Issue Nº15 of Extra Extra nouveau magazine erotique is now out in the world. The magazine, fully devoted to the intertwinement of the erotic and the urban, features commissioned essays, long-read interviews and erotic short stories to carry you away, even in times of distance. This volume unites a good 30 creative makers and artists who can easily be defined as some of the most challenging voices of today, each expressing their daring and endearing perspectives on how we live together in our sensual cities.
Featured in issue Nº15
An interview with film director Christian Petzold, written by Dan Sullivan of the Lincoln Center. As you may know, temporality and historicity are fluid in Petzold’s work. A state of flux effectively removes the characteres from their present. Eroticism in Petzold’s films tends to assume the guise of yet more searching through a maze. Love is presented as a means to transcend rootlessness; a kind of lure leading into the delirium of time and place being out of joint. Are you intrigued already? There is more to find in this interview, such as the way Christian Petzold envisions the sexual as a desperate metaphysical hunger for connection.
Find a beautiful interview with artist Saelia Aparicio by London-based curator and writer Natasha Hoare. Understanding bodies through their leakiness, unruliness and sensitivity, Aparicio creates unique forms with a masterful handling of found objects and materials such as latex and glass. Be ready for a true spinning of speculative worlds. During the conversation, Aparicio speaks on referencing old hybrid forms – from Ancient Egypt to pre-Columbian Meso-America – and the way they inspire her to unseat stable categorisations of male and female, animal and human, plant and personhood, in a way that is both amusing and socially liberating.
Did you know James Taylor-Foster is the curator of the first museum exhibition dedicated to ASMR at Stockholm’s ArkDes? In the commissioned essay "Screen Glow Sedation," he explores digital intimacy, naming it "effective intimacy." Although we often hold our smartphones near to our hearts, both literally and methaphorically, digital "feels" are deceptively difficult to grasp. Equally as valid a feeling, Taylor-Foster in the essay advocates effective intimacy differs from being physically near or close, and is perhaps less of a replacement and more of a subsititute for IRL contact.
Together with contributions by Obe Alkema, Holly Black, Fiep van Bodegom, Charlotte Van den Broeck, Heman Chong, Giulia Crispiani, Vincent Ferrané, Charlie Fox, Johan Fretz, Nathalie Hartjes, Allyssa Heuze, Natasha Hoare, Karel Martens, Valerio Mattioli, Joost Oomen, Gustaaf Peek, Aurélie Van de Peer, Norbert Peeters, Wong Ping, Julius Reynders, Alec Soth, Dan Sullivan, Elfie Tromp, Hannah van Wieringen and Pete Wu.
New to the magazine is a 16-page commissioned work by a designer or artist. For the 15th installment of the magazine, eminent designer/artist Karel Martens accepted our invitation to create a work exclusively for Extra Extra. Discover a selection of portraits from the digital guest book, collected during the exhibition Karel Martens: Still Moving at Platform-L in Seoul.
Celebrating sensual city life, Extra Extra is an online platform, biennual print magazine and producer of live events. Looking at artistic endeavours from an array of disciplines with a witty, sophisticated eye, Extra Extra craves an international language of the urban. Promoting cultural and social dialogues addressing the sensual fantasies around us: listen to the Extra Extra radio show hosted by NTS Radio London, dance away to our playlists or enjoy a soothing voice in the evening, reading our erotic short stories to you from the our website. The gorgeous magazine guides you through the streets of the most sensual cities, where we encounter the daring creative minds of this moment. It is an array of intelligent, open and personal perspectives on citylife brought to you in a volume of 192 pages of pure sexiness.
