TANK MAGAZINE | The Maximum India Issue, Summer 2009 | Issue 47
fronting
- EDITOR’S LETTER by Masoud Golsorkhi
- GUT FEELINGS: Thomas Hirschhorn critiques our enduring fascination with brutality
- BRIGHT YOUNG THING: Manish Arora’s sparkling creations for Swarovski Crystallized™
- DEFINITELY MAYBE: even Manon Maybe doesn’t know what she’ll do next – but it’ll be worth watching
- SHACK UP: Nikolaus Hirsch, Michel Müller and Cybermohalla in a changing quarter of Delhi
- HEAD BOY: the many faces of Jean-Pierre Khazem
- TATE EXPECTATIONS: altermodernity, Indian minimalism and the 2009 Tate Triennial
- OBJECTIFIED: Haris Epaminonda mourns the work of art in the age of digital reproduction
- ELEMENTAL HEALTH: Sanchita Islam on multiple identities, art an the restorative skies of Bangladesh
- FAMILY VALUES: the mafia’s influence on Italian politics is unveiled in Il Divo
- ANARCHIST IN THE UK: from sex shops to darts superstars with John Samson
- OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE: Lars Laumann’s haunting tales of modern madness
- KARMA KOMA: good things keep happening to London’s newest design talent
features
- BEARD SCIENCE: Dan Deacon’s journey into sound
- SMOKIN: The Soft Pack light the way for pop-punk, crisps and controversy
- BLUES BROTHER: from cradle to grave with Joe Gideon & the Shark
- THE MESSAGE: Flying Lotus on AIM and getting deep in the mix
- PINK OR BROWN: grotty drugs, dirty sex and noisegasms galore with the Big Pink
- MINIMAL MAGIC: post-punk legends Young marble Giants return to prove less is still more
- IM A BELIEVER: the foreign cults taking root in the new India
- PULP: sex-addicted wives, battered drunken hubbies and child-abusing aunties: it must be Crime & Detective, India’s best-known – and best – pulp non-fiction
- BACK TO THE FUTURE: from the crumbling corridors of India’s artistic past to the thrusting confidence of its shamelessly kitsch present
- A COPS AND BULL STORY: what one bizarre bullfight says about Armenia and post-communist politics
- KOLLYWOOD BABYLON: forget Bollywood - any kid with a moviedrome mind knew Chennai’s Tamil movies were the real deal
- GO FORTH MULTIPLY AND BUILD: upwardly and geographically mobile architectural office Serie is forging new paths in the world’s most promising economies
- BLINDED BY SCIENCE: economy, environment, life: when the going gets tough why do our wise leaders always suggest technology is the miracle cure
- ON THE ROAD: the Godfather of contemporary Mumbai art rides the Indian highway
- FASHION STORY: Sally Singer, curated by Bose Krishnamachari
- INDIA CALLING: photography by Cameron Smith, styling by Pandora Lennard
- HOLI PIGMENT: photography by Tony Kim, beauty by Georgina Graham
- GIRL ON THE GO: photography by Studio 88, styling by Chloe Kerman
- THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE DAMNED: photography by Jamie Isaia, styling by Chloe Kerman
- BLACK AS THE SUN: photography by Tarun Khiwal, styling Chloe Kerman
talk
- ASHMI AHLUWALIA: “Everything is seen through the lens of Bollywood, through the star system”
- KARTIK DAS BAUL: “I sang all the way to Frankfurt and then slept from Frankfurt to America”
- JULIAN SCHNABEL: “I don’t think neo-expressionism exists; I think it was a convenient term”
- NISHA SUSAN: “We de-eroticised the chaddi”
- OMAR ABDULLAH: “Suspicion created over decades will not disappear overnight”
- THOMAS ALFREDSON: “I think the animal part of us needs to come out in the air sometimes, and that’s what the vampire represents”
- TARUN TAHILIANI: “Indian tastes are quite specific and what we do is very “evening” for the West”
- MARE NEWSON: “It would sound really pretentious of me to say that I was designing fashion; it’s really clothes”
- RANA DASGUPTA: “History has not happened: it is here”
- PATTI SMITH: “My sense of censorship of myself or other people is really just about being thoughtful”
