Huck

There is an artist’s version of writer’s block, and I experienced it for the first time in 2016. For years, I’d been making work about infrastructure and the built environment while also teaching digital art at Stanford. But the end of that year brou

Kevin Parker seems surprisingly composed for someone under enormous pressure. In a few hours, the 33-year-old will play to nearly 20,000 people at London’s O2 Arena, many of whom are desperate for him to make an announcement. It’s been four years sin

At a graffiti-covered skate spot in north London, skater Rae Smith is sitting on a nearby patch of grass, eating toast. With her shaved head, long limbs and neon pink board, the 35-year-old is a familiar face around here. She’s warm, observant and qu

On a cloudy Saturday morning sometime in spring, a group of mentally ill people gathered in a dingy Central London room to talk about a new group that we hoped to set up. The meeting had all the hallmarks of a classic organising session: an agenda to

Simon Burstall keeps having flashbacks. Nearly every day for the past year, memories of thumping raves – the ones that shaped his teenage years – keep catching him off-guard. It could be a car park packed with loved-up strangers still dancing at 10am

On September 23, 1984, a young Charlie Brooker saw something so terrifying that it would leave its mark on him for life. At 9.30 on a Sunday evening, Charlie – 13 years old at the time – sat down to watch television. What followed – the apocalyptic w

ScHoolboy Q is wandering around a luxurious penthouse suite, a lit joint in his hand. The mellow air to proceedings suggests it’s probably not his first smoke of the afternoon. This is rarely a good sign for an interview, especially when your slot ha

Germany’s Hambach Forest is home to a group of ecoactivists fighting against the country’s biggest power company, RWE. The threat of a neighbouring lignite mine being expanded looms closer as more and more trees are cut down every year. I first heard

Juan David Agudelo clings tightly to the back of a jeep bouncing out of Buenavista, a colourful coffee village situated on the edge of Quindío, western Colombia. In front of him, his customers – backpackers from Europe, North America and Bogotá, the

Growing up in industrial Pennsylvania, Conner Habib would drive along the highways, veering off-road to visit various cruising stops – places where men would congregate to have sex. Sometimes he’d arrive only to find himself alone, waiting for up to

Mason Silva doesn’t like days off. He’s too single-minded for that. It’s what makes the 22-year-old a pro skater in the truest sense: hitting the streets of Long Beach from noon to dusk every day, scouting spots, practising tough tricks, staying out

It’s late afternoon in Recife, a major city in Brazil’s northeast, and hundreds of young people have assembled in the city’s central point, Marco Zero. As the sun sets over the open plaza, bordered by neoclassical buildings, clusters of girls and boy

Dani Miller’s path to becoming one of the most extraordinary bandleaders in recent years can be traced back to her childhood. At the age of nine, she was known for climbing onto the bonnets of cars that her father sold at his dealership, then launchi