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Profile: Kraftworker
Musician and composer MATTHEW BOURNE tells Neil Mudd why he’s retooling Kraftwerk’s seminal 1975 album Radio-Activity for the 21st century
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
“The only track we’re not doing is Ohm Sweet Ohm because...” There is a long pause as Matthew Bourne chooses his words carefully. “Because it’s shit!” he finally decides.
He’s talking about his tour project Radioland, a radical retooling of Kraftwerk’s Radio-Activity which is 40 years old this year.
“The original album is right there in your face,” he says. “It’s stunning. So clear and clean. I think it’s extraordinary.”
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