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Portals of Desire

An abandoned railway bridge; an inaccessible harbour master’s house; a blocked doorway to a rundown apartment: in the port city of Rotterdam, Dirk Vis finds hidden portals to spirit entities…

Long Read Interview

Raumlabor on Finding Agency in Urban Entanglements

Keep your ear to the ground and you’ll hear the rumblings of Raumlabor, the constantly evolving Berlin-based architecture ‘collec-tive,’ whose practice was recognised with the Golden Lion at the 2021…

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

Adrianus Kundert

Adrianus Kundert, Mechanical Erections A commission for Extra Extra magazine, 2022 …

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Jimmy Robert on Performing the Body as Score, the Mind as Place

In 2008, I attended the opening performance of Jimmy Robert at Cubitt. It was a rainy London evening in late autumn if my memory does not fail me.

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Philipp Kremer

Long Read Interview

Marianna Simnett on Dead Lovers in the Attic

The artistic practice of Marianna Simnett is daring, dynamic and forceful. Her imagery is bold, striking and clear. Her surfaces are serene and complex, her scenes are multilayered and intricate.

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Christian Petzold on the Phantoms of Desire

In the films of Christian Petzold, space is subordinate to time. This is not because space is mutable and subject to renovation or demolition whereas time keeps ticking along…

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Meg Stuart on Embracing Mystery and Unfolding Questions

Meg Stuart’s oeuvre is an atlas of emotions. Each choreographic work charts a new territory, within which shifting affective and physical states play out. Bodies come together in…

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Armen Avanessian on Intimacy as a Valid Alternative to Love

Armen Avanessian is one of the most curious people I know, and also just neurotic enough for a professional thinker. We’ve known each other since we were twenty-somethings living…

Short Story

THE FLOATING BOX

Every profession has its own opportunities for erotic encounters. There are plenty of stories about doctors, gynaecologists, window-cleaners, postmen. Let me add art dealers to the list. It…

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Ana Tabatadze

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Helen Verhoeven

Musings

Sniffing the Monkey’s Foot

Scent is the sexiest sense. The ghost that strings the air between two strangers and pulls them in for the kiss. Scent is the sense that runs…

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John Kleckner

Long Read Interview

Planningtorock on Transformation, and Singing Along to Her New Album All Love’s Legal

Since the beginning of her recording career in the mid-noughties, Planningtorock’s in-imitable performance, both on and off stage, has evoked a plethora of images and identi-ties. Continuously transforming –…

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Maxime Ballesteros

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Antje Peters

Short Story

Living Dolls

For hours we stare at the sky, listening to the sound of the aircraft engines, clouds beneath the wings, above us thin air, higher up dark weightlessness, wisps of…