Tank Magazine Podcast

What does it mean for the world’s oldest champagne house to keep looking forward? Caroline Issa sits down with @Ruinart’s Fabien Vallérian, International Director of Arts and Culture, to discuss the house’s approach to working with artists as they celebrate Tadashi Kawamata's Conversations with Nature commission at Frieze this week. From artistic interventions in Reims to keeping legacy balanced with innovation, their conversation explores the landscape as a source of inspiration, the space given to artistic experimentation and the courage to make unexpected choices.

Vijay Prashad is a historian, journalist and the director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research as well as the author of several books including the Darker Nations and Washington Bullets. Vijay joins us to discuss the history surrounding Roberto Fernandez Retamar's landmark essay Caliban (1971), a piece situated in a rich history of debate surrounding the emergence of sovereignty in the colonised world.

At Soft Network in New York, an investigation into the archive of the late Turkish-American photographer Sheyla Baykal sheds new light on the downtown community of which she was a vital figure. Berk Korkmaz discusses the powerful legacy she leaves behind.

For our summer reader issue, we decided to read some smut. That the production of romance literature is the only thing keeping the publishing industry afloat may prove a damning fact for those disposed against it, but how much of this distaste is bias? In this essay, Amelia McGarvey analyses the state of the industry and what it means for both our conception of literature and our relationship to sex.

Vicky, Lom, Becky and Sommai left home to sell sex in Europe, to support the families they love and chase dreams of their own. Anthropologist Sine Plambech spent two decades alongside them. Here, she reads from “Global Sex: What Sex Workers Know About Love and Capitalism”, the book she made from those years of field notes.