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Beyond the greyzone

Editor's letter, autumn 24 | 11 min

What’s gone wrong for democracy? Back in our September issue, we found the problem seems to be that for over two decades, the prevailing feature of Western democracy has been a carefully-curated selection of candidates graded according to despicability.


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Kinetic charge

An interview with Liliane Lijn | 22 min

Liliane Lijn is an American-born, London-based artist who was the first woman artist to work with kinetic text and light as early as 1962. TANK joined her in her studio to discuss her rich and expansive career among the whirling cones and drums of her work. The exhibition Liliane Lijn: Arise Alive is organised by Haus der Kunst München and mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, in collaboration with Tate St Ives. It is touring to mumok from November 15, 2024 to May 4, 2025 and then onto Tate St. Ives 24 May to 5 October 2025.


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Blooming Gucci

A verdant new collection | 2 min

Sabato de Sarno brings a magnificent array of colours to Gucci’s resort collection. Photography by Joseph Rigby and styling by Lewis Munro.


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AI: where is it at?

Q+A with Ali Eslami | 75 min

Ali Eslami is a senior scientist at Google DeepMind. Here, in his second visit to TANK, he updates us on where AI is at now – and answers our questions and concerns. We cover everything, from the technical challenges and environmental impact of AI to its ever-escalating social consequences, with one of the world's foremost experts on this 21st century technological revolution: which is affecting us faster than we can talk about it.


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Your eyes play tricks on you in the woods at night

Fendi | 2 min

Come into the woods, where the shadows are dark and deep... Photography by Melissa Schriek, styling by Simone Konu Rae, with modelling by Junden Chey and Mimi Dey.


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Now Showing: The Stranger

A new season of films | 3 min

Season 12: The Stranger is the latest season of films now available on our streaming service for viewers in UK and Ireland. Featuring films by Francois Truffaut, Juliet Bashore, Isaac Julien, Yasujirō Ozu, Werner Herzog, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Bresson, Ingmar Bergman, Claire Denis and Peter Greenaway, this season takes a journey across a wide variety of cultures and spread across many decades. Sign in if you already subscribe, or sign up if you don’t. 


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Tales & Tellers

Miu Miu | 5 min

Since 2011, Miu Miu have provided women filmmakers with all the time and resources to create a new short film, for the ongoing anthology series of Women's Tales. This autumn, all 28 of those films and their creators, along with 7 films made by artistic collaborators for the last several fashion shows, were brought together in the hybrid exhibition Tales & Tellers at Paris' Palais d'Iena. There, the main character from each film was brought to life by actors, in a complex show conceived of by artist Goshka Macuga and convened by Elvira Dyangani Ose. TANK visited the exhibition to speak to the artists and wander through this new temporary world of moving image, performance and song. 


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Evil and the invention of race

The theodicy of evil | 50 min

Religious scholars Biko Mandela Gray and Stephen C Finley discuss the historical and philosophical background of a theological conception of evil, and its intersection with the invention of race. 


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Hyères Photography Festival

Fresh perspectives by the French Riviera | 1 min

Last week, under the warm sun of southern France, the 39th edition of the Hyères Festival celebrated the best in fashion, photography, and emerging design talent. Set against the stunning backdrop of the Villa Noailles, the festival brought together creatives from around the world to showcase their innovative work. For your viewing pleasure, we made a selection of our favourite photographers featured in this year's competition.

 

 

 

 


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Life and sole

Paria Farzaneh's collaboration with Hoka reimagines heritage and craft | 1 min

London-based designer Paria Farzaneh is one of the shining lights of the city's fashion scene, marrying traditional Iranian print with streetwear silhouettes. Her new collaboration with footwear brand Hoka sees her unique aesthetic applied to the Restore TC Chukka, blending practicality with heritage-inspired details. TANK spoke to Farzaneh ahead of the shoe launch. 


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Techgnosis

Technology and Myth | 15 min

In the first of four exclusive films, Erik Davis discusses his seminal work, Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, which explores the intersection of technology, spirituality, and mysticism in the digital age. Davis delves into how ancient beliefs and mystical practices are interwoven with modern technological advancements, hidden beneath the surface of our contemporary world.


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Snap decision

Dior Beauty presents the young talent award | 3 min

In Arles, Dior Beauty presents its seventh edition of the Photography and Visual Art Award for Young Talents. TANK zoomed into the French city to speak to Brigitte Lacombe, photographer and president of the selection jury, and to cast a spotlight on the work of the thirteen young photographers in the running. 


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The Glutton

By A.K. Blakemore | 12 min

A.K. Blakemore reads from her novel The Glutton, which reimagines the life of Tarrare, an 18th-century peasant notorious for his voracious appetite and colourful, short life. 


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London is the Place for Me

By Gboyega Odubanjo | 1 min

Gboyega Odubanjo is a poet from East London. He is the author of two poetry pamphlets, While I Yet Live (Bad Betty Press, 2019) and Aunty Uncle Poems (The Poetry Business, 2021). For TANK, he reads “London is the Place for Me” from his forthcoming full-length collection Adam

Published: 05/06/2023


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Miu Miu

Hot off the press | 14 min

A post-apocalyptic Miu Miu show blended dystopian aesthetics and feminine charm. Set in what looked like a newspaper factory, it proved that even in a world of chaos, beauty and individuality can thrive. The installation for Miu Miu's Spring/Summer 2025 show was created by Polish artist Goshka Macuga, who designed the newspaper factory sett, the fictional newspaper it produced (The Truthless Times) and the opening film – all of which explored themes of misinformation and manipulation.


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Valentino

Alessandro Michele | 15 min

Here is the much-anticipated return to the catwalk by the Italian maestro Alessandro Michele, now at the helm of the Roman brand. Credited for single-handedly reviving the giant house of Gucci to the extent that it was at one point accounting for half of all sales of the entire luxury industry, Michele is no ordinary appointment. A designer who is, like the brand, also from Rome, Michele is a man on whose shoulder the future of Italian design has a substantial grip.


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VERSACE WOMEN'S AUTUMN/WINTER 2025

Power Dressed to the hilt | 14 min

Strength, individuality - the empowerment of the female form ready for the Age of Aquirius. As only Donatella knows how.


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Night at the museum

Behind the scenes at Erdem SS25 | 12 min

Erdem’s SS25 collection was presented at the iconic  British Museum forecourt was a supremely confident display of subtle creativity. Full of delicate embellished details, a tightrope walk between the masculine and feminine with a dash of kinky thrown in for good measure. Scroll down to see the show in full, all back stage photography is by Francesco Zinno


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Backstage pass

Behind the scenes at Duran Lantink, Ottolinger & Courrèges SS25 | 5 min

From Duran Lantink’s beachy bodysuits with absurdist characteristics, to Courreges’ architectural, BDSM-inspired minimalism, to Ottolinger models emerging from a shark’s mouth with choppy, asymmetrical dresses to match, bold sartorial flourishes defined this season's PFW. Click to see exclusive BTS photos from the shows.
All backstage photography by Francesco Zinno



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Ingrid Schroder

How architects are made | 24 min

On this channel, we’re showing an exclusive selection of works from the archive of the Architectural Association, the oldest school of architecture in London. Dr Ingrid Schroder is the Director of the AA, taking up the role after being Head of Design Teaching and Director of the MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design  at the University of Cambridge. Schroder has also held positions at prestigious institutions like ETH Zurich. Here she sets out her vision – and the school's understanding of – the ever-evolving and expanding profession, beginning with: what really is architecture?


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City Detective Industry

Qi Zhu and Kin Ho Tse | 7 min

A murder in Shinjuku. To reveal the hidden narratives of the city, the architect works as a detective. Everything starts from the most detailed and the most unremarkable elements… Made by Qi Zhu and Kin Ho Tse (AA Diploma 10, tutor: Carlos Villanueva Brandt), together with Kazutaka Miwa, Hina Fukawa and Shotaro Akiya of Tokyo University of the Arts, “City Detective Industry” approaches the city like an unsolved murder.


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Aditnálta: An Island dispersed across the internet (2013)

Mond Qu | 4 min

The UN have recently reported financial links between Mexico’s Los Zeta cartel and the illegal trading of the rare earth mineral Otinif, a material critical to the manufacture of the next generation of super faster digital processors. Seen from Google earth, Aditnálta is an anonymous island off the East Coast of Mexico but as the world’s richest source of Otinif it is a landscape being consumed by our hunger for technology. Hidden from this distanced aerial view are vast underground worker towns and oppressive mining conditions. Aditnálta is an outsourced landscape embedded in all the pieces of technology we carry in our pockets. Aditnálta is also entirely fictional. Mond Qu has constructed and dispersed the forged fragments of this island across the internet. This imaginary place is made manifest through hoax listing on Wikipedia and Google maps, live webcams of scale model stage sets, faked articles on news sites and green screen CGI composites on Flickr, Youtube and Panoramio. Just like the real landscapes of outsourced electronics production we consume Aditnálta at a distance, through edited media narratives, disconnected from the realties that go on there. Through the construction of elaborate fictions we can reveal important truths.


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GravityONE (2011)

Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu | 7 min

This film takes place in remote Australia, which for fifty years has been unconsenting host to testing from nuclear weapons, rocket launches and black military technologies. The film maps out these tests, and in doing, creates what the Funambulist called “a protocol for [...] a weaponised architecture, that envisions the implementation of architecture as a political positioning.” 


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ChronoUrban Visions

Paul Lucien Cristian | 8 min

The project constructs a cinematic journey that unveils the unique rhythm of urban life through the lens of “ChronoUrbanity”. The film follows Kingsland Road in Hackney up from south to north, showing various inhabitants interacting with nodes on the route, showing that the city is also created from these everyday encounters as well as buildings. 


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Shadow of an Approaching City (2016)

Christopher Johnson | 2 min

“there is a city where the word ‘regeneration’ rings in the air. declared. shouted. whispered. sighed. it lingers like a sweet aroma, whetting palates and lubricating fountain pens.” Johnson’s 2016 film proposes a series of insertions along an East London infrastructural route, constructed from cast shadows, and creating a wavering second city that sits darkly inside the visible. 


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Peking Opera (2014)

Harry Thomas Kay | 7 min

In the Division’s Bureau of Rare Earthworks, Kay has conjured Jīngjù-on-Sea, a Peking Opera that performs an act of consumerism on a huge scale. Echoing the quantities and trajectories of the existing rare earth mineral supply chain, thousands of tonnes of earth are removed from the central Chinese landscape, and through the tools of the opera – as makeup, costume and set – are brought to London to be deposited in the Thames Estuary.


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The Holy Fool (2018)

Patricia De Souza Leao Muller | 11 min

This project presents the Holy Fool Studio for collective and disruptive making. The studio disrupts norms to enact change through play and the embracing of non-experts and imperfection. For the studio, design success is cheap, non-standard, participatory, expressive, has easy instructions and a touch of the handmade. “Everybody Needs a Holy Fool” explores ways that foolishness and irreverence shift society by disrupting norms and subverting the dominant language of power through collective making – here, reacting to the latest pro-LGBTQ London plan with flowers, bottom-up toilets and an inflatable Joiners Arms.


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Big Fat Indian Weddings

With Faisal Devji | 7 min

The lavish wedding celebration of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant in Mumbai lasted for weeks and is estimated to have cost $600M. Oxford Historian Faisal Devji looks back at the genealogy of extravagant Indian weddings of recent times, tracking their evolving character. In the history of India's faltering democracy and the place of India in a post-globalised and multi-polar world, the meaning of oligarchic power is subject to increasing change.


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Assassin's Creed

with Faisal Devji | 5 min

The recent attempted assassination of Donald Trump is considered by Faisal Devji both historically and as part of a political culture where such attempts present more frequently than anywhere else in the world. The American culture of gun worship and widespread gun ownership and mass shootings is well documented, but now more than ever, power and politics are conditioned by the culture of the spectacle, and spectacularity trumps even guns.


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Palestine: The Long Arc of History

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Oxford historian Faisal Devji specialises in studies of Islam, globalisation, violence and ethics. In this episode, Professor Devji considers the place of Palestine in the global context of resistance and struggle, and against wider recent global transformations, arguing that these recent events are likely to have a longer-lasting historical impact than many have so far considered. 


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Mercenaries

With Faisal Devji | 10 min

Faisal Devji is a historian and professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in the political thought and contemporary history of the Indian subcontinent and the Muslim world. In the light of the recent rebellion by the Wagner group in Russia, he reflects on the trend for and the perils of using contractors and merceneries.


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Civil war

With Faisal Devji | 10 min

Faisal Devji is a historian and professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in the political thought and contemporary history of the Indian subcontinent and the Muslim world. Here he discusses civil war as a historical theme, why it has made a return and how we could break out of its destructive cycle. 


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Neutrality

With Faisal Devji | 11 min

Faisal Devji is a historian and professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in the political thought and contemporary history of the Indian subcontinent and the Muslim world. Here he sets out how neutrality as a mode of international relations is making a most welcomed return. As the historical moment of a unipolar world order passes and with it the need for international law and institutions becomes self evident, neutrality is once again seen as a highly useful position from which to appeal for peace.


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Ishmael Ensemble

Follow the tempo | 60 min

The Bristolian quintet on ritual behaviours and growing older.


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DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ

I know it's gonna be forever | 44 min

The elusive syncretist on her new album Hex.


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BABii

A history of violence | 30 min

Electronic shapeshifter BABii on her violent new album Daredevil2000.


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Clarissa Connelly

For whom the bell tolls | 59 min

The Scottish-Danish musician on bells, Catholicism and her entrancing new album World of Work.


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Alabaster DePlume

Go in the courage of your love | 12 min

The London-based polymath on collective practice.


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Nilüfer Yanya

Play the part | 0 min

The London-based singer-songwriter on her scintillating new album My Method Actor.


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Richard Sen

The crate digger | 72 min

Veteran DJ Richard Sen on counterculture and algorithms.


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Boys - TAAHLIAH

They all want me | 4 min

TANK is proud to premiere “Boys”, the video for the infectious new single by TAAHLIAH. “Since its conception, I knew it was going to be the introduction into this new world I’ve been creating over the past couple of years,” she said of the track. “It is the song everyone wants an ID on, it is the song everyone wants to know about.” Read our interview with TAAHLIAH here.

Directed by Tom Joyes
Edited by Tom Joyes
Assisted by Lynn Berlin
Makeup by MV Brown


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Nazira

The collective | 56 min

The Almaty-based DJ and ZHUV founder on bringing the electronic underground to Kazakhstan.


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Iglooghost

Petrol-stained seaweed music | 29 min

The Bristol-based innovator discusses worldbuilding and the problem with cybernetics.


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James Massiah

Romancing the stoned | 45 min

Musician and poet James Massiah speaks on nihilism, love and loss.


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Boudica

Of queen and country | 58 min

Boudica founder Samantha Togni on shaping space within London's dance underground.


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Chanel Beads

See both sides | 39 min

Fronted by Shane Lavers, the New York-based outfit discuss alienation, biography and ways of seeing. 


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L'rain

Dog's not dead | 86 min

The pop syncretist on canicide and early synthesisers.


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Kai Campos

New town burnout | 66 min

The Mount Kimbie-member on the capitalist economics of DJ culture.


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