BUREAU OF LOST CULTURE - 20th Century Mutoid Man - Part 1 (14/03/2026)

If you had been at the Glastonbury Festival in 1987, you may have seen a familiar silhouette emerging in the dawn light - upright monoliths arranged in a circle. Was it Stonehenge - magically transferred across the Salisbury plain? No, it was ‘Carhenge'- a circle of upright cars, their chassis standing like monoliths, the archaeology of the automobile age.

And imagine ‘Tankhenge', a gateway made from abandoned Soviet tanks assembled in Berlin just after the fall of the Berlin Wall — the wreckage of the Cold War turned into a piece of anarchic sculpture.

Or imagine a huge mechanical creature crawling across the desert at the Burning Man festival in Nevada These strange and spectacular visions all come from the same source: the Mutoid Waste Company— a collective that, since the early 1980s, has been transforming the debris of industrial civilisation into sculptures, mutant vehicles and temporary worlds built from waste.

This is the first part of our conversation with Joe Rush...