Rotterdam
Short Story
SELF-POLLINATING
I squeeze a mango and make soft dents in its flesh. A shiver runs down my spine. I always touch fruit before I buy it. I drop the deep-purple…
Short Story
GIVE〰TAKE
‘No, don’t go inside me,’ she said, ‘I’m not ready yet.’ That was a lie. She was always ready right away, especially with him. He hovered…
Commissioned Visual Contribution
Bathers at Midnight
Bathers at Midnight, 2018–23, A commission for Extra Extra, 2023 Courtesy: Priscila Fernandes …
Commissioned Visual Contribution
Adrianus Kundert
Adrianus Kundert, Mechanical Erections A commission for Extra Extra magazine, 2022 …
News From Home
Exchanging Landscapes
Pictures of a parched vista fill Maureen Ghazal’s phone screen – arid mountains and olive groves sent by her lover, Y. In Rotterdam, the city built on the…
Short Story
CONQUISTADOR
The calathea is also known as the ‘living plant.’ Which is odd, because every plant is alive, until it’s dead. But the calathea does something special that makes it…
Long Read Interview
Studio Ossidiana on the Sentimental Scale of the City
Based in Rotterdam, Studio Ossidiana is an architecture, design and research practice. Working from the Netherlands since 2015 and led by the Italian duo Alessandra Covini and Giovanni Bellotti,…
News From Home
Coffeelicious
‘You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it – it’s the only way,’ the French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote. ‘You have to be continually…
Commissioned Visual Contribution
Koen Taselaar
Flaccid Intermezzo, a commission for Extra Extra magazine, 2022 …
Object Of Desire
Headphones
Snuggled in, over or around our ears – or in more lurid terms penetrating, pinning and cupping our ears – headphones intimately connect humans to machines in…
News From Home
Post-It
Following in the footsteps of the poet Jules Deelder, remembering the novels of Mohamed Choukri, Siham Amghar finds flagrant pink post-its all over Rotterdam. Each one is like an exquisite…
Short Story
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW
It’s the same sofa, burgundy red and sturdy, although it needs reupholstering. Seventeen years, an entire childhood, and still the same sofa. He’s careful with his things. Or he’s…
News From Home
Receiving Nudes
Climbing to the top of the 150-metre-tall, odourless Vertical City, Elfie Tromp receives nudes in a group chat: oh wow, some pictures really are too good for a one-person audience.
Extra Reading
Science Fiction
It may have been the Semitotext(e) SF anthology, published in 1989, that first triggered our interest in sci-fi, from pulp escapist distractions to a viable and vibrant literary form, capturing social,…
News From Home
Possible Sex Scene Settings
Dusk arrives in Rotterdam. The tangerine sky is full of sweet promises. Bite into its peachy palette, the juices of the evening running down your chin. Elfie Tromp is your…
News From Home
Sexts, Notes and Facts
Loosely based on Chantal Akerman’s 1977 gorgeous epistolary filmic essay News from Home, Elfie Tromp pens an ode to our hometown. Wandering the city streets of Rotterdam while sexting her…
Some Thoughts On...
Sweet Nothings
fig 1: Sugar A gander through the candy store, or a swoop through the confectionary aisle doesn’t lie: sugar takes manifold forms. From powdered…
Short Story
HIGH-TECH EROTICISM
https://extraextramagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/16-ELFIE-TROMP-no-12.mp3 It’s three in the morning. The deep-pile hotel carpet presses into my cheek, and my satin top crackles with static when I turn…
Short Story
SEEING THE PSYCHOLOGIST – OR WHAT MY MOTHER DOESN’T KNOW
‘She spoke to me last Saturday. So I’m not just a hopeless case, like my mother always says. I don’t have to die all alone and unshaven in some sordid…
Sugar Rush
Sugar Rush #2
Being part of Extra Extra, I feel privileged to pursue that luscious life, a journey driven by the grace of generosity and encounters. Over a hundred individuals have usedExtra Extra…
Essay
Objectify my Love!
“[Artist] Tracey Emin’s new husband may not talk much or do the ironing, but when it comes to fidelity, he’s a rock. Really, he’s a rock. No, you don’t understand.
Essay
Moving Statues
MOVING STATUES How to resist becoming mesmerized by the elegance of walking women? In particular, in an urban environment, the city takes shape through the pathway created by females’ gait.
Some Thoughts On...
Super-sensual Sleeves
When graphic designers engage with music, then sounds and people twist within intimate relationships. Ilke Gers offers a hole through which to see record sleeves and the world behind…
Long Read Interview
Ari Versluis on Engaging with Identity, Role Playing and Capturing the Ungraspable
Since my arrival in Rotterdam I have been fascinated with the odd Chinese pagoda, which is crammed between roads just off the park at the foot of the Euromast. Strangely…
Short Story
Metro Sex
Sex. The very thought turns me to stone. I don’t want to. I can’t. Who with? And so on. I sit at home on…
Short Story
Of Sheeps, Wolves & Apes
Once I had a lover with fur: A small, triangular patch of it. It started on his lower back and carried on down in a point to the start of…
Encounter
- Eno Aronds & the Liabilities
- 20 Uñas
- Siham Amghar
- ANDA
- Defne Ayas
- Samira Benlaloua
- Sharyfah Bhageloe
- Nadine Botha
- Dean Bowen
- Rosa de Graaf
- Daniël Dee
- Thomas Dudkiewicz
- Gritta Ewald
- Priscila Fernandes
- Ilke Gers
- Maureen Ghazal
- Frits Gierstberg
- Maaike Gouwenberg
- Joost Halbertsma
- Rana Hamadeh
- Nathalie Hartjes
- Natasha Hoare
- Tom Hofland
- Cathy Jacob
- Gari Koolen
- Emy Koopman
- Adrianus Kundert
- Grande Loge
- Studio Ossidiana
- Iduna Paalman
- Ester Naomi Perquin
- Antje Peters
- Bertjan Pot
- Operator Radio
- Alexander Ramselaar
- Clarisse Russel
- Samuel Saelemakers
- Stacii Samidin
- Charlotte Schleiffert
- Vivian Sky Rehberg
- Kay Slice
- De STU
- Isabelle Sully
- Koen Taselaar
- Team Thursday
- Elfie Tromp
- Ernest van der Kwast
- David Van Der Leer
- Joep van Lieshout
- Erik Van Lieshout
- Jesse van Oosten
- Anne Vegter
- Mariëlle Verdijk
- Ari Versluis
- Loes Verstappen
- Dirk Vis
- Mathieu Wijdeven
- Geo Wyeth