Never before published, this self-curated, intensely personal
collection of travel notes and sketches by the world's most revered
performance artist offers readers a kind of iconography of Abramović's
daring and utterly original body of work.
An artist's notebooks are arguably the most authentic means of
understanding her process, techniques, and impulses. And, for a
performance artist, a rare, permanent record of how she develops her
craft. Compiled over the course of four decades on stationery from
various hotels, and other temporary residences, this collection of
Marina Abramović's original drawings, collages, poetry, writings,
cut-outs, photographs and doodles offers glimpses of a brilliant mind in
constant motion.
Beautifully produced and packaged, it takes readers on a journey through
Abramović's thoughts--and traces the evolution of the most fruitful
phase of her career. "I believe we humans need to keep moving forward,
and my own life was purely nomadic," Abramović writes of her travel
diaries. "My home was everywhere I went because my home was my own
body."
With the archival material elegantly reproduced in their original size
on high-quality paper, this collection offers Abramović's enormous
fanbase unprecedented access to her creative process.
