Dazed & Confused

June 2008

Features:

• ANOTHER DIMENSION – LATE OF THE PIER Rock space cadets Late Of the Pier take up residence in a condemned mansion house to record their debut album with producer Erol Alkan.
• END OF THE AFFAIR? – VIKTOR & ROLF On the eve of a major retrospective at the Barbican, Joanna Schlenzka fl ew to Amsterdam to ask whether Viktor and Rolf’s love affair with fashion has really come to an end.
• CONFLICT ART PORTFOLIO Dazed speaks to directors and artists whose works are informed by the ongoing conl ict in Iraq. Kimberly Peirce talks about her Hollywood war drama Stop-Loss, Erol Morris talks to the torturers at Abu Ghraib in the documentary Standard Operating Procedure, artists AES+F introduce the children of the apocalypse, and Brian Turner talks war poetry.
• REVENGE OF THE NERDS – NERDCORE Tired of getting their heads l ushed down toilets, an army of rapping nerds are mobilising to take on the music industry. Jonathan Leggett gets his NHS glasses on to inspect the inner world of Nerdcore.
• AYAMI NISHIMURA Fashion pages, Japanese born make-up artist Ayami Nishimura worked with Rankin on this issue’s burka story, and is a regular contributor to Dazed. “For this shoot I wanted to forget the way I normally do make-up,” she explains. “I just i lled in the exposed area by colouring it in the way kids do. Somehow, it still kept the exotic feel of the burka. I’ve never seen beauty like this.”
• BOOKS: BOUND & FLOGGED Augusten Burroughs buries the past; indie literature from the Family bookshop; Sam Sheridan picks a i ght; plus a review of four of this month ’s best books, including Mark E Smith’s Renegade.
• ART: HUNG & DRAWN Rediscovered 80s art collective Scratch Video; Paul O’ Connell takes on Vincent Gallo in his Sound of Drowning comics; Portavillion go green; plus four of this month’s best exhibitions.
• CULT VIP: DAIDO MORIYAMA M oriyama’s quicki re snapshot style has inl uenced four generations of photographers. Here, the 70-year-old veteran talks about the importance of Kerouac and chance encounters in his work.