Tank Magazine Podcast

Following the success of her first book, Notes on a Foreign Country, Suzy Hansen's From Life Itself chronicles life under rising authoritarianism in Turkey. In the small neighbourhood of Karagümrük, local concerns over national identity and immigration serve as a metonym for the country, and indeed the world, at large. Here, she reads an excerpt from the new book.

On a voyage across the Nile on the SS Sudan – the boat once taken by Agatha Christie, inspiring her novel Death on the Nile (1937) – Caroline Issa muses on a culture steeped in the same historical intrigue and mortality that haunted Christie's imagination.

What is sound beyond music? Claire Ducharme speaks with composer Angela Wai Nok Hui joins to discuss her experimental use of sound in “The Church Bell Cancels”, a piece featured in Act 3 of COVID-26: Bad Bias in the Body, hosted at The Horse Hospital earlier this year. She also shares her previous works and references ongoing exploration at arts space EAT THE SUNSHINE. DOWN THE SUN in Kennington, London.

Sky Yang is an actor and filmmaker based in London. He joins Claire Ducharme to discuss the creative process behind creating ‘Sunny', a short film featured in Act 2 of COVID-26: Bad Bias in the Body, hosted at The Horse Hospital earlier this year. Trained as an actor and working primarily on-screen, ‘Sunny’ marked his move into filmmaking, and he reflects on his experience as an East Asian actor working across British and American productions.

Ming Chin Hsieh is a dance artist originally from Taipei, Taiwan, now based in London, trained in ballet, contemporary dance, and martial arts Taichi. She opened COVID-26: Bad Bias in the Body with Act 1, The Weight of a Word. Hsieh reflects on how she came to open the event, and discusses the process of developing this contemporary dance performance in response to experiences of anti-Asian racism during the pandemic.