Nice interview which artist Wolfgang Tillmans in his studio in preparation for his 2017 Tate Modern exhibition.
For FW21, Uxe Mentale reference various things including (we assume!) one of our favourite bands of all time, The Fall.
One of many favourite Mark E Smith moments in the video below – when, in the 90’s he appeared on The Adam & Joe Show in their Vinyl Justice segment and proceeded to cause havoc he his usual way! Adam has explained this a few times on his podcast – the story goes that in the segment Adam & Joe turn up at the guest’s house and go through their record collection. Mark didn’t want to do it at his home up north and decided to do it at Adam’s London flat. He turns up with a mate from the record company first thing in the morning, proceeds to neck a bottle of vodka and decides to beat up Adam & Joe and later sticks a plastic bag over Joe’s head while sitting on him.
Gareth up next with a dubby, pitched down affair. He’s determined to put Low Cool on everything…
Been a while since we uploaded something ourselves – Richie up first with an hour’s worth of stuff floating his boat and some stuff recently played out with TNI @ Banana Block.
Maa is based in Tokyo, runs Hamon Radio and now has a monthly slot on Giles Peterson’s Worldwide FM along with DJ’s Kaoru and Shunhor. You can catch their show EUPHONY on the first Monday of every month on worldwidefm.net. He steps up for his second mix for us this year with some wonderful balearic and house sounds to warm you up.
Nan Goldin was born in 1953 in Washington DC and grew up in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. When Goldin was 11, her older sister committed suicide and this event had a profound impact on the artist. She was introduced to photography at the age of 15 and immediately began to utilise the medium to document both herself and those closest to her in addition to exploring social issues that were too often ignored, such as the HIV crisis in the 1980s and the current opioid epidemic.
Goldin has always maintained a level of respect for her subjects, such as the gay and transgender communities she often documented and aims to bring these underrepresented communities to light, not illustrate them as spectacles. Her most famous series, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, made during 1979 and 1986, captures her cohort of drug-taking, cross-dressing, self-destructive friends and comrades in the depressed Bowery section of Manhattan.
Goldin splits her time between the US and Europe and her works are held, and continue to be acquired, by major collections worldwide, including the Tate Modern, London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Few photographers can boast a body of work as uncompromisingly honest and thought provoking as Nan Goldin.