032c Issue #49: MEMPHIS

“YOU HAVE TO EMBRACE THE TRUTH, DIFFICULT AS IT MAY BE, THAT THE ART THAT RESULTED FROM THAT FRICTION IS POSITIVE.”
- Robert Gordon, author of It Came From Memphis

The 032c Issue #49 dossier is dedicated to the influence of Memphis, Tennessee, on rap as we know it. PHILLIP PYLE speaks to DJ PAUL of THREE 6 MAFIA, DJ SPANISH FLY, LA CHAT, SHAWTY PIMP, and TOMMY WRIGHT III at the northern point of the Mississippi Delta, where photographer NEVA WIREKO captures the city beyond Elvis’ Graceland and shopping at Bass Pro in a pyramidal mall. (Though we have those things too.)

SKRILLEX opens up to ECCO2K in his first formal interview in a decade, with photos by NOAH DILLON and styling by PERI ROSENZWEIG. FLORENTINA HOLZINGER shows JUERGEN TELLER and DOVILE DRIZYTE around the Volksbühne in Berlin before making a literal splash at the Venice Biennale, and SHANE ANDERSON chats to the artist about pimps and kabuki theater. ARTHUR JAFA talks sophistication and emotional resonance with KELSEY LU, shot by COLLIER SCHORR and styled by BECKY AKINYODE in the composer/musician’s own Brooklyn apartment. CARSTEN HÖLLER is back in 032c alongside texts by DANIEL BIRNBAUM and HARRIET SHEPHERD. Teller actually haunts the whole magazine via original portraits of VIVIENNE WESTWOOD and her partner ANDREAS KRONTHALER — who speaks to SVEN MICHEALSEN about his late wife’s legacy — and ZAHA HADID, whose lesser known first building inspired MAHFUZ SULTAN to write a beautiful letter to his most beloved. CASSIDY GEORGE speaks to JACK MILLS and JO EVENDON about SPACE JUNK, the world’s first magazine dedicated to traveling through the interstellar unknown — a journey that would be incomplete without crater surfing and abandoned telescopes. PIERLUIGI MACOR and FRANKA ROSA MARIA KLAPROTH shoot a totally unsolicited (but welcome) youthful ode to ZURICH, and EVA HERZIGOVÁ frolics in Turin for RETO SCHMID and ANASTASIA BARBIERI.

Our X-Files section celebrates the astral bodies of the 032c.com universe with FROST CHILDREN, KIM PETRAS, GIULIO BERTELLI, ISABELLE HUPPERT x ULRIKE OTTINGER, EDWARD SKELETRIX, ZUZANNA CZEBATUL, PAUL MCCARTHY x NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA, and the ambient MALIBU. As always, the BERLIN REVIEW rounds out the issue with our favorite books of the season.

PLUS: our new magazine, EROS – by JOERG KOCH, BRENDA WEISCHER, and CLARK PARKIN – immortalizes the objects we adore.

The X-Files celebrate those who bring excellence to the 032c universe: the hue enthusiast RAF SIMONS, the internet existentialists THE HELLP, the servers PAULIN, PAULIN, PAULIN, the fallen angel JOANNA KUCHTA, DAVID WOJNAROWICZ’S devoted pen pal JEAN-PIERRE DELAGE, the American dreamer BRUCE WEBER, the rave cosmologist MARK LECKEY, the playful maniac TOSHIKAZU KAYANO, the icemaker MASAHIRO LAMARSH, the biotechnologist KATJA NOVITSKOVA, and the undaunted drifter SARA CHOI. As always, the BERLIN REVIEW rounds out the issue with our favorite books of the season.