Marina Abramović and The Institute - Exclusive film: In the Serbian-born, New York-based artist’s first major interview since her HBO feature documentary last year, this exclusive film by Derek Peck sees Abramović discuss her plans…
"A Tibetan mystic saying goes: We are here to realize the illusion of our separateness. The spiritual sentiment has a biological cognate. Our xenotropic drive — to merge with what is not us, temporarily in sex, or permanently in symbiosis or cross-species hybrids — is more than a metaphor. But it also offers spiritual solace. When we hook up with another, in sex or love (or, more rarely, both) we prove that our isolation is not permanent. In the fullness of time, we may all be linked. In the meantime, eros brings us together, making us more than we are alone. Cupid’s arrow, quivering into the heart of loneliness, kills us even as it sets us free."
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Death and Sex by science writer Dorion Sagan, son of Carl Sagan.
What’s happening after dark at my fav.bookstore Shakespeare & Co.? A beautiful short film Mourir auprès de toi (To Die By Your Side) by Spike Jonze.
The Möbius structure of relationships, one of David Byrne’s hand-drawn pencil diagrams of the human condition
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"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."
— Neil Gaiman (via bookporn)
(via journalofanobody)
"The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."
— Italo Calvino
"Baudelaire declares that dreamers like a severe winter…a reminder of winter strengthens the happiness of inhabiting."
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
