#abramovic

aaaaaand thank you for the first ever question since my years on tumblr! :D

this is the hard one, so i got to sleep overnight about it because i didnt want to give most obvious answer ever

but

actually i started to track books i read just in 2019 so i have no idea what happened before that and just remember stuff occasionally and write it down.

i can say - actually im huge fan of Fedor Dostoevsky and enjoy his writing a lot

im not kind of person like OMG THATS IT but here are some, unfortunately some of them are only available in russian, but i read also in english, german and dutch

i thought before my favourite book was Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, but i dont feel it ATM

and i also reread sometimes the series of The Labytinths of Echo by Max Frei

✨ top of tracked years✨

2019

Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

2020

actually the best book was one by the russian biologist Nikolay Kukushkin who works at NYU but for some reasons he published it only in russian and i’m waiting for his original translation so that i can show this amazing thing to my non speaking russian friends - „Хлопок одной ладонью: как неживая природа породила человеческий разум“ (One palm clap: How inanimate nature gave birth to the human mind)

ok there are some more i cant choose between because they all three shook me AF and i may read them once again

Marina Abramović - Walk through walls (this was a present for end of the year by my mentees and they got the point!)

Jack Spenser - Diary of a malpractice lawsuit (a pathologist‘s MUST READ) TW this thing hurts even more than one by Abramovich

aaaaaand this was just amazing start into lockdown:

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

2021

so far is the best one

collection of esseys by Milorad Pavić (in russian the book called „scary love stories“ but i cant find this collection in any other language, just the texts one by one)

To commemorate the life of Marina Abramopug, we’re featuring a retrospective of her work, including behind-the-scenes documentation and commentary, culminating in the world premiere of The Life and Death of Marina Abramopug.

1946-presente

Marina Abramović, Ulay

Balance Proof, 1977

5 gelatin silver prints with colophon folder (in presentation folder)

30.5 × 40.5 cm

The Complete Performances, 1973-1975

Framed resin coated matte black and white photograph

73.7 × 99.1 cm

The Communicator, 2012

Clear wax with crystal quartz stones, glass pedestal

60 × 60 × 60 cm

Lips of Thomas,, 1975/2005

Balkan Baroque, Marina Abramović (1997)

Styled after the form of a triptych, videos of Abrahomić as a Janusian storyteller and her revolutionary parents flank the artist who sits atop a pile of bloodied bones. For six hours per day of the installation, she purifies them of tendon and gore as a personal ritual of mourning against the sociopolitical background of the Yugoslav Wars.