{"product_id":"issue-34-summer-2018-the-big-flat-now","title":"Issue #34 — Summer 2018: \"The Big Flat Now\"","description":"\u003ch1\u003eIssue #34 — Summer 2018: \"The Big Flat Now\"\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWe regret to inform you that there is no future. Nor is there a past. Music, art, technology, pop culture, and fashion have evaporated as well. There is only one thing left: \u003cstrong\u003eTHE BIG FLAT NOW\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor 032c’s Issue 34, we offer 12 theses for consumption and creativity in the infinite present, rendered by Peruvian graphic designer \u003cstrong\u003eJONATHAN CASTRO\u003c\/strong\u003e. An expert at the multi-disciplinary, rapper \u003cstrong\u003eTRAVIS SCOTT\u003c\/strong\u003e expounds his love of fans and fatherhood from the driveway of his Texan Lamborghini horse ranch. Gucci’s creative director \u003cstrong\u003eALESSANDRO MICHELE\u003c\/strong\u003e explains the origin of his magic mushroom and the meaning of time, while performance artist and WorldWideWitch community creator \u003cstrong\u003eJOHANNES PAUL RAETHER\u003c\/strong\u003e introduces us to his many selves. Nonagenarian and artist \u003cstrong\u003eLUCHITA HURTADO\u003c\/strong\u003e, who once had her feet massaged by Marcel Duchamp, looks back on a century of modern art in conversation with \u003cstrong\u003eHANS ULRICH OBRIST\u003c\/strong\u003e, while London-based art and car collector \u003cstrong\u003eKENNY SCHACHTER\u003c\/strong\u003e takes us on a tour of his home \/ art studio \/ garage. Photographer \u003cstrong\u003eWOLFGANG TILLMANS\u003c\/strong\u003e sends in personal dispatches from his debut exhibition in Kinshasa, and we visit the \u003cstrong\u003eCOSMIC COMMUNITIES\u003c\/strong\u003e who used outer space and psychedelia as tools for sexual liberation. Elsewhere, Alyx’s \u003cstrong\u003eMATTHEW WILLIAMS\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eNIKE\u003c\/strong\u003e test the post-human frontiers of apparel design, documented in an editorial by \u003cstrong\u003eNICK KNIGHT\u003c\/strong\u003e. Italian supermodel \u003cstrong\u003eMARIACARLA BOSCONO\u003c\/strong\u003e lives out fetish fantasies, and \u003cstrong\u003ePETRA COLLINS\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ePIERRE-ANGE CARLOTTI\u003c\/strong\u003e pledge themselves to one another “Forever.” Anti-heartthrob actor VOLKER BRUCH gets bloody-eyed while considering his transatlantic fame. We speak to RICH THE KID about his perfect day, and hang with \u003cstrong\u003eBROCKHAMPTON\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTREVOR PAGLEN\u003c\/strong\u003e, B\u003cstrong\u003eRIA VINAITE\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eTAKAHIRO MIYASHITA\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eLearn more about the issue below:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are everywhere, anytime, and everyone at once.\u003cstrong\u003e THE BIG FLAT NOW\u003c\/strong\u003e is the infinite plane on which our culture operates, a surface of old genres and hierarchies that have been melted by the internet. For this issue’s dossier, Peruvian graphic designer \u003cstrong\u003eJONATHAN CASTRO\u003c\/strong\u003e creates a visual representation of this fiber-optic landscape, Joerg Koch, Thom Bettridge, and Lucas Mascatello present 12 theses on the new paradigm, and \u003cstrong\u003eJACK SELF\u003c\/strong\u003e unpacks the meaning of “Power, Flatness, and Nowness in the Third Millennium.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRadicalizing the youth of America from his Texan ranch, rapper and producer \u003cstrong\u003eTRAVIS SCOTT\u003c\/strong\u003e talks riots, rage and fatherhood to 032c’s Thom Bettridge, before setting up chemical experiments for an editorial styled by \u003cstrong\u003eBLOODY OSIRIS\u003c\/strong\u003e and photographed by \u003cstrong\u003eRAY POLANCO JR\u003c\/strong\u003e ahead of his new album Astroworld.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to \u003cstrong\u003eALESSANDRO MICHELE\u003c\/strong\u003e, love can be found in a magic mushroom and meeting God is best done in something glittery. \u003cstrong\u003eMICHAEL EBERT\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eSVEN MICHAELSEN\u003c\/strong\u003e visited the creative director in Rome to understand the Book of Gucci from the perspective of its author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA suspicion of lenses and shutters has existed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since photography was outlawed by former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in 1965. For his first exhibition on the African continent, artist and photographer \u003cstrong\u003eWOLFGANG TILLMANS\u003c\/strong\u003e visited the \u003cstrong\u003eDRC’s\u003c\/strong\u003e capital Kinshasa, and documents the project in images and text for this issue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e97-year-old \u003cstrong\u003eLUCHITA HURTADO\u003c\/strong\u003e is the last Surrealist: muse, artist, traveler, mother, and butterfly. She counted Peggy Guggenheim, Marcel Duchamp, and Leonora Carrington among her circle of friends and is currently in an “orange period.” \u003cstrong\u003eHANS ULRICH OBRIST\u003c\/strong\u003e visits Hurtado and might just be the only one to listen during “the end of the world.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIkea normalcy. Utero-capitalism. Asphyxiation under Apple. Performance artist and androgynous anarchist \u003cstrong\u003eJOHANNES PAUL RAETHER\u003c\/strong\u003e finds his way by means of a community of beings ordered under the umbrella term of WorldWideWitch – a coven founded to free humanity from technological enslavement. Journalist Oliver Körner von Gustorf gets acquainted with Transformalor, Protektorama, and Schwarmwesen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmerican art and car collector \u003cstrong\u003eKENNY SCHACHTER\u003c\/strong\u003e considers himself a “commercial philosopher.” In a profile for 032c, he welcomes Thomas Jeppe into his object-filled Kensington home to hear a career’s worth of confessions: beatings, car-shaped coffins, and life lessons from Rosemarie Trockel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when radicals disappear into outer space? From the George Circle and Ugrino Group to the sound experiments of Sun Ra and Karl Stockhausen, Olivia Crough interviews \u003cstrong\u003eDIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN\u003c\/strong\u003e and profiles the \u003cstrong\u003eCOSMIC COMMUNITIES\u003c\/strong\u003e that rocketed through the  twentieth century with dreams of coming out in outer space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBabylon Berlin anti-heartthrob and actor \u003cstrong\u003eVOLKER BRUCH\u003c\/strong\u003e discusses fame and time travel over lunch with 032c’s Eva Kelley, before roaming the capital’s darkest corners in an editorial photographed by BRUNO STAUB and styled by 032c Fashion Director Marc Goehring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the editorial “PETRA + PIERRE FOREVER,” styled by 032c’s fashion-editor-at-large Mel Ottenberg, photographers \u003cstrong\u003ePETRA COLLINS\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ePIERRE-ANGE CARLOTTI\u003c\/strong\u003e re-imagine each other as voyeurs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoman icon and this issue’s cover star \u003cstrong\u003eMARIACARLA BOSCONO\u003c\/strong\u003e explores latex vacuums and consensual suspension with photographer THOMAS LOHR for the editorial “I do it exceptionally well, I do it so it feels like hell,” styled by 032c’s Marc Goehring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when sportswear is designed by big data? 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