Marina Abramovic: Nomadic Journey and Spirit of Places

Book Synopsis

Now available in a hand-signed collectible edition of 500, this intensely personal assemblage of travel notes and sketches by revered performance artist Marina Abramović offers an essential iconography of her work.

Nomadic Journey and Spirit of Places gives readers unprecedented access to the creative process of a brilliant artist.

Housed in an ornate clamshell box with a magnet latch, this new collector's edition features 150 unbound prints on high-quality paper, each with an artwork from Abramović's collection of drawings, collages, poetry, writings, cut-outs, photographs and doodles, as well as a separate explanatory booklet and a unique print signed by Abramović herself.

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."

Filled with archival material compiled over the course of four decades, and specially selected by the artist for this collector's edition, Nomadic Journey and Spirit of Places offers Abramović's enormous fanbase intimate access to her creative process.

About the Author

MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ has earned worldwide acclaim as a pioneer of performance art for more than fifty years. In 2012, she founded the Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI), a platform for immaterial and long durational work to create new possibilities for collaboration among thinkers of all fields. She lives in New York.