Extra Extra #25 - Urban Erotic Encounters

Extra Extra #25 - Urban Erotic Encounters

25 is a delicious, delightful, divine number, even more so when it is connected to Extra Extra #25. Devilish and daring, this issue pulls you into a joyful embrace. Wolfgang Tillmans’ photographs crackle and buzz ardently, steaming up the windows, while the delectable selection of short stories makes your skin tingle. In the most open and honest way, filmmaker Radu Jude talks to Julian Ross about the inbetweens of the contemporary he so vividly captures in his films, and artist Arvida Byström opens up to Natasha Hoare about the tender provocations that blur the boundaries between digital desire and visceral ache of human want.

Design collective Espace Aygo welcomes Nadine Botha into their Brussels communal home of alluring objects, while infamous performance artist Ivo Dimchev lays bare his new radical softness to co-artist Kira Nova, stripping away all pretense. Walk alongside Youssef Rakha over bridges and into the hidden chambers of longing in Cairo, while in News from Home Roan Kasanmonadi throws the dice to guide you across the game board of Rotterdam, daring you to play.

Touching exactly where sound and revolt intertwine, composer Neo Muyanga joins curator Fatos Üstek in a conversation on protest songs, hymns and the force that makes bodies dance and move together. Sixteen pages of Lieve Hakkers’ vivid Cave made specially for Extra Extra invites you to lean in, while Elle Pérez’ penetrating photographs embed themselves on your retina. Loose yourself in Louis Fratino’s intimate paintings that hum with erotic charge and linger like a caress.

Dazzling as a lover’s smile, Extra Extra issue #25 is to die for.

Extra Extra is a multidisciplinary platform exploring eroticism and culture. We are delighted to share stories we first listened to in the metro, at office parties, in hotel rooms and in the park at the heart of our neighbourhood. Our online platform, biannual print magazine, temporary projects and live events celebrate mondain and sensual city life. Featuring commissioned essays, new works, short stories and in-depth conversations between creative minds of all disciplines. Extra Extra looks at artistic endeavours with a witty, sophisticated eye presenting and working closely and collaboratively with cultural producers who dare to share the sensual fantasies that can be encountered in their work and personal life. In a quest of an international language of the urban, the platform promotes cultural and social dialogue between artists, producers and a worldwide audience. Lose yourself in the stories of a blazing imaginative city life of Extra Extra – whether fictional or true – these adventures are a true aphrodisiac.