Attending the Istancool festival is a little like one of those conversations in which each person nominates their dream dinner party guest.

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Istancool also hosted the world premiere of a series of music videos created for REM’s new album, Collapse Into Now, by Sam Taylor-Wood and Sophie Calle. One depicts Taylor-Wood’s husband, actor Aaron Johnson, dancing and cavorting with lamp-posts in East London.

“It comes from our ritual of ‘morning dancing’,” explains Taylor-Wood, winking at Johnson, who is squirming in the audience. These are the moments that make Istancool different from, say, Hay or Port Eliot – there is always a proximity, everyone is interlinked. There is little difference between those involved and those participating.

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