In this week's TANK Podcast, taken from the archives, artist Hannah Black considers the racialised and gendered implications of gossip across history.
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Amy Ching-Yan Lam and Aurelia Guo on making a house a home
Property shapes our lives and dreams – which take place within and outside the permanent state of urgency, scarcity, disenfranchisement and desire called the “global housing crisis”. For TANK, Amy Ching-Yan Lam and Aurelia Guo discuss the personal and political dimensions of housing.
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Trouble in the Global Village
In this week's TANK Podcast, taken from the TANK archive, Stewart Jeffries considers Oliviero Toscani’s subversive advertising campaigns for Benetton in the 1980s and 1990s, both commended and condemned for their provocative depictions of an aspirationally globalised world. As much as his work clashed with cultural realities, Toscani's images remain a rich historical source to trace our divergence from this once progressive, utopian vision.
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A dispatch from TERF Island
“This was a particularly British kind of hell: a place where nice-looking ladies in hand-knitted jumpers hand out teacakes and trade transphobic handicrafts; a place where community, identity and claims to the moral high ground are founded upon a surprisingly voracious capacity for hate.”
Rosanna McLaughlin recounts her trip into the bizarre world of the annual LGB Alliance Conference, an organisation fuelled by a “cocktail of community and enmity”.
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Tell us everything
“My euphoric epiphany happened almost a decade ago in the drab Euston office block of Landmark Forum, an organisation that markets professional and personal development courses.” Emily Steer recounts her experience with mass self-improvement therapy.
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