Travel with us to Antarctica for a vision of the polar sublime. Hear from the expert team from Abercrombie & Kent’s cruise ship Le Lyrial on the very real effects that climate change has on the landscape and the sea in this wildest of wild places – and learn why the Antarctic Treaty – which prevents the territory from militarisation and commercialisation – should be replicated around the world.
In the second of four exclusive films, the writer and theorist 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. In this episode: the acid tab.
A message of hope from the end of the world on today's unending terrors. What can we learn from the international treaty on the Antarctic?
Welcome to Casa Fila, and a new collection that combines nostalgia with the most sophisticated sporting technologies – no need to take off your tennis shoes.
Rachel Kushner reads an extract from her Booker-shortlisted novel Creation Lake. This passage describes the novelist's protagonist – an extremely shady spy – speaking to her witless boyfriend and cover, Lucien, about the novel he wants to develop into a screenplay. Read our interview with Rachel in the winter issue, out now.
To celebrate 100 years of Montblanc’s iconic Meisterstück pen, we take a wildly speculative look at the origins of some famous phrases.
This year’s winner of the 2024 Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents was Chia Huang, who was selected from 13 nominees by a jury headed by Brigitte Lacombe. Hot on the heels of her win, TANK commissioned Huang to shoot a story with Dior Beauty’s creative and image director Peter Phillips: for this series, Huang worked collaboratively with her subjects to make art in the purest sense of the word, as a form of play and as a means of transcendence. Read more here
Cartier has long honoured aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont with a series of watches named after him; this year their newest models riff on this limitless sense of human endeavour by playing with the very order of time itself. The Santos de Cartier Dual Time has two dials by which different time zones can be tracked, and, even more radically, the Santos-Dumont Rewind flows backwards through time running in reverse, counter-clockwise, reordering the passage of time around the wearer themselves.
CHANEL turns to the soft, warm light of Marseille for a distinctly maritime-coded cruise collection.
Threads of Scottish resistance and rebellion are rewoven in Dior’s newest partnership with independent Scottish artisans, including Le Kilt and Harris Tweed. Are we seeing a fashion-forward revival of the Auld Alliance?
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.
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.
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.
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
TANK caught up with the duo running Amniote Editions, Europe's most forward-thinking record label.
The composer and multi-instrumentalist on his new album Magic Seeds.
A new mix from the prolific producer brings 80s DIY aesthetics to the fray.
The New York industrial rockers spell it out for us.
The Danish poet and songwriter on love, loss and Luton Airport.
The New York noiseniks on having a sense of humour.
The elusive syncretist on her new album Hex.
There was a clear push toward reinvention at this season's Berlin Fashion Week, whether through William Fan’s theatrical take on workwear, Kasia Kucharska’s radical use of latex, or GmbH’s poignant exploration of mourning and resistance. Political statements were woven directly into the fabric of the week, with slogans, subversive silhouettes, and dystopian aesthetics reflecting our politically volatile predicament. LUEDER’s interrogation of masculinity, GmbH’s outspoken activism, and a broader embrace of surrealism and performance reinforced Berlin’s reputation as a city where fashion serves to disrupt the norm.
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?
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.
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.
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.”
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.
“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.
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.
We find ourselves in the desert northeast of Los Angeles in an abandoned city called California City. Hellberg started with an exhaustive research about three community based on the notion of game: online-role playing gamers, the Burning Man Festival and the Cosplay Conventions and the architecture that result from such gathering. Considering the abandoned city of California City in the desert, Fredrik designed a gigantic structure influenced by Wachsmann and Buckminster Fuller that can host a new form of event that gathers the three gatherings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.