Extra Extra, Issue 25

Extra Extra is a magazine for erotic encounters, drawn against a vibrant urban décor. Extra Extra provides a platform for sensual modern life, where curiosity, tenderness and exaltation come together. It’s a place where city stories bridge differences and inspire dialogue and aesthetic enjoyment.

Extra Extra honors the vital way intimacy guides our daily life and promotes a conscious way of conducting your life, in an open, curious, self-assured manner.

Extra Extra is a creative dream of city life where art, music, writing, fashion and food touch upon our daily reveries through the inner city. We celebrate the erotic tones of creative endeavors, with a witty and sophisticated eye. We interview creative city dwellers who dare to share the sensual fantasies that can be encountered in their work. The magazine dedicates space to short fictions by established and emerging writers from over the globe. A broad selection of artist contributions further explores dimensions of eroticism.

In this issue:

The fragrant allure of Extra Extra issue #26 stirs the loins of ardent longing. Berlin based artist and scientist Sissel Tolaas unwraps the essence of olfactory desire in an interview with our programme board member Amira Gad, championing the forgotten language of smell. Writer and critic Olivia Laing disentangles the riotous force of the erotic and the grotesque with curator Natasha Hoare.

Filmmaker Payal Kapadia explores the intricacies of female friendship and dark corners for lovers in erratic Mumbai with film journalist Caitlin Quinlan and artist Ayoung Kim opens up to museum director Defne Ayas in a warm conversation about traversing fractured realities and the sensual tension of hyperbolic storytelling, doubling and parallel selves. In Feel Me, Hear MeNew York embraces you through the walks by Nadine Botha, Adam Kleinman and Andros Zins-Browne, following Dürer’s rhinoceros while the last strains of Sonny Rollin’s saxophone echoes from a bridge.

In Object of Desire, writer Huw Lemmey soaks the sponge in Hollywood history, letting it foam with fraught yearning. Interdisciplinary fashion design duo MAISON the FAUX lay bare the friction of fashion with journalist and researcher Nora Veerman, while in News from Home Tom Hofland pursues the phantom of a past lover through haunted urban spaces and Arno Braet’s Urbex traces the slippery wet contours of Ostend’s seductive body.

Immerse yourself in artist Batia Suter’s archival images mixed with glassy adornments that tickle the vision and photographer Claudia Andujar’s intimate reflections on womanhood and vibrant streets of Sao Paolo. Artist Kevin Osepa captures the intertwining of the everyday with the spiritual in Afro-Caribbean culture while artist Peter Doig’s flirtatious and vibrant paintings almost dance off the page and photographer Johny Pitts’ likens the city to a lover’s quarrel.

Issue #26 of Extra Extra flirtatiously tugs at the strings of the mind and the senses, invoked by the most daring and titillating voices of today.