prophetic visions

strategic emotions and nonsense in the paintings of Jamian Juliano-Villani

photography by Catharina Pavitschitz, styling by Kat Ambroziak

a new film from French director Olivier Assayas parodies the Parisian literary scene

SIMON STARLING:

the conceptual artist on his latest exhibition and the bizzare histories of some of the objects it contains

READING LIST | ECO-FASCISM:

ecology can no longer be regarded as the default domain of the left

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

STONES HAVE LAWS:

a collaborative exchange with the Maroon communities who escaped the catastrophe of transatlantic slavery

Pierre Markuse’s series of digitally enhanced satellite images make visible the torrid beauty of climate catastrophe

Wong Ping digs a heart-shaped hole in the Camden Arts Centre

THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE CRITIC:

a collection of disinhibited writings from the critic Jill Johnston, out with Sternberg Press

artist Jenna Sutela collaborates with extremophile bacteria and neural networks on her new EP

curator Klaus Littmann is planting a forest in an Austrian football stadium

FIGURE BESIDE ME:

experimental club producer object blue on her latest EP, deep listening and the shattering of the self in ecstatic experience

the Parisian producer delivers a TANK mix full of cinematic wonder and unabashed melodrama, as well as a few scattered exclusives from his Abîme crew

ON THE PRECIPICE:

the ruins of Dura-Europos find a beautiful precipice between the spoils of history and the natural context

FROM DUSK TILL DAWN:

from 2007, Christabel Stewart on Jeremy Deller’s bats

Asiya Wadud’s poetry is a defence of the dead

the writer and scholar of mysticism discusses his latest book High Weirdness, a deep-dive into 1970s psychedelic counterculture and its relevance to our deeply weird present

Stephen Sutcliffe’s unorthodox memoir teeters between the perfectly legible and the utterly bizarre

UNSEEN BOUNDARIES:

Farah Al Qasimi’s Gulf state photographs show a flattened world of patterns and surfaces

PODCAST | BACK TO REALITY:

Tina reads Jedediah Purdy on the artificiality of the natural world

THIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA:

Peter Pomerantsev reports from the frontline of disinformation campaigns

Michelle Tea recalls the story of her miscarriage, the day before her wedding

GLOBALISATION’S CRISIS:

writing in 2017, Nesrine Malik on liberal smugness and the complex reasons behind our global political situation

French-producer Chams reworks the musical tropes of Hollywood hyper-emotion

back in 1999, Rem Koolhaas scrutinised the antagonism between big and small in the city

YATTA’s sophomore release is a record about being black, trans and African on foreign land

documenting Central Asia’s composite architecture

THIS DROWNING WORLD:

photojournalist Gideon Mendel humanises the climate crisis

ART AS COMPOST:

insect, invertebrates and multi-species interaction

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

Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca enrich the dance-competition formula

the British artist on fan-fiction, the joy of artifice and characters stuck in time

the deeply hued photographs of Victorian botanist Anna Atkins’s capture the alien wonder of the natural world

PARANOIDS ON ANDROID:

written just prior to the 2016 collapse of consensus reality, Benjamin Bratton on how we see technology and how we think technology sees us

the Stockholm-based producer delivers a TANK mix full of unreleased instrumentals and hazy but occasionally euphoric hooks

READING LIST | LIBRA:

a primer on Facebook’s blockchain-based global currency and a speculative survey of its possible impact

PODCAST | NATASHA LENNARD:

the writer discusses her book Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life with BBC journalist Razia Iqbal

FASHION IN FILM:

Notebook on Cities and Clothes by Wim Wenders, the first in a series looking at iconic fashion films

PALESTINE +100:

read an extract from Mazen Maarouf’s contribution to the first-ever anthology of Palestinian science fiction

WHO'S AFRAID OF AUNT JEMIMA?:

Faith Ringgold’s first European exhibition

HAUNTED BAUHAUS:

art historian Elizabeth Otto offers a haunting alternative history of occult spirituality, gender fluidity, queer identities and radical politics

three poems from Ilya Kaminsky's moving collection about an occupied town's silent resistance

on the art of translating manga, and the form’s historic relationship to marginalised peoples and forgotten histories

SATELLITE DEVOTION:

Tabita Rezaire’s new multichannel video installation creates uncanny constellations across scientific and spiritual modes of lunar study

PRISON RELIGION:

this installment of the TANK mix series comes from Virginia noise rap duo Prison Religion, doubling as the fifth chapter of the duo’s own p_ropoganda mix series

DIEGO MARADONA:

back in 2006, Tom Ridgway reported on Maradona’s efforts to present himself as Argentina’s saviour

MORE THAN HUMAN:

Barbican charts the coexistence of artificial and human intelligences through history. By Myles Francis Browne

THE DEEP LISTENER:

Jakob Kudsk Steenson’s site-specific AR app allows users to tune in to otherwise invisible ecologies

for his third solo album, the musician releases a visual album in collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson

early work stands out at a retrospective of the artist’s greatest hits

in conversation with Slava Balasanov, founder of Relevant – a blockchain-based content-platform that incentivises community over clicks

read an extract from Wayne Koestenbaum’s newly reissued tragicomedy of desire

UNIVERSAL EVERYTHING:

a monograph of the digital design studio's visual masterpieces

WARHOL ON BASQUIAT:

a new book containing 400 unseen photographs open up the artists’ eccentric relationship to the public

listen to an exclusive new track from House of Suns, the sci-fi inspired collaboration from Swan Meat and DJ Heroin

PODCAST | MIKE JAY:

the writer and thinker discusses his new book Mescaline, a cultural and scientific history of the world’s first psychedelic

Ari Aster uses the violent rituals of a pagan cult to dramatise the disintegration of the neoliberal nuclear family

the London-streetwear network builds a following. By Sarah Muttardi

Travis Jeppesen’s willfully obtuse art criticism is also utterly brilliant

a live-film production of Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace, the best-selling gospel album of all time.

Orange, Caroline Shaw’s first full album-release since winning the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Partita for 8 Voices

Justin E. H. Smith’s latest book unpicks the fundamental irrationality behind what we regard as rational

EASTERN MARGINS:

this extended edition of the TANK mix series comes via the London-based crew Eastern Margins, a collective of DJs and producers dedicated to creating spaces for music from east and south-east Asia(ns)

KISS MY GENDERS:

the Hayward gallery’s celebratory survey of gender variance grapples with the contradictions of LGBT+ visibility

CHARGEABLE ACCESSORIES:

photography by Alice Ray

ALL US GIRLS HAVE BEEN DEAD FOR SO LONG:

Carl Gent and Linda Stupart reimagine Kathy Acker for an age of environmental catastrophe

a tech company dominates with predictive algorithms and cryptocurrency in Joanna Kavenna’s sharp, new dystopia

PLASTIC EMOTIONS:

the latest novel by Shiromi Pinto tells the story of Minnette de Silva – a Sri Lankan architect, born in 1918, who achieved international acclaim within her lifetime

TOO MUCH INFORMATION:

Nick Seaton slips through the Biennale chaos to capture the in-between spaces of Venice

two summer exhibitions allow the curator’s childhood fascination with horror to run wild

IT DIDN’T SEEM TO BE REAL:

photography by Joanna Wierzbicka, styling by Kat Ambroziak

THE PEARL RIVER:

in a new collection of hyperreal images, Christian Lutz captures the sublime excess of Macao, China’s gambling capital

seven international writers will read works of fiction, live-translated to an audience, at the Manchester International Festival

MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL:

the biennial arts festival opens this week with a roster of bold, experimental performance, music and art

REBEL WITHOUT A COCK:

Kembra Pfahler’s radically open vision of sexuality revels in amateurism and artifice

PODCAST | NICOLE FLATTERY:

the Irish writer discusses purposeful confusion and her debut collection of short stories Show Them a Good Time

TANK spoke to the London-based artist about his recent demonic-hued show at Arcadia Missa

a new Brooklyn-by-way-of-Changchun collaboration from Yikii and Dasychira

THE WEIL CONJECTURES:

Karen Olsson unravels the lives of French philosopher Simone Weil and her mathematician brother André

NOMADIC FABRIC:

read an excerpt from Kristen Alvanson’s XYZT, a vertiginous whirlwind of American pulp and Persian fable

I LIVE I DIE I WILL BE REBORN:

Luchita Hurtado at the Serpentine – an exhibition shows the 98-year-old’s perpetual sense of play and experimentation

SAVAGE MESSIAH:

a collection of anti-gentrification zines from Laura Grace Ford

IN CONVERSATION WITH JESSICA FRANCIS KANE:

TANK spoke to the author about her book on trees and friendship, and rejecting nature’s association with solitude

Ivo Van Hove has teamed up with the historic Comédie-Française in a vast exploration of Nazi collusion.

Joanna Hogg’s autobiographical drama is a troubling exploration of class and compromising intimacy

SUMMER IN THE CITY:

photography by Sophie Isogai, styling by Saeko Sugai

The Photographers’ Gallery has introduced a new programme to unearth and celebrate new photography

art collective Dis update the protocols of consciousness-raising for an age of permanent distraction

the latest psycho-horror film from British director, Peter Strickland

pneumatic reggaeton from the South London producer and Bala Club co-founder

Sophie Lewis on water as a guiding figure for radical kinship

HYPERACTIVE, HYPERLOCAL:

Sisso, lynchpin of the exploding Singeli scene in Dar es Salaam, makes his long-awaited debut on Nyege Nyege Tapes

Bold Tendencies 2019 summer program sees the rooftop Peckham parking lot transformed into a nexus of otherworldly portals

INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED:

the problem with our plastic consumption isn’t just a practical one - it’s deeply psychological too

a new delicious farce from Cheek By Jowl’s Russian troupe

ADELAIDE IVANOVA:

a new poem, translated from the Portuguese by Rachel Long and Francisco Vilhena

THE WORLD OF BEFORE:

for their 2020 Cruise collection, Gucci present a vision of antiquity not as an unchanging idyll, but a world of rupture and reinvention

WHAT MAKES COMEDY COMEDY:

Lynne Tillman tells Natasha Stallard why nothing is funny anymore

ATTACK OF THE CHAIRS:

Jesse Darling makes the familiar strange at the Venice Biennale

an understated documentary on whistleblower Chelsea Manning tells an urgent story of pain, privacy and politics

OPACITY READING LIST:

in a surveillance society fueled by melodramas of intrigue and inquisition, it is uncertainty, not transparency, that promises relief

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR DREAMS:

the best art at the 2019 Venice Biennale is also the least interesting

PSYCHOACOUSTIC INVESTIGATIONS:

A two-evening residency at the ICA celebrates the pioneering sonic experiments of the late composer Maryanne Amacher

with the language of the oceanic, Keiran Goddard maps the turbulence and sublimity of wounded love

RADICAL REWILDING:

an extract from Joanna Pocock’s Surrender, a personal essay about scavenging, rewilding and ecosex in the American West

HUNGER IN ME LIVING:

on his most focused release yet, Organ Tapes mines the indie-pop unconscious to produce a glowing masterclass in muffled euphoria

AUGUSTAS SERAPINAS:

in conversation with the youngest artist showing at this year’s Venice Biennale

Palmistry’s sophomore effort explores devotion and disconnection to find new complexities in his ultra-distinguished minimalist pop

INSTRUCTIONS FOR A FUNERAL:

a new short story collection from author David Means explores the isolation of the Midwest

members of the LGBTQ+ community communicate with their past

HELLO, VITALIK BUTERIN:

Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews the co-founder of Ethereum

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

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

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

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

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

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Artists

the British artist on fan-fiction, the joy of artifice and characters stuck in time

MEGAN PLUNKETT:

the LA-based artist discusses working as an unlicensed private investigator, the site-specific internet and dogs that talk

TANK spoke to the London-based artist about his recent demonic-hued show at Arcadia Missa

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

AUGUSTAS SERAPINAS:

in conversation with the youngest artist showing at this year’s Venice Biennale

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

TANK mixes

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

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

the latest instalment in the TANK mix series comes courtesy of the producer Firaasbeats

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

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

THE WORLD OF BEFORE:

for their 2020 Cruise collection, Gucci present a vision of antiquity not as an unchanging idyll, but a world of rupture and reinvention

SUMMER IN THE CITY:

photography by Sophie Isogai, styling by Saeko Sugai

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

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

FEELINGS OVER MEANING:

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

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

“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”

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.”

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

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

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.”

“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.”

Podcast

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.

MONSTERS AND OUTSIDERS:

In conversation with the author Charlie Fox

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