Innehållsförteckning för Winter 2021 från Dazed & Confused

“No one cared who I was until I put on a mask...” The image of a drill rapper is unlike that of any other musician. Since the sound spread from Chicago to London in the 2010s, artists have twisted their identities in increasingly subversive, creative and practical ways, masking up in videos, creating myths and refusing to reveal government names to the press. But as viral musicians step out of obscurity and their influence bleeds across the Atlantic, where is drill identity headed from here? TeeZandos has a complicated public image. “If you asked a random drill fan to describe me they would literally say, ‘Oh, the girl that worships the devil’, says the 19-year-old drill rapper. “It keeps people on their toes, but no. It’s kind of like people…

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Across west Africa, unfinished buildings and undeveloped housing projects litter the landscape – skeletons both ready for life, and left for dead. In Ghana, Limbo Accra are the breaking art collective turning Accra’s concrete phantoms into living, breathing multimedia art projects, and striking up wider conversations around space in cities of the future “To me, limbo is a powerful term. I always felt this in-between state housed a great sense of power. When something is not clearly defined, you have the ability to define it yourself”– Dominique Petit-Frère “I was always curious about cities – how they come to be, how we, as individuals and creatives, have this privilege of inheriting them,” muses Dominique Petit-Frère, founder of Accra-based spatial design and cross-disciplinary art collective Limbo Accra, on the ever-shifting and…

A major tactic of modern transphobic rhetoric – especially against non-binary or genderfluid people – is that we’re making this up. That our identity isn’t rooted in anything. That it isn’t real. It’s imperative, then, to look at the history of gender-nonconforming people outside of white, western perspectives. In doing so, we can fight transphobic narratives that our existence is a trend or fad, help contextualise the lived realities of modern trans people, and show that transness isn’t just valid – it’s resilient, too. Finding this connection to a greater trans community, one that spans time and space, has been both healing and humbling. It’s been an abrupt invitation to confront my own internalised colonisation, to relinquish any ownership I feel over gender nonconformity. For this piece, I reached out…

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hair LOUIS GHEWY at MA+ TALENT, models MARC STRIKES at SPIN, SACHA DAHDOUH at THE CLAW, ELIE AUTIN, set design CÉSAR SÉBASTIEN at SWAN, photographic assistants MICHAŁ CZECH, NANAO KURODA, styling assistants NELLY CARLE, INDIA HUNNIKIN, hair assistant JORDAN DUFRESNE, set design assistant ILAN AKSOUL, production AMÉLIE GROSSET at KITTEN, casting MOLLIE DENDLE at MINI TITLE…

An east Los Angeles venue is packed, and everyone is punching the sky. In front of them, Pedro Alejandro Verdin has ditched his bass guitar and is convulsing to a shattering four-by-four pulse. His get-up lands somewhere between a grotesque Paul McCarthy sculpture and the cowardly lion from The Wizard of Oz, while frontperson Aarum Alatorre’s voice shreds in a way that reveals a hardcore punk pedigree. Offstage, the duo run Pacoima Techno, a far-reaching multidisciplinary project that’s sometimes a rave, sometimes radio, sometimes improv theatre, and something beyond all of the above. Tonight the pair are joined by regular collaborator Tania Ordoñez, AKA producer and performer Soltera, who co-founded the CASA/TECA label with them. The clipped and crunching kick of her track “En El Club” is being mixed live…

“We take it by storm together,” says Kyym Savage of her work as co-founder of United Trans Creatives, an activist collective helping to shift gender narratives in Jamaica and beyond. Earlier this year, you may have seen Savage and the group’s co-founder, Emani Edwards, lighting up billboards in Manchester as part of Trans Vegas, the UK’s largest trans art festival. In Jamaica, a pair of groups spanning two generations are at the centre of this particular pivot: J-FLAG, Jamaica’s first LGBTQ+ human rights organisation, founded in 1998, and TransWave Jamaica, an NGO founded in 2015 fighting for the trans community throughout the Caribbean. (Savage and Edwards are also part of the group.) Individually, both groups represent the parting of the generational tides of trans activism in the region – and…

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK Trust Harry Styles to bring new meaning, quite literally, to Halloween. Harryween. In the final leg of his sold-out Love On Tour series of shows, his six-person band took to New York’s Madison Square Garden on the weekend of Halloween. On the bird-call from their faithful leader, his legions of fans turned up to the concert in fancy dress. Crowds outside gathered in traditional All Hallows’ Eve getups of ghouls and goblins, and many paid homage to Styles’ signature style (think feather boas, kick-out flares and heavy-set platforms). Not one to miss out on the chance for a display of style, Styles appeared on stage as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, complete with a sparkly blue pinafore with matching bow, and of course, ruby-red…

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The film that freed our minds at the switch of the millennium, The Matrix’ s conversations around digital and analogue freedom, alternate realities and identity dysmorphia sparked memes, myth and legend, changing the way we think about AI, and the internet, forever. Like The Matrix, Arca’s forthcoming KICK ii, KicK iii and kick iiii albums lift the veil on the Venezuelan producer’s expansive inner and outer worlds, featuring collabs with the likes of Shygirl, Rosalía and Björk. Here, she goes down the rabbit hole with Aleksandar Hemon, co-writer of the saga’s latest entry, The Matrix Resurrections, to make sense of two years of pandemic, and a world on the cusp of truth. Which pill is it going to be? The late novelist and poet Ursula K Le Guin once told an…

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“Turning hyperreality into [a] zine” was Eddie Otchere’s credo at the first-ever Dazed Live weekend in October, where 11 students came together to create a magazine in real time (we know the feeling). “They became photographers, writers, designers, archivists and publishers in 24 hours,” he says. “I felt excited, curious, buzzing, content, cool and a sense of belonging,” says one of the zine’s contributors, Paolo Diaz, of the day, which summoned the energy of magazine-making – essentially, raw chaos. The students – from UK charities The Photography Foundation, Rugby Portobello Trust and Centrepoint – were given an iPhone 13 Pro Max at the door and told to crystallise the vibes of the event, which encompassed everything from sets by Bree Runway and Unknown T to life-drawing and barbering classes. The…